Term 3 reflection for Waka Stride

What's on top!

• We have enjoyed learning about space - Kelsey
• Loved the AKO Reading with the little kids - Jed

• It helped me to learn about the Positive Mindset - William
• Chamberlains Ford is great because we are getting to know the area better - Brigid
• Moment in time writing has be great because they were cool pictures - Sjaak
• I still remember the putiputi weaving from last term - MAx W

• It was a huge challenge to teach other kids at Chamberlains Ford - Toby & Jed
• It was great that we learned how to say our birthday in Te Reo - Charlotte
• AKO choices were great because there were really good learning activities - Tegan
• We earned our Bronze Enviro School Award and planted the Wind Garden - Daniel
• We had lots of sports things like tennis and cricket & hockey in sports - Taylor
• Buddy writing is great because we get to work with the big kids - Nate
• My planner is great because the target lasts all week and we grow our A+ - Ella
• Our blog is great learning and that we get to use lots of apps in our learning - Sjaak
• We have loved the challenge of fractions in our maths - Max W
• Getting better at litter free lunches - Jed

• I loved singing our Te Reo Māori songs in the morning - Holly
• It is good to start the day with a karakia and the positive mindset chant - Blake
• Our PE sessions each week are great - Jed.

• Free Rice helped me learn heaps of cool new words - Sjaak
• ECO Team challenges - wind garden, lizards & chicken team - yippee!
• We can all work in different places in the class.
• We are great at using 'Easy Blogger' for our deep reflections - Allana
• Most planners are ready on the mat before school - Max D
• When the TV works - it is great for us all to see - Allana

What's not working so well:

• Some of us are not being so self managing - Blake
• We want to do more fitness every day - Sjaak
• Allana needs to give out more Stride Stones and Gottchas - Daniel
• We need to use our manners better on the mat - William
• We must remember our 2 cm voices in class - Charlotte
• I want to do more handwriting - Ella
• Oops - I am loosing my manners - Max W
• We are forgetting to use the 'Waka Behaviour Chart' - Zoë
• Not all of us are doing our home learning challenges - Allana
• We are not sitting in the 'safety zone' on the mat - Zoë
• I want to have more chances at doing harder running records - Sjaak
• Our stationery gets lost lots - Daniel
• I don't like swapping over for maths and reading - Tegan
• Some of us like swapping over for maths and reading - Max W
• We are not so good at checking off our 'Must Do' list - Lexie
• Our reading stamina is not as strong as it used to be - Kelsey
• We would like to go on other visits - not just Chamberlains Ford - the Gold Coast! - Brigid
• We sometimes struggle with making the TV work - Taylor
• One Day School kids miss out on stuff on Friday - Sjaak & Allana

What we want to change in Term 4:

• More handwriting?
• New inquiry with more of a project - Sjaak
• Planners - space to decorate, term planner, lots of pictures, more whakatoki, 
• More Te Reo and songs
• More fitness
• AKO reading continue with the little kids
• Learn Stratch programming
• More greetings in different languages
• Do more kids workshops run by the kids
• Stride Team keep doing more stuff together
• Plan some workshops for Step Team