Year Six Being Kind to our Community Heroes

 Today Year Six were lucky enough to work with the Youth Project.   We were learning about what it means to be kind and the importance of kindess in our community.

Our next school wide inquiry is 'Community Heroes'. We wanted to do something to be acknowledge the wonderful people in our community who do amazing work like fire fighters, police, conservation volunteers and aged care workers.

Each child worked carefully to create a origami manawa (heart) then they decorated it and wrote messages thanking the community volunteers for their service.

Claire will distribute the hearts in the community.  Last year the response from the people who recieved our gifts was overwhelming.  One of the gifts made it all the way to a volunteer fire fighter in Antartica! We wonder where our kind words and thoughts will reach this year.

Year Two Being Kind in our Community with the Youth Project

 Today Year Two had Enviro with Ms Daniel.  We were lucky enough to work with Claire & Claire from The Youth Project.

First we learnt about what it means to be kind - being friendly, generous and considerate.

The tamariki had wonderful ideas about how to be kind including:

- if you make a game ask other people if they want to play

- if someone is upset cheer them up

- say hello when some one is new

- keep our friends safe

- smile

- wait patiently

- ask them if they are ok

- get help from the duty teacher

Kindness is contagious so we decided to do something for someone in our community.  We created kindness bugs to hide in our neighbourhood. When people find them it will brighten their day.  Hopefully they will pass on the kindness to someone else. 

Learning to be generous, and give away our creations, is part of learning to be kind.

Thank you for cheering up our community Year Two!  Maybe if you visit a local library or community centre you'll find a kindness bug.

It's also Sea Week so afterwards we went on an adventure walk to clear litter from the drains.  As well as lots of litter, Emme found a ripe pumpkin in the Mara Kai.  Wow! Thank you to everyone who packs a litterfree lunch.  It really makes a big difference to keeping our grounds clean.