MADD Workshop 1/4/15

Today,on the 1 of April 2015, Room 9 and 10 had another lesson with Petia and Caroline, but Caroline wasn't here today. This week we were talking about talents and skills. Petia then asked us “What is a talent?” Someone told him “A talent is something that you’re good at”. Then he asked what a skill was. Someone else said that a skill is something that you can do, or something that you’re really good at. Then he showed us some cards, but I forgot what they were. 

He then put us into 4 groups. My group, the first group did a play about Touch. There was a new player in the team, but whenever someone threw the ball to him, he always dropped it. The reason why we chose to do a play like that was to show that not everyone has skills in sports, and that sometimes all they need to do is practice more. 

The second group to perform was a group pretending to be New Zealand Got’s Talent. There was four judges, and Fusi performed a song on her ukulele. Her first attempt was terrible, and judges told her no, and why they said no. They also said to come back and audition next year. When she came back and started playing, she had improved a lot, and so all four judges said yes. The story behind that play was obvious. It was that even if you’re terrible at something, if you practice, then you will get better, and better. 

The next group to perform was the group whose play was about wrestling. The story in their play was that if you want to be good at a sport or something, then you have to know the rules, and practice, to improve.

After that, he told us to sit down. He put his music on, and started drawing Wonder Woman. When he was done, we again started clapping. All of his drawings are so cool.Then we said our goodbyes, and went back to class.

Going to Petia and Caroline, is always fun, and even if it is a simple lesson, we always learn from them, and have fun.

MADD workshop diary entry 18/03/15

Today we went back to Petia and Caroline for the MADD workshop. This week the theme was about being Intelligent and having these 7 different smarts. The seven smarts were Self smart, Body smart, Word smart, Music smart, Number smart, Picture smart and People smart.

Caroline laid these on the floor in a circle, and she talked to us about these different smarts. Then she split us up into groups - A boys group and a girls group, and gave us a piece of wood with a nail in it, and some nails. Then she explained the activity. She said that we have to try and balance some nails on that one nail. Then we got into our groups. When we couldn’t do it, Caroline came back and helped us. She said to lie one nail down flat on the table and keep adding one to each side until there was no space. Then you put one nail on top then transfer that to the single nail. When it worked, we were very amazed that it worked. 

Then Mrs tofa came and took a picture of us with it. Then we went back into the circle. Petia asked for 6 volunteers, and Fraser went into the middle of the circle, while the other 6 stood around him to compliment him.

Soon after that, Petia started his drawing of the flash. When he finished, we clapped - it was really good.

After we stopped clapping, we stood around the picture, and then we took a picture of it. Then we lined up, said thank you to Petia and Caroline, and went to class. 

Going to Petia and Caroline is always fun, because we know we will have a good time and learn something from them. We are very lucky to have them at our school