Kura Kids




















Term One, 2011

Week One and Two = Using Manners
- Putting our hands up to talk
- Being a 5-star listener
- Smiling and being friendly
- Including others in our games and activities
- Listening and looking at who is talking
- Talking nicely to each other
- Saying 'please', 'thank-you', 'excuse me' and 'sorry'

Week One:
Joshua
Bronlee
Conor

Week Two:
Sean
Liam


Week Three and Four = Being Responsible
- Using our manners
- Being a 5-star listener
- Get lots of sleep
- Read EVERY day
- Bring a healthy packed lunch box
- Wear your sunhat at every break
- COme straight in when the bell goes
- Remember to go to the toilet and have a drink during breaks
- Try your best at everything
- Bring you togs each day
- Hands up to talk
- Bring our: Book bag, Read It book (signed), reading book, poem book on Mondays, Word Work book for spelling on Fridays

Week Three:
Rion
Conor


Week Four:
Sean
Ben
Chloe L


Week Five and Six = Being Prepared for my Learning
- Having my Read It book signed every night
- Having a positive attitude and a smile on my face each morning
- Bringing my togs every day
- Always having my word work book on a Friday and my poem book on a Monday
- Making sure my tools are organised, e.g sharp pencil

Week Five:
Conor
Chloe G
Madison

Week Six:
Sean
Chloe L
Bronlee


Week Seven and Eight = Following Instructions
- Using our manners
- Being a 5-star listener
- Listen to what your coach asks you to do and doing it
- Follow our class rules and school rules
- Do what is asked the first time
- Be kind to each other
- Follow instructions quickly and carefully
- ASK if you don't understand or didn't hear

Week Seven:
Sean
Ben Y
Conor

Week Eight:
Shianne
Ben S


Week Nine and Ten = Accepting Differences
- Listening to what other people say and their ideas
- Being kind to everyone
- Including other people in our games
- It's ok to all be good at different things
- Everyone is special
- Speak to each other kindly
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Week Nine:
Ben Y
Bronlee
Liam

Week Ten:
Samuel
Madison


Week Eleven = Being there for my friends
- Listening to each other talk
- Include other people in our games
- Help them of they are hurt
- Share your ideas
- Care about others
- Help them to learn new things
- Sit by them on the bus/van
- Write them letters or emails if they move to a new school (or phone them)
- Take turns or use everybody's ideas
- Talk to each other using manners and kind words
- Cheer them up if they are sad

Week Eleven:
Samuel
Conor
Bronlee


Term Two, 2011
Week One and Two - Being Positive
- Smile
- Keep trying even if it's hard
- Stay on track (task)
- Offer to help others
- Watch and listen carefully
- Practise
- Be Happy
- Get lots of sleep
- No "grumpy" people or faces
- Give everything a go!
- Always try your best

Week One:
Madison
Sean
Conor
Liam
Ben S

Week Two:
Ben Y
Jacob
Dylan
Kate


Week Three and Four - Knowing what we are learning and why
- Ask questions to make sure I understand
- Share my ideas with others
- Listen carefully
- Explain to mum and dad what we are doing
- How things we learn might help us get a job when we are big
- We can teach other people how to do things
- Know what we have learnt already and what we need to do to make our work better

Week Three:
Conor
Joshua
Devonte

Week Four:
Ben Y
Dylan
Bronlee

Week Five and Six - Learning from my mistakes
- Being honest and owning up if I do something wrong
- Seeing that I can do better next time
- Trying something new and knowing that it doesn't have to be perfect the first time, trying again is good!
- Listening to what I do well and trying to do even better

Week Five:
Dylan
Jacob
Devonte

Week Six:
Ben Y
Samuel
Ben S
Joshua

Week Seven and Eight - Being in Control of my Emotions and Actions
- Being organised for my learning
- Include others in my games
- Cheer other people on (be positive)
- Always try my best
- Be a 5-star listener
- Keep our hands and feet to ourselves
- No whispering about other people
- Say "sorry, thank-you, please and excuse me"
- Sit down to eat our food
- Sit on our chairs properly
- Don't sulk
- Walk in class and around buildings
- Talk kindly to others
- Share
- Put my hand up to talk

Week Seven
Conor
Bronlee
Kate

Week Eight
Joshua
Dylan
Sean

Week Nine and Ten - Accepting others ideas and opinions and listening to them
- Being a five star listener no matter who is speaking
- Not always having to do things "My" way
- Knowing that it's ok to like different things or want to do different things
- Asking for more information nicely
- Using my manners

Week Nine
Kate
Dylan

Week Ten
Brendon
Joshua
Bronlee
Sean

Week Eleven - Looking after our Environment
- Do our class jobs properly every day
- Zip up our bags
- Put our shoes on the rack
- Empty sand out of our pockets and trousers after we play in the sandpit
- Look after our clothing and remember to take it home each day
- If you have something out, like a game - put it away where it belongs
- Return P.E. gear to the proper bins
- Take the mobelo apart after we play with it so that others can build things next time
- Recycle by using the different bins for different things - paper/cardboard, rubbish, food scraps
- Pick up rubbish even if it's not our own
- Keep out water ways clean and clear
- Plant trees and flowers (like our stream bank planting)
- Keep our land clean and never litter

Week Eleven
Brendon
Joshua
Conor
Bronlee

Term Three
Week One and Two - Being Tidy
- Zip up our bags on our hooks
- Tidy our shoes and make sure they are on the rack
- Keep our tools well cared for, e.g. sharpen our pencil before school
- Keep our tables tidy and clean
- Pick up rubbish - both our own and any we see lying around
- Pack up toys and games
- Recycle if we can
- Put P.E. gear away where it belongs
- Take clothes home at the end of the day, hang our jackets on our hooks and any other clothes in the clothing bin in our class
- Take care of our school books and tools
- Do our class jobs each day

Week One
Conor
Bronlee

Week Two (Book Focus)
Brendon
Ben Y
Kate

Week Three and Four - Caring
- Show people how to be sensible
- Pick up rubbish
- Help other people with their learning
- Always try our best
- Get lots of sleep
- Eat healthy foods
- If someone hurts themselves get help
- Recycle
- Pick up rubbish
- Be a tidy kiwi
- Take our clothes and shoes home each day
- Include others in our games
- Cheer everyone on
- Plant trees and flowers
- Use a kind voice
- Share our things
- Use our manners
- Be tidy
- Be organised for our learning

Week Three
Samuel
Conor
Dylan

Week Four
Brendon
Bronlee
Madison

Week Five and Six - Never Giving Up
- Even if you don't like running still try your best at cross country training and on the race day
- Keep going even if you get tired
- Keep practising at gymnastics and take the time to think about what you need to do first
- If you get stuck on a word in writing you can: sound it out, use your blends cards, use a dictionary or thesaurus, ask an expert
- Be willing to give things another go


Week Five
Jacob
Benjamin Y
Conor
Dylan

Week Six
Joshua
Trinesh
Madison

Week Seven and Eight - Being a Team Player
- Be responsible and honest
- Include others
- Help each other
- Play kindly together
- Listen
- Encourage each other
- Share and take turns
- Have a goal and a plan
- Practise, practise, practise
- Do your best all the time
- Never give up
- Don't blame other people
- Accept that sometimes you might be better or worse at something than other people but still do your best and be nice to them

Week Seven
Shianne
Joshua
Rikardo
Dylan

Week Eight
Ben S
Benjamin Y

Week Nine - Getting Along with Others
- Always speaking kindly to other people
- Listening to what others have to say
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Week Nine
Conor
Kate
Sean

Week Ten
Benjamin Y
Dylan
Joshua

Term Four
Week One and Two - Trying my hardest and completing my work on time.
- Being organised and ready for my learning every day
- Get to school early
- Don't give up
- Make sure my work is my own
- Always give my very best effort
- Practise
- Set goals
- Keep trying
- Be resilient
- Give things a go
- Make sure my tools are ready before school

Week One
Bronlee
Brendon
Rikardo

Week Two
Joshua
Conor
Dylan

Week Three and Four - Listening
- Demonstrating 5-star listening skills all the time
- Looking at the person talking
- Staying still when someone talks to me
- Asking to hear something again if I didn't quite get it
- Using my manners
- Letting other people finish what they are saying and not interrupting

Week Three
Brendon
Kate
Samuel

Week Four
Joshua
Dylan

Week Five and Six - Accepting others' opinions and ideas.
- Listen carefully
- Ask again if you don't understand
- It's GREAT to be different
- The world would be boring if we all thought the same way
- You don't have to be the same or let people tell you how to think
- You always have a choice

Week Five
Brendon
Dylan
Kate

Week Six
Benjamin Y