The Amazing Buddhist Temple

What an amazing place to visit. 

 The Buddhist Temple is an amazing, peaceful and colourful Temple..oh and as Alex said...it smells so nice!

Team 8 and the rest of Year 1 and 2 had a great trip there on Tuesday with the help of our amazing parent helpers.  

We made wishes, we made wonderful lotus flowers, we ate cookies, learnt lots about giving and don't for get the '3Gs.'

• Do Good Deeds
• Say Good Words
• Think Good Thoughts

This of course fits perfectly into our Manaakitanga of "Kindness."

Here are some photos of all the exciting things we got to see and do.

Thank You to all the parent helpers that came to help.

Thank you to the fabulous Buddhist Temple for having us.

Thank you to Team 8 for being on your best behaviour.

Mood Monster Brainstom

After Mrs Turner had introduced us to the Mood monsters, feelings and mindfulness, Team 8 talked about the way our body feels when we are angry, sad, nervous, lonely and friustrated.

We then got together in groups and brainstormed what we can do to get ourselves back to a clam or happy state.

Here we are working as a team and our collaborative ideas.

Mindfulness and Oral Language

Over the past few weeks, Team 8 have been learning about our feelings and how they make our body and mind feel. 
When we feel excited our heart is beating really fast and our muscles are tight. When we are sad, we sometimes cry and want to be alone. When we are happy, our heart is doing back-flips and our muscles are relaxed. If we are angry, our muscles are tight and we might want to hurt people. 
We have some "Mood Monsters" that are going to hang out on our walls to help us remember about our feelings. 

On Thursday, Mrs Grant got us talking about our feelings. We had to say sentences such as "I feel happy when..., I feel sad when..., I feel excited when..., I felt scared when..." We even wrote a sentence about it.

On Friday, Mrs Turner got us talking about those feelings AGAIN! This time though, we had some leaders that helped us to share our feelings onto PuppetPals. We are now ALL experts and can help you, or any other class (now there is a challenge for the rest of Sunnyhills!) create your very own 'feelings' movie on Puppet Pals.

I have attached all the movies below (Michelle, Synthia and Indi, I am so sorry I couldn't find yours - you can help me next week and I will pop it up for you). Please note that I have left their creations in their original form. I love how you can almost hear the thought processes in some of their heads. I especially love how collaborative EVERYONE was AND how many leaders emerged taking charge and keeping everyone on task.

Please have a look and listen. We would love to hear your thoughts about them. Our learning intention was to speak CLEARLY and CONFIDENTLY about a feeling we have had.

How did we do?