How do you know who and what you are?

Today's discussion centred around what makes us special and unique. We first explored things about us we thought were pretty special.

Ava loves her long hair and playing in the sandpit.
Mae loves that she is great at reading.
Max loves he has lots of friends.
Rory loves his jumping.
Kai like playing games and paling on the big playground.
Olivia loves that her Mum and Dad take her out for dinner.
Charlotte likes she is gentle.
Cooper loves having lots of people that love him.
Patricio likes that he is strong.
Magnus likes that he is love.
Emily loves how fast she can run.

How do we know what and who we are?

• by measuring ourselves
• our family tells us
• we can listen to our selves
• we can write down information about ourselves
• look at photos
• watch DVD's and videos of when we were younger
• look in the mirror
• ask others
• feel yourself
• our friends and teachers tell us
• people want to be out friends
• we can use similes to describe ourselves

Thinking about being neighbourly

This week we read and discussed this interesting text. The key themes to explore are being neighbourly and feeling lonely.

Here is a glimpse of today's thinking.

What did the story make me think about?

• visiting neighbours - Lucy
• my Poppa's chickens and their names beginning with H - Annabelle
• that I would like some chickens - Ava
• my neighbours Wayne and Nova - Lorenze
• checking on neighbours after the earthquake - Mrs H

What did you like and agree with?

• That they shared the garden - Bina
• They helped put the garden back together - Sammie
• Baby chickens hatching - Ava
• That the neighbours go to know each other - Lucy

What did you dislike and not agree with?

• The tornado ruining things
• That Amelia didn't have a family - Lucy

We then spent time discussing and categorising actions into neighbourly, not neighbourly and not sure.

What do you think of these situations? Where would you put them?

• Being asked to look after your neighbour's fish but not doing it until the day before they came back from holiday.
• Taking apples from a neighbour's tree, making a cake and then gifting it to your neighbour.