Year 6 Spark Arena Trip

 Spark Arena Trip

Kia Ora Bloggers!,

Today all of the Year 6's went on a trip to Spark Arena. It was so fun and interesting. There were also other schools there as well. The whole trip was made free by Suzy Cato. The CEO of the Spark Arena was also there to welcome us. We had traveled there by bus. At Spark Arena There were different places where you could have fun, express yourself and more. We had 30 minutes at each place. 

The first place we went to was Happy Place, I was really excited to go in because I had heard of it and had been wanting to go. The first thing we did was jump into a big ball pit a bit taller than me! After we could check out some of the other rooms at Happy Place. My favorite room was the cookie room. The next place we went to was Sounds Fun. Sounds Fun is a place where you can try out trumpets or trombones, try digital keys and more. The first thing I tried out was this thing where you could make different beats. The next thing I tried out was the drums. It is a bit hard to explain what I did on the drums, but it was fun. After that I tried out a trombone, trying that out was fun too. The next place we went to was the Van Gogh Experience/Alive. Me and My friend had gone there in the holidays so we knew what to expect. At the Van Gogh Experience. We got to see some of Vincent Van Gogh's art work. There was also another room. Where there were lots of sunflowers.

After all of that we got a little bag with food inside. Then we went on the bus again to go back to school. Have you ever been to Spark Arena Before or any of the places mentioned in this blog post?.

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You can have a look at this slideshow with some photos👇  

   

Under The Wires Day!

Under the Wires

On the 14th of April the whole of the senior syndicate had an Under the Wires day! The reason was because we have been learning about  Anzac Day and what had happened on that day. So the teachers decided to put wires ( they were actually strings of wool) all around the blue space and the green space ( the blue space and the green space are two of the senior classes) so it was like we were in the trenches.

 It was fun but also tiring because we had to crawl on our hands and knees for most of the day. The fun thing about was that there were sound effects of bombs and gunshots while doing our school work. Yes we still had to do school work, we did Maths, Reading and Writing. For Maths we did a little times table and we got to choose from the 3x to the 9x, I chose 4x and it was fun. After we did a basic facts test but it was very hard because there were distractions. The distractions were the sounds of bombs and gunshots and I could not think properly. 

Next we did a maths sheet where we had to count up how many years NZ has been fighting wars and there were two sides on the piece of paper. We got to try and solve equations in different ways and also had to show our working out. Next was brain break. 

After Brain Break we did writing. For writing we pretend wrote a letter to our family's because we were "in war" and something else we did was an acrostic poem. I had enough of crawling on my hands and my knees. 

At least it was morning tea and we finally got to go outside after I got to go swimming (in the rain)  it was fun but I was getting cold so I got out. Then I ran back to the classroom. After a while I went back into the classroom and did reading for reading we did  a picture dictation it was fun and I enjoyed it, after that was lunch and like morning tea we got to go out. But it was very cold. 

After lunch we had to go back into the trenches and eat lunch there. Then the teachers had fake guns with fake bullets and if you put your head up the teachers will aim at you and "shoot you". After we unwind-ed all of the strings and then it was home time.

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