Netball

😁 Kia Ora Bloggers!,😁

In Term 1 on a  Wednesday afternoon we did Netball for PE. The people teaching us for Netball was Olivia and Josina. I love playing Netball. We played a few games that were very fun and also we learned different types of passes. Chest pass, Overhead pass and Bounce pass. On our session this week we played mostly games to practice netball skills. My favorite game was a game where we practiced how we position ourselves when we catch the ball. So when Josina said In the river we had to jump over the yellow line then sort of squat down a little bit. Then when she said On the bank we had to jump back, if we moved to the wrong spot   or was stepping on the yellow line or wobbled a bit and shuffled then we were out.

Hope you enjoyed reading my Blog, Blog you later

Cultural Games Learning

 Bula Vinaka Bloggers!, 

Yesterday all of the leaders and house captains and two other year 6's got to learn two little Russian games. They were called Wizards and Stream. Both these games were very fun. The person who taught us the game was Russian and grew up playing these two little games, she said that at least every Russian kid knew at least one of these games or both! 

For the wizards game we got split into two groups. In each group there were about 2,3 or 4 wizards. Everybody else were not wizards. The wizards job was to try and touch someone on the shoulder and make them frozen, if the wizards made everyone frozen they won. For the stream game we all had to choose someone and put our hand against the other persons hand ( or just hold their hand). Then we had to go in one line, after we had to put our hand up to make like a little hallway. Then one person runs down the middle and grabs a random person by the arm and run down to the end with that person, then the person that lost there partner had to run down the middle and do the same thing I just explained, It keeps on a and never stops just like a stream.

Hope you enjoyed reading my blog!, Blog you later!                            

  

Writing Work

 Bula Vinaka Bloggers!,

In school we have been doing some writing work on procedures. Procedures are like instructions on how to play or set up a game and also how to bake with a recipes! I wrote a procedure about a cultural game I learned. It is a Russian Game called Stream. The person that taught us said that at least every Russian kid should know this game. This game is also played in a lot of events. I think I wrote a good procedure but might need to add some things to it. If you would like you could tell me what I could add to my procedure. I also think I might need to add more detail. Before we wrote our procedure on a Google Doc, We did a procedure plan about the game we were doing. 

Have you ever written a procedure?

Hope you enjoyed reading my Blog!, Blog you later!

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?.

Hope you enjoy reading my blog! Blog you later!

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.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog!

  

Lockdown/Earthquake

 Kia Ora Bloggers!

Last Friday most of you might know that there was an earthquake. It happened in the east coast of the North Island. My teacher was in that area.  There were also Tsunami warnings very early in the morning at 2:00 am. I also learnt how Tsunamis occur that day. Also that day we had a syndicate meet. We all put on something fancy or freaky. Today my classroom did a brainstorm on what to put inside an emergency pack. We thought of putting in a torch, a pack of cards and other essentials. We also thought of putting in an Umbrella, Phone, Charger, Batteries and also a few books and also a blanket or pillow if it gets cold Maybe you could discuss with your families what you would put inside an emergency pack. 

I hope you enjoy reading my blog!

Blog you later!

Also could you please comment on it as well!

Here are some of the things that you could put inside an emergency bag

Christmas Art

 Christmas Art

Today we did some Christmas art. It was very fun we did some heart weaving and some Christmas trees dot Art. First we did the Christmas trees. We made them by using pins, a Christmas tree with dots and some Card. First we lined the paper with the tree on it with dots and the card and then we poke holes with pin along the dotted line and we had to do it on carpet not hard services. Then we put it up to the window and then the tree sort of lights a up. The next Art activity we did was a little woven heart basket. It is a little hard to explain but it was very fun. We also did some Christmas cards and also used a Christmas collar this one is also a little hard to explain, but was also very fun. 

Hope you enjoy reading my blog!

Blog you later!

Here are some photos!