Skipping

Nearly this whole term we have been working on our skipping! 

On Thursday we performed it in front of our parents and Room 11. It was a really fun time. We had our own individual groups. Sophie, Pallas, Tyla and Meana was in my group. We came up with alot of good tricks. Most of our tricks included the long rope. My group only did a couple of acts then we stopped and just watched Heilala's group. 

One of my favourite tricks were when Aydrian did a cartwheel into the skipping rope. It was super cool, I wish I could do that! My second favourite trick was when Anavea and Maranatha did push ups inside of the skipping rope. It was an overall really good day.

Back At School Again!

It feels great to be back at school again! It's still a little weird and different because all the seniors are in different classrooms. We are in Room 8a, Room 11 is in the Music Room, Room 10 is in the library and Room 9 is in Room 4. Sadly we aren't allowed to go back into the senior block until Abestos testing is over and we have no idea when it will be finished. 

We stayed at Tamaki Primary for almost about a week. Most of the time we were making things up as we went along because we had no chromebooks or the internet. It was a really hard week but we all got through it. Hopefully when Term 4 starts everything will be back to normal. Just how it used to be before Asbestos testing started.

Basketball

After fitness on a Tuesday morning my class had to go to the court to learn how to play basketball. When we arrived at the court we all sat down in a line and learnt more about basketball, for example, the height of a proper basketball hoop. 

We started off with a warm up which just consisted of us running up and down the areas that had cones. After our little warm up we started learning basketball moves. We learnt how to jump stop, protect the basketball with our arm, bend our legs, dribble and many other useful skills that we needed to know. I had such a blast learning how to play proper basketball and I'm sure the others had a blast as well.

Kahurangi - People Of The Pacific

A few weeks back a group of dancers came to our school. The group's name was Kahurangi. There were five of them in total. They preformed traditional Island dances for us for example Samoan, Hawaiian and many other Island dances. They also taught us how to say hello for every different country they danced for. I enjoyed all of the dances especially the ending because Mr Sok, Quros and Saluselo had to go up and use a taiaha. They had to repeat what the man did. I was dying of laughter it was really funny!

Mini Olympics Ethiopia

This term we are having a Mini Olympic Tabloids. We were divided into sixteen groups. The teachers just spilt our dance fitness groups in half. I am in the team Ethiopia. My teammates are Sione, Riiana and Anavea. This is the slide show that we made.

Assembly!

This week on Monday our classroom, Room 12 hosted the senior syndicate assembly. We only had a little bit of time to organize our assembly but it went really well. It was also very long because we had 16 team captains go up and pick a country to represent our Mini Olympic Tabloids. The 16 captains didn't know which countries they were going to pick because there were a bunch of countries crumbled up in a little bucket and they had to pick from there. It was pretty entertaining to watch and also little bit dramatic because some people would uncrumble their piece of paper slowly.

First Day Back

Last week was the first week back at school. I was really excited to come back to school and see my friends but I was also very sad that we had to come back to school. The first day back I felt very weird mostly because I haven't seen my classmates and my teacher for two whole weeks! We also had an assembly and Mrs Golder picked me to receive a Duffy book. The reason was because I read in the holidays. The book is called 39 Clues - it's an investigation book and inside it there were six cards that I had to use to figure out the mystery. I really enjoyed the book!