Tristar Gymnastics

This week, on Wednesday the 5th of December, we went to Tristar. We were suppose to go the day before but because of the rain we couldn't go. So we went the day after that, but it was different because 2 classes walked to together to Keith hay park. It was kinda tiring to me but luckily we had hats to protect our head. The reasons why it was a hard walk is first of all, the walk was really long, I think it was 15 minutes. Second of all, it was really hot and sunny and I had warm clothes on, and even hats still made hot!. It was then all worth it. Gymnastics was SUPER fun but also SUPER exhausting.

First of all , we stretched. Some of the moves were the L shape and the straddle.  There was another move called the Tuck shape and it was

my favourite. All we had to do was to tuck our legs and sit on our bottom without the legs touching the ground. After we stretched we 

went in our class groups and went to a teacher. My first teacher showed us the course. We were split into groups and had to go to a different course. I started at the end on the balance beam. After, we flipped on the bars. Then I went to the beam and walked backwards and turned to jump. I went to the start and went jumping away like a kangaroo in the air. Then I went with the other coach and done an obstacle course of the ENTIRE gym.  My favourite part was the foam pit  because I jumped off from the plank and the foam was SOOO soft and squishy. My other favourite was the trampoline because I jumped SOOO high. Then for the big finish. My class and the other class(which was lower than us) raced each other in the foam pit. A student from the lower class had beaten me!  After that we learned how to do handstands. After all the students' races we went back to our school, all tired and thirsty. We went and played . After that we got lunch. I felt really happy but tired!That was our last session in the Tristar gym and I was going to miss it because it really cool and cold. Not like that really sunny weather we had to walk in!

Now it's time for the Five W's and one H


What we did: Gymnastics- (some moves are the handstands, cartwheels and backwards rolls, etc)

Where was it: Keith hay park, Next to Cameron pools

How we got there: By walking in a REALLY hot condition and in REALLY warm clothes

Who we were walking with and who were the coaches: With my class Hauraki and Room Six(Yr 3's). The coaches were Coach Moe, Coach Reagan,  and two other coaches that's name I don't remember 

Why we done Gymnastics: So we can learn how to be fit in a fun way

Summer Learning Journey, Task 2

                                            My next task was to   think critically.

In the capital of Spain, which is Madrid,  there is a very common activity called ''bullfighting''.

This activity is violent which is why some people in Spain doesn't support doing it or do it. Although some people do this. Bullfighting is when a man or a woman has a red blanket and under that there is a knife and so you stab it on the bull. I know it's s sad, if I were in Spain I wouldn't do it, in fact I would want it banned because so Bulls won't get extinct and and so they can help carry heavy stuff that we can't carry with their strength. 

                                           
                 Here is a photo of bullfighting(I know, pretty scary, huh?)

Summer Learning Journey, Task 1

             

                           Archive activity:

                       Chile                           

5 reasons why I picked this country and would like to visit it....

• Spanish seems like an interesting language
• Chilean rodeo seems cool and different to other sports
• They have 14 national holidays to celebrate
• The Andean condor bird sounds unusual
• The flag looks simple but also good

My task was to pick a country and to blog it. There was a link to the country so you can find information. Here is a photo of the information I found about Chile

3 facts about Chile

• The largest pool in the world is in Chile
• There are some penguins in Chile
• The official name for Chile is Republic of Chile 

                 Here is the link to the summer learning journey                       https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s_pwEq1CwsV4mvvZedq2CNPlcRaEjmre/view

Film making

                             
                       Film making🎞📽😉

Refection on the ''This is me'' show

The reflection to the  'This is me' show😃😊😉

On the 25th of September we went to Waikowhai Intermediate to watch their very first show 'This is me'. Different schools were invited. May road school was one of them. It was half and hour but it was really entertaining. It was all about personality, diversity and differences. I think why they did it is because their school is a place where you can be yourself. They showed this by doing dances, monologues and singing/choir. My favourite part of the show was the contemporary dance because the song and the their moves were related to each other. But all of the parts of the show were awesome. We are having production next term so we had to to do a reflection about the show, and watch the show carefully so we can be prepared for our production and see what it is like. After we came back from the the show, we discussed about the show and talked about what was done in the show. We then had to do thinking hats. Thinking hats are different coloured hats and they all mean something. For example the black hat, it means 'What were the negative things' in it. But there are different types of hats and each one has a question you need to answer. This is my reflection

                                      
             If you want to know a bit more information about this then you can go to Waikowhai                       Intermediate's website and can copy and paste the link down below:

-https://www.wai-int.school.nz/

Literacy Tumble

                         Literacy tumble

This term we have been doing Literacy tumble. It is a subject we now do in school that contain slideshows in different colours, which represents a must do, should do or a could do. They are activities we do with our we can do with writing or reading groups. There also some activities we do individually like creative writing. We do this everyday until Thursday and then a different one the next week, I think it gets harder and harder each time. We have a schedule in our Language book, it says when we are gonna learn stuff and which room we are gonna be in. We would be either with our writing or reading groups or doing our slideshow. Most of the slides were about writing or reading. But some were not like Cybersmart. It is really fun because the different activities can be fun like creative writing and commenting. One of the things we couldn't do was to change the font or background because it will distract us from the work.

Copy and paste this if you want more information
 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1z8FUlkVotYSqZf1Fnx0lKrrCPdHlMHeBMQrx0DS6LHk/edit#slide=id.p

 

Waikowhai Primary school's Art festival

  
               Waikowhai Art festival


This week on Tuesday and Wednesday we had the art festival, in  our class were doing bird painting, it  
had to be a endangered bird native (only live in New Zealand) to New Zealand.

The bird I done for the painting is a morepork/Ruru  because it was the fist bird I thought of. Also  because it was my house group name. I think what I should do with my painting is make the head smaller and less wide next time. I used different type of browns because the ruru has lot's of brown feathers.I also done some yellow on it's eyes since the ruru is nocturnal (awake at night) it's eyes will be big so it can see in the dark,night sky. 

My background for my painting was the ruru sitting on a tree branch at night.I done some bushes with a darker green. The night sky was a dark kind of blue with no stars in the sky and with  tree leaves. The tree leaves were light green and the background was dark so it stand out quite nicely. I thought it was alright,I think I should have made my bird more thin  and have sharper edges. One thing I really liked is the trunk because it blends with the black and brown. 

We also done a house. We had to collect soft plastic from each class over 8 weeks. We are doing this because people litter and pollute the world. Are we going to allow littering to our own house and pollute the world? We made a slide show/presentation that is about what are plastic and are not  plastic. It also talks about the message and what we are doing to the house. We made a sign to show our families about the house and what's it for,we done it  on a google drawing. It could be about animals being harmed and about what  we are doing  to the house.We could use anything, our teacher showed the class scribble. Then the teachers laminated our sign.

            This is photo of the house (this was when we didn't put the soft plastic)

We also done weaving. We used different kind of coloured yarn and got to choose any colour. All of Te Waka ako done it, and it was so much fun. How we do it  is we go over and under until the yarn is finished. Since we didn't finish it, the weaving was moved to the art show so other people can help finish too.
                          This is a photo of the weaving we have done