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Athletics Day (Recount)

Last Friday, our school held Athletics Day at the Pt England grounds. The sun was shining and everyone was excited to start all of the exciting events. There were so many families and teachers who came and supported us. 

Non competitive (Fun Games)

The first event that the year seven girls took part in was the non competitive games. The games that we played were dodgeball, softball throw, obstacle run, Scatter ball and volleyball. All of the games were SO MUCH FUN. My favourite overall was definitely volleyball because guess who won??? HINE MOANAA! I really enjoyed working as a team with my blue house friends. 

Shot Put

My next rotation after morning tea was shot put. Shot put was a lot of fun. It was really funny to see lots of the girls chuck the heavy ball outside of the line, it was so crack up. At the end I was SO proud of myself because I came FIRST PLACE!! With 30.9 centimeters. Second place went to Tamara with 30.2 and third went to Emzjull with 29.9. 

High Jump

After that was the high jump. We started off with 1.3 meters. I was feeling really scared and felt like giving up. Even though I still tried my best, I was really proud of myself. First place went to Alepina and the sportsmanship went to Kree. Overall I was so proud of my best friends Olive for coming second place and for Sia for trying her best. 

100 Meter Sprints

Then we moved over to the 100 meter sprints. This was the event that I was most proud of. The first races were for the girls who wanted to compete for the finals. I came first for the first race and came fourth for the finals. First place went to Bella and second place went to Chrissy and third went to Shwe Shwe. 

Discus

Discus was our last and final competitive event. It was really fun encouraging each girl that through. I am so proud of all of the girls who competed. The place I ended up in was fourth. First, second and third place went to Bella, Heimata and Kree. I am so proud of all of the girls. 

Relays (End of the Day)

At the end of the day we had relays. Relays was the event I was most looking forward to. The year seven to eight relay team from Hine Moana (Blue) were Aria, Pesi and Olive. Olive was running first, Pesi was running second, I was running third and last but not least was Aria. It was a really close race. Hine Moana came second or third place. Overall I am so proud of my team. Aria was such a great house captain, she was so kind and she didn’t pressure us into doing anything we didn’t want to do.

At last, athletics was finally over. I was so exhausted, my legs felt like rubber and my feet felt like a big pile of rocks. As we walked to class Mrs Iloa kindly played the movie Mulan. In the end I am so proud of myself for giving my best and for being bothered  to play all of the events. If you would like to check out more images from our athletics day click HERE!!!!!

Recount: Marshmallow Challenge

Task description: This week we have been learning to create a recount adding lots of descriptive language. We had a fun activity to complete called the marshmallow challenge. After completing the challenge we had to write a recount about our experience, check out my recount below. Please leave a positive comment on my blog. 

This week in room 10 we were planning to create a fun marshmallow challenge. For this class on air Miss Parrant wanted us to have a fun activity to work as a team. This is  for our make it work term 4 focus question for this term. In this activity we had to get into a group of how many we wanted, but my group was from other tables but we still thought that we were still work as a team. Here are there names were Maddison, Sophia, Alepina, Emzjull, and me.

Before we started Miss Parrant had to quickly present what items we needed, we had ten marshmallows with 20 spaghetti sticks. Then we had to start figuring out what our design should be. At this point my whole group started saying random ideas that popped out of their head, but the thing was we had to think of a way for our marshmallow to stay standing like a normal tower. While we were thinking of what design we should do Emzjull’s suggested was to break the spaghetti into little pieces as well as the marshmallows and build them into a tower getting bigger and BIGGER.

When we were trying to figure out what our idea should be Maddison and I thought if we could create a tower by using the spaghetti sticks and marshmallows not broken and then we had to create the tower going like one spaghetti stick had 2 marshmallows stuck onto it and do the same on another stick. After that we wanted to add two sticks onto the top of the two sticks on the bottom and just keep on going until the tower will get taller and TALLER.

We all decided to go with Emzjull’s idea in the end and broke up all the sticks and marshmallows. Our tower did get to stand for a little while but as we waited for the timer to countdown our tower kept falling apart. Once our 15 minutes were up we kind of had a tower but we had to hold it so it would stand.

This was a really fun activity that helped us to work as a team. I hope we can do more experiences like this for our term 4 focus make it work. 

 

Year 5 and 6 Camp Recount

Task description: A few weeks ago we had year 5 and 6 camp on our school field. This week for writing we had to create a recount about our camp experience. Check out my camp experience below:

On Wednesday morning it was camp but on Wednesday I was not feeling well so could not go on day one. Tuesday morning day two I was feeling better so went to camp, while all the kids were eating breakfast I had to find out who I was sleeping with and it was Sophia and Maria. When they were all finished eating breakfast Mrs Lagitupu started to call out what our rotation for the day was.

The first rotation for the Tuis was the ‘’Hall Rotation’’. Next in the hall rotation you were allowed to ride scooters and skateboards, also ping pong and even a trampoline. Then, after playing all around the school we had to start practising our camp concert.

After that, we had to eat morning tea. We had to go to Tui’s next rotation and it was ‘’Slip & Slide’’. The water slide was on the top field where we had our slip and slide. To be fair I was feeling a bit afraid to go on the water slide because if you jump then you could get hurt and I did. When I was on the slip & slide I was having a lot of fun because I got to get wet and even mud was all over me.

Finally at camp my most favourite thing at camp was camp concert. The reason why I liked the camp concert it’s because I was proud of my camp group even though we came second on the day. At the camp concert I had a lot of fun because all of the camp groups all participated and had a lot of fun. When the camp concert was over we had to say good night to your parents and family and then go to bed in tents.