Intense Times

With the Gymnastics festival edging closer were working harder than ever.  We only have 3 days of practice left, I've began practicing Day in, and day out. With A-Grade in the morning, and rhythmical at morning tea, and lunch, Were doing a lot.  All the free time we have is going to gym.  

My Rhythmic teacher is panicking, because we don't know the entire dance yet.  We've booked out the gym for friday, 12.40 pm-2.15 pm.  Our dance is getting better, and we have a few more tricks.

Our practice is getting more and more squashed because were rushing to finish the dance.  We practice quite often now, as we do all the things we need to.

I can't believe It!! In A-grade, we know all our routines of by heart. YAY!!!  We started learning it and practicing it last week. Only 5 people from our school are in A-grade, and yet we all got it so Quickly.  Aria is soooo dainty with her beam, and floor.  We ALL just stare at her while she practices.  she's much better than the rest of us,  she's the best in the School!!  I'm getting more and more nervous about my floor routine, we have, well, had, to make it up!!

With so much going on, all of it based around gymnastics, people are getting more and more nervous.  I wonder how it will all turn out.  Tune in next week to find Out!

Our school!!

Gymnastics Fun

 This week me, and the rest of my school have been focusing on gym.  The Gisborne Primary schools gymnastics festival is coming up, and we want to be ready.  We´ve all chosen the group out of A-Grade, B-Grade and C-Grade.  (There's also A reserve but no one is in that group.)  We´ve been training for about 2 school weeks now, and we are getting more, and more competitive.

This year I chose to be in A-Grade and Rhythmical.  Rhythmical is a sort of gym dance.  I started off as a back up, but improved so much, I think, that I´m in the actual dance!!  Maybe  I was the whole time, Who knows?  Well,  we´ve learnt most of the dance and a couple of tricks.  It's really exciting to be learning so fast in so little time.  We've started needing to bring our water bottles to practice.  Lola's the ringmaster, and Aria is doing a very cool trick, in the middle of the dance!  

This morning I had my first A-Grade practice.  When it was just us, Lola, Alivia, Aria, Charlotte and I  there, in the hall,  Charlotte, Lola and Alivia and I  were trying to learn how to do a front handspring, Aria was our instructor. I didn't have much luck, Lola managed some, and Alivia and Charlotte were very close.  When our teacher came in to teach us, we practised the beam.  I am by far the worst at it, Especially at getting on.  Then we practised the box.  No one had much luck at first, but we all got there. We did the straddle jump.

Thank you for reading my Blog! Bye.

Polar Animals: The Snow Fox

This week my quick write was based on polar animals, and for me, I chose snow foxes.

You might be wondering why I didn't choose a ¨cooler¨ animal, but you'll soon find out.  Their more curious, and sneaky, than we think.  

I hope you like my slide! Bye.

There's writing on the slide, Read it!

My Sign/Tribute Art

Recently my class has been working on signs of old Aotearoa history around were we live.  Me and my friend Kale´a are in a group on a famous horse and his owner.  the name of our sign is Tore te A-Hoiho-John.  

We started by painting the base blue.  That was our base colour.  Then, while I was gone Kale´a had to work on the project alone. She made the grass alone, she thinks that it's to long.  I think it's perfect.  In the days after that (Mainly Yesterday) we added in the ocean, a GIANT rugby ball, a rugby goal that's smaller than the ball, the clouds and sun, a title, and last but certainly not least, The horse himself.  We've only done the out line.

The only reason were not finished is because, Kale´a started to draw the horses leg, but I pointed out it was to long.  Me and Kale´a burst into hysterical giggles.  We went outside to paint over it, but had to do it 3 times for it not to show.  Only because Kale´a did it in vivid.  When it was finally gone Kale´a painted the Ocean while I did white wash.  Then I drew the Rugby ball and we painted it.  The post was simple so I just did 3 lines, and the clouds are done too.  Me and Kale´a also found the perfect orangey-beige colour for the sun.

I Just painted the horse a pale beige with a blue mane and black saddle.  The teacher told us we have to make it paler, the beige, though.  

Thank you for reading about my week, Charlotte.

CAMP!!

In week 7 I went to yr 6 camp.  First, we went up, to run the confidence course.  Apparently, we were the fastest group that the teachers had ever made do that.  We also went on a hike every day,  so we got really fit.  The biggest walk, was up Panekiri Bluff.  YIKES!  In the afternoon, we went kayaking if we had enough time.  We always did, so we went every day.  Then we headed home, in the fanciest bus ever!

Watch the slide to find out more.

Bye!! 

Our Adventure

 ¨Yay! Where finally starting!¨ everyone was Saying.  Pad, pad, went our shoes as we gently strolled up the first case of stairs.  Me and Esther started chatting about the last hike we went on. We began nearing the top, or so we thought.  We were coming  up to the statues of light. All of the year 6s were confused though, when we only stopped there  to look at it.  We  soon carried on.  Suddenly, there were all theese twists and turns! Where no stairs could go.  I slowly turned my head, to look at the view.  It was magnificent.  soon enough there were these odd down hills, then we went back up, and down and up And down. That was until we reached the top.  The look-out.  Personally, I don't call it the top.  We got a drink, and started down.

Me and Esther chatted a lot on the way down.  A couple of times we had to run to catch up.  then it was hard to slow down. ¨There are so many ferns.¨ I said. She agreed then quite soon, when we were almost down someone spotted a native, and rare Owl.  A More-pork.  ¨I've  Never seen one of theese before.¨ I said.  ¨It's pretty.¨ said Esther.  Soon enough we reached the bottom and had some morning tea.  

On the way back up we had a look in the hole in a rock. It was really dumpy around there.  When we started backup most people's legs got very achy as it was very steep.  We, sadly, didn't see the More-pork on the way back up and it felt like it would take us forever.  We did see a lot of Fantails though.  

We were going back down the steps and everyone was relieved that we were getting back to the cars.  As the view got Bigger Cornelia yelled out ¨ I can see the rice sheep Again!!!¨  We finally reached the cars again. That's where we got a drink again.  Happy to be finished the walk we headed back to school.

Crazy Days Back

Week 1

On the day school started I arrived, excited and ready for a new year! Mostly,  I was still pretty exhausted from the holidays.  Everyday in week 1 was crazy! On Monday, the first day back at school, we started our mandala art.  It lasted a while.  But it sure was fun.   

Week 2

On Monday, the first day of week 2021, we went for a walk to Hamanatua stream, since it was walk to our pepeha week.  On Wednesday we walked up Maungaroa.  It was pretty fun and we learnt a lot.  On Friday we did our first round of year 6 surfing, that was pretty fun but in bad conditions. But when that week ended I new exactly what I needed, shoes.

Week 3 

In week 3, I forgot what we did but I remember Surfing. That Friday we went surfing again, At Roberts road.  It was big, fun and dumpy.  When your out the back that is.  That day Klara and Esther got the style award, Tre got the best wave Award and I got the perseverance award.

Week 4

Its week 4 now, and we´ve had fun doing collaborative art.  On Monday we went to our school marae and on Wednesday we  had school swimming sports.  

They were both fun as!! We went surfing again this morning and it was awesome.  I can´t remember who got the awards but it was tiny.  Also I was on a new board. And  I/we just finished some more art called My Pepeha Art and it looks GREAT!