Odd Day

On monday there was a day of school, as you might know, it was the Queens  Birthday.  Than on tuesday we had a reliever.  In room 2 there was a teacher called Koka Katie, in room 1 there was a reliever called Koka Kathline.  The teachers split the classes, even though where used to working together, that was sad for me because most of my friends are in room 2.  Each class was doing some art.

In room 1 we were doing some Picasso Art.  First we chose an odd shaped head, it was so odd.  Than we drew a face inside of a face, we kept doing some more odd objects until we had done it all. we got to choose how we did the face and hair though.   Last we did some odd shapes in the face and coloured them in.

In the afternoon, after lunch, we had to go to split classes for learning through play.  I chose to go to woodburners, its were you create things out of wood and sea glass, occasionally even shells.  I decided to use the hot glue gun.  I glued on to a piece of wood, some shells, and a bit of sea glass. it was a fun, but odd day.

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.

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!

Te Reo o te wiki

kia ora everyone!!

I'm very excited because its, Te Reo o te Wiki, week.  That means its Maori week.

For quick write we had to do maori vocabulary and word work was a maori word find. 

We also have to speak as much Maori as possible. 

some basic words are: Kia ora, Ka pai, Te reo, morena, Ata maria, and Tena koutou.  There are more but these are for beginners. if you want to learn more go on the next activity.

I'll tell you about the vocabulary.  You get to  choose between numbers, fruit, animals, vocabulary builders, vocabulary and colours.  There's a list at the beginning of each activity. You read the list and then start.  They test you  read.

Word work is a word find.  You have to find all the words on the list.  next, after you've finished that you have to find out what each word means.  You try it.

BEACH

On monday and Tuesday me and my syntacite went to the beach for learning through play.  Me and my friends Naia, Alivia and Lola played tag at first and then they decided they didn't want to.  When they started building a turtle I walked away because I didn't want to.  I went to see one of my other friends, Cornelia, and watched her and some other people braid some people's hair, Including a teachers, and at the end they placed freiges really carefully in the braid.  It was beautiful.

On tuesday me Naia, Alivia and Lola played a gym game.  Naia was the builder, Lola was boss and Alivia was assistant.  I was the person who came to trial.  After a while we got bored.  Boring!!!!!!!!!!!!  Naia and Lola did something and me and Alivia played tag and asked Naia and Lola to play to. we did run through the freiga patch though.  soon after we left. That was it all guys.  BY