For the past couple weeks I have been doing softball with Matua Travis for my action station. I think it was a good idea to put softball as one of the choices. One thing I learnt is how to bunt a ball, something I didn’t like was having to use the kaka gloves. One thing I found challenging was throwing the ball far enough when playing stuck in the mud. My favourite part was probably being in the field when we were playing stuck in the mud. I would probably choose softball again as one of my choices next term
Harold The Giraffe
On wednesday and thursday the year 5 & 6 went to Harold the giraffe. Today I’m going to share what I learned while I was there . One thing I found interesting was the blood isn’t really blue it just looks like that, we have red blood and some of our blood is really dark because that blood has been used and has no oxygen that’s why it looks blue.
I also learnt that you need 9 basic things to live: food, exercise, sleep, shelter, wash, kindness, safety, water. People think that skeletons are scary because of halloween but if we didn’t have a skeleton we would be just a blob. My favourite thing we did was the disco party.
Thanks for reading my experience with harold.
Action station
Today we did our action station the thing I chose to do as my action station is softball with Matua Travis. Something I didn’t like was probably doing the catching because the the person that was throwing to me didn’t know how to throw. One thing I did like was fielding when we were playing stuck in the mud. One of the things I didn’t understand was stuck in the mud when Matua first explained it. Something I learnt was how to bunt a ball.
Tapu Wai – Action
Today Nogo teached as how to play tapuwai
Tapu ae (also known as Tapuwai and Tapuwae) is a traditional Māori ball game. It is an adaptation of Kī-o-rahi to a court game, and was formalised about 1900. Today it is played on a hard surface such as a netball or basketball court. The court consists of two sides where players pass the ball to each other, aiming to knock the wooden block in the middle of the circle on each of the two sides over. There are different types of Tapu ae, which range from using the formally known wooden block as a defense, and the other using cones with tennis balls. It is widely known throughout the country of New Zealand.
These are the rules and information
Wednesday – Mau Rakau – ( Action )
For the last five weeks of this term my class and I have been attending Mau Rakau with Matua Te Haka, our Mau Rakau kaiako. We practised two things in particular whakata which is the move you use to measure how much space you have and how much you need. The other moves we also do the waewae nuku there is lots of different waewae nuku there tahi all the way to ono. The thing I like about Mau Rakau is using the rakau while doing the waewae nuku. My least favourite part was having to do the push ups when someone drops the rakau. I understand most of the moves that Matua Te Haka shows as, The part I don’t understand is the hard moves that Matua Te Haka shows as. We start with a porowhita then karakia to start and finish the lesson.
What has been happening lately
These past few weeks my class and I have been doing persuasive texts. I like doing persuasive writing because it’s like fighting for the side of the story you believe. I understand that in persuasive writing you need facts to back up your side of the story. I also learned that in persuasive writing you need an introduction and two bodies of information. The part I don’t understand is the conclusion.
This is the LINK to one of my persuasive text.
reading change
This year my class and I are doing a different reading set up. We now have a reading journal and we have a follow up activity sheet that asks us about the book. My favourite part is answering the questions. I do not like the part where we have to write the question in our book and the answers.
beach ed
On tuesday the year 6, 7, 8, from our class and half of tangaroa’s year 7 and 8 went to north beach surf life saving club for beach education we learnt a lot of things about the beach but my two favourite things were learning about the first aid and I also loved playing in the water my less favourite thing was when we were learning about boogie boarding because I already new every
thing she said. One thing my class and I learnt is what a rip is they told as to keep riding and not try to swim out of the rip cause it will waste all of our energy and just wait for a lifeguard to come and help
I have been learning
This week I have learnt how to tell what the face value of a number and what the place value of numbers are and what the place values are. I really enjoyed the part where we had to write the value of all the numbers that whaea wrote on the board. I understood everything because we did a similar thing the day before. I think this will help me get maths.
3D view
Kia ora, this block my class and I started a new project.I will tell you about the 3D picture I did.First Matua Travis tolled us to get our “Te Reo Maori” pukapuka then said to go and sit down at the papawhakaari.Matua said to pick a piece of the landscape and try to draw that piece of land as detailed as you can. when I went to Matua to see if i was finished he said to now draw the front and the back of what i was drawing so it made it look 3D.
Here is my photo 