Surfing🌊🌊

 Aloha guys. Last week we had EOTC. EOTC is when you get to go on heaps of fun trips. We do EOTC because we don't do camp. My favorite activity was surfing, so im going to explain about surfing. We went to Sumner Beach so we could practice our surfing skills. There was this group of people who teach people how to surf. They are named Stoked Surf School. We got into our wet suits and picked a board we wanted. The wet suits were very tight and I just chose a plain blue surf board. 

The instructors first had to teach us how to stand up on a board and how to paddle. When everyone got the hang of standing up on the board we put a leg rope on and then headed out into the water. The water was very warm because of the thick wet suits.

We all started to surf, I caught a couple of waves. When the waves were  gliding over the boards the water got in my eyes and mouth. It tasted to salty and the salt water stung my eyes.The wind was very strong so when we were trying to get the boards out of the water its was so hard to pull it out. 

sorry i dont have any photos of surfing

Zones :)

 Aloha guys, last week I went to zones with 36 other people. I went to zones for discus, shot put, and 1000 metres run (long distance.) The people who went to zones had to be at school before 8:30 because the bus was leaving at 8:40 and we had to get all our stuff and get ready. It was time to get on the bus and go to Nga Puna Wai.  We arrived and found the spot our school was sitting at the best view. 

Everyone waited for their activity to start and went to them. My first activity was shot put, They did not tell us what place we came but the top four had to stay there and go into the finals, I was not in the top four.

 I waited a while for my next activity to start, it was discus. They only told the top four people who threw the longest. Once again I was not in the finals. I then waited so long for my next activity.

 it was 1000 metre run (long distance.) I started running and was fine but when I got up to my second lap I was over it. I finished and got second to last, hahahah. I was still proud of myself i just think i could to better. When i finished my calves were so sore. The next three days they still sore.  Here is a photo of zones.

Athletics

 Aloha boys and girls, this week we did athletics. The weather was really bad that day, it was spitting down with rain the whole time. I am a year five and my year group first had to do long jump. I got i think 4.15 meters? We then discus, then shot-put , distance and then high jump. It was to cold to do sprints so we did sprints the next day. My favorite activity was long jump. I also made it into zones for shot-put, discus and 1000 meter run (distance running.)

Swimming

 Aloha guys the last two weeks we have been going swimming at  Canterbury Swim School. Canterbury Swim School is a swimming place that teaches you how to swim. My coach was named Sam. We first had to have showers before we get into the pool. I think we had to have a shower before we get into the pool just in case we had dirty stuff of us, the shower gets it all off.We have learnt freestyle, backstroke ,kicking and more. I think i have improved at swimming.Here are some photos

Describe it

Aloha guys, this week we have been learning how to describe photo prompts. We first had to make some what describe writing is.  Descriptive writing is when you DESCRIBE a photo, it is NOT a story.We then had to start writing.  Here is the what describe writing is, photo prompt and my writing . This is also my favorite piece of writing i have writte

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Buddy class

 Aloha guys, today we went to buddy class. We had to play some games once again. We had heaps and heaps of games to pick from. Me and my friend were playing with our buddy's together. W where playing with the rods and made a huge tower with the rods. We then made a lever and exploded our tower. After when we fished with the rods we then played with the little frilly block things.I don't know what they are called. Here are some photos

WE GOT A SHOUT OUT!!!!!!😀😀

 Aloha guys. This week we finally got a shout out on Kiwi Kids News. Kiwi kids News is a kids stuff. every day there is a new article. and every Friday there is a Kiwi Kids News catch up. A catch is when there is a girl or a boy re reads all of the articles but in a video. At the end of every catch up there is a shout out. We have been begging kiwi kids news for a shout for about 2 terms. And today was the day we got our shout out. When we heard our class name and our school our class was screamingggggggggg!!!

                    Kiwi Kids News Shoutoutttt

Buddy class

 Aloha, Today we went to buddy class. We had to play games. There were heaps of games. Such as Rods, Lego, connect four, and more ( I forgot). My buddy's name was Faye, Me and my buddy, leala and her buddy, Miss Scott (Teacher) and Xavier where playing rods together. We were making heaps and heaps of towers. We had to see who can make the highest tower. Miss Scott won. When we where all done making our towers we then had to destroyed them with a lever made out of the rods. When Miss frost ( another teacher) said "Its time to pack up" We all packed up the big mess we all made. Here are some photos

Narrative

 Aloha guys. This term we have been writing narratives. Narratives is when you have to make up a story and add a introduction, a problem, a resolution and a ending. We had a photo and had to do a narrative about it. The photo we had to write about was a girl in a dark scary tunnel.  Here is the photo we had to write about and my story.