korfball

Every Thursday we get into 4 groups the groups will either be doing lawn bowel, korfball or cricket.
This Thursday my group did korfball witch was invented in 1980 by Nico Broekhuysen first played in the Netherlands. korfball  is a bit like netball and basketball. 
the game has a line through the middle of a court witch you can't go over. some of the basic rules are you can't move with the ball, you can't pass a line unless your swapping positions, the ball can't touch your feet and if you have your hands up in their face it's called a good defended shot and they can't shoot.

I recommend this sport to people who love shooting but aren't the best at defense!
have you ever played korfball?

amazing athletics!!

On the 24th of October we went down to Rawhiti Domain to do long distance, sprints 50 and 80 meter.
Sadly we didn't get to do high jump long jump and discos as the  weather wasn't at it's greatest.
In long distance I came 4th and in 50 meter heats I came 2nd only just and in 50 meter finals I came 3rd. In 80 meter sprints I came 1st in heats and 2nd in finals.
we didn't get our results for shot put but I don't think I was in the top three because on first through I steeped out the front instead of the back in other words I got disqualified as for my second through it wasn't so great.
 but over all I was quite proud of myself.

do you like athletics?

Winter sports

Welcome back to another amazing blog for today's post I will be telling you about my experiences with soccer.

This year I decided to try a new sport. My first choice was actually rugby but I didn't get into the team so I got put into the B soccer team as it was my 2nd choice and sure I was a little sad that I didn't get into the rugby team but how bad can soccer be? Now soccer's not a sport you would usually see me playing but it's something new and you never died from change and some times change can be good my experience with soccer was good in fact this is a sport that I might try again another time. I may not be the best but there is a lot of time for improvement. I then moved into the A team because they were down a player. The boys in the team were really good at soccer and I can see why they were in the A team they were at a much higher level than I was. The boys were definitely a big help. They taught me lots of new skills and tips that made playing soccer a lot easier for me I don't know how I would of lasted half of this season with out them. They were a very good team when it came to playing on the field. They worked well together and communicated really well too. I remember this one time I went to go kick the ball and I completely missed the ball and almost fell over  but that was around the start of the year now I can kick a ball without almost falling back even if it doesn't go where I was hoping.
We win we lose and we improve!!
Here is an image of my team



Well that's it about my team for today also....
Do you do winter sports?
If so what sport?
If not are you thinking about doing any winter sport?
if you are I suggest soccer or netball but if your looking for something a little more rough than rugby!
well that's it for today😇

The Lego Challenge!

On the 5th of august Rachel from the house of bricks came into our hub and set up three different challenges.

The first challenge that my class did was to make a bridge that had to be 15 center meters long, it had to hold 7 chapter books and one very heavy pencil case some bridges were relay long and could hold most of the books but then came along the pencil case our bridge was nice and sturdy we ended up holding all of the books and pencil case than we pulled the tables apart a bit we pulled our table out to 41 center meters than we let some one else have a turn but I truly believe that we could have gone longer.
Here is our bridge.

The second challenge that we did was the tallest tower we had to make a tall tower out of Lego. Me charlie and jasper won. But the rest of the class had don really well considering there towers were actually stable. our tower fell down about 7 times but we built it back together.
Here is us building our tower

our last challenge was to create two car that race down a ramp the first car that Charlie and I choose to make was the block car. At the start of making the car Rachel gave us a hint: longer is better. Me and charlie than made a long base for the car than we attached the wheels after that we tested it but it didn't work very well than Rachel said to try put more wait, less wait, longer, more wheels or less wheels in other words she wanted us to try every thing till it worked. After hearing what Rachel had said to us Charlie and I than added more blocks to see what would happen it still wasn't the best but it was better so I added more weight my idea was to put more weight in the front than in the back so that when rolling down the ramp hopefully the wait from the front will drag it and make it faster when going down.

I than headed over to the ramp to test it once again it got better but could still be better I left it on the table it was good enough. I went to go help Charlie with the Technic cars this 2nd part of the challenge was slightly harder but had better tires we had to connect the tires with the axle but wile doing that you had to use these tire stopper thing's that go at the end of the tire and on the axle so the tire doesn't come of and you also had to make sure the tires didn't rub against each other or the frame other wise it wouldn't move so to stop them from coming in and rubbing against each other or on the frame we use another one of those tire stopper things than we added the frame to attach the tires on to the axle.

sorry if I made this very hard to understand.

have you ever done a Lego challenge? 

If so what were your challenges?

and how did you get on with them?

People power!

This term in reading we have been reading about the environment. I have enjoyed reading People power. It was about how people should bike instead of walking or taking a car
For reading this week, my group read: Not Your Typical Book About the Environment.

The new ideas I have now since I have read this text are:
 
Make a biking group to reduce gasses and get more exercise
If can not do the above I will still try to bike to school
IF I CAN NOT DO EITHER OF THESE things I WILL THEN TAKE ANY PUBLIC TRANSPORT LIKE A BUS                                       
Or I might just car pull with another friend
                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                    I now better understand the harm that taking a car can make and if you start biking how much change it can make.
Here is a poster of my learning:

you got this we can bike for the better of our world!!

crossing the country

cat hand man car me and my friends have been sitting down for two and a half hours strait playing spot it! how fun
finally line up year six girls your next says Miss Hansen
here are some picture of Tumu running wild

PBL - Term 1

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about kindness and the big question was: How can we build community through our actions?

First, we explored some collaborative activities and discussed how we could include kindness and build a sense of community through our actions at camp. Next, we were organised into groups where we had to unpack the above question. In our groups we considered how we could spread community and kindness through our entire school community. We decided that we would offer something that was free and would make others happy.

We created an action plan and it mainly reflected on how we can be kind and how we coped and all the kind feedback we got from other students after our adjustments we have a pretty good chance for baking with the teachers 

Reflection: 

For our final product our group was better than I thought even though some or most of us forgot there was still yummy things brought in by Molly and I

how did I contribute?
I contributed by helping with the idea of baking for the teachers I also made roughly about 26 origami butterflies in 1 day and now my hands are now dead

I think the our PBL had an impact on the teachers by surprising them and hopefully bringing them joy by baking

I learned that working with others is a lot more fun and easier than alone I really like the new people
I worked with
if you were set this task what kind thing would you do for the community ?
and why ?