Athletics

For some of this week and last week the seniors so year 5,6,7 and 8 have been helping the juniors with their athletics. To do this, we would have the different stations high jump, long jump, shot put, discus and sprints. The first time I did this I helped with the year 3s and 4s when they were doing high jump, and then the second time I did it which was today I helped the year 1s do sprints. I found this quite fun because I got to teach some of the juniors how to do high jump, and also sometimes when the juniors were rotating through the stations and there was nobody at either the sprints or high jump I got to do a few jumps on the high jump and a few sprints.

Ski day

A bit less than 2 weeks ago my school had our winter fun day. On winter fun day the year 1,2 and 3s go to the ice skating place and the year 4,5,6,7 and 8s go to mount Hutt to ski. Since I am in year 5
I went skiing. First I practised on the magic carpet for a while then I went onto the ski track opposite the magic carpet and practised on that for a while, then when my friend Zacks Dad came back he took me, Louis and Zack up to highway 72. I really like highway 72, it is my favourite ski track.
I really enjoyed the ski trip. Also on the way to the top of Mount Hutt, there is a rock called Rockie.

My narrative

Flipsnack

On Monday my class found a new site called flipsnack. It is really helpful for making things like books because once you have created a few slides you can press make it a flipbook then it will look like a real book and then you can flip the pages by either pressing the arrow or pulling the page with your mouse. To get onto this site you just search up flipsnack and then click on the site. I found this really helpful and I think I will use it instead of google slide.

Ki-o-rahi

On Friday some of my class went to a Ki-o-Rahi tournament. Gilberthorpes, Hornby primary and South Hornby were the other schools that competed in the tournament. I enjoyed it but I was confused where the outline was because everyone kept on running way out of the circle that we were meant to be playing in. There were about 8 teams in the tournament. My team won two games drew one and lost one. If you don't know what Ki-o-Rahi is it is a game with a small ball, and the aim of the game is to try him the poles which are called po's and then bank the points that you scored by hitting the po's. If you are kioma you bank your points by getting a try and if you are tanipha you bank your points by throwing the ball at the tupue which is a barrel in the middle of the field which is being protected by two people on the other team. So Ki-o-Rahi is a confusing game but when you get the hang of it it is really fun.

Quick math

Today my class did a maths challenge. We had to watch a video that had people singing songs very fast with math equations in them. After listening to it twice we had to write all the equations down on a whiteboard and then figure it out. This was fun and hard, it was fun because we had to work together if we were working with a partner. It was hard because we had right all the questions down quick before the next one came up. These equations involved division, multiplication, subtraction and adding.
I found this very fun.

Maths investigation

On Tuesday my math group did an investigation called no 3 in a line. For this investigation I had to create a table on the Chromebook which is a big square with lot's of boxes in it, then I had to colour as many squares red as I could without getting three in a row. I found this easy because I didn't have to use any division, adding or subtracting but I did have to use times tables when I was doing 5 by 5 or 4 by 4, for the table that I was making on the Chromebook. This was one of the slides I did.