Team 5 Challenge

‘Hooray!’ our class shouted when we heard Ms Tito say that today was going to be really fun. The whole of team 5 were going to have a fun challenge on the bottom field. After morning tea we were asked to get changed in to a change of clothes and line up. There were 4 stations we had to go to and at each station there was a teacher.

The first station we went to was Ms Tito’s. The point of Ms Titos game was to get any ball in to any hoop. There were different kinds of shapes and sizes of balls. 2 strong people had hold the big sling shot so that we could get in the hoop and so it wouldn’t be a hassle for us. The class who gets more balls in the hoop gets water balloons after lunch. At the end only Ms Tito and Ben got it in.

Our second activity was with Mr Harris. He told the rules and the instructions first so that we knew what to do instead of just mucking around. We had to get in to pairs. My partner was Maree. There was a piece of string, a spoon and a tennis ball. With the string we had to tie it around my left leg and her right leg then hold the tennis with the spoon and walk to the other side and back. Who ever came first were in the finals. Too bad Maree and I didn't come first.

My favourite station was Mrs Nua’s. It was my favourite because it involved getting wet. There was a bucket full of water in front of each line with a sponge inside and a empty bucket at the each of the line. We had to try get the water to the other side in the sponge by doing it in a routine. It was side, under, side, under. At the end line one which was my group had the most water.

I’d like to say thank you to all the teachers that were involved yesterday. It was a really fun day I really enjoyed it. Hopefully we get to do this another time.

M.I Test

At the moment Room 22 are learning about the multiple intelligences. There are 8 of them. They are Intrapersonal, Interpersonal, Verbal linguistic, I.C.T, Body Kinesthetic, Visual spatial, Musical, Mathematical. My strengths are body Kinesthetic and Musical. The Intelligences I need to work on is Mathematical and Visual Spacial. Here are my M.I results.

Badminton

Room 22 had great surprise on Thursday. We were the first class to have a session with Laureen. She was a coach from the Auckland Badminton Club. She taught us some fabulous skills in our school hall.

She taught us how to control the ball by holding the racket upside down with your thumb facing down as well with your right hand and holding the shuttle with a straight hand on your left hand. We played a game when we had to try and get the shuttle in the bin.

Our next activity was to get a partner and a cone. The other partner holds the cone and the other holds the racket. The point of the game was to try and get the shuttle into the cone .
I had a really good time learning how to play badminton. Laureen was a great teacher I definitely can’t wait for our next session.

Highlight Of Term 2

This term has been fantastic. My highlight of the term was actually finishing our project we were given. I was very pleased when Ms Tito said that it was completed. Our project was to design furniture for the street and make it a place we love and respect in our senior block. My other highlight of the term was playing netball and rugby for the school.

The Design Process

This term we have been working through the design process. The first step was to identify a need. Our need was to make the street a place we love and respect and by doing that we had to design furniture for it.

We got to choose what we could design. There were plenty of options but Vaha and I decided we would go with partitions/walls. We researched for some ideas using our netbooks so that we knew what it looked like. We made sure that it was safe, practical, creative, and innovative.

The following step was generating ideas. We had to modify it to make it our own. When we were generating ideas we had to make sure we were able to visualise and image and new ideas.

I really liked working through the design process and seeing how it works. Vaha and I enjoyed it so much. Hopefully we have time to finish it and get to build it. This is our finish product.

Rugby League Session.

This is what I created on Picasa about our Rugby League Session.

Rugby League Session.

Yesterday morning we were lucky to have a rugby league session with one of the members from the Vodafone junior warrior squad. His name was Sio Siua Taukeiaho. Once we got there we were put into 4 groups of 7 or 8.

The first drill we did was a in and out one. The first team that got to five were the winners. Team one won of course. The second drill we did was my favourite one because it was all about trying to score a try. It was also the first on to three. You had to zig zag in between the people and once you got to the end you had to sprint to the end and score a try.

The very last drill we did was Kick Tennis. The aim of the drill was to try and get the other team out. You had to kick the ball to the other team if they didn’t catch and it landed next to you then that player was out. If you kicked it below the waist then the person who kicked it was out. This drill was really fun and interesting especially the name of it.

It was really fun training with Siua . Hopefully we get to do it again another time.