Cross Country

 This Wednesday was School Cross Country. But because of being in Level 2, only year 4, 5 and 6 students went down. Level 2 also meant no spectators, so no parents or family were allowed to watch. I was really nervous! As we walked to the track, my heart started beating just a little bit faster. 

Year 6 girls were up first so I lined up as soon as we got there. When Koka Sue blew the whistle, the sound ricocheted in my ears. I ran as fast as I could when that whistle blew. For some reason I could taste blood. The metal taste felt like money. My asthma made it hard to breathe. 

After the race my breathing got worse. I took my asthma pump and had a drink of water. Me and my friends recreated a photo from athletics, here is the original and the recreation:

 This is the original:

Here is the recreation:

Olympic Booklet

 This term one of our Inquiry topic is Olympics. At the start of the term we got given booklets that the teachers printed from Kiwi Kids News. Our booklets have lot's of tasks to do with the Olympics and Paralympics. I enjoy researching and finding out new things.  How much do you know about the Olympics? 

In the booklets, we also have our favourite Kiwi Olympic athlete and Kiwi Paralympic athlete. My favourite Olympic athlete is Emma Twigg, a 34 year old that won gold in rowing at this years Olympics. My favourite Paralympic athlete is Sophie Pascoe, a 28 year old that has won nine gold medals and six silver medals in swimming. Who would be your favourite Kiwi Olympic and Paralympic athletes?

Here is what the cover looks like: 

I love working on my booklet and it makes me feel more ready for Intermediate next year with all this knowledge about the Olympics. Would you enjoy filling in a booklet like this? I know I enjoy it! 

 

Reading Questions

This term, in our L3+ Reading group, our teacher set us questions and we would find a book, that isn't in a series, to answer them. I chose 'The Midnight Gang' by David Walliams. Here are my answers:

Midnight Gang

1. I chose this book because it had a nice message to it and I liked other books that the author had written.

2. If I was Tom, the main character, I would have stayed with Sally instead of leaving her on her own, and because of her illness she would want some company. 

3. If this book was a TV show the actors I would put in it would be: Andrea Barber as Tootsie,  Candace Cameron Bure as Tom’s mum, Paris Berelc as Matron, Isabel May as Amber, Finn Carr as Tom, Elias Harger as George, Mckenna Grace as Sally and Michael Champion as Robin.

4. The book is set in London, England.

5. If Tom lived next door to me, yes, I would be friends because he could introduce me to the other characters.

6. In my head, the setting looks exactly like London and I would definitely want to visit there.

7. The two new words I learnt were 'adversary' and 'pantomime'. Adversary means opponent or rival, and pantomime means faking, like in The Midnight Gang, Tom was pretending to sleep or be in a pantomime of sleep.

8. I think the author wrote this because he wanted kids to have a laugh and show them that, one day, your dreams will come true.

9. I chose this book myself, but sometimes other peoples choice of books do help me change vary my choices of books to read.
   

Rhythmical Dance Group

This week Lola and Rio started a rhythmical dance group with year 5 and 4 girls from Moana syndicate. Me and Ella are assistants. At morning tea and lunch they practice and practice, everyone loves it! They can do amazing back bends and flips, even I can't do that yet! They are very flexible and have clean moves. The song they dance to is, Levitating by Dua Lipa. 

We practice in the hall with the mats and outside the classes on the grass. I wish I could do dancing like they do! Have you ever been in a dance group?

Little Blue Penguins

 This term our inquiry is on the Little Blue Penguin. They are the smallest penguins in the world and are very cute. Since it is our inquiry topic, we have been doing it in most of workshops. In our writing workshop, we are doing poems about penguins turning into dragons. I really enjoy doing it even though we just started! 

Here is my first few sentences of my poem that I just started:

"I'm waddling to my nest where a fluffy stoat, with an orange coat is gobbling up my eggs. I feel myself burning inside, I'm really going to make him hide!"

I'm very happy with my start and can't wait to do more learning about the Little Blue Penguins!

Gymnastics

This term is the gymnastics festival. The festival is for everyone to give it a go and have fun, but it is optional. At first I wasn't going to do it as I had hurt my arm. But, just when the practices started, my arm had healed and it didn't hurt when I moved it. So I decided to join B grade gymnastics.

Although I am really happy that I can do it, I fell into the learning pit when I found out I had to do a backwards roll. I couldn't do a backwards roll yet, so I was a bit nervous. But I practiced and practised, until I got it.

I am really happy because I have never done gym before, and it is really fun in the practices. This morning we had a fifteen minute practice and I think that there is another one on Friday. I love the gym and hopefully we have more practices soon!

     

Kawa of care

On Tuesday we had half an hour to complete a Kawa of care poster. We were in pairs and I was with Dune.  I had missed out a bit as I was getting my arm X- Rayed. Me and Dune did the big think, solving problems on your chromebook. Here is our poster: