Top Team challenge from sport Canterbury!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week 6 on Friday we had the people from top team come in to run a few challenges for us. My favourite was the water one where you tip your container of water into the person behinds. There were activities like connecting pipes to roll a ball into a bucket. There was also the burst pipe where you have to hold your fingers over the holes and a block building activity. The first one we did was the bean bag slingshot. In it someone would fire the bean bag and the others had to catch it and put it in the bucket. Another I enjoyed was the sack race where you just had to go back and forth and each time we had to change two people. We also did a mystery maze. In that we had to move to different squares to find a path to the end. After all the activities my clothes dried quickly because in the water activities I didn't get that wet.

Have you done the Top Team Challenge before. Tell me what your favourite was in the comments. Goodbye.

Tough kids fun mud run!

Hello and welcome back. In week 6 we had our super fun mud run from Tough kids Mash. It was one of the best runs I have ever done. My favourite part was the slippery water slide. My teacher Miss Lover told me to dive and slide on my stomach, so I did. I got lot's of soap everywhere. It was run by M.A.S.H. Me and my friend William ran the whole way together. In it we had to wade through water and climb through bouncy castles and over tyres. There were lot's of other schools there. Here is an image of the water slide.

The run was really good fun to do and others probably felt the same as well.
Did you do the fun run? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye.

Sport rotations: Cricket, Korfball, Softball and Lawn bowls!

Kia Ora! Welcome back to my blog. Throughout the last four weeks we have done four sport rotations. We did my favourite cricket, korfball, softball and lawn bowls. One of them I had never played nor heard of before. Korfball. It is a really fun game which is basically like netball. I loved playing cricket and when I batted the last bat I did I smacked a four straight past someone. In softball on my first hit I smacked it far and got two home runs. I tried to go for a third but the aim for the fielders was for everyone to touch the ball and everyone had touched the ball. I had done lawn bowls before and it was fun. It was against my brother and I won. 

Have you played all these games before? Or had people from that sport Canterbury come to teach you? Tell me in the comments. See ya. 

Reading Create Task for Week 6!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. This week for reading we had to do predicting. It was pretty simple. We learnt basically how to predict. All you have to do is look for clues in the book. I read a book about oceans. Here is the task we had to do.

We had to comment on it to tell if our predictions where correct or not. 

Have you done this before? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye. 

Reading Create task Week 1,2 and 4!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week 1,2 and 4 we had for goals to tick of for reading: Make connections between texts and own life experiences, using more sophisticated texts. Identify some text events and features, and discuss what they make the reader think about. Identify at least one important idea and justify why it is important. Use knowledge from text to combine with new ideas (own and others) to come up with new thinking. We had to write on a doc explaining the book using these goals. Here is what it looks like.

The picture in the middle is the book I read. It is called my name is Rez. Each box has a link to my answers. It was pretty simple to do. But not when you don't understand a word of what one of the goals means. 

Have you read this book before? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye

Saturday Cricket for East Shirley!

Kia Ora! Haere mai! Welcome back. This term I started playing cricket for my fifth year at East Shirley Cricket club. This time I am playing hard ball so now we have to wear lot's of gear. We have to wear a box, helmet, pads and gloves. If you haven't played cricket before I could run you through the basics. First the bowler bowls the ball in an overarm way. Then the batter hits the ball. Depending on how far you hit the ball you could run to the other end of the pitch to get a run. If hit smack the ball over the boundary you get a four which gives you four runs. But if it doesn't touch the ground before going over the boundary you get six runs. If the batter hits it and a fielder or keeper or bowler catches it then the batter is out and loses three runs. After an over the bowler will change to someone else. An over is when the bowler has bowled six balls. Here is a Cricket pitch.

The bowler bowls from the main umpire side and everyone else is spread out across the field.
And that's basically it. Then there is indoor cricket. It is basically the same.

So far my cricket team for hard ball is undefeated and in the fourth game I smacked a six.

Have you played cricket before or are in a club? Tell me in the comments. See ya.

Attitude talks!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In term 4 we had people from Attitude come in to talk to us about puberty. I learnt a few new things but the is a blog and this is not something to talk about on here. In the first session we all got talked to together but the second session, we were split by gender. It was one of the weirdest talks of my life. But then again we had to learn it someday.
Have you had these people talk to you before? Tell me in the comments. See ya.

Week 5's create task: Inferencing!

Kia Ora and welcome back to my blog. In week 5 I signed up for a reading workshop for inferencing. For those of you who don't know what inferencing is, inferencing is basically reading between the lines. So basically it is like making a guess of what is going to happen in the future of the book. So basically it is like predicting. Here is a few examples of what you have to do.

Have you ever had a workshop or something like this on this topic? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye. 

How to make Nanaimo bars! Recipe Writing!

Kia Ora. In week two we had a shared lunch for the Kaupeka hub. Everyone had to make a small thing from their country that they got chosen to do. If you have read my Lacrosse blog you will know that I got Canada. I chose to make Nanaimo bars. My great grandma had a special recipe for these but I had already wrote my recipe on a doc. I used my great grandma's recipe to make the bars for the shared lunch though. Here is what Nanaimo bars look like. 

Here is a link to my recipe I wrote. Nanaimo Bars. Have you ever made or tried Nanaimo bars before? Tell me in the comments! See Ya! 

How to play Lacrosse! Instructional writing!

Hello and welcome back to my blog! In the first few weeks of term 4 we have been writing instructions on the country we got chosen to do. I got Canada and choose to write about the game Lacrosse. Here is what it looks like.

How to play Lacrosse!
Lacrosse has its origins in a tribal game played by native Americans and Canadians. It was made in 1636. It was modified by European people after though.
The aim of the game is to get the ball in the goal to get points.
Lacrosse is a team sport played with ten players with three attackmen, three midfielders, three defensemen and one goalie.
First to play Lacrosse you will need the following gear:
The Crosse (Lacrosse stick)

The ball (made of rubber)

Lacrosse helmet

A mouth guard

Lacrosse gloves

Lacrosse shoulder pads

A Lacrosse field looks like this.

Rules of Lacrosse:
Only the goalie can touch the ball with their hands. All other players must us the Lacrosse stick.
When an opponent has the ball or is within five yards of the ball a player can body check them. A body check is contact from the front between the waist and the shoulders.
The defensive player must be on the defensive side with the goalie. The attackers on the offensive side. And the midfielders can be wherever they want.
The area around the goal called the crease can not be entered by an opponent but the opponent can use their stick to grab the ball out.
A Lacrosse game is at least 48 minutes long with each quarter being 12 minutes long.
The game starts with a face-off between two players on each team. The ball sits on the ground between the two players and the referee blows the whistle and they both try to get the ball.
You must us the stick to pick up and pass carry and throw the ball.

How to play the game!
With the ball in the centre, two players on each team try to get the ball when the whistle blows.
You can either pass it or run towards the goal to get the ball in.

Have you ever played Lacrosse before? Tell me in the comments. See ya.

Kaupeka Camp 2019 at Wainui park!

Hello and welcome back to my blog. In week three we had our hub camp. We went and stayed at Powell village in Wainui. When we were there we had the choice of sleeping in our cabins our a tent. I wanted to sleep in a tent but my Mum wouldn't let me take my tent so I had to sleep in the cabin. Which was cool because I had four friends in there. William, Christopher, Kade and Nathel. Here is a picture of the cabins on the outside. 

At the time we were there we did 9 different activities. 

1. High ropes

2. Kayaking

3. Coasteering

4. Raft build

5. School led activity (Breakout EDU and playing games)

6. Orienteering

7. OLS (Outdoor Living Skills)

8. Search and Rescue
9. Archery

When we wrote our reflection we had to say: What was challenging, What our favourite part was, What we learnt and what we are grateful for.

Challenging: I found the high ropes and coasteering challenging because me and heights aren't friends and for coasteering my chin strap was done up to tight on my helmet so I couldn't breath when I jumped in.

Favourite: I liked everything but mainly I enjoyed Orienteering because I had a a good group and we worked well together and got everything that we needed.

Learnt: In OLS I learnt about this plant called unga unga and that it gives you a rash that can kill you. We also learnt that the antidote is in the stem.

I am grateful for being able to go to camp and have a fun time with my friends. I am also grateful for the parent helpers because one of them helped me get my chin strap sorted at orienteering.

Have you been to this camp before? Tell me in the comments. Goodbye