Term 4 Week 3 Blog Recount

Athletics Rotation

On Friday we had our HUGE Athletics Rotations. The whole Seniors were doing it. There was High Jump, Long jump, Sprinting, Soft ball Throw. I was really nervous but I had to try it.

First we went into our age groups. I was at the 10 year old girls team. I saw my friends there Abimbola, Mandy and Norah. They all said,"Hi" to me and I said, "Hi" back. 

Once we had formed into our age groups we went to our school field. I saw lot's of year 6's and Year 5's in the group that I was in. I saw some of my last, last year class kids and kids that I know. Abimbola said that she was really excited for the sprinting because she was a fast runner and it was true!

Norah said that she was excited for the high jump and so did Mandy too. 

I was excited for both activities!

When everyone had arrived and got prepared one of the teachers started explaining what we had to do for Athletics. Our first activity was soft ball throw with Mr Write. He first tought us how to do a softball throw. ( You have to make sure that you have one arm aiming to the place you want to throw and the other hand holding the ball beside your face.) That's how I learned how to do a softball throw. 

Once we had practiced our softball throw we then started doing the real thing.

We formed into groups of fours and then we took turns throwing the ball. In my group I had Mandy, Abimbola and Norah. We went when Mr Write had called us. When it was my turn I did throw. I had pretty good throw but I didn't made it to the Athletics team for Softball but at least I had a try.

As everyone was throwing. Abimbola made it to the softball team but then she didn't made it because someone else  made it in her place so she had to come back with us :(

After a few minutes we were walking to the sandpit for long jump. I was really nervous for this one because I'm not a good long jumper but I am a good high jumper ;) We had Mrs Walker and Mrs Kan for the long jump. Mrs Walker told us the rules and what to do in long jump. ( You have to start of by running and then jump to the white part of the board and jump with all of your power.)

After that we started doing a practice run. I did the same thing that  Mrs Walker had said but I did something wrong. Yep something wrong. I forgotten that I was supposed to jump with 2 feet not 1 foot. So I need to make sure that in the next round I will need to jump with 2 feet

When it was my turn in the next round I remembered that I had to jump with 2 feet so I started running from the mark jumped right to the board and jumped off with  2 feet and landed to the sandpit. Mrs Walker said that in that round it was MUCH more better. So I said "Thank you" and went back to the line.

Just in that time of the last round Mrs Howard came and said that we will be going to our next activity. It was called Beanbag Mania but I never knew that we had that game in the rotations. Well we had to try it so we did. First the teacher told us how to play it. ( It's kind of difficult to explain the game so sorry :( ) Anyways back to the story we set up the game and started. There was four groups, group A, group B, group C and group D. I was in group B. Group B has to be in the corner sides where we use balls to try hitting the people who are charging for a beanbag.

When everyone was ready we started playing. The first two people from group D and A started charging in for a beanbag. We waited for the players to grab a beanbag and then we stared shooting. I was about to shoot when suddenly someone else started shooting right to our side. 
Well we just continued so it didn't matter. 

At the end we got about most of the players. But then we changed to different positions. Our team was the ones that were trying to get the beanbags to home without getting hit by a ball. I was more confident but I did had fun doing some throwing. As we charged to get a beanbag group D and group C was on a roll. 

At the end we got about 685 points and we won in that round. Also perfect timing because it's time to go to the next rotation which is sprinting. We all started of by getting into 2 groups. 1 is for the slow runners and the other one is for the fast runners. I went in the fats one because I am a pretty fast runner. 

Then we went to the running tracks. The fast runners went into one heat. We lined up and then the others started lining up in other heats. Then we started racing. I came second in the first race and then we raced again that time I came 3 place but then we had to race the fats ones. I came fifth place which means I lost:( but it was ok. 

Right then Mrs Melville said to come to the next activity so we went of to do High jump. first we split into two groups. One that jumps with their left legs and the other with right. I went on left because I jump with left. We had about 4 or 5 rounds of it because high jump was really short.

I almost made it to the team but I lost it.

High jump was fun but it was time to finish athletics. I had so much fun. But still I think athletics can be still really challenging.

Character Description Grandparents

These are my grandparents. One is called Grandpa Joe and the other is Granny May.

Grandpa Joe's cheeks are as red as a volcano erupting and Granny May's eyes are as blue as crystal diamonds.

Grandpa Joe is playful, like a clown doing a circus act, like tricks and jokes and mix and matches, As playful as toys everywhere.

Granny May is sweet, like sweet candy, like really kind children, As sweet as Grandpa Joe!

Granny May has red velvet cheeks with a big smile underneath it. She has a loaf of twisty eyelashes and eyes as blue as crystal diamonds. Grandpa Joe is white as snow and hair that's grey as grey ash. He looks like Santa Claus and always has a big smile :)

Grandpa Joe is a smart and playful kind of person. He makes jokes and do tricks. Granny May is a clever and intelligent kind of person. She is a great cooker and has chubby cheeks.

Both Grandpa Joe and Granny May speak English and use English but who knows they might know more.

Character Description Framework

My Reflection

I am learning to write a Character Description of my Grandparents.

I had to type in parts about either my grandparents or a picture of some grandparents.

I found this easy because I had done a character description before so I had some ideas.

My next step is to use all the ideas I typed in the framework and write in the real character description.

Aurthor Bias

Biased Opinion

A New Student was a Hero!!

Laura Mini, a student that was new to school was a great hero when she had saved a grandmother from getting crushed by a car.

It all started when the end of school bell rang. Laura had just got out from the school and was walking down the footpath when suddenly a strange scream came out from the road. Laura checked who it was and just then she saw a grandmother crossing the road and a car just about to crush her. She needed cross the road before the car crosses her so Laura zoomed right to her and speed across the road right before car zoomed across. The Grandmother thanked Laura, gave Laura a big hug and then she said, " You are truly a hero." And that's how Laura became a hero.

Balanced Opinion

What Really Happened

Laura Mini was a new kid to school. When she was about walk back home she heard someone yell help. She went to check who it was and it was a old lady trying to cross the road. She noticed that a car was about drive through on the same road that the old lady was on. Laura started panicking but then she knew that she should help the old lady cross the road. So Laura went off giving the lady a hand. 

Once they had crossed the road the old lady thanked Laura and said, " You are very helpful my dear."  And that's the story of how Laura helped a old lady out.

Writing Description

Writing Description

GREG

Greg the misarable, stincky, old man was a lump of stinky old slime. His uniform was made of dirty, scratched up fabrics and when you look at him, his not so handsome face would make you run like the wind. He moves like a snail, shoulders dropped like as if it weights a ton and rides on a broken, wooden bike. His eyes are as dark as a terrible, stormy nightmare, his ears are as floppy as a flag flopping about through the wind. When he smiles ( although he doesn't ) you can see a HUGE hole from a rotten teeth. Greg was a careless old man who drives people BATS!!!

T4W2 Blog Recount

Fantastic Friday

"RIIIIINNGGG!" That was the sound of the playtime bell ringing out of CONTROL!! I saw children getting ready for something but what? RIGHT it was FANTASTIC FRIDAY! All the Year 3's,4's,5's and 6's were going WANKERS around the shade area finding their line to their activities. 

First I tried finding my line to my activity. My activity was sewing and wool crafts. I was so exited that I almost blew the roof of my head off. I checked if one of my friends were here and there was Mandy one of my friends and classmate. She looked lonely so I talked with her while we waited for the teacher that was leading the activity.

Just a moment later a teacher had arrived and said some questions like," Is this my group for sewing?, Are you all coming with me?, Are you all going to Rm 19 or 20?"

Once we had answered the questions we went into the room of COLORS and sat on the mat. One of the teachers told us what to do, oh sorry there was actually two teachers, any way back to the story, so the teacher told us what we will be sewing. At first I didn't understand what we were going to make but then the teacher ( Mrs Rist ) explained what it was. It was a called pot mitt. A pot mitt  is something that protects your hand from hotness of a pot so that means when your carrying a boiling pot and you need something to protect your hand you will need a pot mitt.

After that Mrs Rist showed us the different type of fabrics that we could use to make a pot mitt. There was lots of striped pattern fabrics, fabrics with castle on them and colorful fabrics too. I chose the colorful striped pattern fabric.

When everyone chose their fabric and sat down on the mat Mrs Rist showed us how to sew. It looked difficult but really it was actually simple! First I got a string from the other teacher (Mrs tjaliad.) Then I got help from Mrs Rist on tying the string. Then I started sewing  Up and Down, Up and Down, Up and Down, Up and Down. 

When I reached to the end I had sew back again:O I groaned,"AAHHH" and I started sewing back again. 

As I finished the sewing I went to Mrs Rist and she finished off by writing my name on a sticky note and pasting it on my fabric.

Just then the bell rang and everyone sat down on the mat ready to go back to their classes. The teachers had let us go back to our  classes and our class end the day off with the karakia.

I think it was a great idea to have FANTASTIC FRIDAY and I had so much fun doing sewing, making pot mitt, learning new things about sewing and having fun. 

Fact or Opinion Follow-up

My Reflection

I am learning about facts and opinions.

I had to read a slideshow that tells information about facts and opinions and then fill in the follow up.

I found this tricky because this is kind of new to me.

My next step is to use facts and opinion in writing.

My Holidays

"........" THAT was the sound of silence, nothing to do except being miserable and lazy UNTIL..... 

BOOM, SLAM, THUMP went the door as a living object that looked like my baby cousin came stomping in. It was my baby cousin who started yelling, "HI!!!" 

As he came in another living object came walking in she was my auntie. We all JUMPED UP and raced to the back yard. Once we made it to our backyard I wanted to go on the BOUNCY tramp so we climbed up to the tramp and started jumping up and down. As I was jumping I could feel the freezing air coming to my face.

First we started chasing each other screaming and laughing. Then we got really bored on chasing each other so we played a game. We played a game with my ball and we played a game of crack the egg and also just jumped around.

Next we went to a playground around Lloyd Elsmore. We were really excited. Once we came into the playground I went on the swings. I could feel butterflies in my tummy while I was swinging," WOOHOO" I said as I let go of the swing and landed perfectly on the ground. 

When I started getting bored on the swings I went to go and play with my brother and sister. We went on the HUGE bright yellow swing. The butterflies in my tummy flied away but cold air came into my eyes which was a little twitchy and painful.

Half an hour of crying, laughing and doing crazy things in the playground our auntie shouted," COME ON KIDS WE HAVE TO GO NOW!" So we went back home.

Once we had arrived back home our baby cousin and auntie had to leave:( 

Did you had something like this when your cousin or an auntie comes to your house and you go to the playground or something similar to my day. Well I had fun and hopefully you did too.

Maths-Probability

My Reflection

I am learning about probability. We had to play the maths game Yahtzee and then do a follow up on probability with Yahtzee. I found this a little challenging because I never played Yahtzee before and I also got confused with some of the questions. My next step is to use probability in a different situation. 

Facts Finding in Non-Fiction Text Follow-up

My Reflection

I am learning to use the 5W questions to help me find the main ideas in the articles. I had to fill in the 5W questions and then write a summary. I thought it was easy because I found the 5W quickly.

My next step is to make more longer and detailed summary.