Hamanatua Walk

 Hamanatua Walk

On Tuesday MLH went on a big big walk to the end of Hamanatua (well that's what we think).There was so many cute young animals but the walk was fun we had to stay in a single filem the entire time but that didn't happen most of the time. So I will tell you about that walk.

First we had to cross a river Koka Rozie went first she just went over it like it was nothing but that didn't happen for me. There was some type of log thing so I jumped over that but when it came to one of the boys it was kinda funny one of the boys fell all the way in I felt bad but it was so funny.

Then we had the walk, we got about half way and we stopped off at this really cool tree there were so many sitting spots. We were eating our food at the tree and 4 wasps started to fly around my friend Zoe so we moved. Then we kept walking we got to this clay type of thing it made the shoes so heavy.

We got to the end of the stream we think we saw so so many ducklings they were all so cute. We saw them swimming then we walked back. The walk back felt so much quicker then on the way there. On the way back from the stream we went past the first bit of the stream like we did at the start and this time it wasn't the boy that did it first but it was another boy.

He feel on his bottom and just stayed in there because he had fallen so much on the trip. Then we walked back to school and we got to play for about 20 minutes. It was home time and we got GREEN GOLD for an enviroschool that is a really good colour. We went home and that was the Hamanatua walk. 

Here's the tree that I was talking about:

The Amazing Jean Batten Day

 The Amazing Jean Batten Day

Last week our class learnt about this amazing New Zealander called Jean Batten. We were all in our buzz groups and we had to find out some things about her of her cat, but I'm telling you about the day that we did on Tuesday. We did so many things so I will tell you about my favourite things I did.

The first thing I loved was making paper planes. The reason we did that was because Jean Batten is a flyer she was the first lady to fly from England to New Zealand. So we got given a sheet of paper that would say Moth or Gull (those are 2 types of planes that she tried) so we made those planes with the sheet and instructions. I had the moth I found it really hard to make. After that we went to 3 stations and in the end the Gull paper plane was the best for flying. Making it was so fun though.

Next the fun Mayday bit. So we were in groups and in the group that I was in we had 5 people that means that we only got 4 Mayday sheets. We had to try to get to the finish line before the other team and if you feel off your whole team would have to go back to the start that happened once in our team. Our last player was the last on the mayday sheets he jumped and landed the littlest bit away from the line and we bet 3:16 seconds we got 2:57 seconds so we came first because our teachers let us have the win. We were so happy it was fun too.

Those were my favourites but there was still so many more fun ones. 

 

  

Story Starters or we could say SS

 Story Starters

Story Starters are some type of sentences. Some of them are crazy and you can just make up your own story, it is so cool. Most of the time I make up story but other times I don't like... 

Once I did one about " there was smoke everywhere". That one was true. I was on the tramp flipping around and dad started the fire in the fireplace. The smoke was everywhere. There was another SS that was not true but I liked it because it was my best story yet. SS 's are fun!

There is a few rules like no guts,blood,guns, and aliens. But I don't like to write about things like that so I knew I would  follow the rules. Otherwise there are none other rules so I was free to write. The teachers say we should try write at least 3 paragraphs in between the introduction and conclusion.

Story Starters make you feel so creative like you can write anything and there is no limits. It feels amazing. Koka Pip made a few more so we didn't have to keep going over the same SS.

I love Story Starters, writing is so much more fun with story Starters.  

My 2 new gymnastics skills in lockdown

My 2 new skills

 It all started out when I had done a half twist on the tramp which is a strait body back tuck with a half twist. That half twist wasn't new but my full twist on the tramp was as new as a leotard from a shop. Then my round-off flick back-tuck on my tumble track. It was kinda new, because I know how to do it on the gym floor but not my tumble track because I have never tried it. So I will be telling you about my new skills in my blog.

First my full twist on the tramp. I new how to do a half twist on the tramp, so I got comfortable with that then once I thought I was ready I just jumped higher and twisted harder then I kept falling on my face. Until the full twist happened. I started to scream that's how happy I was. I did it again and again I was so happy with myself. It kinda felt weird doing a full not a half.

 Next my round-off flick back-tuck. I know how to do one on the gym floor and on the tumble track at the gym but I've never tried it on my tumble track so I did. I chickened out heaps but then my Dad and neighbor were watching but my neighbor was watching from a distance. So I said to myself I was going to do it thinking that I would chicken out again but I did it. Then I did it again and again. I was so happy with myself, but then I was practicing and I hurt my heel so I was sad. Mum said I had to rest for a few days so I was super sad.

I have a video of me doing my round-off flick back-tuck so...

Lockdown!!!

 Lockdown

Last week I found out we were going into level 4 lockdown at 11.59 that night. I didn't want to go into lockdown because it reminded me of last lockdown and how boring it got. So I will be telling you about what I have done. I did things like going to the beach, playing on the tramp with my siblings.

The Beach. I love the beach because you get to just put your feet into the sand and also just sea glass. I love finding sea glass because now we have the whole street looking for it. Last lockdown all the people on the beach saw was my family's heads looking down at the sand on our beach walks, and we will probably do the exact same thing again.  I feel so happy when I find a piece, but when I find a piece and the wave gets it is annoying, also when your brother steals it.

The Tramp. The tramp is so fun at our house we get to learn new tricks, play games, also launching my little sister from a mattress so she goes flying. Our tramp is good because we have a net around it so no one flies out. I'm so happy that I can do a layout-half-twist (it's a gym move) because I couldn't do that before but the tramp helped me. I love when we all get to play games some are like, who can jump the highest, and who can do the highest backdrop. Then the mattresses I love when my brother and me say to my sister to lie down on the mattress and we would make her into a taco and bounce, then on the 6th bounce we would jump back and up so she would go flying. It worked so she went so high.

I love this lockdown but then I don't. That's my lockdown

Reading WL3

 Reading WL3

I love Reading WL3, we always have a new goal every 2 weeks. This week our goal was: Skim read to locate specific information & retell. 

We got to read a digital text from Kiwi kids News. It was about the Olympics and how some of our Kiwi athletes were going in which sport. We skim read through the text because on the Success Criteria it said not to read the whole text. We had to write in our books about who were the people in the text, what were the sports, when it happened, and where it was. ( I will show you a picture at the end)

After we skim read through the text the group talked about some of the who, what, when, and where. One of the who's were Lisa Carrington. One of the what's were Athletics. The When was Day 13. Last but not least the where was Tokyo Olympics 2020.That was our fun Reading WL3.

 So now my picture that I talked about in the first paragraph:

Olympics Booklet

 Olympics Booklet

This term we have an inquiry called going for gold. One of the things is about the olympics. I will tell you about the funnest booklet ever.

So we got this olympic booklet by Kiwi Kids News. It's so fun we all have one in MLH and we have 3 weeks to finish it. There's stories about the ancient olympics, there are cool games about the olympics. We also get to do your favorite kiwi athlete, last but not least we get to do things about Japan!

 Sometimes you get to say who your favorite kiwi athlete is for the olympics and paralympics, I choose Madaline Davidson for olympics (she does trampoline). We get to write her date of birth, age, hometown, sport, first olympics, and achievements. I also had to the same thing for paralympics. I choose Sophie Pascoe for the paralympics ( she is a swimmer).

I got to where it said Japan popular culture and I was worried. There was K-pop, Kawaii, Manga, and Anime. I knew what all of it was but, I do not know how to draw. All I know is that I tried and I think it looks ok.

I love the Olympic booklet. I wish we had the olympics every year so we could do the olympics booklet.