🌊Water safety-Cameron Pools🏊

                                         Hello bloggers around the world🌍👈

 This term we have been doing swimming at Cameron Pools. For those of you who don't know, Cameron Pools is an indoor swimming center in Mt Roskill. It is operated by YMCA. 

On Tuesdays and Thursdays our schedule is a little different. We have lunch at 2:00 and then we have play after we eat, After we play the bell has to ring then we have to lineup and catch the bus at 2:45. After we arrived I was with Jasmine and we were in a group. 

So first we had to put on our life jackets then we had to have our arms out and take a step and jump in the pool which was cool. After that we had to float on to our backs and form a huddle. We did this because we learned that this would keep  us warm and also make us visible to boat coming because they will know we are not a small group. 

Next we had to get back up the ladder and fall backwards 2x into the pool. After that Jasmine told us to take a dive into the pool and we had to point our arms and hug our ears tight and jump down.  We had to be careful to not hit the ground. Sadly my googles broke because the water was too strong.

                           This taught me how to float when I am stuck.

Spark Arena Trip 🚌🚏!!

                                   Spark Arena Trip🚌🚏

Hello bloggers around the world🌍👈 , Today the 17 of May Waikowhai's Year 6 students went to Spark Arena. Brendan Hines is the "CEO" of Spark Arena was the one who had organised this trip for us and 2 other school, it was free!!!. There was 3 activities that we did there. There was Happy Place, Sounds Fun and Van Gogh exhibit. We went to Happy place first.

The first activity we did was Happy place it was very very fun. First thing that we did in the Happy Place was the ball pit. 4 people jumped in together and then the teachers took some pictures of us jumping in to the ball pit. I was surprised how deep it was it was like the height of my friend Daniel. The second thing that we did in the happy place was the slide. After that we took some pictures in rooms and then we got to my favourite part of the happy place. It was like a dome and there was something like a a lot of fans under the floor and then when we went in and there was confetti was flying every where.

 

The next activity that we did was Sounds fun. It was where we got to play with the launch pads. When we got to go to do the launch pad we had to look at the computer because there was a yellow line that would go past a block and when the yellow goes on the block you had to press that block. There was also trumpets that we got to play for fun. There even a electric drum that he got to have a turn on. 

The finally activity that we did before having and lunch and going back to school the Van Gogh exhibit it dark room were to shows his arts. It also had words on the walls about his life.                    

                               

Fitness plan🌵

                                    Fitness plan🚶                                                                                                                              Kia Ora bloggers

Last week we did Fitness plan it was very tiring and I will tell you all about it. The first week we created the fitness plan on a paper then after a few weeks later we made a digital fitness plan which we are using right now for our fitness, and for my fitness plan I did 3 laps on the field and I was very tired out but that was not all I also did 60 skip rope jumping and that was very long and you must be thinking how I did it. I am doing this not by row its by every single time I stop and then continue, then next thing I did was 10 push ups which you had to go down onto your tummy and push back up which takes you along time. The next task I did was 20 star jumps and it looks very easy but noo!! It takes forever for me to do because I was very warn out.

If you don't know how to do star jumps I will explain, and what you do is you have to put your feet apart and then put your arms to the side and then after that you make your feet go in and your arm go out and it should look like a star jump. The next exercise I did was leg raises and what you have to do for that is you have to go onto you back on a flat floor and then you put your leg up and down and it should look like your levitating your legs but on your back.

The next task you all should know that is a bad exercise is the burpees and for that I did 30 because I really want to get fit so that I can run more faster and hold a 5 min plank and If you don't know what a burpees is it is like doing push ups but you go up to the air and reach the sky then go back to your push up pose and that was all for my fitness plan thank you for reading this blog ya later !

A day in the trenches🌵

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Yesterday on Wednesday the 14th on April. We had a unusual start to the day. Because we had to enter the no mans land you might wonder why its called that, its called that because the trenches is where no man wants to be because you have to crawl on you knees every time and that's what we had to do. So first we did or basic facts test under the strings and I did not get distracted at all and I would get the same score or more so I got the good score 63% I mean it was not really that bad but the only thing that was bad was we were getting bombed my Mrs Jones and Miss Daly. The next task we had to do was fruit break and excersise. We had to bring a box of pears and send it down to the other soldiers and after eating our fresh pears we had to do excersise. It was doing ten lay ups and 10 push ups, after doing 10 laps of those we made a letter from the trenches and a acrostic poem and for the the letter from the trenches we had to write what we were doing in the trenches and what we miss about our family, then finally for the acrostic poem we had to write down the word under in a row and then right down the letter it says.

Then for the next task we went into separate groups called group 1 and group 2 and for those groups we had to go to swimming and I was in group 2 and we had lots of fun swimming in the pool. It was raining so hard! Then for the next task we had to pictodraw about the book called Le Quensoy and we had to draw what we thought would remind you so the next time you could remember it.

Then sadly we had to start unwrapping it after we did the pictodraw and me and Nerys and Roasaline did the orange wire and we had to unwind the wire until it was finished.

                                                                  Photos below.

                                                

🌴Family fun day🍏

On Friday last week we had Family Fun Day. Family Fun Day is when you and your family can come to school for a day full of fun! It is usually held annually at our school (other than good old 2020) The way it works is you get into one of four house groups; Kea (my house) Tui, Ruru or Pukeko. Then you rotate around different activities. The activities were Slip & Slide, Pool, Bouncy castle as well as the Inflatable water slide, and wheel zones. That is the order Kea went in. The bouncy castle was an obstacle race. Then the waterslide was a bouncy castle with a pool of water at the end. It was exhilarating. For the wheels zones. Then finally we split into two groups within our house group. One group would go to the pool first and one to the slip & slide first. My group (Kea) went to the slip & slide first, then the pool. It was really really fun. Our school was also fundraising for school camp later in the year. We made over $1,000 dollars from the bake sale and environmental group stall. Family Fun Day is very exhausting. Do you have family fun day at your school? Below is a photo of Kea.

🌊Tsunami/Water surge!

                      🌊Tsunami/water surge

Kia ora Yawi Bloggers, Today I am going to be talking about the tsunami warning that happened last freaky/fancy Friday. So on Friday it was like a regular day when 'beep beep' my alarm clock went off so then I got ready for the Fancy Friday and wore a suit and then joined the meet. So then when I joined the meet we were handing out merit certificates and I was excited because I got a merit certificate. After they called out my certificate they called out my classmates from other classes. So then after that we did our Duffy certificates and Jaycee and Mason and Ibrahim. We gave them a paki paki which was called a big clap. After that we played a memory game and we had to say in the chat was was missing from the picture and some of us got it right and some of us did not. After we did the memorise game we all left the meets to watch the news, and for the record I was doing my homework and I finished my homework and went back to sleep.

Suddenly the alarm system went off and I was wondering why my alarm a clock was ringing but actually it was the tsunami warning. So then I woke up quickly and grabbed the bags from the attic and left to go in the car. We suddenly got to a stop at one tree hill and we had to stay there for a while and go home. At the end of the day I was feeling quite happy because we got through the tsunami quickly, and that was our whole amazing/freaky/ fancy Friday. 

                                                                                                    

¬Lockdown 4¬

                              Lockdown 4 😷

Kia ora bloggers today I am going to be talking about my lockdown creations/lockdown 4. So if you did not know we have had a pandemic for nearly a year by now so its quite long. For the past 2 months of 2021 we have had 2 lockdowns and for lockdown we have had lockdown creations which was a slideshow we had to fill in everyday and that slideshow includes maths, writing, reading, others which is when you do something that includes you making a game or doing your favourite thing. Now I am going to tell you how to do a creations slideshow. So when you get a lockdown creations slideshow from your teacher first you have to go on an activity you want to go on like reading and do that task and put your link in or video of you reading it.

Now if you don't know how to other you have to do the following steps. So the first thing you need to do is you could show a video of you running up and down the stairs now if you don't know how to get a video on your lockdown creations all you need to do is you need to go on embed and copy and paste the link on your creations slideshow then it will come up with the video.

So for the next lockdown task I did was lockdown diary and for lockdown diary I had to write about my feelings and my bio poem and more other tasks like that to do on there like write about who you are with in your house and that is all.