Reflection On First - Tee

During this Term we have playing our Kiwi - Sport. Our Kiwi - 

Sport was Golf or First - Tee. We

started in the beginning of the 

year and have improved our skills.

Our first lesson we talked about 

respect. Our coach (Mr. Thompson) 

thought that talking about respect, 

integrity, courtesy etc was very 

important.

He also showed us how to set up. Left hand, right hand, legs together, left foot, right foot, pegu, pop..... SMASH! That’s how we set up.

So in the beginning of each lesson we would talk about a specific virtue. Or he would show us through an activity. Then after learning our lesson we would play a game. We learnt how to play Snag Golf. Which was like Baseball/Softball. But with Golf. We learnt that the small shots were the most important. Not the big shots. We also learnt about OBY which was others before yourself. Then after every lesson we will shake hands as a sign of respect. Which I thought was really thoughtful.

Throughout the Term I have really enjoyed the First - Tee lessons because Mr. Thompson didn't just teach us how to set up or how to hit the ball. He also taught us some really important lessons and virtue.

Maths Learning for Today

Today for our Maths I did a activity in my book. I had to figure out how many more of that ingredient that I would need to make the cake. Example: I have 200g of Butter. And I will need 500g. So I will need 300 more grams of butter, because 200 + 300 = 500.

Writing Based On A Picture

In this picture we are all standing up waiting for the people to come to shore so that we can greet and welcome them. Then the leaders will start doing there Haka. The leaders are the children on the shore. While the rest of the 2,000 children will sing E Oho. The rest of the children are on the bank. We all had to stand up proud and still.

The Waiata!

Today between 9.00 am and 10.30 am the whole school were not at school in the morning. We were out at Pt England Reserve for the exciting arrival of 2 wakas. This event was held on March the 25th of 2015. There were 12 other schools there. Including Pt England School, Tamaki College, St. Patricks School, Glenbrae and others. There were around 2,000 other children there. Which was quite exciting!

Unfortunately we had to walk all the way there. Which was pretty tiring but at the end we got there. But we were all very dehydrated when we got there. When we got there we got settled in and I got the honours of taking the photos and videos. We got to sing 3 Maori Songs that we practised very hard with. And we got to watch the leaders lead us in a haka.

In the beginning somebody blew there horn to us. Then somebody from our side blew a horn back. People might think that they are just blowing their horns for fun; but I think different. I reckon, that they were sending messages to each other.

There were 4 leaders that were from our school as well. All the leaders were lined up on the beach, while all the other students were laid out on the bank. There were speakers all around the place; so that we could hear the speeches as well.

I enjoyed taking a lot of pictures and videos. I also enjoyed listening to the speeches. Even though most of them were in Maori. There were some visitors from the wakas that came to shore and we greeted them as well. They greeted us back by singing Maori songs. And just like them we replied back. Then at the end, every child got to shake the visitors hands. It was quite cool and it was a good feeling.

At the end we got to go and bus to home! Which was a relief for me because my legs were killing me; from standing to take the photos. But I think that all that hard work payed off. When we were on the bus I just reflected on the morning that we had.

Today I felt very proud and joyful. I felt proud, because I was very lucky and proud to be apart of this special part of history. And I was joyful because I had enjoyed myself today. My highlight of the day was being able to watch the wakas. I was happy about that because something about the wakas; made me smile every time I saw them. And the image of the wakas will never erase from my head!

Music Notes

Today we have learnt how to read music notes. We learnt about Treble Clefs, Staffs, notes like E, G, B, D and Fruit. And this is just a picture of a music sheet that I figured out the notes to. 

My Phobias!

This is a presentation about all my Phobias and other kind of Phobias. I hope that you enjoy!

My Writing Learning

Today for our Writing Learning we were learning how to understand different types of Sentences. The sentences that we were identifying are the Compound Sentences, Complex Sentences and Simple Sentences.

Compound Sentence - A Compound Sentence would include the words for, and, so, but, or and yet.

Complex Sentence - A Complex Sentence is made up of 2 independent clauses or more to make a sentence. Example: Because I love grammar, I love this class.

Simple Sentence - Example: I have a pet dog named Sheryl.