My speech!

 Kia Ora MLH today I will be sharing my speech with you hope you enjoy!

In my opinion, The Addams family is by far the most successfully sporting family in NZ. With Valerie, Steven and Lisa all representing their country in shotput and basketball.  What makes this family so extraordinary on the sports field?  There are 21 children in the Addams family, they are an athletic bunch and very tall.  Females are on average 6 feet and males are 6 feet- 9 inches.  Not only are they physically strong they have a strong work ethic.

Although the siblings may have different mothers Sid (their father) was a powerful influence.  Sid was a hard worker, who believed in putting 100% effort into everything he did.  Sid is 2m tall and almost as tall as Sam Whitelock!

Dame Valerie Adams is a four-time world champion, two-time Olympic, three-time Commonwealth Games champion, and twice IAAF Continental Cup winner. Valerie has a personal best throw of 21.24 meters! Dame Valerie Adams is a world champion in the shot put. In 1999 she competed in her first World Youth Championships and finished in tenth place! Two years later in 2001, Valerie won gold at the World Youth Championships in Hungary. What an improvement! Valerie has inspired a lot of people including me to dream big and go for gold.  Valerie trains two a day and never misses a session.

Lisa Adams is an NZ shot putter and discus thrower. She competed at the 2020 summer Paralympics in Japan and won gold.  She is 1.8m  tall and has a personal best throw of 15.12m and is coached by the one and only Dame Valerie Adams.

Dame Valerie Adams is a four-time world champion, two-time Olympic, three-time Commonwealth Games champion, and twice IAAF Continental Cup winner. Valerie has a personal best throw of 21.24 meters! Dame Valerie Adams is a world champion in the shot put. In 1999 she competed in her first World Youth Championships and finished in tenth place! Two years later in 2001, Valerie won gold at the World Youth Championships in Hungary. What an improvement! Valerie has inspired a lot of people including me to dream big and go for gold.  Valerie trains two a day and never misses a session.

Lisa Adams is an NZ shot putter and discus thrower. She competed at the 2020 summer Paralympics in Japan and won gold.  She is 1.8m  tall and has a personal best throw of 15.12m and is coached by the one and only Dame Valerie Adams.

Lisa has cerebral palsy which impacts the entire left side of her body. Cerebral Palsy affects movement and posture. But she has worked past that and striving to do the best of her ability.  She was rewarded by winning gold a the Tokyo Paralympics.

Steven Adams is one the most committed basketballer players in the NBA!  When he was 13 years old his father passes away and Steven was devastated. He started to skip school. His older brother enrolled him with a basketball team in Wellington. Every day at 5:15 his coach would call to tell him to get ready and meet him at the basketball courts by 6:00.Steven never missed a training session in four and a half years! He even had extra sessions on the weekends. He now plays professional basketball, and has a networth of $20 million. Steven is 2.11 m, and weighs 120 kgs!

So that is why I think the Adams family is by far the most successful sporting families in NZ! With Valerie’s integrity, Lisa’s perseverance, and Stevens’s commitment they all are unstoppable!

Speeches

Three names had already been called out and my fingers and toes were crossed. Please be my name, PLEASE! Drum roll please, and the fourth person who will be performing there speech is Lola!! " YESSSSS" I screamed! Usually people like to be in the middle or last but  not me. In my opinion I think going close to the start is pretty good so your nerves don't build up and you don't even want to go up and perform! 
My speech is about why I believe the Adams family is by far the best sporting family in New Zealand. "To achieve success you got to work hard"

🌱Green Gold🌱

 Since 2014 our school has been working hard to get Green Gold, and this year 2021 we have a achieved Green Gold! Yesterday morning our whole class walked up to what we think was the start of Hamanatua.

Off we went sliding down the mudd to get to the river we had to cross. Rio and I came up with a marvelous idea, I would jump over the stream first and Rio would hold my bag, once I got over Rio would throw both of our bags over separately, and then Rio would jump across. Great plan right? Well we though it was.....

I passed my bag to Rio and leaped across the awa, and then Rio did toru strong swings and PLOP my bag was rima centimetres away from making it!!!! Now my bag was soaking wet, but we all had a good laugh about it.

"Ewww, I stepped in poo" I whined! We were all trudging through the mud complaining about slushy mud massages on our feet. So I decided to come up with a challenge. Ella, Esther, ALice, Krisse, Rio & I all had to walk through anything gross without complaining, because I think we all got sick of people complaining. 

We were half way through the challenge and I think I speak for every one when I say we were DIRTY. When we got back to school and got changed our enviro team had some news for us. 

WE GOT GREEN GOLD!!!!

Cross country!

Today was the last day of running the cross country track, so I wanted to make the most of it.

"Year 6s take you marks" called Koka Sue, it was time and nothing was going to stop me from doing my best. Koka Sue blew the whistle and we were all off like lightning!  I set a pace of 3rd and was hoping to stay in that positions for the whole way or get further in front.

"Breath in, breath out, breath in..." I told myself while trudging through the ditch!  Two laps later I was still in 3rd place and I was pushing myself towards the finish, just a few more steps and I had crossed the finish line 3rd place! 

Overall I was very proud of myself, and I could hardly wait to get back to school for our ice creams!

Long tiring cross country track!

 One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. "Ahhh I am puffing already" I complain to myself, I feel like I can't run another step. Surely we are close to the finish line, "yeah only one and a half more laps to run" said Charlotte A.

Last Friday we had to walk down to Okitu to run the cross country track. Not the actual race just a practice but it sure felt like a race, expect we ran with the year six boys and on the real day we run separate. Koka Rozie taught us a trick to focus on our breathing the most so we don't get too puffed. 

When Matua Nic is getting us lined up and ready to go that is when the nerves come to me, it gets better when I am running, and when the race is finished we get to relax and go back to school.

For the last few years they have done it by years youngest to oldest so the juniors always got to go fist and we big kids have to go last, just watching them all race got everyone even more nervous .

But this year it changed, we are doing oldest to youngest which, I am very happy about. We can just sit back and loosen up and watch all the other kids race.

My marvelous poem

 Kia Ora today I will be sharing a poem with you, I hope you enjoy it.

I couldn't believe me eyes 

when I saw what was in the sky

a bright blue tie sat on a cloud

it was very proud

But he was quite loud

though the crowd bowed

he found a very beautiful crown

he wasn't allowed a selfie with the crown

because he wasn't healthy

but adored jelly

but he had to keep telly

for his big belly.

The Olympics (Ella Williams)

Woah hooo!!! Go Ella Williams. Did you know Ella Williams started surfing ever since she was born in 1995? She entered her first surf competition at the age of six, and came second overall. By 14 years old, she was competing in the boys division and defeating them. Often they were much older that her.

Ella did amazing, making it into the third round of surfing, but sadly she missed out by only one wave. But probably as you suspected, she was just happy to be there. Ella cheered on everyone, including her opponents. 

Ella enjoyed every single second of her heats. Ella just knew that she had to be grateful, but she didn't have too because she already was. 

French knitting at (LTP)

How did I get three strings? That is what happens in french knitting, if you muck up it is very hard to fix it. I learnt how to french knit the other day and it is awesome. Because I didn't have the skill to actually knit properly, I mean there are some pretty talented people in our class that can knit including Koka Ngaire. If you see a picture of a french knitter and you are like ohh that looks so cool to use, well you are right it is amazing!  I made a massive mistake I dropped the first string! Phew I got it back, that was close.     

 

L3 Stand-"oranges"

Holy moly guacamole, that's fascinating! Did you know that a orange peel can be 1 metre & 10 centimetres! Well, I definitely didn't know that. Yesterday, we did some strand work with oranges. We learnt about volume, capacity, weight, length & quantities of pips. This is some of my work.

   

Stress full L3 math!!!!

YES! That was the most stressfullest math in the world! We got some crazy questions that we had to answer, with decimal points. I had no clue how to work decimal points because no one had ever showed me those before.

We had some questions like 6x17, so we had to break them up and add together, for example 6x10=60-6x3=18 so 60+16=76.  And guess what else we had FRACTIONS!!! I had never came across a fraction question in my life, I tried working it out with my multiplication and I got 18, I crossed my fingers and toes that I got it right.

We got our results back!!! Not like it was a test or anything. I was just so excited to see if I got them right. YAY!! I got all of them right expect two. It was so stressful waiting to see the answers. I went back and worked out the ones I got wrong so I could learn from my mistakes.

I thought I had a great math lesson, because I learnt so much.

Piasco art

 What is Picasso art? I asked myself. Picasso art is a type of art that doesn't need to be perfect, it is good in your own way. Picasso art is weird, your hair is all over the place, your eyes are different, you have got patterns on your face and your shoulders are different heights. 

When the teacher told us about Picasso art and how weird it is I thought my art was going to look like a total freak but I was wrong, it looked really cool.Picasso art doesn't have to look like you, because if it did I did mine completely wrong. Here is an example of my Picasso art.

  

Maggie's first day!

   Maggie's first day

Yay! I am so excited for Maggie “the new student” to come.  Ella and I waited by the gate for Maggie, she arrived with her mum and brother, but her brother rushed off with his friends before we saw him though. We introduced ourselves and showed Maggie and her mum around, we showed them all the classrooms, the pool, the hall, the playground, the bike racks and the orchard.  The second bell rang, it was piercing listening to that for so long. When it stopped we were able to tell them that it was the second bell, so we had to go to class now, we showed Maggie inside to the mat.

 Koka Pip introduced Maggie to the class and showed her where to put her stuff.  Rio, Ella & I all sat down at a quiet workspace, we all decided to get our question of the week done first. After 1 hour and a half we got done two of our quick writes and questions of the week.  The teachers let us go to morning tea. We all raced to the door and scrambled out.  We dashed off to the playground and crawled up the rock climbing wall.  We went down the pole a few times then we went to the tightrope. It was very wobbly and didn’t help that the boys were shaking it!  We heard the bell and sprinted back to class to learn our digi dig. When Koka Pip said what our digi dig was, Maggie, Rio & I thought it was an online game about  cybersmart, but when we looked on the slides it wasn't. It was a task.

We had got half way through our digi dig and realised we had done it completely wrong! It took us about ten minutes to fix up our mistake & then it was lunch time.  40 minutes later we had finished lunch and we were coming back to get something to eat. We finished off the day with a game of Annihilation, which Maggie had never played before, so it was pretty new for her. I thought Maggie's day was a great first day. I am crossing my fingers that she likes it and comes back tomorrow.

Rhythmic callback

 YES! We got a callback from the gym club for our rhythmic dance performance . I can't believe this, well I can but this is such good news.  After school I sprinted home as fast as I could, I could feel the breeze in my face. I quickly unpacked my school bag a race to the car. My mum took me to the gym club then got a seat.  I started to get into a cold sweat and started to worry if I mess up, or I forget my lines, or stumbled. But I told my self I would go on stage and be the best ringmaster ever.

"Wainui Beach please enter the stage." We hopped up in our line order, we took our places behind Girls High and waited nervously. We watched a few dances and how amazing all of them where. "Wainui Beach School take your positions please." We all walked on stage, our arms and legs were trembling. I got ready to start then the music started to play I started doing my one handed cartwheel but then it was my time to shine.  I started acting out my solo for about 30 seconds, then we started to dance.  We gave it our all. When we got off stage we were so proud of ourselves.

We watched two teams preform, then it was finished Rhythmic was done. It was so fun, I wanted experience it all again. After we could go in the practice room and get changed and get warm. I thanked our coach so many times, she was the best coach ever, she helped us when we didn't know what to do, so thank you Jacks so much.     

 

Gym Festival

 It is 1 week and two days until the Gym Festival!  I am so nervous all these thoughts went through my brain what if I muck up, what if I don't stick the landing, what if I forget the moves?   I can do this I kept telling myself.

Every morning we practice our floor, beam, and vault at 8.30 with Koka Ngaire so we will be ready for the competition. Alivia, Charlotte M, and I are not doing competition but Aria is competing. We have all got our floor routine nailed as we had to make it up all by ourselves.

Vault was easy once I got the hang of it because I kept putting my feet closer to the ground each time which was how i got the hang of it.

Beam was the hardest off all it was easy learning it but the moves where hard.  The easy moves where dip steps and the ending when we cartwheel/roundoff off. The hard moves where getting on the beam, holding your leg, and doing arabesque.

Staying Cybersmart Online

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Year 6 camp

Year 6 camp

Kia ora today I am going to be telling you how our week at camp has gone.

I really hope you enjoy the slides and please give me feedback on the comments