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.