Going to the Beach

In Te Ngahere we have been going to swim in the ocean every Monday and Thursday in the afternoon. We have been learning different types of swimming styles like freestyle, breaststroke and much more. We have been learning how to swim better for the Russell swimming sports. I think that it’s better when we swim in the ocean because when we are in our pool there is no waves, and if we are in a life situation we will be able to face it. We can also get used to the ocean water for the Russell swimming sports. I enjoy every bit of when we are in the ocean at the beach especially when we are with our mates and teachers. I am learning heaps more and getting better at swimming, I LOVE it!. Bye!

Going to the Ngahere

In Te Ngahere we have been going to the Ngahere (the bush/forest). We have been going every once in a while. We have been going to the Ngahere so we can get some ideas to make our classroom look like the Ngahere. Our classroom is called Te Ngahere this is why we are we are going to the Ngahere and gathering ideas, because right now it just looks like an ordinary classroom and we don't want that, we want it to look interesting, exciting and make it look like the Ngahere. We started getting ideas and making our own projects a couple of weeks ago. We then started to work on our class projects on Wednesday, the day after we went to the Ngahere. We have seen many things such as spider webs, Moss, Vines, Creeks and Much more. While we were walking in the Ngahere we have been writing down ideas and what materials we will need in our book. I enjoy going for bush walks and seeing different things and learning different things in the Ngahere. I have heard different types of birds and seen things I have never seen before. Its surprising what you hear and see in the Ngahere. I hope we get to go back later and maybe next time you could also go the Ngahere. Thanks for reading.
Ka Kite!

Technology

On Wednesday 19th February Week 4 Term 1, the year 7 & 8 students from Te Ngahere went to Technology at Moerewa School. At Tech we had another teacher (Whaea Mahinaarangi) because Mr E (our actual teacher) was not well. So Whaea Mahinaarangi was teaching us how to make Cultural Necklaces that reflects on our culture, they were called Pewter Jewelry. We first had to draw 3 squares in our books that were 6cm then draw a picture that reflects on our cultures. Next we had to pick one picture for our design. After that we used a skill saw to shape our picture we drew. Then the following week after we are going to melt the silver, safely into the wood so that it would make the shape we carved out. Whaea Mahinaarangi said we will have to melt the silver in following week. Because we didn't have enough time. If Mr E is still not well the following week we will still have Whaea Mahinaarangi and we will carry on making our Pewter Jewelry. Whaea Mahinaarangi also said if Mr E is well she will tell him what we did and finished so we can have more time to finish our project. I really enjoyed Technology because it was fun and we used a skill saw and a seper. There was nothing I didn't enjoy there. I learnt that when you use a skill saw try not to get the big gloves, try to get gloves that fit right because it will make it easier when you have big gloves that you can't fit especially when your working on a small project. Maybe next time I could work faster so I can get my work done faster but we should not hurry art.
Ka Kite!

Turbo Touch

Kia ora, For the last couple of weeks our class, Te Ngahere have been playing physical activities e.g; Turbo Touch and fast five netball. But in this blog post I am going to be talking about Turbo Touch. At first not all of us knew how to play but then the more we played and learned new skills we got the hang of it. We started off playing turbo touch for about a week but then we started playing fast five. Turbo touch is a really fun activity but there are some rules. In my opinion I like the rules and they are really easy. I am going to explain the rules. The first rule is if you drop the ball it would be handover. Second rule, you are not allowed to kick the ball and if you do then it would also be handover. There is also one more thing, there is no offside. What I learnt was to spread out so its faster and easier to get a goal because when my team were in our first game of turbo touch none of us were spread out and it caused us to just keep passing the ball to the same person, kept on getting tagged and having to always give the ball to the other side because we were in and small circle bunched up together. What I also learnt was that we need to talk to each other and make a plan because not all of us were sharing the ball and we're not getting the ball. So that was the two main things I think from playing Turbo touch.

Here is a link to a video of Pro's playing Turbo Touch.
Here is another link to the Cup Finals for Turbo Touch.