Softball Recount

Today my classroom and I had a  session of softball with two sporty instructors from Auckland sport. This morning the instructors said that we would be learning how  to roll, catch and throw the ball.

First we had a warm up game call Octopus so that when we begin our lesson we would be warm to start our learning skills.

Then we had a game that involved our whole classroom.  The instructors were willing to see who can go the farest with catching the ball and to throw the ball back to their partner. Who ever was the farest was the champion of the game. But we were not allowed to pass it to your partner or else you would have to stand where you finished of so that the instructors can see who are the top three.

The top three teams was Lisiate and Nathaniel, Christian and Siupeli and Moli and myself. The first team to start of was Christian and Siupeli. Second was Moli and myself. Then went Nathaniel and Lisiate. In the first round Moli and I got eliminated from the challenge. It was now the second round. The last two teams were trying very hard to see who would win. After Siupeli and Christian and Nathaniel and Lisiate finish their round the instructors decided that the winners were Lisiate and Nathaniel.

Even though Moli and I lost we still felt intense because we never wanted to play softball just to win. We wanted to play softball to become a champion at learning how to play sports like softball.

My Holiday Recount

It was a cold and dark night  and  it was my brother in law’s birthday. First we gathered up the family so we could pray for the food and his birthday.Then we brought the cake in so he could blew the candle out and to cut it then we sang the happy birthday song.

After the song we all walked to the kitchen and sat down at the table and ate the food. Later on, after dinner we ran to the cars  then we drove to the Tenpin bowling. At Tenpin bowling there were no lanes left for us so we had to wait until 8 o'clock.

While we waited for a lane  we played a game of pool table, it was fantastic and everyone had fun. Finally we got to play bowling and  it was as fun as riding a rocket. The ball rolled as fast as a cheater  hunting for meat.

At the end, I felt so excited and very tired that I wanted to go to sleep.  But when we got home we went back to the kitchen and ate some more food and the leftover birthday cake.

Our wonderful soccer session 3

WALT: We are learning how to write a recount using similes and direct speech

It was a cold and windy morning and room 10 had  a soccer session. For our warm up, we had a game of octopus. Everyone was excited and  feeling enthusiastic about our game. Then Ben said “that we are going to have a mini soccer  tournament’’.  I kicked the ball as hard as a rock then I ran as fast as a cheater to get the ball into the goal.  We had a lovely and enjoyable  tournament.  At the end we were  thanking our coach.

  

Machines at M.O.T.A.T

My MOTAT Trip Recount

We went to M.O.T.A.T to learn about simple machines.

Our tour guide was  Melissa.  

At M.O.T.A.T we first looked at a car engine. Then we looked at  some other machines that make electricity and steam.

Then we went to the Simple Machines room. In the room we pulled Mrs Raj up on a pulley. Mrs Raj thought that we could not pull her up but we did! Then we moved on to our next activity.

After that we went on our tram ride.   During the tram ride, the captain was giving us  information  about the tram that we were on. He said  the tram that we were on was made in 1974 and some other trams were made in 1902.

After our tram ride Melissa took us upstairs  and showed us lots of simple  machines like ones that can hold doors. During our lesson Melissa set us a challenge . Each  group had to build our  own simple machines. I took photos  of all the simple machine at the end of our lesson.  Then we had to  take our simple machines apart .

The last activity we were allowed to participate in was the mirror maze, it was a confusing activity.

Then we went outside to see the new exhibits such as military trucks and guns.

It was an awesome day for me and my favourite activity was the mirror maze. I would like to thank the M.O.T.A.T people for the  the wonderful displays  .

Thank you

   By Douglas

Swimming Recount

Yay Guess what? we had instructors from Auckland sport firstly Room 10 children had to get in the pool two by two as they tested us on our swimming skills.  

Then we got into our groups there were groups one two and three the pool was as cold as 30 fridges.  the Instructors names were Josh,Jenny and  Tilini ,we were learning about floating, freestyles and other things that we had to learn how to swim without breathing and with our head up.

Later on as is was going to the end we finish off our swimming we gave n our instructor high fives then we jumped out I felt like sleeping.  when I got out my legs were numb.