Districts Athletics

On Tuesday was Districts Athlitics for Hokitika. Me and about 22 people from Kaniere school went.There were 5 schools present, Hokitika Primiry, St Marys, Kokatahi-kowhitirangi School, Kaniere School and Westland Highschool. Hokitika districts was at Westland Hight school, we got transported to Westland Hightschool by some parants. I went in Meia’s mums car with Meia, Indi, Essie and I. We left school at about 9:00 am and arrived at about 9:20 am. The first activaty of the day was the 800 meter for the year 5-6s that had qualified and wanted to do it. Then was the 1200 meter for the year 7-8 who qualified. After that my age group had a BYE, then we were off to discis. Then we had High jump after that, we were then sent to Long jump which had a different mat then I was familiar with. Next was suppose to be a BYE for us but since we were racing to get done before it started to rain we went straight to 60 meters. Instead of 60 meters we were suppose to do 80 meters but It didn’t really matter we just did 80 meters after shotput. At shotput we got a practis throw before the real gos. Next was the 80 meters, In both of the sprints there were 2 heats I was in the first heat for both of them. We were suppose to do a relay race but it was just about to rain so we didn’t. In the end I think I placed in four events mabe out of the Seven or eight that I qualified for, The events were 800 meter second, Discus First, Shotput Second and High jump second.  I had a really fun time and it was the first time that I have been to districts!

Have you ever been to districts for athletics?

Whats your favorite Activaty in Athletics?

Inside Outside poem

Last week we started to create Inside Outside Poems. Our Ispirsion is a poem called Cross country. An Inside Outside poem Means that There are 4 lines of inside at the top, 4 lines of outside in the middle and 3 more lines of inside at the bottom. This is my poem and a picture of the finished product that has been put in Cloud art and turned into a artwork.

Lake Kaniere Duatholn

Inside, my Heart beats faster,

Inside, I wonder if I can make it to the end, 

Inside, nervous Butterflies fly around in my stomach,  

Inside, I mutter “you can do this.”

 

Outside, parents take photos,

Outside, kids come line up,

Outside, volunteers get ready to start the race,

Outside, I feel the rain pounding on my shoulders.

 

Inside, I realise that I haven’t trained, 

Inside, I think I’m going to come last,

Inside, I feel excited. 

 

Have you ever done a Duatholn?

 

Sea Staind Red, Bullets Hit Heads

When we had Mr A on Wednesday we did some learning about ANZAC.  ANZAC stands for Astralian New Zealand Army Corpse. I learnt that the solders went to Egypt for up to 6 months before they went to Gallipoli. The ships landed at the wrong spot, they landed at a spot with steep cliffs instead of flat sloops. I learnt that there are lots of my family members went to World War 1 and 2. I don’t think I would want to go on to the shore if I was a solder in WW1. I think that we should learn about world wars but some things are kind of disturbing. Today I learnt how to coluorised black and white pictures with AI.

Would you go to war?

How would you feel if you went to war?

Black berry picking

The prickles were painfully stabbed into my skin.  I searched for black berries in the bush as Mum said “I don’t think there are any here.” “There has to be,” I sobbed back,”I don’t think we came early enough,” she replied. “We probably came too late in the season.” “ I told you mum, I have told you for the last two weeks” I yell back. “I’m so sorry,” she said as she  hugged me. “The only other place to look would be the mountain bike tracks” dad said, “Okay” I replied. We drove in the car up to the mountain  bike tracks at Bluespure. We pulled up at a clearing with lots of black berry plants. “ Mum get the container there is black berries. ” I yelled joyfully.  We got about 5 or 6 black berries from those plants. Then we carried  on to some black berry plants up the road and so on.  In the end we got quite a few black berries.”Next week we will go to Kortarangi to look.” The End 

 

Have you ever eaten a Blackberry?

 

Top Team!

Today from 9:30 – 11:0o o-clock We did Top Team. Top Team is where there is 12 activates and 12 groups that go around each activity .  Some of the activitys inclde water so we wore our rōpu tops with a spare change of cloths and a towel.  We were sorted in to our groups yesterday so we all knew what group we were in.  I was in group G with Maddie, Josh, Joel, Everln, Darly and Me. First we did Activatys 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 then after that we did Activatys 7,8,9,10,11 and 12, My group went in order from 1 to 12. The last three activatys were the water ones so we got very wet at the end.  Number 3 was really hard and my group scored Zero points in it. The activaty was hard because it was a mine shaft game were we stepped on a square in the mat and the person running it would say “Yes” or “no” and if it was a No we had to go to the back of the line.   The water Activeatys were fun and I got water tipped on my head.  At the end I sat in a big bucket of water because I wasen’t that wet. In the end we scored about 305 Points and the Winner scored 377 points.

It was a really fun day!`

 

Have you ever done a Top Team Activaty?

Quick write – week 8

You work at the zoo and the elephants have broken loose! What will you do? 

If I worked at a zoo and the elephants escaped, I would get everyone out of that area of the zoo.  I would quickly grab a bucket of elephant feed and locate where they were heading to stop them.  When I stopped them I would lead them back to there cage so they don’t get lost.  If the cage was broken I would get the help of other employes to get all the elephants back in a cage so they can feel safe again. Then I would check that every elephant was there and if not I would get one of the other employes to look after the elephants we have herded back to a cage and then go look around the zoo to see if they had stayed in the zoo grounds.  If all the elephants were back in a different cage I would go and see what had spooked the elephants and if I could fix it.  The thing that had scared the elephants was … a little baby monkey sitting in the corner of the cage screaming.  This is what I think I would see if the elephants escaped there cage.

    

Do you thing that elephants would get out at a zoo?

What do you think would have scared the elephants, is it a mouse, monkey or other animals?

 

Swimming sports

On Monday the 4th of March Kaniere school did swimming sports. I entered for 1 length:  freestyle, backstroke,breaststroke, 2 lengths: freestyle and  backstroke. Kokatahi school and us both did it at the same time because both schools needed to do it. I came first in all of my races for my age group. I got in to the districts which was on the 6 of march for all of my races. For both districts and school swimming I was very nervous. In the districts my races where sometime far apart so I had two towels, one for in-between my races and the other was for getting changed. I placed first in 2 lengths freestyle and second in 2 lentghs backstroke and got in the West Coast for 2 lengths backstroke. West Coast swimming was on the 14 of March which is today. I didn’t go to West coast because there it was in Westport so my parents couldn’t take me. Hopefully next time if I make it is in Greymouth so I can go.

 

Have you ever gone to West Coast before?

Did you do swimming sports when you were young?

 

Quick write 4-week seven

Today I did a quick write. The topic was you climb to the top of the tallest tree in your neighborhood. What can you see that you couldn’t see from down below. This is the story of what I think I might see

You climb to the top of the tallest tree in your neighborhood. What can you see that you couldn’t see from down below.

 

I climbed to the top of the tree, I saw …  My neighbors dog licking at a puddle, a tourist taking a photo of the town clock ten blocks away. I saw someone jump off the Hokitika bridge head first eight miles away, the rugby game happening at Case Square with people being tackled one kilometer away. I saw one of my friends playing on there trampoline just down the street. Someone was feeding their cat two houses away. A man was walking down a street with a piece of toilet paper stuck to his boot three blocks away. I also saw the tops of cars next to me and my house I could make out exactly where my room was. I saw my dog scratching his head with his foot.

This is what I think I would see if I climbed the tallest tree in my neighbourhood.

 

What do you think you would see?

Do you think I would see these things?

 

Quick write 3 – week 6

Write a thank you letter to someone who has helped you in some way

To Mrs Pugh

Dear Mrs Pugh I miss you so much,I regret not coming to see you more in Tūi. Thank you for always helping with my learning and letting us have fun even when times were hard.I remember  learning in the library and when covid started, I remember the first time we meet you had a broken leg and we were in the library. Now I am a year Five which I can’t believe because I remember being in your class like it was yesterday. Thank you for all you have done for me and I miss you.

Tara

Kids day

On Sunday I went to kids day with my brother and one of my friends. First we got some cotton candy, In my opinion it was worse then other years.Then we played air hokey aginst each other, after that we went and won some stickers to get prizes. The games we did were Can Can and Tortle turtle. All of us Tried gusseing how many jelly beans were in a jar my guess was 1111.We went and found the place were the sticker sheets. Meia and Me got our faces painted but Nate did not want to Saddly. After that we walked around for a little bit until the hunted house opened then we went in to that,It wasen’t as scary as recent years because people did not jump out at us. Once we lost my older brother Nate and when we found his he had gone to the prize tent and had gotten some prizes. We all quickly went to the prize tent because me and Meia needed to get some prizes. I found a Fidget spinner, a slinky, a small popet, a squishy toy and a Fluffy pink bunny rabbit toy. At the very end We lined up for the Zorb balls because the line was short, I had never been in a Zorb ball before so I was very excited. It took 30 minets to get to the front of the line.I went in a zorb ball with Meia because there was only two and Nate was with us. The zorb balls were The best thing we did at kids day.

Would you Go on the zorb balls?

What would you get?