Fitness Rotation

Yesterday In Te Ngahere we went outside to the field to do some fitness, we are
doing this to practise for cross country.  First we split the class in half, half of us
went out to the field with Whaea Shanna to do fitness and the other half stayed in
with Whaea Lynne, I was in the first half. Once we got out there were 5 stations,
each of us had to go to one station and make a group of 5 or more. After that she
named the stations and we were going to do a rotation, each station had an
exercise. The exercises were ski-jumps, sit-ups, 10 high-knees and 2 press-ups,
crab walks and squat jumps. We had to do each exercise for 30 seconds and do
the rotation twice. The station we started on was ski jumps, which was actually
pretty tiring, then we moved onto squat jumps  which made all of our legs super
tired. After that we moved onto crab walks, this one was very interesting because
we had to get on our hands and feet with our belly in the air, then we slowly
walked over to  the sit up station, these were probably the easiest one to do out of
all the stations. Then we did the 10 high knees and 2 press ups, after that we did
the ski jumps one last time, then re-did the entire rotation one more time. After we
had done the fitness rotation twice we were going to do cross country practise but
we didn’t because most of the field was wet so instead we ran back and forth to a
cone for 5 minutes straight with music but we weren't allowed to walk. Then we
were about to play some PE but we didn't have enough time so instead we sat
down listening to music but Imogen and I did some gymnastics. I really enjoyed
doing this because even though we couldn’t do cross country practise we still did
exercise so when we do cross country we don't fall over within the first 2 minutes. 
Have you started cross country practise yet?

Matariki Feather Art

For the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been working on Matariki Feather
art, there were 3 designs to choose from along with a blank one. I chose the one
with the least detail so it didn't take up all my time, I used a wide range of bright
colors, it took me about a day and a bit. After I had done that one I asked if I could
do another one because I really enjoyed doing the first one. The next one I chose
was a nice smooth shape with a few more designs than the last one. I made that
one a separated rainbow, doing that took about the same amount of time as the
first. After I had finished that one I moved onto my third, I chose the one with the
most detail out  of the lot, the colors I used were gold, black and silver, I think that
it was my favorite feather out of all of them. Once I had done all of them I was told
I had to double layer them, so I did that, which took quite long, but I still really
enjoyed making the feathers.

What activities does your class do for Matariki?

Here are Mine!

What Do You Think About Rugby League

On Monday Te Ngahere went out to the field to play some touch, when we got
out there we saw two people, Henry and Jason, who was a
BOIC( Bay Of Island College) student. Then Henry asked someone to volunteer
to do stretching routines, we did about 8 different stretches, we do this
because there is a smaller chance of us pulling a muscle. Then we got into
groups of 3-4 and practised passing, we did that for about 10 minutes.
After we had done that we practised how to play the ball when you get
touched for about the same amount of time, we did this in the same groups.
Then we finally got to play a game of touch. When our team got the ball we
were trying to score a try but the other team made a huge chain across the
score line, so the scores were 0-0, other than getting no scores at all I still
really enjoyed playing rugby league. What I found hard was trying to throw
the ball properly and trying to remember who was on our team.

Have you played rugby league before?