Cricket, I'm loving It

 This morning half of Te Ngahere went out to the field to practise  cricket with someone named Neal whilst the other half stayed inside to do Te Reo; I was in the first group to go out. Once we got out there we sat on the side of the year three playground. Then Neal taught us the basic cricket skills; how to hold a bat and how to hit a ball, then we had to pair up with someone; I was with Imogen. Next we had to pick a number out of one and two (In our pairs) Imogen chose number one and I chose number two. Number one was the person who had to hit the ball to their pair and number two was the one who had to retrieve the ball. We practised that for about ten minutes then moved on to ‘Speed Cricket’, then we had to get into our pairs again and pick a number out of one and two; Imogen chose one, and I chose two. Number two were the people batting and number ones were the fielders. Once it was my turn to bat I thought I would completely suck at it but turns out I’m not that bad (I hit the ball every time); we swapped over about six times before we had to go back to class. I actually really enjoyed cricket even though I thought I wouldn’t, I really hope that we can do it again some time this term. I’m  really happy because now I know how to properly hold a cricket bat and how to properly hit the ball. How to properly hold the bat: you have to make a V using your thumb and index finger and point the center of the V towards the middle of the bat.

Do you enjoy playing cricket?

PE Drills, I'm Loving It!

 

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we went out to the field to do some PE (Physical Education) drills for

 Ki O'Rahi. We started off by playing a small game; I really enjoyed playing it because it wasn’t the type of game where two people have the ball the whole time and don’t share, Everyone got a turn. What I found hard about this was figuring out where to go to next because I went from the line, to the back, to the person you threw the ball to. After that we played a short game of rippa rugby; this time basically two people had the ball Nearly the whole time and it wasn’t very fair on the rest of the team!

Do you know how to play Ki O’ Rahi?

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?

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?

Turbo Touch

In Te Ngahere we play a game called Turbo Touch a couple times a week. To play you need a few groups of 4 or more & a rugby ball. You can pass the ball any way, it does NOT have to be sideways. You have to try & get the ball into your goal & you cannot hold the ball for the whole time, you have to pass at least 2 times before scoring. If someone touches you with 2 hands then you touch & have to pass the ball within 2 seconds to someone on your team, if they touch you with 1 hand it doesn’t count, nothing happens. But If you drop the ball it is an immediate handover to the opposing team. What I could of done better was pass the ball a bit more instead of just holding it.