Swimming blog post

This week during Swimming lessons we having being practising a bit of skills that would help us with our Strokes. Every Thursdays we come down to the Panmure lagoon to get taught, some strokes that would help is when we are in trouble in water. Every class in Panmure Bridge School is doing swimming lessons. Our instructor is called James. He is going to be teaching my group for the next 7 or 8 sessions. The main things that we did this week was Breath stroke kick, streamline,  doing a bit of backstroke and we were also doing some other things that kind of helped us with our technique. Before we finshied our swimming lessons with James he has made a goal for us to do 1 x 100 which means 3 laps. Some of us can do 1 x 100 including myself. For a couple of lessons we are going through the basics and then we are going to start some laps. 

Swimming blog post | Lesson 2

This week during swimming we have being learning breath stroke (kicks), dolphin kicks, butterfly, back stroke (a bit). We were in the same swimming group that we were put into last week but the people that weren't here were able to choose a group. What I found a bit challenging  today was breathing under water while doing the dolphin kick all the way till the end. What we did during this lesson was trying to float in the water looking down and looking out of the water while doing 6 kicks each.

Ballet

This week on Monday we have been learning a famous ballet routine called Black Swan and White swan. A big thank you to Chloe, from the Royal New Zealand Ballet (contemporary) company. Before we started the routine we were doing different exercise to get us warmed up. I learnt how to jump, because I have been learning that move for a while but I just need to lift my hands out into a L shape. Once we were warmed up, we started to learn the routine. If you guys watch the video you will see the routine that  we were practising. I found the lesson fun because I haven't been taught any ballet routines because I was self taught. The music we used was classical - Tchaikovsky.

Gymnastic Reflection | Week 5

This week in Gymnastic we were learning new tricks. We first started with a warm up game, the game we played was called Stuck in the mud. Each round a new peer of people will be choose to be the tagger. If you get tagged you will be in this pose that Steve gave us to do until someone came and saved us. After we did our warm up game we started to do some stretches. After our stretches we started on our rotation 1,2 and 3. It was a bit different on the rotations but a bit the same. My favorite rotation was the last one because I loved doing the dive which is a bit similar of doing a front flip. I learnt how to a dive because I haven't tried it before but as I started doing a lot of times it became so fun. I also learnt how to have a tight grip on the bars because it was hard for me to hold onto the bar. Next week or the week after that we wont be having gymnastic this year anymore because we will be having a brand new kiwi sport.

Kiwi Sport / Ki O Rahi

Today was our second session of Ki O Rahi. We played on the field. We had a warm up. Miss Shanice showed us where to go when she calls out the names. For our last game we played Golden Child. It was kind of different to the Golden Child on the court instead it was played on the field. There were 7 poles on the field. The person that is running has to touch the poles with the ball in their hand, which that was group 1. Group 2 was my group. We had to throw the ball at this object in the middle. If we hit it we have to say Mout. The person that was running has to stop near the nearest pole. After our first round we changed up the rules. It got a bit hard for my team because 2 people from group 1 had to defend the object in the middle. Once we switched sides it was our turn to defend it while the other people in that group had to run. The golden child was the fastest person  in that group was the last runner. Whoever stopped at a pole, ran behind the golden child. 

Ki O Rahi/ Kiwi Sport

Today we played our first Kiwi Sport. Our new Kiwi Sport game was called Ki O Rahi. Before we played some games we watched a video of Ki O Rahi. This game started of in the olden days. The story behind this helped stop violence between New Zealanders and once the game was done it made peace between the New Zealanders. We played 2 games. The first game we played was called Tanwha and Te Ara. 

Kiwi Sport

Yesterday at Boxing we were learning more combs and different skills. My partner at Boxing was Mele. We worked very well and I learnt a lot from Mele. This was really fun and easy because I am use to the combs that we usually learn in most sessions. Next week is our last session of Boxing. Mrs Paxs said we are going to do a Boxing Session that is usually in a Gym.

Boxing: Kiwi Sport

Today at Boxing we have being learning about skills and how to do stand like a rock (Stance). I have learnt a few skills. It was very easy doing because I do Boxing lessons with my family and do some fitness works. Boxing helps with fitness, learning new skills and helps us protect ourselves out of school. My family are boxers. My favorite boxer thats famous and well known is May weather. Because he has good skills and is very humble. We got 3 rules given to use for the next 6 weeks. Next week we are going to do some more skills.

Kiwi Sport

Today we played a game of golden child and Netball. It wasn't really fun for most of us because they thought the game was borning. We all had to form 2 teams. I was number 1. We had 2 rounds for each team. In the second round we had to go twice. My team lost when we were Golden Child because we had to run around twice and it made my team angry so we didn't try because we knew none of us wouldn't make it.

Kiwi Sport

Yesterday we played Snaggle Golf. It was really fun because we got to try different things using the rack and the ball. My partner was Fui. The best thing was trying to catch the balls and the other person has to throw the ball inside the cone. 

Kiwi Sport

Today we had Kiwi Sport. We didn't have heymash because Rippa Rugby was over, so we had Mrs Morris take us for Kiwi Sport. In Kiwi Sport we went into teams of 2. I was in the blue Team. But before we went into teams we played a game of Rippa tag. In this game 2 people had to get the most rips and they have to rip people. If you get rip you have to stand still and wait for someone to put the ripper back on where it was suppose to be. The last game we played was Rippa Rugby. Everyone went into teams and vsed people.

Kiwi Sport

On Thursday we had our last session of Kiwi Sport. It was very fun and but very sad because this term it was our last time for this year of doing Rippa Rugby for Kiwi Sport. In Kiwi sport we played games in a group.

Kiwi Sport

Yesterday we played Rippa Rugby. The first thing we did was play a quick game of 'Bull Rush'. It was pretty hard because I tried to step them so that I can go all the way to the other side. Once we were done we lined up into girls and boys so that we can get into a group of 3. Viva, me and Nyjah were the leaders of each lines, We all vsed each other of how to work together to be able to take the tag off and to try and run to the other side. The last thing we played was a game of Rippa Rugby,

Kiwi Sport

On Thursday we had Rippa Rugby.  Everyone that played Rippa Ruby for kiwi sport played on the court because the grass was wet. The first thing we did was play a quick game. But before we did we went into groups of 3. Haymesh putted us into teams. After we had a game we had an example from my team. So what we where doing was that one person had to stand still and the other person with the ball had to try and step them. We also had other tricks that Haymesh gave us. Once we where done we went into peers. My partner was Nyjah. We all had to stand in front of each other. The person in the front had to go where Mr Johnston was and the other person had to stay where they were. In our lines we had a number In this game there was  2 teams. Each team had to take turns defending and having the ball.

Kiwi Sport

Today for Kiwi Sport this is our second time doing Rippa Rugby. We all played on the court because the grass was muddling, dirty and also wet. We all had to put the Rippa tags on for us to play Rippa Rugby. Before we started we started we had to grab as much rips as we can. After that we had to partner up and stand in front of each other. This game was called Green and Orange. We all had a cone that we had to run up to. My one was Green and Fuis cone was Orange. Once the game was done we played Octopus. It was really run but hard because the tagger has to try and take the tagger off of us.

Kiwi Sport

Today for Kiwi sport we never got to play Rippa Rugby because the teacher that was gonna teach us never got to come. So we all got to do it with Miss Morris. The first game we played we have to go into a partner. We had to  rock paper scissors with them, if they loose then they have to do 5 bur pees and the winner has to move on to a different partner. The second game we played was ball pass. We got into  2 lines. In the game we had to pass to the people until it goes to the person at the back, the person at back has to run back to the front and it will repeat until the person from the front is back in the front. The third game we played we had to stay in the lines we were before. In the game we had to run with or without the ball and place it on the bibs. The last game we played we had to put the bib in our pants but not all of it. The person that gets all of it in a 1 minute with the most bibs wins.

Kiwi Sport

Today for this terms sport is Rippa rugby, but for today we played Soccer with Mr O. We all had an example from Ofa and Mr O how to kick the Soccer ball. After that we had to get into a group of 4, the group I was with was Brooklyn, Nyjah and Savelina. This was easy but hard at the same time. Mr O said stop so that we can all stop what  we were doing and sit at the 4 square. Before we left we got numberd to Bibs and non bibs. I was in bibs. It was a tie.

Kiwi Sport

Today for Kiwi Can we had a warm up. The game we played was called Stuck in the Mud. We had 2 rounds and 2 new people. It was very fun and kind of not fun at the same time. After words we started getting into Backhand. The reason why we did Backhand because we did Forehand for a very long time. I was with Fui. We did a kind of good job because we kept on failing so we decide to do it a little but easilier. We started to play a game that we did last week. The game was called Single Hit. It was very fun because I learnt a trick that I also wanted to learn which I was so happy because people would always use it on me. After words I peered up with Avalon. We started to be bad but when we started to keep on versing people that we couldn't defeated but then we did.

Kiwi Sport

Today for Kiwi Sport we had a warm up game like we do every week. We played Octopus because Kevin promise us that we would play Octopus next week which it was today. Me and Aung Naing were the last tagers. We did a really great job. I felt bad because I promise Nyjah that I wont tag her but I did because someone said that we had to tag our friend so I went for it. After the warm up game we started to get into peers. I was with Peter. We had an example which was me. We first started of by passing it to someone and the other one had to catch it. I think me and Peter where go at it because we kept of passing it which we also got to use to it. The next thing we did was kind of the same thing we did but kind of different. But the only thing was different is that after our 5 turns we had to keep on playing until we called on the group. The last game we played was the same as last week but different. We had to do 1v1 instead of a 2v2. This was hard for me because I kept of losing over and over again which was kind of funny.

Kiwi Sport

Today for Kiwi Sport we had a warm up game. This game is called Continue game. How to play? You have to keep on running until you got tag. If get tag you have to sit down. The only way you can run again is if the the person that taged you sits down then you can sit up again. After the warm up game we started to get into Badminton. This was very easy for me because we had to just use our forehand instead of using our backhand. We had to get into partners, my partner was Miiana. Me and Miiana were good at passing but I was better at serving because I was very good at it. After woods we sat down and waited what we had to do next. Kevin said that we had to drop the ball then we had to hit it. This was very easy to handle because I got used to it straight away. After woods we had our last game which we did last week. We had to vs 2 other people with your partner. The points goes up to 2 with you lose you have to wait until the other peers are done so that you can have a turn. This was hard because some people where cheating which wasn't cool because some people just wanted to have fun but some people didn't like me.