Water Safety .

On the second to last day of swimming the group and I were doing water safety. We were learning about how to get off a boat backwards. The instructions were hold your nose and cover your mouth at the same time and hold on to your life jacket. 

Swimming

Today on Monday the 18/11 we are going swimming at Pioneer for the 2nd week. I'm in group 2 and we do arm stroke , survival  backstroke and just normal back stroke. I think there are more swimming techniques we do but here some things of what the group and I do .

10 minutes before the half hour of swimming is over we get to go into the lane pool to do some diving (like pencil diving and just the usual diving) . We also do some breaststroke and some others. Sometimes I don't like swimming but I do like swimming because with swimming I can get water up my nose and I like swimming because I like floating and learning how to swim .    

Air powered car

On Friday last week Zoe G, Zoe H and myself were finishing off our air powered car before we started the race .

 Once we were finished with our car, just a couple of minutes later, the class was sitting down ready for the race . 

The first group that went I think.... wait I actually can't remember . After a couple of groups FINALLY  it was our groups turn but disappointingly the car did not move but at least the group and I did team work on the car . 

Visual Maths

During week 2, Room 15 and 16 learnt about graphs. With our math mate, we created our own graph. Mya and I created our graph about colours. 

We were able to look and compare our graph to our peers. It was interesting to do maths without using numbers - instead, it was all visual! 

Day trip!

On Wednesday the 13th of June, Room 16 went to the Art Gallery and Museum. 

At the museum we looked at the sun exhibition. We learnt a lot about the sun and even how solar power energy works! With the help of Anthony, we made models of solar powered cars in our groups. 

We explored a range of different Māori artworks at the Art Gallery. Using what we learnt, we went back and created our own artwork. 

Poetry

In writing I have used a poem by James K. Baxter as a starting point to write my own poem. I hope you like it.

Te towaka was usual enough 
it had a wharf ,  stingrays , crabs , houses , and even the
ocean .
my cousins and I did what kids do -
jumping off the wharf , kayaking , biking , walking and playing sport

Doing nothing important

Koru art

For the last couple of weeks I have been creating my own koru art based on the work of Raewyn Harris. She is a New Zealand artist and you can look at her work on this link. 

I have enjoyed creating this masterpiece, and I hope you enjoy it too!