B Grade Gymnastics Festival

 B Grade Gymnastics Festival 

Yesterday  the B grade gymnastics team went to the gymnastics festival.  The day started off normal until my friends came up to me to said "we had to go to the school hall to get our leotards on".  First, we sat down and talked about what cars we were going to travel in to the Gisborne Gymnastics Club and who was doing rhythmic gymnastics.  I was in my Mums car with my sister and some girls  from my class.  We only had girls in the car because the boys did the festival way before us.  When we had gotten dressed we lined up behind the person who drove us to the festival. 

 Finally we had arrived at the GYM Club.  We lined up at different events that we thought  we needed to practice before we performed.  I chose beam and box.  Box is actually the vault but since we are younger it is called box. It was time to line up and get into our rotation  groups that I do not think are necessary because Wainui Beach School was together for the whole festival.  I had done the festival before in C grade but for some reason I was way more nervous this time.  All of a sudden   the teacher said "walk in, your going to start". The man announced our school and we sat down in front of the floor.  I watched and saw everyone else's score get  higher. I got the more nerves .  The person in front of me had faced the judges to say she was finished witch meant it was my turn!  I stood up and started my routine. I could hear my mum cheering which  made me almost muck up.  I had done it! When I sat down I was so eager to see my score. My score was a eight which is a pretty good score if you did not know that.  After seeing my score the other events were pretty easy.  Even though I made a few mistakes I still had a great time.      

       

Code Cracking.

 Code Cracking

This term moana syndicate is trying something called code cracking.  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and thursday after Morning tea, we will go to a different class to learn a whole heap of new sounds.   We will be tested in week five to see if we need to move up a list.  In my group we are learning, long e, short e and the long a. I know all of these sounds but I am learning how to use them to make my sentences better and more interesting. 

My favourite part of code cracking is when we make sentences with the picture dice.  How we do it is we get a dice that has pictures and role it. The picture that it lands on you have to write a sentence about that picture using the sound we are learning.  Another thing I like is when we get creative and make our own sentence with our own subject and our own words.  The teacher tests us on our sounds that we are learning each week but the test in week five will be everything we have learnt. 

After morning tea each day this week I have raced to class so that I will not be late and I never am. Right now I am list 4 but is I pass I will be list five.  I love code cracking and hope we do it every year so that my brothers can do it as well.  If not then the will just miss out but if they do lucky for them.