Cross Country!!!!

 CROSS COUNTRY!

Each year Wainui Beach School does something called cross country.  No, it is not what it sounds like.  We do not run around the country.  What we do is... go down to the sand dunes and do a run around the course. Last year I only had to do one lap and then half a lap but this year I had to do two full laps.  Looks like you know enough about what WBS cross country is for me to go on.

"GO YEAR SIXES!" I shouted. "Year five girls" said Koka Sue. I lined up to start my race. "Take your marks. Get set. GO" said the starter. I started to run. I had a great start off then it got worse.  I really don't care what place I come in school sports because its just a fun activity that the teachers plan to keep us active. 

I was only one quarter through the first lap when I realised that I was getting tired. Even though I was tired I kept on running. Then I realised that there was a hill and that was why people were starting to walk.  I slowed down and started to walk up the hill then when I got to the top I ran across the little hill and ran down as fast as I could.

Completing the first lap and feeling rather tired I needed to carry on to do the second lap!!!!   I thought  - will this ever end?  This time I knew the course so it was a lot faster. I kept thinking how much further? I really don't get why we have to run so far.  It's definitely easier said than done, I thought.  I turned a few more corners then I could see the finish line. YAY!!!!!!!

I crossed the finish line feeling really  of myself. I had done it. No more cross country ...

...till next year!!!!        🏃

 

Lockdown family movie night!

 Lockdown Family Movie Night

This lockdown we have fat in a lot of activities, such as baking and remote learning. But the first week of lockdown we went on search for something to watch at night.  One night we remembered a movie that Dad bought a few weeks ago that everyone had been dying to watch called The Girl Who Believes In Miracles.  It was a awesome movie about a girl and how it was being her.

She had a older brother who had a girlfriend. The three had a lot of fun together. But one thing they loved to do was to go fishing in the lake at there grandfather's house. The first night we didn't get to finish the movie because I have two little brother's and a little sister and mys brothers had to go to bed.

That night I thought weather we were going to watch the rest of the movie and what was going to happen at the middle going to end.  Its lockdown,so Mum and Dad can't go back and say that we have a babysitter.  This meant that since they said we could watch the movie we had to because restrought are close due to lockdown and the babysitter's can't come and babysit us.    

Lockdown

 Lockdown

Lately NZ has been in lockdown. In lockdown there is not much to do but school work. 

Lately though, I have been baking and colouring and all the stuff I do in my weekend ( Well, except for going out and about to the supermarket and ice-cream shops.) We are so lucky to live by a beach and because of that we get to go to the beach every single day of lockdown ( Unless its raining.)

The night before it all began we were all watching the news as a family wondering what the prime minister was going to say.  It started off with saying that the case of covid 19 was in Auckland which most people knew then she said a lot before it came to the fact that we were in lockdown.

My sister was so happy because she felt like she needed a break of school.  I had been away on holiday so I needed my time at school.  Two very different things put together. I was still happy because it was only till friday but now it the week after on thursday and we are still in lockdown. We are supposed to be back at school soon but that will be announced tomorrow.

I don't want to stay in lockdown because i'm away from all my friends except for my family, but I do want to stay in lockdown because I will have more time with my family and more time to finish school work without being distracted by a friend.  Either way I will be able to wait or get back to school.           

The Olympics

The olympics

I don't know about you, but lately I have been watching the olympics on tv.  I have been loving the hockey and swimming.  Since I am part American, I have been cheering for America as well as New Zealand.  There are many other sports I love to watch but I have manley been watching swimming and hockey. In school we have been doing our inquiry on the olympics and so much other but while the olympics are on, we will work on them.  We have been learning how the olympics were postponed last year and moved to this year but is still called tokyo 2020. Did you know that the US made a world record for the Freestyle relays? If you didn't, its true and if you have the channel you really should start to watch the olympics.  

On Monday, our class was introduced to some olympic activity booklets.  They are full of activities about the olympics and paralympics such as our favourite nz athlete from the olympics and our favourite nz athlete for the paralympics. They also have fact files. Fact files are a page with a whole heap of questions about a topic, in this case the questions were about the olympics. There are way more activities in the booklets and they are meant to last us till week two or three.

Writing workshop

Writing Workshop

Today, just like any Tuesday, I had a writing workshop.  Whenever I go to a writing workshop I alway think I will learn something,but I never do.  When I leave a writing workshop I think that I will learn something next time, but I never do.  Today we were learning about using different sentence structures for effect. By looking at other peoples faces,I could tell some of them knew that it is putting in commas and finding things that make the sentence a compound sentence. It is also finding a way to make a long sentence to a simple sentence that makes sense,we learned that  some sentences can only be made to a shorter sentence that make sense if you  use  different places in the sentence put together. 

The teacher explained what it was and gave as a worksheet.  The worksheet was titled, 'Your turn'.  I could tell that we were going to find the commas and that stuff by ourselves on this worksheet.  Before the teacher said go I started to work as fast as I could.  I was done before so many people because I didn't listen to the teachers talk about each question.  Again,I left the writing workshop thinking I will learn something next time, so I have just got to wait and see.  

Even though I always know what to do every single time that I come down,it is sort of fun. Bye, thanks for reading my blog.

Math Number

Math number 

On Wednesday and Thursday,I have Number.  In Moana Learning Hub,we do 2 types of math. One is called Number and the other is Strand.  Today I will be telling you about what I do in number.

 In number you do things like times tables and division but in strand you do thing like telling the time,using calendars and patterns.  Today I finished my reading workshop and got out my math book.  The teacher had a slide up of something we did a couple of weeks ago.  'Koka Rosie,we have already done this in Koka Pips workshop.' We said.  She found something different for us to do and it was one of my favourite skills. Division.  There we 8 questions on the board and I started to answer immediately.  The hardest question on the board was 48 divided by 8 =6. That was not that hard for me because I knew the 6 times 8 =48 so that is how I got my anwer.

I finished all the questions in no time and soon enough we were finding out the answers.  I all along threw the workshop knew my times tables so all along knew my division.  Every question on my paper had a tick on it.  Even though I was not surprised I got them all right I was still pretty proud of myself.  

That is what we do in number workshops,thanks for reading.

Action Day

Action Day

It was the 2nd of June when I was late to action day which I was not pleased about.  When I arrived at school for action day, everyone was doing different  stuff. I had no idea what to do because just as I said I was late. I did not think I would miss out on so much action but the people at the beach arrived and I said 'I was late' I joined the beach group and counted the rubbish that the group I chose to join had collected. They got so much rubbish!!!  When we got in from morning tea the teacher said most of us left there mess and disqualified some teams from the competition. Oh did I forget to tell you it was a competition. It was, and the winner got a japanese prize.  I could not win the prize if my team won because I did not collect the rubbish, but I had hoped that the rest of my team would win it instead. 

We started to cleanup our messes. When we were finished ,we went outside to play games and have a game of touch rugby.  A few girls and I played some tag ,our own game of touch rugby and then until lunch we talked about what type of school we want to go to after Wainui Beach. At lunch I had hockey practice. It was good because it seemed so fast.

After lunch we listened to our shared book. After a few chapters of shared book the teacher explained about take 3 for the sea posters that we would do.  We were let off to get started and my one looks amazing. (It only has a background.)