Back to School

I love coming back to school for a lot of reasons like friends, learning, sports ect. This is why I'm going to share why I like coming back to school!

The next thing I like about coming back to school is learning: I love learning here because there is so much to do. Instead of a boring old home, I get to work in a classroom which is very lucky.  The last thing I like about learning is that you have classmates you can work with, there are no classmates in lockdown. When you get help you ask a friend

My first reason why I like coming back to school is friends: I have been seeing friends on the beach and when I’m biking, but here at school I never have to bike or run on the beach they are already there! You just have to find them in the school area and there he/she is (except if you or your friend are sick). I also like it because you don’t have to stay home and get BORED in front of the computer and work for six hours.

The last thing is sports: I love playing sports at the end of the day playing annihilation, bull rush, and much more! I also can’t wait until Interschool athletics and other sports coming up. The other thing I like about sports is that we have morning tea and lunch we get to play around and that makes us have a lot of fun and get our energy out so we can have a break from our minds and get working after that! 

Swimming Sports

Swimming sports was awesome I got really good places, I LOVED ALL OF THE STROKES, Freestyle, Backstroke, and Breaststroke, it was so amazing.

 My first stroke was freestyle I was excited and nervous, but more excited because I have done swimming sports for four years! Koka Ngaire (my teacher) called some of the year six contestants, only about 5 because there is not as many lanes as there is year sixes. The only people I can remember who I was facing were Bay and Rasmus. When Koka Rozie (a year 4&5 classes teacher) pressed the buzzer off we went. Bay was passing me for the first length, but when I tumbled Bay didn't, so we were equal but when he was getting out of juice I went as fast as I could, then I hit the wall then one WOOHOO! My principal Koka Nolian gave me a red stick which it means I came 1st place.

The next heat was backstroke and I wasn't feeling to good about this because I'm not that good at it. and I have the fastest swimmer in the school Mako. When it was our turn we hoped in the pool and put our hand on the bar of the diving medal stand then the buzzer went off BZZZZ! Off we went. We have to do two laps of Backstroke and I was nailing it on my first lap but on my second, I ran out of juice and I started to slow down and Mako past me, I came second but it still was worth a shot.

The last stroke was breaststroke I thought we had to push off the wall but we are aloud to dive in. When Koka Rozie pressed the button I dove in, but I dove in to early so it was a close race. When I was swimming for my first lot of my stroke I'd forgotten it was breaststroke and I accidently put my arm over my body to do freestyle but I got reminded by myself in the water because everyone else was doing it. I was pushing REALLY hard when I put my arms and my legs together to take my first stroke of Breaststroke. I think I was smashing the race. We get to do 1 lap of breaststroke but I felt that I could do two so I won because it was so short. By the way when mum was videoing me she yelled OLIVER WOOHOO! and THAT'S MY BOY OLIVER! also, YOU CAN DO IT OLIVER YAAAAAAAAA!!!!! and all of the parents were staring at her like she was crazy she was so embarrassing.

Wainui Beach School Triathlon

Triathlon day was awesome. It was so fun and challenging! I had a team with three friends including me, Krishna, and Ben. It was on Monday the 16th of March I was ready. It wasn't a normal Tri like the Weetbix one because it has a shorter distance and it goes run, bike, swim. I did the run Krishna did the bike and Ben did the swim so I was up first.

On your marks, get set... GO! I ran at a decent speed really loving it, but then it kind of got serious and I was just coming first by a quarter of a meter I had to do 800 meters of running. I did two laps about half of a really big field near an indoor pool. The pool was called Enterprise Pools and that's where Ben was going to do the swim. For the first half of the first run I was in front but the next thing I knew was Bay was in front of me. I slowed down a wee bit then I think that encouraged him to go faster on our second lap this boy named Mako was coming third and he was the individual same with Bay but Mako. Anyway, I didn't need to worry about Mako yet. when we were close to finishing our lap, Bay ran REALLY fast and I would've but the time he was at the finish line I was looking back to feel sorry for Finn because he was like 20 meters away to the second to the last person jogging.

When I ran at the finish line I tagged our biker Krishna and he biked off one lap of the whole field while Bay was coming 1st. He was coming to the same place as me in running. Bay is also pretty fast at biking and I was surprised he wasn't tired and coming 1st. Krishna was doing well but not as good as Bay. When my teammate hopped off the bike he whizzed off to Ben and tagged him. Ben ran as fast as he could then he dived in the pool I was waiting out the finish line and I wasn't allowed to see how he was going so that was annoying. Somehow I saw Mako and Bay come out before Ben. Mako was just behind Bay when they passed the finish line. After about two other people Ben was out he was running as fast as he could then he whipped through the finish line our team came 5th at least it is in the top five. I can't believe bay one and he is individual that must've been hard. The reason why I thought I should do a team is that I haven't been in a team before and I just want to experience it next time I want to do individual I don't know why it's easier then team. Anyway when we packed and ready to go home dad was a little naughty and brang me, Ben, and, my brother to a Bakery and we had a treat!  

First Blog in Moana Learning Hub

The first 3 weeks in Moana hub was awesome I think I had a great start in here. On the first day, we were going around the classroom and asking questions to other people, for example, if somebody else is left-handed or has been to more than one school you write it down on a sheet of paper and you keep going with the questions. For our quick writes, we do something vs something, I think I can remember some of the ones we did like Sushi vs Pizza, Robots vs Aliens, Jurassic vs Ice age, Flying vs Invisibility, Chocolate vs cheese, and Unicorns Vs dragons, for the flying vs invisibility I got about 440 words in 2 sessions and I still had more to write about.

When it was like Week one on Wednesday we started up swimming for our practice on the day it is school swimming, I also past a surfing test, it was 20 lengths of the pool, the reason why we did the test is because if we are out the back surfing peacefully then a 4 meter have hit right on you and you feel like heading back to the shore you would have to swim about 5 lengths of the whole Indoor pool at the Olympic Pools. later in the week, we had Buzz groups, for our Buzz groups, we have about 5 or 6 people doing it in our group we had 6 people Wolfe, Te Atawhai, Kale' a Harry, Trey, and me. There is this game called Tension the instructions are is that our teacher tells us a subject like what 10 green vegetables in about a minute, once we are finished writing 10 green vegetables the teacher she yells out some of the most common vegetables that are green.

When it got later in the week we started doing stuff like our Waitangi Booklet, our Waitangi Booklet helps us learn about the Treaty of Waitangi Day and how it was made, our booklet is a drawing/ writing book. We also wrote our 5 goals in our writing book. Then once the teacher thinks it's good we write it on a sheet of paper then you colour it in, one of my goals were working on my long division 2x per day. The last thing I can remember is when we did our portrait, we traced a picture of ourselves then we cut our drawing out and put it on a plate that we colour in.

-Oliver

Today I was learning how to make a gif

I enjoyed learning how to make gif

I found it challenging to nothing it was easy

My digital learning object shows don't fall for fake

Next time I would change some of my slides to gifs

Smart Media

Today I was learning about media. I enjoyed watching the video. I found it challenging taking my photo. My digital learning object shows that I half to have a nice commenter. Next time I'll change nothing Next time I would change

Seeking help

Today I was learning how to be an upstander

I enjoyed watching the videos 

I found it challenging to write this blog

My digital learning object shows how to be an upstander

Next time I would change nothing