A Great Term with fun and learning

Every Friday afternoons the whole of team 5 go to their classes for Taonga Time.

I am in Miss Tele’a’s group and we are learning how to use green screen and the new iMovie 11. We are using some footage of our school to welcome others so they know what we do at our school. Later on we are going to start using green screen for other kinds of movies.

The thing I like about this terms Taonga Time is making movies and learning the different types of angles. Sit back and relax because you are about to watch my movie that I made.

Tamaki Science Roadshow

Yesterday afternoon rooms 18,19,and 21 went to the Tamaki College hall to learn about science.

The two presenters told us about the different temperatures in our freezers and fridges. They said that if the temperature from a fridge was dropped some people would like to be in a fridge than outside.

After showing us the different temperatures onto the exhibits. We had to explain to one of the teachers what this exhibit does and how it works.
e.g-'skeleton reflection' the chair would be empty with no one sitting on it but when you switch the light on a skeleton reflects to the chair from the light. There were many others too but if you but if you get two hole punches then your name will go into the box to win a prize.

We raced back to our chairs to find out who the lucky winners were.(Tia and AfeenZ)Now that that was over we moved on to our five different senses.(nose-smell, eyes-see, ears-hear, hands-touch, mouth-taste)

Swimming

Every day from Monday-Thursday Team 5 go swimming for two weeks at the Y.M.C.A pools.

On Monday morning I packed my togs and towel in my plastic bag ready to go swimming. My class and I went with rooms 19 and 20. We had to sort ourselves into 3 groups. We had to do this to show how we performed in the water. I was in group 2 with the students who felt confident in the water.

As we walked to the pools some people couldn’t keep up with the front of their line so we had to wait. When we got inside we went to go and get changed and have a shower. My groups swimming teacher was Mrs Nua.

We learnt how to free style properly and back stroke too. Once Mrs Nua thought we had made some improvement we were going to learn how to do the dolphin and mermaid. I knew how to do these two skills already. We had races and competitions during free time. (Hand stand, breathing, and star fish)

When it was time to get out all the students that went swimming had changed back into their uniform and we were off back to school. I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot about the different kinds of skills you can use when you’re swimming.
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A Awesome Day At Soccer

“Yes”! I shouted I was so excited because today I was going to play soccer for the school.

Tuesday morning the soccer players and I went to Crossfield reserve to represent our school in a soccer tournament against other intermidiate schools. (Panmure District, Churchill Park, and Ellersile.

Our first school that we VS was Ellersile. They beat us 3 nil. I think they won because our goalie was’nt moving in the right direction the ball was going. They were a challenging school and some of them had a lot of experience.

We were a little bit down that we lost but now we were going to push harder. Now it was time to play against Panmure District. One of the girls hit me on my ear when I was trying to get the ball off her. I had to sit aside and rest for a while while Lesley went on and played for me. In the end they had won 1 nil. I think they won because they were sharing out the ball.

We had won no games so far and we were getting tired. The last school we challenged was Churchill park. As we were playing I thought to myself we can win this. I was a playing for a while then I went on sub. As I was on sub Tracey did the bycycle move and got the first goal of the day.

We were all very excited and proud of our team especially Tacey. My favourite part of the day was getting the first goal goal of the day and I hope I’ll be in soccer again.