Hockey

On Thursday we had another session of hockey we had done some warm up games, with Carly which was our instructor, Carly had tought us how to dribble and how to steal a another ball, from someone else. Then we had a another challenge to see how much juggles you can do with hockey stick and ball. Then our last game we had to steal another peoples ball of them and hit it out of the square, everyone had a lot of fun.

Athletics Day

Today we had Athletics day, we had played fun actives with the Tamaki College students, who helped us do Athletics. We had been split into 3 groups for year 8's and had to go to the same activity, the first game that we had played was rob the nest, luckily our team had came first. The 2nd game was fill your bucket up with a sponge, and we luckily won again and the 3n d game was long jump, but we came 2nd. The 4th game was shot put and we had came last.  Then our last game was to, throw the hula hoop, onto one of the 3 objects, it was a bucket, cricket stumps and then a stick. Everyone had to encourager people to have a turn and also have fun, we all had positive attitude, a special thanks to Tamaki College, teacher and Mr Ogivlie.

Godwit/ Kuaka

Today the year 8's were working with Mrs Anderson about the Godwits, we had to make a story board about there to Alaska and back to New Zealand. First we had to make sketch noting about what they do and how they are so interesting, and how they can do it. This mostly about how they migrate and how they do it, this was also made on Story Board That.

Hockey

Today we had hockey, it was our first session, for our warm up we played a game of octopus and also did dribbling and passing side to side. We played traffic light it was a fun game and then for our last warm up we had to bounce the hockey ball of the hockey stick. We had learnt to hold the hockey stick and then for our last game we had played a game of hockey, we got spilt in half, then they had to call out a number than the first people in the line had to go.

Godwit/Popplet - Facts

Today we were doing inquiry and were had to learn about one of the most interesting birds I have ever learned about. It was the God wit bird, its a very cool bird iv'e ever seen and one of the most best flying birds iv'e seen. I really liked to learn about the God wit because it is very interesting to learn about and I also made this on Popplet.

Manaiakalani Commenting

Today I had just commented on some of the Manaiakalani films from schools, I have commented on Room 1, from Panmure Bridge School and Room 7 from Glenbrae. I had commented on these blogs because they were very funny and had me caught into the film. All of the manaiakalani flims were great, but I commented on these because they were my favourite.

Paper Plane

Today my group had redesign the best flying plane in our group than vs other groups, in my group Oh'sen had remade his plane from last week. Also I was the one who was the best thrower in my group. So my group had chose me to throw the plane and Thomas had also won the paper plane game. This was also for maths, I also had came 3rd and it was measured in meters and also thanks to my group we wouldn't have won if we didn't work as a team. We all had a load of fun.

Paper Plane Activity

Yesterday Mrs Anderson had made groups than we had to make paper planes as a group and fly them. Our group had test flights to see who paper plane would go furthers and we also saw which plane would go into the hole in the park. We all had fun and also our topic this term was flight so I hope we do some more fun activities. We were trailing our planes testing and our challenge was to see who plane would go the furthers.

Neil Armstrong Timeline

Today I have just finished doing my work and this time I choose Neil Armstrong because he as done something really cool for his country. If you don't know who Neil Armstrong, he is one of the first person to walk on the Moon. It has most of the facts that he had done in his life, I had also made this on popplet.

Jean Batten Timeline

Today I had just finished doing the inquiry that was set for us, we had to make a timeline about Jean Batten. The topic that was set for this term was flight and how she accomplished the world record, I had also made this on popplet.