Gym

What: have you done?
We have been doing gymnastics on Wednesday and Thursday. We did the beam, the tramp, skipping ropes, the box and the mat.

So What: have we been learning?
We have been learning how to jump on the spring board and onto the box and then onto the ground. Adam
We have been learning to try and get our balance on the beam. Lili
We have been learning to walk instead of run when you go back to the line because if we run we might crash into somebody. Morgan
We have been learning to balance on the beam. Salah
We are learning to skip better with the skipping ropes. We are practicing the skipping. Kaleb
We have been learning to bounce with two legs onto the tramp and two legs onto the big mat. Kobe
We have been learning to jump on the spring board. You run on a little bit of the blue then you jump with two feet on the white bit of sellotape and you jump on the white box. Then you walk back to the line. Callum
We have been learning to keep ourselves safe on the big mat by landing on our feet instead of our knees. Matthias
We have been learning to not make the skipping ropes touch the seats when you skip because when you make it go onto the seat it makes a loud noise and it wrecks the seat. Siobhan
We have been learning to do barrel rolls on the mat. Gemma

Now What: do you want to get better at?
I want to get better at skipping. Corban and Joshua and Siobhan
I want to get better at balancing on the beam. Emma
I want to get better at going on the beam. Grace
I want to get better by doing barrel rolls straight. Lili and Salah
I want to get better at freezing when the whistle goes. Kaleb
I want to get better at bouncing on the spring board. Adam
I want get faster at walking across the beam. Adarsh
I want to get better at running and balancing on the trampoline and then bouncing on the big mat. Morgan
I am trying to get up to skipping backwards instead of skipping forwards. Dallas
I want to try and make the skipping ropes not touch my feet because it really does hurt. Callum.

Visiting Performance

Today we had a school performance in the hall. We really liked it because it was really funny! It was funny when they said it was a story that happened a long, long, long, long, long time ago. We think it was a myth and legend because it was a story that had been told from a long time ago. It took a long time but we got through it all. The performers were really proud of themselves because they thought they did a good job.

Myths and Legends

We read a book called "How Maui Slowed the Sun". He got his brothers to help him slow the sun down so they could have a little longer days. They made ropes out of flax to make the sun slow down. Myths are stories that have been told not read. We learnt about telling a story again. This is Morgan's story board. She is going to use it to help her retell the story. It has the 6 main things that happened in the story.

Discovery Time

At Discovery Time we had a target with a hole in the middle and you had throw the ball threw the hole. We had to stand behind the yellow because otherwise it would be too easy. We had to put one foot infront of the other and put our hand out to aim and we might get it through the hole.

We also had some straws which you clip together to make things. Campbell and Lili made themselves look like Harry Potter by making circle glasses and a magic wand.

We made marble tracks. You have to build the tracks on top of each other so the marbles can go down. The marbles go down the track a little fast.

Maia made a puppet show. It was a funny puppet show because the tiger ate the rabbit. Poor rabbit!

Puppet Show

Yesterday we went to a puppet show. Everyone laughed when the baby crocodile went "Mummy, mummy, mummy, mummy." I learnt that if you want to get one of the puppets changed you just put his head on another body." Kaleb. "I learnt that you can be all dress up in black and you can do the puppet show with you still standing up." Lili. "When he pocked his tongue he pushed his foot down, to close the curtains." Georgia. "I learnt that you can make puppets out of gloves. They are called finger puppets" Barclay. I learn how to make paper puppets and an elephant face." Morgan. "It was really funny when David took the head of the puppet and he said, 'hay put my head back on'" Georgia. "It was funny when one of the puppets made the diving board go up and down." Maia. "We all laughed when the puppet put a sword in his body and it went straight through his butt and straight through a chair." Jewelian-Paul. "There are different kinds of puppets like shadow puppets and string puppets." Jacob.

Cross Country

Today we did the cross country. It was around the field and on the footpath. Georgia O. came first out of the year two girls. Cam came first out of the year two boys. Almost everyone in the whole school got some jelly beans at the end of the cross country. When we were going down the footpath there were lots of people cheering. There were cones on the path to tell us which way to go. But you have to go around them! Our mums and dads were there to cheer for us. I felt extremely puffed, sweaty and exhausted. I felt proud because I did the best that I've ever done and I bet the people that always bet me.