Fun Badminton!!

It was Thursday. It was time. I rushed to be the first in the line. We then went to our brown, clean, soon to be fun filled hall. I saw our instructor. Her name was Lorene. She was a PRO at the sport we were going to play. She was going to be our instructor for all the days we were going to come to badminton. When my got my racket, I grasped onto it, it was my first time mastering the art of badminton. I held onto my short, sea coloured blue and white racket. Badminton is a sport of technique and speed. It’s kind of like tennis, but even BETTER!! For this UNIQUE sport, there are long and short rackets. Sometimes it is tricky to aim. The harder you hit, further the shuttle soars in the air! Of course, the shuttle TECHNICALLY has wings!! Our first activity was hitting the shuttle. Wait a minute. Do you know what a shuttle is? It is the thing that you hit when you play badminton. It has about 12 feathers on top of the base, the weighted rubber end. Anyways, moving on!! I threw this bird look alike into the air. We had to see how many times we could hit it. I tried to hit and....... MISS!! I was raging with ANGER!!!!! I knew I could do it with just perseverance and determination. Next thing you know, I have a volley of hits. I was proud. On our next activity, we had to pick a partner. You might think this easy, but trust it is NOT! We had to the shuttle to each other........................................... UNDER OUR LEGS!! Lorene said it would be easier if you closed your eyes, but trust me, it works. After that, it was cone catching time. It is when you get a cone, a shuttle, a partner and of course, a racket! You or your partner hit the shuttle to each other. The other person has to catch it in the cone. I don’t mean to brag, but, I think I was a PRO at that one!! I caught that little bird!! We had a few more activities, then we went back to class. I LOVE badminton and I know that me, my friends and everyone else in the world has a unique talent! I think my NEW talent is BADMINTON!!!!!

I'm Tired!!

My heart was pumping. I was really nervous, even though my friend, Tyla, and I weren't running in Cross Country!! We were SO happy! The 9,10 and 11 year olds in our school had to run 2 WHOLE kilometers. That's a LONG way!!

 I saw the cute little kids lining up to race against each other. Their race was WAY shorter then Team Four's. I could imagine the pain my five friends were going through. Two kilometers of pain, hunger and most of all............... lots of MUD! The boys LOVE this squishy, brown, manure looking mud.

"On your marks, get set, GO!" Mr Burt shouted! Off went the 5 year old girls!! My heart was pumping and I just wanted to see Sina win!! My screaming lungs almost ran out of breath. Not only did they have aching muscles, but so did I. I felt jittery and jumpy! "She runs, she runs and a win from the beautiful Sina!" I shouted. I knew she could do it!

 There were a few more races and then Tyla and I went to the edge of a gate near the farm next to our school. My friend’s cousin  was cheering next to us with her friends. Tyla and I were cheering on my brother when he dashed and scampered on to the finish line.

 I expected lots from my friend Ashlee! She’s usually the energetic one and I hoped to see her first out of all of my friends. It turns out she wasn’t really feeling FULL of energy today!! I saw Jorja come first out of my friends. It was pretty unusual. She never really likes physical education! She only likes it when I’M with her. That’s how close WE are!! But, TODAY I think she didn’t need me. THEN it was Ashlee, Kaycee and the last one was Porscha. I expected more from her too!!!

 I really enjoyed Cross Country this year and I really kind of didn’t like that I didn’t participate. Next year maybe it will be a little bit shorter and THEN I can run!!!!!

Our Extension Digestive Movie

This is a movie created by a little group that I was in for Extension. It is just facts AND AWESOME animations from my group! I animated a part about the oesophagus, a tube in your body!! We has to do this AMAZING project to teach people about the Digestive System. Believe me, even I didn't know about these facts!! That's enough talking from me!! Watch this AWESOME movie and find out yourself........

One of the parts are REALLY funny, but also gross!!

This AMAZING Organ!!

Guess what?! Our liver has more than 500 jobs. I know you're how a liver could do SOOOOO many things!! It does all these things because it's the largest organ in our body's. One of the livers MAIN jobs is to store all the vitamins, minerals and fats that we need. You then use some of these things when you need it.

The liver is placed on the right hand side of your stomach. The size of it is like a small melon! Yes, that's big!!!! Behind a side of this incredible organ is the gall bladder. These two body parts work together. They work together to ooze biles.

It's Raining Snow!!

A big commotion took place in New Zealand because of the snow flurry in the South Island and some of it the North Island. Buckets of snow rained down on New Zealand. I had NEVER touched snow before. This white pleasure drifted down onto me! In my DREAM!!!!!

My MOTAT Slideshow!

Keep Your Eye on the Weirdos!!

Have you ever heard off the saying, “ Keep Your Eye on the Ball”? Well, that’s what we are learning about- the Rugby World Cup!! We found this out at our Immersion Assembly!

An Immersion Assembly is when mostly the WHOLE school gathers together to learn about a new topic for the beginning of a term or a new year. Most teachers dress up and make up an item or movie.

As I got closer and closer to the hall where we had our Immersion Assembly, I heard the chanting voice of an old man! Guess what, it was the small Mr Jacobson!! I slowly sat down and stared at the multi-coloured face that was owned by Mr J. “Ireland!”, Mr J kept on shouting!!! “ What’s wrong Finley”, I thought to myself but I knew it was Mr J! I heard the theme song for the RUGBY WORLD CUP! I started to sing along to it.


Suddenly, I saw Richie McCaw walk into the hall!!! Just kidding....... It was Mr Burt! He wore a big All Blacks rugby jersey. My favourite item was Team 3!!

Team 3 was SOOOOO funny, that it almost made me laugh until I died!! You’re probably wondering what was SOOOOO funny! Well, Mrs Barks was telling us some facts about the All Black’s breakfast- which was Weet Bix. Then, I got a shock from the colorful bodies that I saw going up the stage. It was Ms Walters, Mrs Lavakula and Mrs Burnes!! Ms Walters was the Canadian rugby, Ms Burnes was France and Mrs Lavakula was the ALMIGHTY All Blacks!!! They had to get one kid for each team to help them in their SUPER FUN challenge. The kids were Jay-Lee, Levi and Tauwhare. The challenge was that the teachers were going to eat Weet Bix, but they weren't going to use their hands, they were going to use the kids hands behind what them. Luckily, the teachers still ate the cereal! All the Weet Bix was going ALL over the Ms Burnes desk and all the laughs that were trapped inside my body came out!!!! Mrs Lavakula won! I was so sad that the team 3’s item was finished.

I can’t wait what’s in store for us next term because I love Immersion Assembly's from all the funny or maybe horrific and terrific things that the teachers sometimes do.