"A day in the trenches"

 "A day in the trenches"

The teachers locked us out and the doors and all blinds were down but after a while we were let inside, it was pitch black and we saw.... STRINGS everywhere! For ANZAC day the teachers made a surprise for us by making us feel what it's like in being in a trenchs from war times. The string was the mark for the trench and we had to crawl under it but if you went over the string that ment you got shot. The things we need were our art books, pen, ruler, rubber and a pencil. We had 10 lives and if you got shot you had one less also if you lost all your lives the teachers would've made you do things like make their lunch!

We did school work under the trenches by starting off with maths. For maths we did a basic facts test and while we were doing it the teachers played bomb explosions and gunfire sounds! People were starting to get distracted with the sounds and I think I did less then my last basic facts test. For writing we wrote a letter to someone in our family about being in the trenches and how it felt. For stuff the fruit break we just had to pass the fruit box and compost bin around the syndicate. 

Halfway through everyone got sore knees and elbows but it still wasn't over. We also did art were the teachers would say a story and we have to draw the scene, we had to draw 12 scenes for art. After this we unravelled all the strings in pairs. My favourite part of the day was maths because I actually like maths tests. It must've been very hard for the soldiers that fought especially how they fought for years!

I think that this day of learning about ANZAC is my favourite day of the year so far! Bye bloggers.

Netball

Netball!

Pass it to me! Kia ora Everyone! For term 1 we learned about a sport called netball, netball is a sport about teamwork and strategy and it is really fun! We had Joselina and Olivia come to our school on wendsdays and teach us netball. To start off with we learn't about the rules in netball like staying 1 metere apart when someone else is shooting but the most important rule in netball was that you cannot move with the ball! We started doing the basic stretches like high knees, bum kicks and sprinting then we did dynamic stretches like Squats and lunges! For the first few weeks we started to learn about skills like passing and piviting. If you don't know what piviting is its when you keep on foot on the ground and the other foot twists around so you can pass the ball to the other side if you need to. 

After learning these skills we played different games, one of them was called golden child. Golden child is when you have 2 teams, the runners and the shooters. The runners have to run around the court to get to the other side while shooters are trying to shoot the ball in the hoop. If the ball gets in the hoop while your running you have to stopin your place. The golden child is at the back of the line and when its their turn they will tap the people stuck on the shoulder while their running and you have to run to the end with them. If someone shoots a goal the runners lose but if the runners make it the shooters will lose!

We played lots of other games and we also played a real netball game. There was a bib team and non bib team. The caller will call a number of people like 5 or 4 and those people have to try score a goal in the other teams hoop. My favourite part of netball was playing the actual game! Blog you later!