Reuben's Blog

Hello, This week we are writing poems about our culture or something we enjoy my poem was on rugby the type poem I was doing was a Haiku. The goal was inferring so that is called show not tell so that is when you not telling them what your poem is on your showing it. Have you done a poem before?

Hello, Last week on Friday, Sport Canterbury came to our school to run some actives they called this Top Team. This is a series of teamwork. Some of the actives involved water and other sport equipment. Ar each active you earned points and at the end you would total them all up. Their were about 12 groups with and about 6 to 8 in each group. Overall I had I great time taking part in Top Team and would love to do it again. Have you ever done Top Team before?   

Hello, On Wednesday this week we did Tough Kids. This is a obstacle course run by Sport Canterbury. We had the year 3/4, 5/6 and 7/8's running this race from our school. There were some actives that involved inflatables, water and lot's more. Overall this was really fun and hope we do this again. Have you done Tough Kids before?     

Hello, For the past couple weeks we have been doing sport rotations. We have been playing Cricket, Korfball, Lawn bowls and softball. My first rotation was Lawn bowls, someone from Lawn bowls Canterbury came in and taught us how to play we also did a lot of fun actives with her. For softball someone from our class dad came in and taught us how to hit the ball and catch. For Korfball there was a person from Korfball New Zealand and taught us how to play and all the different rules you have to follow. For Cricket we already knew how to play so we just played a big game. Overall I really enjoyed learning and playing these sports and hope we do more. Have you done any of these sports?   

Hello, This week for our create task we learnt about the sea and under water footage. Our question was Why do authors take a stance in an article? Here is my create task. What do you know about the sea life?

Hello, About two weeks ago Rory from attitude came to our school and talked to the Kaupeka hub about puberty and what changers we will have, he called himself the puberty man. We talked about things that would happen to us in the future. The next day Rory came again and the boys and the girls split us up. We talked about our emotions and how these will change. Has the puberty man came to your school?  

Hello, This week we were allowed to write a free choice blog, so I chose to write about my link Ed comment on the Six C's and how we used them on camp. The Six C's are Collaboration, Creativity, Citizenship, Character, Communication and Critical Thinking. Here is my comment hope you like it. In term 4 week 3 the kaupeka hub went on camp to Wainui. During camp I think I showed creativity at search and rescue because we learnt how to fix a broken leg or an arm with a stick. It was pretty easy because all we had to do was find a stick that was thicker than your pinky and longer than your forearm. Then rap some bandages around you the stick and make sure the patient can’t move their arm. I also showed collaboration at search and rescue as well. Because we all worked together to find one person that was hiding with walkie talkies. My favorite part of camp was when we went Coasteering because we got to jump off rocks and look sea-lifes. Have you ever used one of these ...