Cross Country!

WALT: Show our Audience with our words rather than directly tell.

My heart was pounding as I head Mr Jacobsen announce the year 7 girls, waiting at the back of the courts in the hot bright sun. Lining up heading towards the start line, my stomach started turning in all kinds of ways. I was excited at first but then I felt really nervous and sick.

As we were positioning ourselves on the start line, we waited for Mr Burt´s call. Waiting and waiting not knowing when he's gonna shut the clappers hard, as soon as I put my leg out BANG! The clappers went. I jogged the first part of the race and I was already feeling tired, I was huffing and puffing and out of breath but at least I was leading the girls. That's what I thought, as I heard my friend Angelica behind me. I was slowing down and we weren't even that close to the reserve yet, I tried my hardest to stay by her and I was doing a great job at it.

Angelica was the leader of the year 7 girls coming first place. At that time I was already coming fourth, two of the girls passed me. As I was getting close to finishing my first lap I sprinted before the year 8 boys went. I knew then I shouldn't of done that because I felt exhausted, my legs were aching and my heart was burning I felt like giving up but then I wanted to make my family proud and finish thing properly. So I kept on going, keeping a good pace of speed. As I was getting close to the reserve my friend Lani caught up to me, we both encouraged each other to keep going every time we slowed down.

We both tried to get past Aysha but she was just too far. As we were getting closer to the end of the reserve I started to sprint, Lani also started to sprint too. It was like I was just racing her, as I was passing her I decided to slow down that wasn't really a great idea, Lani zoomed passed me crossing the line first. I was shocked but also proud of my friend Lani as she finished the race and didn't give up on beating me.

As I crossed the line I hugged Lani, congratulating her. We both felt tired and exhausted but we were both proud of ourselves for finishing things off properly, I thought I could of done better in cross country but fifth place is just as good. Cross Country was a good day and all my friends and I couldn't stop blabbing about it, It was great!

Hiwi the Kiwi!

We had an awesome performance yesterday morning from Hiwi the kiwi. We sang, danced and laughed along with each other, learning about Kai Moana (Food from the sea).  We are now all writing a story about fish to the best we can. There's a brand new fishing rod waiting for the bestest story in the school, How Exciting.

Mr and Mrs Minstral taught us many things about fish, Such as: How you hold it? What to use? and What Size does the fish has to be? Mark taught us, If we ever catch a saltwater fish always use a wet towel so the fish doesn't get any disease. Then after place the fish inside a bucket of salt ice, to prevent from the fish rotting. Also when we catch a fish they have to be a certain size, so if it's too small you have to place the fish back in the sea for it to grow and if it's so big then you'll have to chuck it back in the water for the fish to breed. Mark said ¨You kids can also teach this to your parents,¨ Even though my parents and I don't go fishing I was still interesting in telling them of what I learnt today.

Mark also sang us a song about Kai Moana fish in the sea. It was pretty catchy and Chrissy had an amazing dance moves, the song had a definition to it. It meant fish for the future and your whanau, fish needs a good environment in their habitats. Meaning we have to take care more care of the sea, picking up rubbish around our area and not letting in plastic to float around. The fish isn't the only species that is in harm, the black bird petril is also near to extinction. There is only a little amount of these types of birds and there really native to New Zealand, polluted water will harm fish and birds. Killing our two main key animals, we need birds for them to navigate us to where the fish is or where is the closest land when we're sailing and we need fish for us people who love to eat it, it helps our health.

When fishing Mark said we always need to wear are life jacket, so when we accidently fall in the sea we can float instead of sinking but it seems to not concern some people around the world, life jackets are designed to keep you from drowning. It's better if you have a life jacket on instead of leaving it in front of the boat because you wouldn't have enough time to grab it, put it on and strap it tight to your upper body. Overestimating the ability to swim is a major factor when choosing to go without a life jacket. The reality is that no matter how good you are at swimming when faced with fear your mind may react differently than you think it would causing you to have less ability to swim well.

Doing all these things will help you fish more better, my family and I may not fish as often but it is still important to tell them. These things can save lives and help your knowledge, this information will help you know more about fish and when you're on the boat. Life jackets and pollution is very important because life jackets can save your life and pollution can kill animals that is native to our country.

Explanation: How our muscles work

WALT: Last week, in reading, we investigated what muscle fatigue was and why our muscles get fatigued. This week you are going to investigate and write about How Our Muscles Work.

We have more than 600 muscles in our body! Even if we´re bigger or smaller, we all have the same amount. Our muscles do everything from pumping blood throughout your body into just lifting your heavy bag. You control some of your muscles, while others Like your heart and brain without you thinking about them at all. We are focusing on these questions, How do our muscles work? How many muscles do we have? and Why are muscles important for our body? This is what I'm going to explain to you readers.

Muscles need a lot of things to work, Such as: Healthy food, Exercise and Stretches. Healthy food is very important for your health and muscles, getting the right protein and vitamins helps your muscles relax and strengthen them more. Our muscles have three main muscles, the cardiac muscle, the skeletal muscle and the smooth muscle. The cardiac muscle known as the heart muscle, this muscle is found of the walls that protects our heart. Cardiac muscle pumps blood from our heart to around our body, the heart can also be called the myocardium. The skeletal muscle, It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is placed under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. Most of the skeletal muscle is attached to bones by bundles of fibers known as tendons. The smooth muscle works by themselves, it is also called voluntary. This muscle is used when you feel like spewing and it forces the food up into your mouth pushing it out.

Your brain and heart is another way of how your muscles work. The brain sends messages to different parts of your body and also receives messages from our muscles, For an example: When you feel pain in your muscles, the muscle sends a message to the brain detecting that you have pain in the particular muscle. The heart is protected by the muscle of Cardiac, The Cardiac muscle is the walls of the heart. It surrounds the heart, the muscle pumps blood to the vessels of the left/body/systemic and right/lungs circulatory systems. The cells that constitute cardiac muscle are called cardiomyocytes or myocardiocytes. The myocardium is the muscle tissue of the heart, and forms a thick middle layer between two layers. The outer epicardium and the inner endocardium.

My body is very important to me and I learnt a lot of things about my body and my muscles. Its helps me think about what's good for my muscles and how my muscles work, I learnt a lot of new words and its definition. I think I explained how our muscles work really well, and hope to do more explanations. I´ve learnt a lot during this task, working on how our muscles work had taught me a lot of things that I didn't know.

Explanation: How our muscles work

WALT: Last week, in reading, we investigated what muscle fatigue was and why our muscles get fatigued. This week you are going to investigate and write about How Our Muscles Work.

We have more than 600 muscles in our body! Even if we´re bigger or smaller, we all have the same amount. Our muscles do everything from pumping blood throughout your body into just lifting your heavy bag. You control some of your muscles, while others Like your heart and brain without you thinking about them at all. We are focusing on these questions, How do our muscles work? How many muscles do we have? and Why are muscles important for our body? This is what I'm going to explain to you readers.

Muscles need a lot of things to work, Such as: Healthy food, Exercise and Stretches. Healthy food is very important for your health and muscles, getting the right protein and vitamins helps your muscles relax and strengthen them more. Our muscles have three main muscles, the cardiac muscle, the skeletal muscle and the smooth muscle. The cardiac muscle known as the heart muscle, this muscle is found of the walls that protects our heart. Cardiac muscle pumps blood from our heart to around our body, the heart can also be called the myocardium. The skeletal muscle, It is a form of striated muscle tissue which is placed under the voluntary control of the somatic nervous system. Most of the skeletal muscle is attached to bones by bundles of fibers known as tendons. The smooth muscle works by themselves, it is also called voluntary. This muscle is used when you feel like spewing and it forces the food up into your mouth pushing it out.

Your brain and heart is another way of how your muscles work. The brain sends messages to different parts of your body and also receives messages from our muscles, For an example: When you feel pain in your muscles, the muscle sends a message to the brain detecting that you have pain in the particular muscle. The heart is protected by the muscle of Cardiac, The Cardiac muscle is the walls of the heart. It surrounds the heart, the muscle pumps blood to the vessels of the left/body/systemic and right/lungs circulatory systems. The cells that constitute cardiac muscle are called cardiomyocytes or myocardiocytes. The myocardium is the muscle tissue of the heart, and forms a thick middle layer between two layers. The outer epicardium and the inner endocardium.

My body is very important to me and I learnt a lot of things about my body and my muscles. Its helps me think about what's good for my muscles and how my muscles work, I learnt a lot of new words and its definition. I think I explained how our muscles work really well, and hope to do more explanations. I´ve learnt a lot during this task, working on how our muscles work had taught me a lot of things that I didn't know.

Sleep Sleuths

WALT: Apply the text
 
This week in literacy we are learning about How much sleep we need, we learnt about how older we get the less sleep we need. When we´re younger we need more and more sleep and as we get older when tend to need less sleep. I learnt more words in this text and had to answer the questions that had to apply to the text, My graph shows how yr 6 and yr 10´s sleeping needs are different. If you want to see my graph scroll through the presentation that is above.

How the Olympics came to be!

Olympics are a massive sporting event that takes part in different countries around the world every four years, they provide summer and winter sports. Athletes compete against each other to win medals for their nation. Top athletes around the world qualify to represent their country or nation.

The olympics began in 776 Bc (Before christ), starting off with the sport of running. Athletes could only run a 100m track, at the time only men were allowed to compete. Theodosius the first then announced that all Pugan cults were banned, Emperor Theodosius was a christian and abolished the games because the Olympic games were dedicated to pagan god and banned all pagan practises. 15 hundred years later in 1896 the summer and winter sports were then introduced and began to play.

This year the Olympic games are held at Rio, Brazil. Every four years a chosen country will help the Olympics, When a country holds the Olympics. The country will then get a lot of tourism and mediaworks. Rio Brazil had redone hotels, restaurants and the big stadium to a high standard. The owners of these places will get a lot of money coming in, this is similar to the Rugby world cup and the Commonwealth games held at a certain country.

Olympic games have changed over the past few years, such as more events, changes of the rules and much more. Back in the days Women were not allowed to compete or watch the olympic games only men were, at that time the olympics were only held at greece but now the Olympics are held in different countries. Also back in the days they had to compete in the nude, running with just a small rag covering there rare part. Olympics was also based on sporting excellence, Meaning you would have to be at least good at Discus, Shot put, Running, Jumping, Fighting/Wrestling and Javelin.

The Olympics 2016 has come around, all around the world are celebrating the start of the Olympics especially in Rio. I wish all the New Zealand athletes a good luck, especially my personal favourite Valerie Adams. One of my favourite sport in the olympics is Discus and she inspires me to push my excellence in Discus. I'm excited to watch her play and study her technique and position, imitating her skills makes me feel like I´m in the Olympics.

Why do our muscles get tired?

This week in literacy we learnt about Why do our muscles get tired? Our muscles get tired because we work them to much or the exercise that we do. My group and I had a presentation to do we had to answer this to a high standard, were learning to identify the information that supports the main idea of the text. Muscle Fatigue is one of the few words that we learnt this week. If you want to know more about muscle fatigue read the presentation the is above.

Why do our muscles get tired?

This week in literacy we learnt about Why do our muscles get tired? Our muscles get tired because we work them to much or the exercise that we do. My group and I had a presentation to do we had to answer this to a high standard, were learning to identify the information that supports the main idea of the text. Muscle Fatigue is one of the few words that we learnt this week. If you want to know more about muscle fatigue read the presentation the is above.