Diwali poster

 

This week Room 1 have been learning about Diwali.

Athletics day

 I was so excited for athletics day that I could not wait. We had to wear hats to play. We had to go in your house colours and split into two groups. I was in Te Tatua 2.  

The first event was gumboot throw and we had to go into three groups and throw the gumboots the furthest. The senior team used the big heavy gumboots and the junior team had to use the small gun boot. I thought that wasn't fair because the big gumboots were so heavy but the juniores made it look easy but I really wasn't.  We had three points and that was good news.

The next event was the egg and the spoon race. We had a spoon and a raw egg. We had to balance the egg on the spoon. We went to the other person and repeated. I learnt that slow and steady wins the race. We got three points.

 We did a long jump next but I kind of thought it was boring because what we had to do was jump the furthest. It hurt my leg. I'm not really a good jumper. Dwight jumped really far. We got two points for this race.

It was morning tea next. We were eating and playing. Then we went outside the library and saw who was in the lead. Maungawhau and Puketapapa were the highest. 

We went and we did catch the tail. It was fun. Me and this junior kid were being chased by the tagger.  You see no one was chasing him, they were chasing me. I got mad and I said “Ahh stop chasing me”. How you play the game is you have a fake tail  and the tagger has to take it. 

“We were having the best time of our lives. It was so fun,” I said.

We did our next event and it was my favourite. And we had a rope and tied it around you and your partner, my buddy was Dwight  and we won most of it but one.. The reason why we won was because we had a strategy and it was we posted our leg foot in front the right and we repeated. 

Then we moved on to skipping and I thought it was fun but we had to skip all the way to  the yellow line and I wasn't very good because I hadn't skied in a long timeI think all the juniors were the first ones. Kori got fingered and went to the sick bay.

2 points

We moved on to the next event , and we did a bean bag  through.there was a bucket and Owen and Mia gave us bean bags and we had to throw it into the bucket. Ken P was good at it and I

wasn't so bad but not the greatest. We had 15 minutes  until we moved on to the next round. We got 2 points.

We did a sack race next and how we played was there was a potato bag and we had to put our leg into it and hop and give it to your  partner. I fell lots of times. But I think we came first.

Then we had lunch time and I almost fell asleep but thanks to Sierra she woke me up then i had my lunch

 “I've been waiting for this,” I said, as we went to the field waiting to do sprints, then all i know year 4s up, we all ran as fast as we could But Jia came first and I came in second place with Jia beating me in the run by an inch. But i said to jia “good job” “thanks you to” Jia said. We dont get points for sprints. 

Then we did tug of war but i dident because of my hand but i got to watch but the winer was  Maungawhau  then second place was  Puketapapa then oraraka then us but thats ok all that matters is having fun

The End