Sofia's swimming achievements

I went to my Interzones swimming. Before I went into the seating area I had a nice warm takeaway hot chocolate. Then I sat down on the cold concrete stairs. My goggles were getting foggy my arms were getting sweaty. I felt nervous when I heard the freestyle year 4 girls and boys I got to my feet and rushed to the line of fit swimmers. I heard the whistle and shot to the start I heard the buzzer buzz and there I was in the water shooting down the path of water. Cold liquid splashing in my face.

Scared that I am going to come last. Splashing water into the other lane grabbing the water and throwing it behind me thinking of all the support I have. Thinking that I am going to come first.

Then I see the finish and smash my hand to the solid damp brown lining. What place did I come? I looked at my mum she put her hand into the air and it came up as the character four. I grabbed the bump and pulled myself up into the moist air, I slipped through the red and white gate as I hugged my mum I heard a voice it was my dad saying ‘’ good work’’. Then I picked my towel and walked to my seat I was proud I was happy with all the support I had and happy with my achievements I had a great time.

by Sofia

Children's garden

On Friday 4 children from our class got to go to the Botanical Gardens to help build the Children's garden.  That was us!

We got cotton fabric and used rubber bands to makes shapes and then put them in natural dye.  This is called tie-dying.  We used beetroot, tumeric and spinach as our natural dyes.  The spinach did not turn out very green.  We also learnt about other fruits that you could also use to stain fabric like plums.

We all helped make a banner for the garden using flags.

With spades and forks we turned the ground over to expose the soil and then put fertilizer on it.  Using mallets we banged sticks into the ground to section it in half.  In total we made 4 gardens. One group made an arch way out of bamboo and string.  To make the fence we weaved flax through the sticks.

We planted lavender, sweet peas, beans, butter beans and calendula.  We had grown some of these plants from seed before in Room 10 and in Gardening Club.

There is still a lot of work to be done and this includes fundraising.  They have to raise 1.4 million dollars to open the garden.  We hope that we can continue to plant more plants and spend time in our garden.  We are going to invite the rest of our classmates to come join us.


By Fin, Oliver, Claudia and Guy

Book Trailers

In our class we are making book trailer. It is like movie trailer but for a book. First we see if anyone has read the same book. Then we choose if we want to make a poster, a video, puppet pals or a comic. If you don't know what puppet pals is it is a app where you can take a picture of the drawing you drew and then you choose a background or take a picture of one. After that you film your voice and move the puppets on the screen. Then we all sit in a circle and share our work. What a fun topic.

here are some of our book trailers:

Charlotte & Meredith

Tom

by Katie

Skipping Reflection

Our class likes skipping. So Ms Stubbing decided to let us do skipping routines.

Then she timed 5 minutes and we had to try and skip non-stop for the 5 minutes.

Lots of us put double skip into them.

Our class has a big range of ability and not many of us can do the pretzel! Pretzel is when you put your left arm under your left leg and have the other end in your right hand and skip!

I found cross stitch the hardest. Because you skip one then cross over and then go back to the beginning.

I like to skip at lunch with my friends!

By Meredith

Writing outdoors

On Tuesday our class went outside on the astroturf to do some free writing. It was really refreshing outside because their was a cool breeze through the air and it was really quiet. Everyone wrote a really cool story.

Some people got an idea from a free writing card.  A free writing card has a picture on it and you will get an idea for your story from it.  They are really fun and will help you write an awesome story.

Everyone really enjoyed working outside on a nice spring day.

By Charlotte

Skipping

Our favourite fitness is skipping because it's a fantastic way to exercise.  Most of us are pretty confident at skipping.  There are lots of different types of skips:

• Criss cross
• Doubles
• Pretzel
• Bell
• Skier
• Partner skipping
• Backwards
• Run skipping

A lot of us like to challenge ourselves until we are very puffed!!!  Our next step is to learn how to skip in time with other people and make up a routine.  We are looking forward to getting better and better every day.

By Kirin and Fin

Swimming Sports

Today we went to swimming sports. Swimming sports all of the school racing against each other, these are the races:

Width freestyle

Width backstroke

25 metre freestyle 

25 metre backstroke

25 metre breaststroke

25 metre butterfly

50 metre freestyle

50 metre backstroke

Then there was relays. There was the year 5 and 6 relays girls and boys and the year 7 and 8 girls and boys. Some of the kids in our class got to be in these races too.

When some people in your team were racing you had to shout “GO GO!”

After all that racing we were all tired and luckily there was only 2 hours left of school. 

By Ruby