Rugby League Session

On Wednesday 22nd June 2011 us,Room 22, Went out for a League session. We had a league session to try out our thrilling skills.We tried out our skills with one of a amazing person from the 2011 Vodafone junior warriors squad and his name was Sio.
Just before we were about to start the session with Sio we were put into a little group from 1 to 8 or 1 to 7 then we were ready to start.

The first lesson we did was in and out. In and out is running round the cones with a little rugby ball from the start to the end and sprinting back to the other person where they are waiting to have a turn.

The other lesson we did was zig zag. Zig zag is the same as in and out but we zig zaged around each players in our group.

The last lesson we did was rugby tennis. Rugby tennis is trying to kick the ball over the other teams shoulders letting them try to catch it.

When it was time to go we had one more round of tennis rugby and headed to our classroom with a great goodbye to Sio. It was a wonderful warm up for us to get our skills started and to participate in any sport for this term.

Science Roadshow

On the 9th of June 2011 us,Year 7s and 8s, walked to Tamaki Collage for a Science Roadshow for our topic this term(bigger better,faster,stronger).Before we headed off we were put into a small group so that our class students don't run off everywhere around the entire exhibits.

Once we got there we had a sit to listen to the people showing their presentation of science.When they had finished we headed off to a couple of inventions trying out different exhibit. The exhibit our group tested on was named Big Ear. Its like a satellite dish talking into it transferring the talking to a phone where someone is waiting to listen.

Another Presentation was called so we had another sit before it was time to go back to school. The scientists was talking about our senses. The senses we have are really good named eyes, ears, taste, smell and feel. Once it was time to go we said goodbye to the scientists(Jane and Paul)and we left. We were headed out into our group lines and started walking back to school. It was a good day for our school morning/afternoon.

The Design process

Why is generating ideas important?
generate ideas is important because its bringing different ideas to make a experiment.
we generate ideas to plan out some ideas making something creative.
the creative thing we do is using different material for a NO LITTER sign.
the material we use is metal,wood,paper,cardboard and others that i can’t even imagine.

In this process our class,Room 22, has been learning to do a sign for the students at our school to STOP LITTERING!
thats why up above I was talking about how generating ideas is super important.
In the year 7s and 8s classes we have a cycle going by 6 steps. the 6 steps are identify a need,research,generate ideas,find solutions,reflect and evaluate. So when we do all those wonderful 6 steps the are it finished for everyone to see.

In this need I would want to help everyone to pick up their rubbish when they need to.

Swimming

At the Glen Innes pools us,Yr 7s & 8s,had been taught from our teachers to do our swimming sessions for the last two weeks from Monday to Thursday. At 2.p.m we leave once we had finished our lunch. Once we are at the pools we put on our togs and head for the showers for a warm up.

On the first day when we had slowly dipped in the first lesson we were taught was freestyle. What we know about freestyle is fingertips. How we did it is putting your arms in a angle,sliding the fingers slowly above the hips then reaching out. Another thing we know about freestyle is your legs when you are swimming. Your legs always go all over the place so its possible to make your legs go straight for no accidents.

The next lesson we did was backstroke. What we did for backstroke was we just went normally going backwards.

On the last day we were still practicing our swimming skills and ‘GUESS WHAT’ we got gooder and gooder everytime so its important to know if your doing good or still need practicing because we are surrounded by water and to not drown when it really comes.