Water Fun Day

To celebrate summer Glenbrae School had a Water Fun Day.
Hooray! The Greenhouse had finally won, with a lot of excitement they cheered loudly.
To start the Water Fun Day each house had to assemble in a situated area and get ready for the march. Two people holding up the banner walking on the hot burning ground. Finally we set off on our march screaming out our chants. Once the teachers had dismissed each class we went to the water stations

As our house groups lined up to start the event Bam! and off we went we put the sponge in the water and over peoples head it went and under their legs to the last runner. The last runner ran up to the bins squeezed as much water as they could get out of it and ran back to the line.

The next event we went to was walk the plank. Standing on the concrete felt like we were all standing on lava. The teacher gave us the instructions and off we went one at a time. Across the plank to the bucket, grabbed a cup of water and ran to the bin trying not to bump into each other.

As we were walking quietly to our next event which was the band race, we finally got to sit down in a nice windy shade underneath the tree. We each grabbed a band from the bucket. Mrs Greenham was telling us what to do. We stood up got into a straight line and one person grabbed a band and cup each, we dipped the cup in the water and off we ran to the bin trying not to spill it and it continued until the bell rang and then we moved to our next event.

Next we rushed to the next event which was the water slide. It was slippery and wet. We had to hold a cup of water and go down the slide, and to make sure no water would come out of the cup so I put my hand over the cup to secure the water from falling out of the cup.

I had so much fun on Water Fun Day because everyone enjoyed themselves and we even got to go on the water slide which was really fun aswell.

Swimming Recount

Feeling the cold freezing water in the pool as I hopped in. I was frozen as an ice-block. As the professional instructors assessed us they each gave us numbers.

First we got into 3 groups. We started off using a board, putting our hands at the bottom of the board and started kicking in the water. Next we put our head down in the water and started kicking halfway down the pool.

Then we learnt how to freestyle and learn how to keep our arms straight.  We learnt how to breathe while doing our freestyle by turning our head to side to side on our arm when we need to take a breathe.

Later on we had a race back, we could do any kind of swimming freestyle,backstroke or just glide.

I had fun doing swimming with the professional instructors.

Bio Poem

June
Kind, caring and friendly
Lover of sports, chocolate and school
Who wonders what it is like in the Antarctic
Who fears spiders, snakes and dogs
Who feels happy, active and sad sometimes
Who is able to be happy and enjoy life
Who would like to meet 1Direction in person
Who dreams of seeing the Statue of Liberty

Netbook Reflection 2012

Here's the hyper link to my work:My Reflection

Dress up party

LI: To write a detailed description
SC:  it must include strong adjectives, similes and onomatopoeia

On Saturday it was my cousins birthday, and it was a dress up party.I went dressed as Pocahontas.  His name was Noah. When it started his Samoan Grandpa did a prayer and he blew out the candles for his cake. Then we went to serve our food. The food smelled nice and tasted delicious, while we were still eating people came around starting handing out Otai. The Otai was made from pineapple juice milk and fruit salad it was so refreshing because it was such a hot day. Then as we were called out for the lolly scramble I collected all the party poppers and popped all at once and made a loud Bang! When they were throwing out the lollies it was like i was going on a treasure hunt looking for the lollies. Then we packed up and went home.
  

Basketball Lesson with Coach Bruce

Yesterday a very special man came to Glenbrae school to teach us how to play basketball. His name was Coach Bruce, he was also from New York. He had got a degree for free while he was in college. He had also played in 15 different countries around the world.
We learnt how to dribble the ball, wrap the ball around your body and do figure 8's.
Learning how to do the figure 8's was hard, but as I got used to it I could do it. To do the figure 8's we had to hold the ball tight and circles around our legs.

We had a great Basketball lesson with Coach Bruce.

The Auckland War Memorial Museum

The Auckland War Memorial Museum is a great place for people to see and visit. It also helps people learn more about their culture and what has happened in the past. It also has  all sorts of things one hasn’t learnt about, seen and known. The Auckland War Memorial Museum is a good experience for everyone.

The Auckland Museum is located on a hilltop in the Auckland Domain and it overlooks the Auckland Harbour. It is surrounded by a huge park which can be used for picnics and family gatherings.

There  is a gallery filled with Maori treasures and other Pacific items.  The Museum has a lot of memorial items on display as well. It has got records of events that took place in the past.  One would find artifacts and old things from other countries all around the world.

There are 3 parts to to the museum, and there are over 30 displays.
The  displays are full of Maori artifacts and Pacific arts.
On the third floor all the walls are listed with names of the people who  died in the war.


The Auckland war Memorial Museum is a place for people to visit and learn all about Maori culture and customs and about Aotearoa.

Museum photo link