Swimming Lessons

Hi guys,
today on my blog I'm going to talk to you about my school swimming lessons.
For the next two weeks we are going to be having swimming lessons at QE11, and  so far I am really enjoying it.
We're into the second week and I have already perfected a whole heaps of my strokes.
Want some tips?

 Tips
- When your doing breaststroke have your arms smaller because when you do it big you actually move backwards as well as you move forward.
- If you keep your head down you move faster.
- If you struggle with breathing (like in freestyle or something), don't think about it when your swimming and you'll find that your more relaxed.

And that's all from me, go check out my other blog posts, I'll be posting every week.
Bye for now.

Duathalon

Hey,

Welcome back to my blog.

Today I am going to talk to you about our school duathlon.

Doing the duathlon is an option, it's not like our school cross country when you have to do it. There's also another option when you can do it with a partner but that's non competitive.

I like a challenge so I like to go in the competitive section and do it by myself. I came second and I'm pretty proud but I was mostly tired, so instead of feeling excited for myself I was lying on my bag and feeling tired.

I recommend giving it a try if the opportunity comes up, even if you feel like your not good enough. It's always worth a try and when your finished you will be so proud of yourself for "giving it a go."

Have you ever done a duathlon?

Self Management levels

Hi everyone.

Welcome back to my blog,

so today I am going to blog about Kaupeka's self management levels.

The levels are:

Goomba town, Cookie Canyon, Fuzzy tree tops and Bowser's Ultimate layer.

Everyone is aiming to be in Bowser's Ultimate Layer, basically each step gives you more and more choice of what you do in your school time, including music, what workshops you go to, who you work with etc.         

No one wants to be stuck in Goomba town by the end of the term.

Overall this will help us learn how to be organised and take control of our learning and how we help out in the school.

I wonder what level you would be on, why don't you take a guess in the comments.

Until next time,

Bye.

Swimming sports

Hi everyone
So today i'm going to be blogging about my swimming sports.
I competed in two twenty five meter races,
They were backstroke and breaststroke, I decided on doing twenty five mitres because I was happy with just participating and I think if I practice a little bit harder next year I will enter the fifty meter race.
Swimming sports is a great experience to have and I think if you get the chance to do it at your school then I think go for it even if you don't think you'll win. It's always good to participate, and afterwards you'll want to go back in the water again.

What's your favourite type of swimming?

The 7th Beatitude

Have you ever heard of a beatitude? Well I have and they are blessings from God. In our hub we have learnt the meaning of the eight beatitudes and here is my way of presenting the seventh beatitude:

Question:
Have you ever heard of a beatitude?

What I Sold At The Market

Hey, and welcome back to my blog. So in this post I will be talking to you about my products that I am going to be selling at the school market on the 4th of Dec 2018.

My PBL (Project based learning) group is called SSS, that stands for Sling it, Smell it and Score it.

We are selling different types of perfume with some light smells and some strong smells, we tried to make a variety of different smells because their different opinions. Only for $1.00

Comment what type of perfume you like

However, that’s not all because we have an epic game that you can play. The best part is that you get to use slingshots to win prizes and from what we've heard, a lot of people like slingshots.

Anyway, you had to sling shot some tokens at a picture, different parts of the picture gives you different points.

Fortunately we were able to sell all the perfumes and get most people there to play the game.

Three was the highest score you could get, and whatever score you got you were able to get different prizes. The prizes were....

Stress Balls, loom band Bracelets, Tic tacs, Lollies and erasers.

If you had the chance to pick one of these prizes what would you pick?

Market Day

This term our Project Based Learning (PBL) has been about design and the big question was; How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product?

First we learned what STEAM stood for.
S for Science
T for Technology
E for Engineering
A for the Arts
and M for Maths
Then we were given challenges. The first to make a chair using newspaper, string and straws that was able to hold a figure made out of multi-link blocks.
Then; make a table that was able to balance MnMs for the team. We were much better at the first challenge because … We had an idea and we stuck to it which in the other one we had so many ideas that we lost track.

In Literacy we learned to write up science experiments and to write a technology report using the design process of ask, imagine, plan, create, improve and share.

Our next step was to form teams and ask ourselves the big question again.
How can we use a Steam approach to make a marketable product? Our aim was to create enough products or experiences and sell it to raise money for charity.

My team ran a game, in the game you had to slingshot the pictures and if you got three points you got three prizes, one point you get one prize and so on. We had to let the youngest kids throw at the target because we didn’t realise it would be so hard for them to use the slingshots. We also sold little bottles of perfume that all had a different sought of smell.



Reflection

My highlight from this PBL was making all the products and coming up with all the ideas. I liked making the targets to sling at and painting them as well.

Next time I would make sure that we had organised who had their breaks when and I would make sure that I had noticed that the slingshots were hard for the younger kids to use. I would keep the rest the same.