All about Rugby League

Yesterday in Te Ngahere we had the privilege to be taught League
rugby by a coach called Henry Wiki and one of his helpers, his
name was Jason. First our class was split in half while half went
out while the other half stayed in class. Once we got to the field
we started with stretches. Stretching before playing a game is
important because there is smaller chance of you pulling a
muscle. When we finished stretching we then practised our passes by
splitting into groups of three and continued to pass the ball
among each other. We then got to play an actual game of league
rugby. I enjoyed this because I learnt a lot about rugby I didn’t
know before. Something that I did not get was that Henry didn’t
explain the rules and how to play so it could have been really
confusing for people who have never played league before.

Have you ever played league before ?

Beginners guide to Aerial Bombardment

This week in Te Ngahere we have tried a new game for P.E called Aerial
Bombardment. For some students in our class this was kind of a rewind
because an old teacher taught them how to play. The rules to this game
are a lot like dodgeball, you have two teams on either side of the court,
you have a line of balls in the centre and you have to try and get people
out by either hitting them with the ball or catching the ball that they
threw. When you get out you go onto the other teams side and stand in
there semicircle that surrounds the hoop. You have to stay in the
semicircle until one of your teammates throw the ball to you and you
have to catch it on the foul pretty similar to dodgeball right. As always
the team with the most people standing wins. When we we're playing
this game I noticed that the easier part was throwing the ball at the other
team because it was pretty easy to get them out but the hard part was
trying to throw the ball to your other team mates who are out and that
are standing in the semicircle on the other teams side.

Have you ever played Aerial Bombardment before?

Poupou art

This week in Te ngahere we have been doing Poupou art. Poupou art is a traditional carved pole usually having some significance to the iwi where it stands so we decided to turn this in to art. We first started a practise copy on an A4 paper. We started with sketching out our poupou’s main body parts lightly than we practised drawing patterns on a seperate piece of paper than drawing them where we wanted to put them on our poupou body, we also had to make sure our patterns we're not to small because we would be colouring them in  with pastel. After drawing our poupou and putting our designs on them we than outlined it in vivid than we use colors that complemented each other or looked good together to color it in. After our practise copy we then repeated the process on to an A3 paper as our good copy.

Have you ever tried Poupou art?

Dodgeball

or the last week and a half here in Te Ngahere for P.E we played a really
simple game, Dodgeball For this game the rules are simple you have two
teams on either side of the court, you then put balls in the middle of the
court, soft balls are better so there is a lesser chance someone will get
hurt. After that each team goes and lines up along their side of the court
next to the hoop and waits for the teacher to say “ Go”. Once the Teacher
has said to go you run to get the balls and continue to throw them at the
other team. If you throw a ball at the other team and it hits them they’re
out, if the ball bounces more than once than they are not out and if they
catch your ball your out much like dodgeball. When you are out you go to
the side and if someone in your team catches the ball thrown by the
other team you can then go back in. While playing this game I did realise
that we hardly ever had a strategy when playing we just went all in and
it still worked really well and we ended up winning 2/2 games.

Have you ever played Dodgeball before?

Conversion Maths

This week in Te Ngahere for maths we have been learning to
convert between fractions , decimals and percentages.  With
this task we copied a table from our work sheet into our book
which included columns marked fractions, decimals and
percentages that we had to fill out. The hardest part was to
convert a fraction into a decimal because when doing this
their is  multiple steps that you have to use which makes it
harder to keep everything together. The easier part was
definitely converting fractions into percentages because
when converting between those two they use a lot less steps
and procedures you have to do and the formula is a lot simpler. 

DLO

Have you ever tried converting between fractions, decimals or
percentages?

Chain Reaction

This week in te Ngahere we got to try another challenge but
this time it was a little different because we got to try a chain
reaction using our success criteria. Our success criteria was It
must take at least 5 seconds, you had to use materials from
your book box or your bag and it must be a chain reaction.
For this chain reaction the difficult stage came when we
started setting up the dominoes part of the chain reaction
because the dominoes we're being really stubborn and would
not stay up and kept falling over. I think if we ever tried this
chain reaction again we would definitely not use dominos
for any part.

Have you ever tried a chain reaction before?

Reflection