Winter Sports!

So there have been students chatting about winter sports all around the school. And here is a post about it. So winter sports is when in winter you choose a sport out of volleyball, hockey, basketball, netball, table tennis, football and rugby. I chose hockey, because I had no idea how to play it and I have always wanted to play hockey. And it turns out that I am actually quite good at hockey (pat on the back for me).

So every Tuesday all of the kids doing hockey and all those other sports line up in a line with all of the other kids that are doing the same sport, if you know what I mean.
Okay all of the different sports go to the, well for example, for the footballers they go to the bottom field, the hockey players at a court and yeah. So then we do hockey training and we play some hockey games.

On the last hockey training session with Mrs Armstrong, she put us into 2 teams for the hockey tournament which was on Thursday. In my team there was Ocean, Harper, Flynn, Lochlen, Johnny, me, and I guess a few more people. So on that day we were all playing hockey games against all of the teams. It was really fun and I couldn't wait for the tournament!


This is the day of the hockey tournament and all of the other sports that Hampden Street children were doing. I was really nervous and excited at the same time. Because I mean this was the first ever hockey game I have played! And I hope our cool team will do great! This tall man (I forgot his name) was calling out the schools and their team for a practice warm up thing for hockey. This guy called Craig was teaching us some hockey techniques like, the different kinds of hockey dribbling, and we did some hockey warm up games with our teams. It was quite interesting to see all these kkids from different schools.


Now here it is, the time to play a real hockey game! I feel delirious just thinking about playing a hockey game. The first team we were against was I think a Nelson Central school team (well they were wearing yellow.....)  I was a bit confused, but the referee explained it to me. THANK YOU REFEREE!! -I am random.
Anyway, we waited for the bell to ring as my heart pounded. And then "DING DING!!" The bell had rung! ZOOM! Our team went straight for the ball and so did the other team. It was thrilling feeling!
The game went REALLY good! We came a draw with the other team. Not bad Hampden Street not bad.


That was our first game so 5 more games to go! The second game, we were playing against really skilled hockey players, and one of them was really aggressive! He whacked Ocean in the foot and purposely fell on Ocean when she was about to get a goal for our team! (We didn't like him).
The team got 2 nil! (OH MAN!) Anyway life isn't all about winning.
The third game was good, but weird. It was weird because we were against the other team from our school, so....WE WERE PLAYING AGAINST HAMPDEN STREET SCHOOL! Our team won, just We got 2 nil! Yay!
The fourth game was really successful! We were playing against, I think St Josephs or something.
We got 4 nil!!! Now that is what I call successful. (Wink).
And the other games I forgot how many goals we got, but man hockey is fun!


So that was the AWESOME adventure of the hockey tournament and the training!  

Masked Parade!

In term 4 it is masked parade! Yay! And that means we need to make masks in term 3 (this term)

Cherry, Amy and I are making a big cardboard buffalo, and I bet you are wondering, "Why a buffalo??" Well I will tell you now if you are confused,

1. I love buffaloes

2. The theme for the masked parade is Wild West.

3. There a buffaloes in the wild west.

So yeah the theme is Wild West, but no ordinary wild west, it is a Wheres Wally Wild West theme! So there is going to be like a few Wallys in the crowd of wild west people. For wild west there are a lot of people being cowgirls and cowboys, but Cherry, Amy and I wanted to be a little different. And there a people being cactuses, wagons and even horses. I think it is a really fun, creative process.


So far the buffalo that we are making looks like this, (by the way this is only the face we haven't started making the body yet.

Yeah I know it looks more like a dirty lion, but when it is finished you'll see how it looks like a buffalo.

The next steps for tis buffalo is to glue on the horns that I made and painted. 

These are the horns and me and Amy are posing for the camera (sorry the photos are blurry and bad quality) 

So that is masked parade!!! And I can't wait to go marching down the street with a buffalo over Cherry, Amy and my head!

Year 5 SKIING!!

2 weeks ago in week 6, the year 6s went skiing and so did the year 5s. The 6 ski day was on Tuesday 2 weeks ago and the year 5 ski day was on Thursday. and I am a year 5 so I went on Thursday. Ok, ok enough blabbering on about the days! So this is the story of Elly Mae and the year 5 ski trip.


Once upon a time, there was a school called Hampden Street school. Ok whatever let's just get on with the ski day! HELLO I am Elly Mae and I will tell all about the year 5 ski day. So of course we had to come to school early and I arrived at 7.00 am. Mr O called out the role and then everyone ran to the cars. My mum was taking transport and in the car was Oreala, Anna, Holly and I. On the way we got some lollipops and mints.


Finally we arrived after 2 hours of doing nothing (Thumbs are up). I was going spastic of course because I absolutely love the snow! First we had to put all of our gear on and skis then we headed down for the skiing!

I went on the intermediate slope first because I have been skiing once before and I got to the intermediate slope. But then after about 30 minutes of going down the ski slope, Mr Ashby invited me and Anna to go down the tea bar slope. I was quite unsure at first, but then I said "Yes I AM GOING TO DO THIS!" And so we went right up to the top of the mountain and then stopped at the top. Mr Ashby said, "Just follow me and when you go down don't go straight down just ski side to side." When I looked down at the massive slope, I thought, "I cannot do this, this is SO big!" But I went down it.
Mr Ashby went first, I went second and Anna went down third. IT WAS THE BEST EXPERIENCE IN MY WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE!! And I am not kidding it was fantastic! I thanked Mr Ashby for asking me to go on the tea bar. And I thanked Anna for coming with me down the amazing slope of awesomeness.

Next we had to eat some food, I had a pie. Yep a pie. AND you know what flavor? What flavor!? PIE FLAVOUR! Okay now I am sounding like asdf if you know what that is. So I ate my pie and drank my fejoa and apple juice. Then I went down the tea bar slope 3 more times until it was time for
my lesson, "Yay!" I couldn't wait for my lesson.

Now it was the level 4 and 3 lessons (I am a level 3) Our instructor was Lizzy, I think that was her name. Anyway, she all taught us that you know same old thing, the airplane. Then when we stopped in the middle of the intermediate slope, Rhea came bundling down and crashed into me! One of my skis came off and I got a bruise on my hip. I had to put my ski that had come off back on, but it was really hard because we were in the middle of the slope. It was really embarrassing because I was holding everyone up. Lizzy got a bit grumpy and she tried to help and I tried my best to put my ski back on, but it took a long time and Lizzy started to get really angry. Eventually it came on (Phew) We went down the intermediate slope about 2 more times, then Lizzy said after all of the begging that we would go down the tea bar slope that Mr Ashby, Anna and I went down. We all got really excited and headed for the machine that get's you to the top of the mountain.


When we got to the top of the mountain this little girl (not from our school) was really scared and she did NOT want to go down the big slope. But Lizzy said that she had to. And the little girl started to cry, I felt really sorry for that girl. And I thought it was really rude of Lizzy to make her go down the slope and she was not ready yet. :-( Anyway we all went down the shimmering, white slope full of snow. We went down the way that Anna and Mr Ashby and I went down. She didn't really say much, Lizzy, she only just stopped in the middle of the slope with all the other kids to see that the little girl that she had made go down the slope was crying and she had fallen over. "Come on get up" Lizzy said and helped the little girl. So then when Lizzy had a talk with the girl about being confident and being brave, we all continued going down the mountain. We kept on going in the same direction, but then she kept on going forward and I thought this is not right where are we going. THEN I realised that we were actually going down the shirfront! AND THAT MY FRIENDS is one of the BIGGEST SLOPES AT RAINBOW SKI FIELD! Lizzy didn't warn us at all that we were going down here! And that little girl was screaming. We all just went down, sliding and falling over. Then Lizzy stopped in the middle of the slope and thought that we had to stop again in the middle, but then I lost control and went straight down the SLOPE!! And man I was screaming.



When we all got to the end of the massive slope, mum was watching and I told her how bad of a ski teacher Lizzy was. But the ski day was fantastic apart from not realising that I was going down the shirfront! But then I said to mum, "Do you think I should go down the shirfront slope again?" And mum said "I don't know, maybe." Then I asked Anna if she wanted to go down the shirfront with me. And she said yes! So we got up to the top of the mountain and went skiing down the mountain. Mr Marsten was there as well. And when we were about to go down the big, shirfront slope I got really scared. Anna went down a bit shaky but she was fine and got down to the bottom before me. When I was still hesitating at the top, Mr Marsten came and taught me how to go down it. I went down with him guiding me. Then half way down the slope I went straight down and put my hands in the air and screamed, "I DID IT!!!!" It was the best thing in my whole life! And mum took a video of me going down it and said, "Well Done!"


So that was most of my ski day. Thank you for reading! ;-)

       

My music progressions song

This is my music progression song that is inspired by Massive Attack (The band I researched) Go to my music progressions post for more details :-)

Ms Oldfield

Room 5 is very lucky to have a new student teacher, give a round of applause for...........MS OLDFIELD! Ms Oldfield is a young, awesome student teacher teaching room 5 then another teacher basically teaching her! When I say that I mean that this person from her university or something is watching her to see if she would be a good teacher, and I think that she will be an incredible teacher. This week and last week Ms Oldfield has been teaching us for the whole day, while Mr Ashby hangs around like a bad smell (that's what he says). 

This week (week 9) is the 3rd week that Ms Oldfield has been teaching in room 5. 

So yeah this was the post about Ms Oldfield the cool, incredible student teacher that in the future will be an outstanding teacher!

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