Poi Making

This term we have been making Poi’s and getting our Poi dance ready for next term week eight. This is a step by step explanation on how to make a Poi.

The first thing you need to do is to get the materials. Which are a plastic bag, some tape, some string, some thick wool stuffing and a pair of scissors.

Second, you need to plait your wool. Tie three pieces of wool together using a string. Then plait the wool and tie it at the end with the string.

Next you need to get your stuffing and tie the wool plait around it with a double knot. Get the plastic bag and put it around your stuffing. Tighten the plastic bag around the stuffing and put some tape on it to keep it closed. After that you need to put a different layer on the Poi to make it tight then put tape on it and cut all the spare pieces.

Now you have a Poi for your Poi dance.

Tabloid Sports

Every year on St Joseph's day our school has tabloid sports. There are four sport houses at school. Their names are Blake, Hillary Cowley and Shepherd and I belong to Shepherd. The houses captains were in charge of the games. Each house chose a game to play. Each house would also get split into two groups.This year there was the card game, water games and a mug game.

The card game was really fun because everyone would go to a chair and each chair had a card print like the hearts, diamonds, clubs and spades. The rules of the this were that you would go to a chair and the person that was leading it would take a card out from the middle of the cards and say what was picked from the cards. All the people that were in that group would get out of the game until the next round. They would go on until there was only one person left. I really enjoyed the game even though I wasn't the one who won.

There were two different water games and we used water guns for both games. The first game was a freezing game. The player would stay still and someone else would move your hands or put a water gun in your hands. When the person who was in charge of the game was not looking, you tagged them. They had to freeze and give you the water gun. You could only shoot the person who was leading the game because they had togs on. If you moved and the person with the water gun saw it, you would be out for the rest of the game. In the second game there would be a gun for each group and two buckets. Each group would fill the gun with water from one bucket and they would start to shoot water in the empty bucket. At the end the bucket with the most water in it won and we could tip the water on the heads of people that was running the games.

In another game the person that was running the mug game split us into two groups and gave each group a mug. You needed to first put water into the mug and go all the way to the other bucket on the other side then come back to the bucket with the water in, so that the next person could go. At the end the group that had the bucket with the most water in won and got to tip all the water on the person’s head.

At the end when we were done we all had a sausage sizzle. I really enjoyed the tabloid sports.

My Holiday

During my school holidays I did a lot of exciting things with my family such as relaxing, going to Palmerston North and going to the movies.

When the first day of school holidays come, my family and I stayed in our pajamas all day long. The only thing we do is to lay around watching T.V., play games and eat.

On Saturday I took a six-hour drive all the way to Palmerston North. When we were there, my family and I stayed in a hotel called Coachman. It was the best. When we were taking our stuff out of the car, I saw a lady that had a wedding dress on. I was wondering if it was her wedding day and it was. When I was looking around I found out that the bath at the hotel was a spa. But on the outside of the spa there was a sigh and it said, “The spa does not work.”

On the next day we were on our way back to Auckland. My family and I went to one of my dad’s friends. We had a great time there even though we were only there for a day.

On the last week of school holidays my family and I went to the movies. I put on my favourite top and then we were on our way. We went to watch the movie called A Wrinkle of Time. It was such a good movie that I really enjoyed it. I had a great time.

I really enjoyed my holiday and could not wait for next terms holidays.

My Place Value Poster

This is my maths poster about place value that I really enjoyed it was a lot of fun.  

Place value is about putting numbers into houses to show the difference in the value of each number.