Korf Ball

Friday 29 March                                                

 Korfball

       Hello, this week we have been learning to play Korfball.  The rules of Korfball are You are not allowed to step if you are holding the ball but you are allowed to pivot and you aren't allowed to shoot a goal if their is someone defening you. The net are very high so it is hard to shoot.  

        

          See you on my next post.

Don the eel scientist

Don the eel scientist

Today it was so fun .. we had another visitor into our school to talk to us about Eels! He is a scientist who was really smart. I learnt…

• NZ eels swim to Tonga to have their babies. After they have their babies, they die.
• Did you know that female eels lay 7-20 million eggs at a time?
• If eels can't eat their prey because they can't get through the skin, they grab on with their teeth and spin themselves around 10 times a second so they can drop something off their prey for someone.
• And if someone is coming in the water or creature they hide and then they jump out and grab them. They can feel the water moving when something coming so they know.
• Eels eat  animals whole and they can see what they eat.
• You can tell how old they are by taking out half of the eels ear and counting the rings on the ear bone. Sadly you can only do this if the eel is dead.

I really enjoyed learning heaps more things today I can't wait to learn more about heels in the future is a really cool to learn things about.

SOUTH SUDAN LEARNING

Today Phil and Janet, two missionaries in South Sudan came to visit us. We were so excited! They
were really nice and they taught us heaps. Here are some of the things I learnt today ...

1…In the daytime it can get up to 40 degrees and at night it is still hot (33 degrees!) but not as hot as in
the daytime with the sun.

2…It's too dangerous to drive on the roads so every where they have to travel to they have to either go
on dirt tracks or use aeroplanes. Aeroplanes - there is one smaller one and 4 medium sized ones but
not ones we would get in big cities like LA. 12 people can fit on the aeroplanes.

3… The homes are made out of bamboo framing and have got mud walls or bamboo floors and pets to
keep the place nice and cool.

4…  there are 65 tribes and to tell what tribe that they are, they make cuts in their faces/on their
againforeheads and then let them heal, then cut them again and let them heal, self and they do it n again and again
they have heaps of scars on their body so it can tell what tribe  you're in.

5… 100 South Sudan pounds is worth $30 in New Zealand isn't that just crazy.

I have learnt so many awesome things today and it's been such an honour to have them here to tell us
more about South Sudan these facts and even half the things that I know this heaps more to learn
about South Sudan and I can't wait. What was cool was if we knew the.

answer to question we got one of the 2015 South Sudan coins.

LEANZ web Conferences

Hello everyone,

today we did a live chat with LEARNZ about water here are some things we lot.

1... ground water will never runs out.
2...you can turn sea water into drinkable water.
3..you have to ask the Christchurch City Council if you can use huge amounts of the water.
I really enjoyed  learning some new things about our water. Lots of people were asking questions that we learnt things off.

My first zones

                    

                               My first zones swimming

Today I went to my first ever zones swimming event.  It was really fun.  In my backstroke  heat I came 4th  and in the backstroke finals I came 2nd.  Backstroke was really fun.  With my freestyle I came 2nd in the heats and 2nd in the finals.  My favourite race of the day was the year 5 relay.  The team I was in came FIRST.  I had a really fun day at Jellie park.  Bye.