winter field day

winter sport is a sport that you do in the winter. Its all about having fun and having physical fitness. The sport are rugby,soccer,netball,kiwi sport,hockey. plus you have to have sports man ship. our motto is its not about winning its about trying your best and no-matter how the score come out you will be a winner. Our thoughts about thursday are to try your best at everything (and give it everything you've got.)and well like to meet new people and playing the game we both love.

my thoughts and feelings about winter field day

On Thursday lots of people are going to winter field day. Winter field day is when lots of schools in Auckland get into teams of soccer,rugby,netball,hockey and kiwi sports. My sport is soccer. I feel really excited that I am going to a soccer tournament on Thursday. Because we get to play spots for the whole day and we don't have to do work. I think the A team for soccer is going to do really good on Thursday.

My THoughts and Feelings about Winter Field Day!!

On Thursday it is Winter Field Day. Winter Field Day is a day when lots of schools in Auckland come together and play a different varieties of sport and games. The sport are Kiwi Sport, Rugby, Netball, Soccer and Hockey. The sport that I am playing is Kiwi Sport. I am really really nervous and excited for Thursday because we haven't had much practices. I am not that confident for Thursday because I have never tried playing Kiwi Sport at Summerland before. On Thursday if my team does not win the games it won't matter because everything isn't about winning it is about being the best you can be!!!!

Winter Field Day

Hey our names are Firdaus and Sophia, and we're going to tell you about the thoughts that are going through our minds on Winter Field day.

Okay you'll probably be thinking what is winter field day.

Winter Field Day is a day you play one of your favourite sport

choosing one of the following: Netball, Rugby, Hockey, Kiwi sport, Soccer.

Well me as in Firdaus, I'm playing Kiwi sport and Sophia is playing Netball.

You have to train at least a month for your sport. 

At Winter Field Day you play against other schools and you get a 

closer chance of winning a 1st place trophy.

Tomorrow, is Winter Field Day and we are feeling nervous 

and excited at the same time. We never know what's going to happen!

Hopefully Summerland Primary gets rated out of 1,2,3 places!  

Me, Sophia is feeling butterflies in my stomach meaning that 

I'm nervous and feeling if I ever catch the ball! Since there is a ball in 

this sport I am playing Netball!

Me, Firdaus is feeling alright but a bit nervous for some of the games because some people 

from other schools can get a little too violent and take the games too serious and they start calling you names and putting you down.

Anyway, all we need is your luck to us on Thursday. Oh, did we mention that the games got postponed till Thursday? Because we had bad weather on Tuesday in Auckland. Anyway, just need your luck to us!

Friday

Today for fitness we played a game called 'Bump Tag'. After we went inside to do Ann's favorite subject 'Basic Facts'. This term we are doing Multiplication and Division. There are 60 questions and we get timed. The year 5's have 3 minutes and the year 6's have 2 and a half minutes (2:30).

When its over we swap our sheets and mark them. After that, we fill out our portfolio graphs. This is a great way to see if we're making progress or not! 

After Morning tea we did S.S.R. for a while. Then Miss Rack told us that the Apple Bus tour people will be coming on Monday, so our principal, Mr Sumich would like each pod to clean up around their area. Miss Rack told us some of the places we could clean up, then she chose some people for each of the places. She gave us a big plastic bag to put leaves, twigs, etc. in and if we needed, a spade or a dustpan. When most of the groups were finished, Miss Rack came inside and asked us to do some 'free writing'. Free writing is where we can write about anything we want. But if we needed to, we could finish publishing our explanations on why we chose certain things for our 'Colour my World Art'. 'Colour my World Art' is a crayon and dye piece of artwork representing some of the things in New Zealand. The colours we used had to be complementary colours. Complementary colours are that make each others stand out. Such as green and red, purple and yellow, blue and orange etc. 

After Lunch, we did S.S.R. then watched SPSTV. SPSTV stands for Summerland Primary School TV (if you didn't know). Its comes on every 2nd Friday. It is made by Kids (the SPSTV crew) filmed by kids (once again the SPSTV crew) with help from Miss Cheeseman! Another teacher at Summerland! When SPSTV finished, Miss Rack put us into groups according to the sport you are playing on 'Winter Field Day'. (See 'My thoughts and feelings on winter field day' for more info.) We brainstormed some ideas, great ideas, on what we need on the day. 

We finished Friday, by singing Happy Birthday to some people in our class that have had their birthdays this month. 

A day in Room 8

Our group worked with Miss Rack today for reading. We talked about what a good reader does. Then Miss Rack told us to do a brainstorm or a list of things you think a good reader does. She gave us 3 minutes to do it. After everybody finished, we put a little asterisk next to the one you think was the most important. I chose 'they get ideas from the pictures' (they get clues and can predict what's going to happen next). While other people were sharing their ideas, you could add the ideas to your list if you liked it, thought it was vital and of course if you didn't have it. I love it when we can all share ideas and piggyback off each other! When everybody had a go at sharing their idea/s, we drew up a little 'Strategy Toolbox' for reading. We wrote the things inside, that you think you are already doing in reading. Then we thought about what we need to put in our toolbox (what we need to work on). The most popular ones were, making connections and adjusting reading.

A day in Room 8!

Today for fitness we ran around the whole school. But before we started running, we did a lap around the courts then did some stretches. We were ready to start running! Miss Rack, our teacher chose 2 leaders to lead the line. We started in front of the playground, then passed the library, around the hall etc. until we finished at the courts again. Its was very, VERY, tiring but it was also fun! 

At maths time we played mathletics. Mathletics is a maths programme where you have to solve all types of maths questions. There are many different levels. You can even verse other people live! You earn points, certificates, and credits. With credits you can buy lots of things such as, hair shades, hairstyles, backgrounds and accessories for your Mathlete (Character). I think Mathletics is a great educational programme as you are having lots of fun while you're learning (but of course we have fun anyway!). Every school should have Mathletics or at least have a look at it. Because it increases your knowledge of Maths!

After morning tea and lunch we do S.S.R. S.S.R stands for Sustained Silent Reading. For S.S.R, we use 3 bookmarks. They are called, 'read now', 'next' and 'free pick'. We had to choose 3 books from the school library or the class library. Then we chose which book you are going to read now, read after you've finished with the book you're reading and a book you read anytime but only once a week. We put the 'read now' bookmark into the book you chose to read now, then the 'next' into the book you are reading after you've finished and the 'free pick' into the book you can read anytime you want but only once a week. I think this idea is brilliant and I hope we will keep on doing this S.S.R! Also this stops us from getting up from a chair and trying to decide what book to read, for the whole time!   

Starting from this week, for 5 weeks on a Thursday in the middle block, our class and Room 20, are going to be doing Gymnastics in the hall. When we got there, Miss Rack put us into 5 groups of 4 or 5 people. Soon Room 20 arrived. The people in Room 20 joined our groups and so then we had 10 or 11 people in our each group. Miss Rack told us some of the rules and how to use each of the apparatus (equipment). Then we rotated through the apparatus in our groups. There was the vault, a mini tramp, the bar (eek!), beam (which the girls had more privileges on!) etc. Some of the gear seemed quite tricky, but when we got the hang of it, they were easy and super fun. Gymnastics is an exciting and powerful sport. Its great to have fun!

A few weeks ago, we started to read a book called 'Holes'. Today our student teacher Miss Sterling, read a bit more of it. Everybody loves listening to 'Holes'. As it is a book that has a little bit of everything! Its about a boy called Stanley Yelnats (see if you can see the connection!) who gets accused of a crime he didn't commit! So he gets sent to a camp where he has to dig a hole everyday. I think listening to stories is a good time to have a little rest!