Gymnastics

 For the past few weeks in PE we have been doing gymnastics. We do this twice a week for an hour every Tuesday and Thursday. My favourite thing to do in gymnastics is to use the parallel  bars. Mr Palmer taught me easy tricks to do which I picked up pretty fast. Here is a photo of me using the parallel bars: 

PE Hurumanu

For the past few weeks we have been doing our PE hurumanu. In our groups we had to choose a sport and teach the class about that sport. My groups name is the Celtics and we chose Basketball. We showed our class this week and I think it was pretty successful because the class mostly listened to what we had to say except for when we told them they had to do lots of warm ups. I helped with the warm ups which were lunges, grapevines, star jumps and 3 laps around the gym. If I could change something the we should do next time I would pick a sport that we all know how to play. I learnt that Basketball is basically netball but you are aloud to dribble the ball. I also learnt most of the rules too so I could teach my friends and my brother. I think that this hurumanu was very fun and exciting for me and my class.

Hurumanu PE

This week and last week for PE we have been working lot's of different things. We have been doing maths and our chosen sports with our teams. On Monday the first team shared their sport, they chose Bench Ball. Earlier in the year in another hurumanu we learnt how to play Bench Ball and so we got to play it again. The team that was running the Bench Ball made us do warm ups, drills and then games. I wasn't here for the warm ups and the first drill but the second drill we did was Sneak Up Granny. The first game we played was Tz yr 8's vs Bh yr 8's and then it was the same with the year 7's. Then. after lunch we played all yr 8's vs all year 7's, the year 8's won. last week we did maths as well because this sport hurumanu also involves maths and writing. For the maths we had to work out how many cans of paint we would need to paint four whole football fields. The maths was really tricky and my group hasn't finished yet. We used some multiplication strategies and some addition strategies. I think this week I worked pretty well with my team even though I had a little disagreement with them about our sport. The graduate profile subject chose to work on was to understand how my feelings and actions effect others and I think I did this by encouraging my teammates on and not getting too frustrated.

P.E Hurumanu

This week for P.E Hurumanu we have been working on the sport that we chose for our groups. As you know my groups name is Celtics and we chose Basketball as our sport. We had to use a document full of questions that we had to answer questions like what two drills will you practice? The first drill we did was defending crossovers. What we had to do was stand in two lines, one line had a ball and the person in front tried to shoot and the first person in the other line would defend, then you would switch lines. The second drill was basically the same but what we had to do was stand in one big line and the first person would stand at a certain point and shoot from there. I think I worked well with my team today by cheering them on while they had their shot. I also helped one specific person in my team by helping them up when they tripped.

Hurumanu Sport

This week for hurumanu we started sport with Miss Simpson. We did fitness testing and the beep test. We did fitness testing because we are doing it again later in this hurumanu and we are going to see if our scores are different. First we did sit ups, I did ten. Then we did a sit and reach test. For that we had to sit with our feet with against a box and then push a bit of wood as far as we can, I got 10.2 centimetres. After that we did hand grip tests, you had to hold a metal grip and squeeze them together, I got one. The last thing we did was the vertical jump. You had to stand sideways up against the wall and then reach your arm up as high as you can then you had to jump as high as you can and record that. When I did it I got 1.9 standing and 2.2 jumping. Today we did the beep test and my score was 5.1 which I think was pretty good. I think I worked pretty well with my team which are called the Celtics. I think I have to improve on my breathing while I'm running because It hurts really bad after. I will work on this buy deep breathing and stretching afterwards. I helped everyone when we were doing the beep test by cheering them on.

How to play Ki O Rahi

This term for PE we have been learning KI O Rahi. As you know Ki O Rahi is a historic Maori game. Our whole class had to make a presentation of how to play Ki O Rahi. Enjoy my presentation.

How to play Ki-O-Rahi:

Step 1: The first thing you need to do in a game of Ki-O-Rahi you have to make 2 teams of 7 .

Step 2: Make the playing field for the game. In the playing field you will need:

*Check vocabulary for the meaning of these words

1. Tupu
2. 7 Pou
3. Ki

Step 3: At the start of a game you have to throw the ball in the air and both players have to try and hit it.

Step 4: At half time both teams swap there positions from *Taniwha to *Kioma And *Kioma to *Taniwha.

Helpful tips:

Everytime Kioma hits the *pou that is a point but to gain those points you need to touch down.

When Taniwha has the ball the need to have 4 people in the zone to be able to shot. You are able to have as many turns as you want.

We're On Each Others Team/ PE Hurumanu

For the past few weeks we have been doing PE. We have been playing some small practical games to get ready for Ki O Rahi. Ki O Rahi is historic Maori game that they play to have fun. We played a similar game to Ki O Rahi can't remember what its called but it was fun. Today we actually played 
 Ki O Rahi and it was more fun than the similar one. So I like the hurumanu! Here is a photo!