Procedural Writing

WALT: write a step by step procedure teaching someone a skill.

How to make the perfect lay-up in basketball Material required: A basketball hoop and basketball Step 1. Dribble the ball with your outside hand. Step 2. Take a step with your outside leg. Step 3. Step forwards with your inside leg. Step 4. Push of your inside leg pulling your outside leg up at the same time. Step 5. Raise the ball with your outside hand. Step 6. Gently push the ball up onto the the top corner of the box. Step 7. Follow through

The Run Reflection

I did my last run for the term today. Here is my graph for the last two years. As you can see it goes up and down a lot. The run has helped me get fitter which in turn has helped me with my basketball, rugby and touch. Everyday we did the run except Thursday's and if it is raining. This term I also helped calculate a staggered start which is when the people with the slowest Personal Best go first and the people with the best PB go last. How it works is you are actually faster then the people in front of you, so you have to try and catch them. Either you caught them and felt happy or you pushed yourself trying to catch them so in both ways it improved your fitness. Running most days definitely did improve my fitness and I will try to keep it up at home. Up was what we were trying to avoid on our graph but mine did slip up a couple of times as you can tell. Now we have finished doing the run I feel sad as it was a great way to stay fit. Overall the run helped myself and others get fitter like I've mentioned several times in this reflection. Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Poll tax

Native logging

Teachers on strike

Teachers walked off the job yesterday to ask for a pay rise and better resources. They marched all over the country with signs such as:
This wouldn't happen at Hogwarts
Can you read? You're welcome
Don't make me use my teacher's voice

The local strike started at the town square went down to Damian O'connor's office and back.
Teachers want more support, better conditions, more staff and better resources.

Teachers are thinking about a second 2-day strike. I think it is a good idea because some teachers are tasked to control 40 students a day. Teachers also have to pay for resources out of their own pocket.

Vietnam War

Chess

Yesterday I went to a chess tournament, it was heaps of fun and I won three games and got four points. My friend Griffin from St Pats got first and a kid from our school got second. Our school won the junior, rookie and intermediate sections. As a prize our school has qualified to go to the national championships in Auckland. Sadly I didn't get picked to go but I did get two badges, one for winning in four moves and one for winning in twelve seconds.

I also participated in a competition to see who could build the tallest tower. I started off by myself and stacked the pieces up to sixty centimetres but then Toby, the kid who got third, came along and we made one sixty-four centimetres tall! I let Toby have the badge because he's a better player than me.

In my second game, I was really nervous because my opponent had a rating of five hundred and my rating was negative two hundred. Luckily I won but it was quite stressful. It was an awesome tournament and I'd love to take part again.