Percy Jackson

We are reading the first Percy Jackson book - "Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief."

It is about a boy who finds out he is a little different from others and he has a very important quest to complete. There are lots about ancient Greece and the Greek gods and goddesses.

Here is a link if you want to find out more about the myths, gods and goddesses.

GREEK GODS and GODDESSES

Zones athletics

Last Thursday we took 48 talented athletes to Rawhiti Domain to compete in our zones athletics. Our class had some great results. Well done to everyone who competed and thanks to those parents who were able to come down and support them.  The Canty athletics champs are held in week 8.

Brigit came 1st in the 9 yr girls 1000m race.
Iso came 3rd = in the 10 yr girls high jump.
The 9yr girls and 10 yr girls came 2nd in the relay - Iso, Georgie and Brigit were involved
Corban ran in the 10 yr boys 1200m race and did really well also.

Here is a wee movie of their day.

Tennis

Last week we had 2 sessions of tennis. We were taught how to hit the ball correctly on our forehand and backhand. We learnt that you have to hit the ball backhand with 2 hands not 1 unless you can do 20 one handed push ups!

Here are some pictures:

Jazmin reaching to keep her ball on the racquet

How many can Kai do?

Gracie got the record for most hits in a row on the edge of the racquet

Emily concentrating hard

Learning how to hold the racquet

Nice fore hand Vienna 

Very graceful Maneo

Michael's got the hang of the follow through

Brigit playing tennis ballerina style

Corban tries whacking it as hard as he can

Big hitter Flynn

Go Connor go!

How many can you fit on your racquet?

Game on!

Old loop de loop Isabel

Jaeda trying to work out if she should be left or right handed

Michael was King of the court

Solar Eclipse

Today we almost saw the solar eclipse. The light outside went a funny yellow, but we didn't get to see the eclipse because Mrs Ford made us work and she said it might happen at lunch time. By lunch time though everything was back to normal! We had missed it!

We were talking about eclipses and space and Connor showed us a clip his Dad had shown him.  Check it out! It really makes you think about how small we really are.

Jaeda's new sister

This is my baby sister Kiloa Vili. When she was born she weighed 8.5 pounds.

She was born on November 7 2012.  She has lots of hair and she is very healthy.

She came out 3 weeks early, if she stayed in my mum's stomach for too long she would have came out weighing about 9.5 pounds.

The time she was born at was 10:17am.

Fair preparation

With only 1 more day to go until our Monster Fair, we have been busy promoting our stall - "Mystery Jars and Bottles"

Flynn dressed up as a jar/bottle and the rest created posters to put up around the school

Creating our mystery jars!

Look at all these bottles!