First Post of 2020!

Kia Ora Everyone!

This is my first post for 2020! I hope you had a good break. This year I am a year 7 in the hillary hub. It is currently Week 7 in Term 1. Our theme of this year is CHANGE, "Be the Change you want to see in the World.".

Chapter Challenge
This Year we are starting up a new station called Chapter Challenge. It is a cool reading activity where we read a book and then do activities and answer questions about the book. The book we are reading is 'The Map Makers Race"! It is very fascinating. Here are some of my tasks that I have done so far:
Song
Catapult
Letter

Information Report
Last week we finished our information reports about wars. I did the Treaty of Waitangi. Other people have done the taranaki wars, northern wars, etc.. Here is a link to my information report if you would like to read it...
Link

Swimming Sports
In Week 5 we did swimming sports. I was in freestyle, backstroke & breaststroke. In freestyle I got in the finals and then got around last because there are lots of good swimmers in my year. Then, next was backstroke. I came 3rd in my heat, then in the finals I would've came 2nd again but I turned onto my front and got disqualified. Then the good part.. In breaststroke it was a straight final! I came..... THIRD! But, sadly, I wouldn't have gotten to zones but my friend who came first for breaststroke didn't want to do it for zones. So I have zones tomorrow!

That is pretty much it that has happened this term. I have enjoyed being in the hillary hub so far. Thanks for reading my blog.

-Lexie

The Spaghetti Tower Challenge

Kia Ora Everyone,

Welcome to my blog, today I am talking about our Spaghetti Tower Challenge. In my team was Lola and Molly. Our materials were 20 spaghetti sticks, 1 meter of string, 1 meter of tape, a marshmallow and scissors. At the bottom of our tower we made a triangle then stuck 2 spaghetti sticks together (3 times) and stuck them to the base of our tower. Then, we made ANOTHER triangle to stick on top of the 3 (well, 6) spaghetti sticks then 6 more above the triangle and then put the marshmallow on top. It was a cool team building exercise and I would like to do it again.

Thanks for reading,
Lexie

Zones - Week 4

Kia Ora everyone,

Welcome back to my blog, today I am talking about Zones for Athletics!

Yesterday, the 5th of November, I went to zones! I went for Year 6 Girl Relay and the 80m Sprint.

We had our athletics day at Nga Puna Wai. For my relay I was with my friends Sam, Abi & Greta, we

each ran 50m. I went third out of the four of us, grabbed the batton from Abi (who went second) and

ran to Greta and then we came...... 4TH! In my second event, I went to my 80m sprint, once again,

with Greta, we got split into 3 heats and I was in the last heat, I got second-to-last in that, luckily not

last! We had a great time, rolling down hills, doing our activities and playing games with each other.

Here is a photo of us all:

Thanks for reading,

Lexie ☺️