Olympics Fan Zone Trip

 Hi bloggers!

Today my class and I went to the Olympics fan zone for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. We had so much fun and we enjoyed it, when we entered the building we went then we met one of the Olympians that competed in the Olympics in 2007/2008 for New Zealand in Triathlon. Her name was Debbie Tanner, we asked her some questions and some of them were really interesting.

Debbie Tanner said she didn't expect to compete in Triathlon but she said she really loved the sport because it was made of 3 other sports, it was swimming, running, and cycling. Her favourite one was running because when she ran she would run through forests, beaches and many other places.

After we got to get free time with the games in the building. one of my favourite games was playing on the basketball machine. after we went to the other side of the building then we had more fun there. We had challenges relay races and many more. 

At the end we watched the men's rowing game, The best thing was that NEW ZEALAND CAME SECOND!!  I didn't believe it because the beginning was pretty sketchy. After that we came back to school.

Something I enjoyed was playing on the basketball machine because it was fun and my buddy was surprised when we got to stage 2 of the game. 

Something I learnt at the Olympic fan zone was that it is very hard to be an Olympian because you have to stay healthy and fit for the game and you will have to stay on a balanced diet.

Here are some pictures of when we were on the trip.

Bike lesson 1

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Today my class and I had a bike lesson and we learnt a lot of new things from today's lesson. before we started we learnt the rules of riding a bike one of them were: when you put on your helmet the front should be 2 fingers away from your eyebrows. We had many more rules and we followed them to keep ourselves and others safe. Our coaches were Loni and Jason, Loni helped the ones that didn't know how to ride the bikes and Jason took the ones who already knew how to ride the bikes, I went with Jason because I already knew how to ride the bike. 

During our lesson Jason taught us how to use signs on the road when your riding a bike, after we practised how to ride the bike with one hand and the other hand was putting out a sign to show which way we were going. When we got used to it we moved on to the next one. we learnt how to balance on the bike with a slow speed, it was also a game. If we touched the floor we were out and who ever was the slowest or came last won. 

Something I found challenging was trying to stay balanced on a slow speed on the bike, I tried my best to stay on balance then I did it.

Something I enjoyed was when our coach challenged us to look over our shoulder when we were riding the bikes.

I feel ready and confident for tomorrow and I won't give up.

Thank you for reading my Blog post  :)

Wonder project

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This term the seniors at Hay Park have been learning about rockets and physics. We learnt a lot  about the forces that make the rocket launch/fly. We talked a lot about the parts of a rocket and the important ones, when we were done we got to make paper air planes and we found out how to improve it.  We used air and water to launch the rocket so we learnt about how many water you should put in, if we put in too much the rocket will be too heavy, our air limit was 60 psi because if it went over it would be very dangerous. We also learnt about how to keep yourself and others safe, some of them were:

 Keep the rocket at a angle when you are about to launch it.

A supervisor must be watching you.

There were many more ways to keep others and yourself safe . My favourite part of the project was creating the rocket and modifying it but before we created it we planned  all the parts. It was fun because we were being creative and we did it with teamwork. 

Something that was challenging was when we had to measure our fins to make sure they were the same size. some of the fins I made wasn't the same size and I had to make it again. 

I wish I could do this again but I would want give other seniors a opportunity and I hope they have fun 

Thank you for reading Bye!!

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