Today the whole school got together to practise our concert routine for Tuesday. It was a hot day for us. Everyone was sitting quietly except for some of the year sixes. We had a great view of every performance that our school did. The first act was the year sixes, the haka. The whole school has great acts I especially like the bollywood dance. The last dance was the year fives. They did a Cook Island dance. Everyone had great dances and everyone was hot so mostly everyone ran to the taps. After we cooled down in our class room with the aircon on. 
The practice started at 9:15, Mrs Funaki started off by saying the first group to do their dance was the Year 6. The year 6 did a Maori haka, the next year level was Year 1. One thing that we noticed that the year ones were splited into 2 groups, one was Rm2 and Rm1 and the other one was Rm3 and Rm4. The first group was Rm1 and Rm2, they did a African Dance. The second was Rm4 and Rm3, they did a Maori Dance. The next year level was the year 2, they sang a christmas song and signed language to the song.
On Monday 31st of October all the students in the school had to do a run according to their year level. Year one and two’s run started on the field by the gate on the left, (everyone was sitting inside the field) then they had to go out the gate straight down past rm 13, past rm 10, cut by rm 6 then one lap of the field. Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 had one lap of the field, outside the gate up the hill, past rm 10, around Mrs Funaki’s office then one more lap of the field (it was very tiring!).
The crowd was standing up, shouting the kids names and cheering. Everyone got in trouble mostly because they weren’t sitting down, mostly it was year 6 that got growled at. It was an exciting event, everyone got to run and be cheered on. 
I was feeling pumped to run in the Cross Country. The thoughts that ran through my head were like get ready to run, don’t use your power on your first lap.
We are testing out an app on our iPads called Mythical Creatures -Eru & Gwaii for Kiwa and Arcania. It is about a New Zealand and Canadian myth or legend. We have been reading the story and doing the follow up activities. We are really excited to find out more about the mythical creatures and give feedback on the app.
We all know softball is a sport, well my class (rm15) plays that sport, it’s fun, hard and it takes team work. Every Friday my class goes to softball. We met our instructor Josh, he’s fun. 
He taught us 3 moves the monkeydile, alligator snap and butterfly. You have to use the butterfly catch when the ball is in the air and you have to use the alligator snap when the ball is on the ground that is the same as butterfly catch. It was sore because we didn’t have a glove and the ball was hard. After that Josh (our instructor) split us up in 4 teams and we played a game where we had to aim at the ball inside the square. 
My name is Reana and I am playing for the girls softball team. I am trying out for pitcher. You throw the softball using a windmill technique and throw underarm. I am learning to throw it hard directly at the bat to strike them out.
