Homework Challenge #5: Complete a 10x10 grid in under 2 minutes.

Art Gallery Review - Homework Challenge.

On Tuesday 19th of August, our class visited the Tauranga Art Gallery. I decided to make the most of it by reviewing the pieces we were able to view. Here are my reviews.
When we entered, we sat down in front of a Red Piano with a Maori design on the edges. It was called the "Black Rainbow" made by Ralph Hotere and Michael Parekowhai. The piano was very well detailed, and was even amazingly playable! There was a real neat story behind it also, and what the designs were actually for. We then moved into a room with letters EVERYWHERE! The lady taking us around (Mel) told us that each letter meant something involving writing such as; I being Illustration and N being Narrative. We had about ten minutes to look around and explore before we went through some books and explained what letter it would be out of N and I. 

Later on, we then went into the Art Studio. Mel told us we had to make a random picture using water colours and a straw. It was going to be put into a class book of all these weird and wacky art designs, made into odd animals. Mine was "Tazz Fazz, who bought his favourite Jazz." Pretty weird, huh? Mrs Mills then put it into the book and sent it back to the Art Gallery. I wonder what they thought of it?

Physical and the Outdoors: Walking Johnson Reserve.

Hello,

My Mum and I, occasionally walk around the Johnson Reserve. We go through the reserve, out and down Osprey Drive and come back down through the entrance near Selwyn Ridge. Our walk would take around about 45 minutes. Here are some pictures.

The Entrance near Selwyn Ridge.

The Bridge by the Meadowviews entrance.

The Corner Track down below the Selwyn Ridge Entrance

The stairs up to the Selwyn Ridge Entrance.

The Johnson Reserve Waterfall.

The area where you first walk into the track from the bottom part of Waipuna

The Steps when entering the track.

The Bridge by the Waipuna Entrance.

Homework: Physical Education and the Outdoors.

I am competing in the AIMS Basketball training, which we go through intense fitness trainings over the weeks. I will be recording what we do for the next weeks until our special week comes up.

Term 3, Week Two

This week, we did fitness tests and training. While two of us were completing in a push up-step-shoot-run and repeat, the rest of us had to continue with conditioning such as 2 minutes worth of planking or 20 press ups, etc. The game we continued with, there was a suction cup sort of pop-up pop-down item. We had to start out with two press ups, then we had to step and shoot. After that, we had to run to the opposite side of the court and come back. Next, we had to do three press ups, four press ups etc.

Term 3, Week Three
I wasn't allowed to do much this week as I had an important tournament in the weekend. The team participated in normal training with a lot of fitness and a lot of running. I practised my shooting.

Term 3, Week Four

Our coach Greg was back, so we ran through our normal drills. 

Term 3, Week Five

We went over a new drill which is called a press break. It is called Blue.

Term 3, Week Six

We had a 5 hour AIMS training due to needing to go over everything before the big week.

Term 3, Week 7

We didn't do any hard work, we went over our goals and went through post offensive stuff.

AIMs week

Monday: We won our first game 33- 21 to St. Peter's College in Auckland. I was privelleged to start too! Our second game we won again 33-9 against Whakatane. Great day so far.

Tuesday:

We had to play 3 games today. We won the first game against Hastings, luckily, by 40-38. The second game we won by one goal 30-28 to Waihi. Two challenging games in one day! We then lost to Peachgrove Intermediate in Hamilton, 45-26. 

Wednesday:

Now, our team had a fairly easy game and a heck of a challenging one! We had Otumoetai first up, winning by 46-19. Then, we had the top of the pool, Rosmini in Auckland. They were really well drilled! We lost by 62-24.

Thursday:

We had a fairly easy game to start, beating St. Marys Putararu. 49-20 was the score. Then, we crossed over 3rd of our pool playing Koromatua, who were 3rd in Pool A. We won 32-23. Now we were playing for 9th and 10th against at the winner on the court next to us.

Friday:

Belmont was our opposition today. We only had one game. The score at the end  was 39-36 and guess who won ... US! We were now 9th out of 36th! Great position and great tournament ! 

Top Three:

Rosmini - 1st

North Cross - 2nd

Peachgrove - 3rd

Two teams in our pool were in the Top Three, wow!

A Full Season of Basketball

I have completed my first homework challenge, I have completed a season of Basketball.

I am in the Under Thirteen Tauranga Reps Team, and we just competed in a competition between our region over the weekend, the teams are as follows;

• Thames Valley
• Waikato A
• Waikato B
• Tauranga A
• Tauranga B
• Rotorua A
• Rotorua B
• Central Country

To qualify to head to Dunedin in the next holidays, we had to place in the top three over the whole tournament. We were placed in two pools. We were placed in a pool with Thames, Rotorua A and Waikato B. We played Waikato B on Saturday morning, at 8am. We won that game, after a slow start. We then found out Thames Valley pulled out so we won that game by default and then had a small training session. Then, we got to our competition, Rotorua A. We took a massive lead, before they made an epic comeback. We held it together, just, before the end winning again. Soon, we were in cross overs. We then played Central Country, if we won, we would be playing off for 1st and 2nd. We ended up having a real good game, winning. We were all very excited, because we were now competing nationally. The final game we lost to Waikato A only by seven though, but we didn't care, we had already qualified and thats what counted. Now that half of the season is complete, we now move onto the more serious note.  Big future awaits us when we hit Dunedin.