gymnastics

Gymnastics PE 

1. what activity have you been practising today?

Today i started on the floor doing cartwheels. the next thing i did was the trampoline, we worked on straight jumps, full twists, half twists, killer jump, and flips. the last activity i did was the bar, we practised swinging and going around on the bar.  

2. what have you learnt? something new?

today i learnt how to do the jumps on the trampoline that i had not tried before.

3. what are you interested in learning? 

I want to learn more skills on the bar and get better at swinging around. 

Novel Study

Talking  to Nanny  

1. Who is the author ? Jo Carson Barr. Illustrator is Martin Simpson

2. Where are they from? Auckland city,Wellington

3.Have they won awards? Jo Carson Barr has one the nz Awards for children and young adults

4. Why might your teacher have chosen this author for you to readI think my teacher thought the theme of this story was happy and about communicating. I enjoyed it because I had read it before and knew some of the words.

Novel Study

 Lunch for Greedy Cat 

1. Who is the author ? Joy Cowley. The Illustrator is Robyn Belton.

2. Where are they from?  They are both from NZ

3.Have they won awards? Joy Cowley has got the Order of NZ and the NZ 1990 Commemoration Medal. New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 1997 Picture Book Winner and Book of the Year, and the Russell Clark Award in 1985 and 2009. 

4. Why might your teacher have chosen this author for you to read? Because she knows that I like books by Joy Cowley. 

5. This book is about a cat called Greedy Cat whose owners go on holiday and leave him with their Aunty. Aunty thinks that the cat is too fat so puts him on a diet of dried cat biscuits and broccoli. the cat does not like this, so wanders down to the nearby school each school day and the children give him food from their lunch boxes so he doesn't lose any weight. When the family get home from holiday their Aunty tells them that he didn't eat the food she had given him, but he was still fat! But the young girl in the family called Katie said " you are not too fat, you are my cuddly  cat.