Yachting and kayaking reflection of what I have learnt

I learnt about doing yachting and kayaking. I learnt that I could do all the parts of the yacht and be doing one on the first day and doing the other one the next day. I could do the tiller the first day and then do the main sheet the next and the third job cruising watching were the wind is coming from so I could tell whoever was doing the main sheet and tell what direction the wind is coming from so they wouldn't go into the wind and get stuck sitting there as still as a crocodile waiting to catch his prey . Kayaking I learnt how to turn so if I paddled left and the I would turn. so if I was in a double kayak I paddled on the left side of the kayak and the other person paddled on the right side of the kayak we would turn on the spot like a tank turns, but if you you were turning like a car you would have to accelerate and then turn. I also learnt that I panicked a bit because it was a bit rough and it was also windy. It was a different experience and it was also out of my comfort zone but I got the hay of it though. At first I was nervous like everyone else but it got better. I was good at panicking thought but got better but I  got over panicking and I was just very nervous and that went all through the week. I also learnt that if you lean right or left  the whole time you probably will capsize to not capsize if you need to balance your weight on the yacht. If you start to lean left close to the water you will have to lean the opposite side of the yacht.I was nervous on the first day but I still went out on the yacht.I don't think I would be a good teacher at yachting. I gave everything a go at main sheet, tiller and putting the centerboard and looking where the wind was coming from. I think I could be a teacher if I give everything a go and I could probably be a good teacher. I listened  to all the instructions to what Mr Ford said to all of us. I know now even if i'm nervous I can still do it. One thing I thought of myself that was good was turning the tiller. If I had the chance of going yachting and kayaking I would go again. I communicated really well with who I went with.

Yachting reflection day 2

For yachting today we did kayaking first then we did yachting afterwards  we did kayaking. For kayaking today we went from the shore we went under the bridge and around to the sailing club. we went all around it was like a bit of a maze to go thru but it was awesome and cool to do and go thru under the bridge and go around in the sailing club. I went with gretas dad and his name is grant. The way back under the bridge we saw a seal that was brown it was only a small seal but still it was cool to see. It was laying on a rock under the bridge. For yachting it was a bit scary because it was really windy and me and Jack W nearly capsized but apart from that it we'll reckoned it was pretty good doing yachting today it was fun and enjoyable. It was good to partner up with Jack W because he is reliable and also trustworthy. Jack is also a good friend that I know of. Jack was pretty good choice to go with in the yachts. In the yacht at one stage we nearly capsized we were inches from capsizing into the water that was really cold at one stage. It was a bit of a ride because it was at one stage a bumpy ride across the water but apart from that I reckon that I  did pretty good with yachting and kayaking in the water today. I had fun and I also enjoyed it as well. but for me kayaking is the best out of the two. Yachting alright but I like kayaking better thought. We have to do it again Thursday and also Friday again. I might team up with someone like Josh or someone. I reckon I did pretty well with yachting and kayaking.Kayaking is easy peasy for me but its just yachting that i have to work on doing. To work on with yacht just get the tiller turning properly watch the wind wherever it is coming  

Yachting reflection day 1

For yachting today we did yachting first and then we did kayaking after we did yachting. In yachting my partner that I went with was Gabe which is big brother the reason why we call him big brother is because he is the oldest in our class. Yachting was alright but I preferred kayaking more because I like it  better than yachting.In yachting I didn’t know really what I was doing but yeah to say it was pretty good to do yachting. It was an new experience for me but it was fun to do along with kayaking.In kayaking my partner first in the double kayak was Renee. Then miss Garland said see if you can paddle all the way to the island which was right  in the middle of pandora pond. Me and Renee got there and we got back to shore all right.We came third place.  Then we had a race back to the side of the pond that we started at.The kayak that I was in was a blue and green kayak. Then I had another buddie because Renne wanted to go in a single kayak so my buddie that came over was bhrt and we went in the blue and green double kayak that we were in before. Then we both paddled all the back to the island and then we had another race from the island that was in the middle and all the way back to shore. I'm not sure what place we came but we came in the top ten. I had fun and I  would do it again. It was enjoyable to do yachting. We have to do it again tomorrow as well. Next time I might go with flynn or someone or someone like that thought. I reckon I did pretty well with yachting and kayaking but kayaking is easy peasy for me i've just got to work on yachting. I need to work on with yachting is get the turning right and also watch where the wind was coming from.  

Instrations for being a parkvale learner

Welcome to Parkvale School. Parkvale school is the best school in New Zealand and its also the best school that I know of.

What you need to do is get ready for your first day at Parkvale School.

lunchbox and a drink bottle.

uniform with navy blue pants and shorts and a navy blue top with the parkvale tree on the left side and have a navy blue school jersey too that has the parkvale tree on the left ok side of the jersey.  

bring your laptop charger if its going to be flat and your computer. pride.

shoes with laces or velcro.

computer case.  

book packet.

school bag.    

When you first arrive at parkvale school you walk to your classroom to hang up your bag on the hook and don't be late for school or you might get in trouble. School starts at 8.45am. If you're in a computer class when the bell rings you go to your classroom and get started on your computer and kick off commenting on people's blogs and if you're not in a computer class you just sit on the mat waiting for the teacher to came into the classroom to do the roll. Then you start maths after you finish doing blog commenting.

maths  you'll be other being on your computer of doing maths in your maths book or you might be seeing the teacher for some maths. If you don't know the question don't hesitate just ask someone or the teacher or even someone in your maths group.

brainfood.  After maths you have a brake to have something to eat which we call it here at parkvale school is brainfood which idel is to have some fruit of some kind or some  popcorn that hasn't had butter put on it or any caramel on the popcorn ather of not salted is not for brainfood but ordinary popcorn is all right to have but any other popcorn is not ideal for having at brainfood.

writing. then writing starts straight away after brainfood and if you don't want to stay want to stay inside for morning tea i suggest to get on with your work and finish it before morning tea. and for a tip just keep  track of that you are putting capital letters in and punctuation thats what some teachers remind you about it.  

morning tea.  then it will be morning tea time and i suggest to play with my friends ben ,cameron and sometimes liam and ollie, dylan, tyrone  because they play rugby normally at morning tea time and lunch time too but its pretty fun to play rugby with Ben,Cameron, Ollie, Liam and sometimes marcus plays and sometimes he hulks up and gets really mad and might even take you so sometimes he just walks away but I  suggest to play with Ben, Cameron, Ollie, Liam and marcus, dylan, tyrone  but its still fun to play with all of them and ben and liam are pretty good at kicking the ball throw the goal posts.

fitness.  Then straight  after morning tea it is time to do fitness and every time we do fitness after morning tea and every second day room 19 which is my class and room 18,16, 20 do fitness with us and every second day  we do running laps around the field and the tennis court and when you go round after every time you get 1 ice block stick as you go round there are different colors  like blue, purple, red, orange and brown. I think that is all the colors that there is. the teachers say from room 20 and 19, 18 say don't, stop running and no writing and also theres another tip don't run your fastest at the start because your run out of energy if you run too fast at the start your might get 100 metres and your out of energy to keep on going.    

Then after fitness its time to do reading in the classroom and what you do in reading time you lunch. might see the teacher with your group at the table or might go on your computer to dogonews to read an article about something like cars, fish , sea creatures, maybe birds, or anything  that you can find on dogonews and i reckon dogonews is something i would do when i finished my work from the teacher after you're finished your work is a good i dare i say a good i dare. Sometimes you don't get to go to lunch because you haven't finished your work you will stay in to finish it Then after lunch it will be sup.

sup straight  after lunch when you came in to class its time to do sup which is either doing silent reading or silent writing about something you did in the holidays or something you did in the weekend but its up to you whatever  you write about.

unit in unit this term we are learning coulther about other countries and our country is fiji and some other class might have the same country or a different country for unit some might have a country from continents like   Europe or Asia or America or Australia or Africa but i reckon fiji is a spectacular country to do for unit this term. we normally do unit to abou 2.30 sometimes a little bit earlier and after unit its time to pack up for home time.

pack up time. pack up time is you stuck up the chairs. there are two different types of plastic chairs are one with two holes in it with 6 lines 2 on each side then theres the other chair and the other chair has just two sort of circles on each side and no lines going thru the middle and if you put one of the chairs on the other different type they won't stack properly is the only problem with stacking the chairs. They're all so cubes that are two different color  they are green like grass and the other color of the other cubes are pink like dots as in pink poka dots. Then sometimes after we have packed up we might have a game of silent ball which is a game that you have a ball and you have to catch it and if you don't catch it you will be out but if it is a bad throw you won't be out and the person that threw the ball would be out. then there's another game called pukel that we play, so your hands are guns and when you go to shoot you dont say      

band to say pukel but is a all right game and theres another game that we play and that is called blob , so you have at least 4 taggers and when one of the taggers get you you are in so you join hands with the tagger. Then there's another game that we play and it is called toilet flush and you have at least 4 to 6 taggers once more again you have taggers and when they tag you then thats when you turn into a toilet and if you're still in the game someone will come and sit on you and they have to go toilet on you but not actually go toilet on you its just pretend to go toilet on you but anyway after you go toilet you flush and so you're back in the game after someone has gone toilet on you.

I suggest you,re at school on time. I also suggest to have as a teacher miss garland.

Yacht reflection

Our yacht went good yesterday.  The materials were 3 paper clips 1 split pin, a black rubbish bag, cardboard, cellophane, 2 ice block sticks, 2 meters of sticky  sellotape, 1 paint brush, 50 cm of string.  That,s all the materials that we were using to make our yacht.

I think the rudder  was good because it can turn both ways right and left as well. The rudder went well we made it out  of cardboard that I bent and 1 ice block stick. Then the buoyancy tanks that we made were made out of a  black rubbish bag and the rudder.  The buoyancy tanks were successful. The centerboard was successful as well as the base of the yacht and the bottom and the sides were both successful. The sail was made out of the cellophane.  The boom was made out of cardboard and so was the spirit pole and the pole for the sail. For the sail was the paint brush. So most of well really all of the pieces of the yacht were successful I reckon . The centre board did not fall out which is a good thing about the yacht.    

Well the negatives are the buoyancy tanks might not be quite successful but apart from that well everything I reckon  is successful. Also maybe the rudder and tiller because it doesn't quite turn all the way left and right turn its only just short of doing it full turn left and also right but I don't think there is any more negatives.    

Well the upgrades I would change  to mine and Liams and my boat is that maybe make the sail smaller.  Fix the  center board to make it even bigger because the yacht is quite large. But I would either make the yacht a bit smaller or I would make the center board bigger then it is now. Then I would make the mast that the pole sits in and also make it tighter around the sail pole.

The interesting  about our boat was that me and Liams are that the the base like a life like  yacht. The sail was close   but really close to being life like sail on the yacht.It was interesting making all the parts of the yacht turn and also move which was pretty awesome. It was awesome to make a yacht and I had a great time doing it.            

   Today we had once again Harley and Aaron come and teach us some more football skills and this time it was passing the ball and they were from Napier City Rovers . Then Aaron said get a partner and one person on the side of the cone and the other one on the other cone that was opposite of the cone that I was standing on. My buddie was Mack and I. Then Aaron said that what part of your foot do you pass with and I put my hand up and I said that you kick with your inside of your foot and then Aaron said that it was correct and when you go to pass you just don't run up to the ball and kick it, if you want to pass it to get to the person that you want to pass to you put your foot next to the ball and then kick it and if you want some more power to pass the ball you just go back a few steps or if you want to do a big kick you just go back even more steps to do an even bigger kick. Then we the whole class played a game of ghostbusters and so the people that where the ghost were wearing a bib that were yellow  and the ghostbusters were the rest of the class with the ball dribbling around in the boundary with the balls. I reckon I did pretty well with football skills today with passing to my buddie mack on the white cones.

football skills reflection

Today we learned how do to dribble with  the ball in football. The people that were teaching us were Aaron and  Harley who are football players for Napier City Rovers. The skills in football that we were  practicing   were using the inside the foot and outside the foot and the bottom of your feet too. Then Aaron told us to dribble inside the boundary of cones. Then he said jog round the boundary dribbling with the inside of your two feet and don't walk Aaron said . After that Aaron said to dribble around using the outside of your feet. Then Aaron said dribble round with 1 foot which was the right foot first  and Aaron said not to touch it with left foot. Then Aaron would say stop and he would check to see if anyone was still moving. Then Aaron told us to swap feet to the left one and he said this will be a bit tricky for everyone  with your left foot. For me it wasn't tricky on the left side but a little bit  and the right side but the right side was pretty easy for me because i'm a right foot kicker and sometimes I use my left foot to kick. I reckon I did pretty well. Football is  my is my sport anyway I reckon I did pretty well with football today.  

Cross Country

I  was running across the field as fast as a gazelle in the grass. I could feel the warmth as I run along the grass on the field. I  could smell the dampness  as you run pasted  the trees and the ground was really, really, really, really  damp as I run passed. As I run in the grass I felt  the dampness in my shoes and in my socks a bit too. I could see as I was running I saw grass wet grass, concrete, sand, dirt yellow lines on the concrete tennis court and little bites of mosque on the grass and in my shoes and socks were a  bite.  Near  the end of the laps I was sprinting like a gazelle  at 45 km an hour but I wasn't really sprinting like a gazelle doing 45 km an hour though but I wish though. When Mr Cottrell  yelled out to say that the  boys had 1 minute to go and so I decided to sprint truehearted  then I have ever gone I my life. then after I had a soothing boostfully  drink of ice  freezing,   refreshing  water out of my drink bottle. After I had a ice, freezing, refreshing drink of water I was extremely  tired when I came back into class with all of the class to start reading once more again.                        

AFL

I was watching TV on Saturday with my Dad, and I was flicking through the channels in the ads and we found a new TV channel called Sommet Sports and AFL was on. It was about half way through the game when I changed the channel. AFL is a series like superugby  but it is not superugby though. My favourite teams in the competition are Fremantle Dockers and the Brisbane Lions.

I wanted to watch the Crusaders and the Chiefs game on Saturday night but instead I watched AFL   on Sommet Sport. The rules of the game that I know of are you can bounce the ball and throw it to your team mate and then volleyball hit it. There are 4 goal posts on each side of the field and if you kick it through the middle one that is 6 points and if you kick it into the left one you get 1 point and i'm not sure if you get for a score. Instead of the field being rectangle it is a circle which is weird. Instead of being 40 minutes each half it is 20 minutes of playing then another one more 20 minutes of playing then it would be another break and then another 20 minutes of playing then another 20 minutes playing then that would be the game over. It’s a mix of soccer rugby and i'm not too sure but i think that it is basketball and volleyball too.

I was watching it all by myself but Dad watched a bit with me but not much though.  I wanted the Fremantle Dockers too win. I was going for Fremantle Dockers and not for the Adelaide Crows which were in 12th place on the points table and the Fremantle Dockers were 5th place  on the points table.

I hadn't seen or watched AFL before but I heard about it though when my Dad came back from Australia in Western Australia and he was in Perth a he was telling me about it but he didn't see it though but he heard all about it and he said all the Aussies are crazy and most of them are into it   AFL over there said Dad.

I think I will keep on watching Sommet sports on tv. From now on and keep on watching AFL on that channel and see what else is on that channel. I like watching AFL because it’s something  different to rugby and soccer and its got 4 goal posts on each side of the field and the field is a  circle instead of a rectangle.        

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