Maraia - Swimming Who, What, When, Where, Why

Swimming Who, What, When, Where, Why

During the last two weeks, St Pius X School’s classes took turns going to the YMCA Swim Magic Pools, to learn about water safety and how to swim.

At the start I felt cold and a bit disgusted because there was brown stuff on the ground and hair everywhere on the ground. The things I could already do in the water were Backstroke, float, freestyle/arm circles, streamline, dolphin kicks, breaststroke and enter safely. I hoped to get better at swimming

During our lessons we had to listen and keep our head above water when the instuctur was talking, we were learning how to be safe in water and in dangerous stiuations in water. The easy things were kicking and the hard things were breathing and staying underwater. The skills I enjoyed practicing were dolphin kicks and backstroke.

At the end I felt cold when we got out of the water because the water was nice and warm. My biggest challenge was doing backstroke. Compared to the start I am now confident in swimming. I will use these skills to stay safe in water. 

 

Maraia - Swimming lessons Term 1

 Swimming lessons Term 1 

Last tuesday we started doing swimming lessons. I was very excited to go swimming because I don't go swimming a lot. On the next day I was freezing cold but after a few minutes the sun started to come back out. When we hopped onto the bus to go to the pools, we noticed that the bus smelt like quarine I don't like the smell of quarine. After the bus ride we walk inside and then a lady lead us to the pools and I was really cool there was a gym on the side, and if you keep on walking there was another gym. When we got there we changed into our swimming clothes then we waited for the other class to come out and change then we went into our lanes. When we got to our lane we had to sit on the wall and put our had on the side of us and twist into the pool to enter safely, then we just learnt backstroke and how to float on our back, then near the end we got to jump in the pool which is the best part 

The pools we went to was called Swim Magic I personally think it great, Here is a link - Link to Swim Magic Website

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Maraia - Volvo Sailing Have a go -DLO

 Volvo Sailing Have a go -DLO

Today at home I did a small graffiti about sailings. This activity was very easy because I went sailing and I just had to write some keywords. I think it was 99.9% easy but 1.1% hard because I couldn't think of much words so I went to Sione's blog and used some.

Sione's blog - Link

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Maraia - Our Sailing trip - Volvo Sailing Have A Go

 Our Sailing trip - Volvo Sailing Have A Go 

Last week on Thursday TWP 4 and Mr gaffneys Yr 5s went sailing. For sailing we had to come to school in mufti with our swimming clothes underneath. When we got there we had to sit by the boat on the chairs then after a few minutes we were aloud to play or eat I decided to go and play banana split.

After a little while the Yr 5s got into the boats the Yr 6s had to go second, so while we where waiting our Teacher Mrs Nees Kirua took us to the beach. It was a minute walk or less but while we were walking my friend Aston hit my head so I chased him and slapped his head and we kept on doing that to each other until we got to the beach. When we got closer to the beach I ran ahead and we for the water, but we couldn't go in because we were still in our clothes so I rolled my pants up  because our teacher said we can only go up to our knees.

After a little while we went back to the dock and played games. Then the Yr 5s came back to shore and got changed into their normal clothes.

Later we went to get into out life jackets and then we had to go into the water. After a little while we had a race but I didn't know what to do to control the sail. Then an hour later one of the instuctours came on a speed boat and threw out plastic play balls and we had to get as many as we could, whenever me and Melenaite (my partner) saw a ball we went to it and I leaned over the boat and got the ball. Later on there were no more balls so we counted our and we got 18 the after a few seconds someones boat fell over then if started to get cold so I jumped in to water so I could get warm and then I saw the balls that fell out of the boat that got tipped over and I swan towards it a got some so we then had 21 balls.

We then we back to shore but when we went back to shore the same boat tipped over so we left them and another instructor called Holly came and helped them.

Then we all got change and went back to school.

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