Muriwai's Learning Blog

Swimming Learning Story When we arrived at the swimming pools everyone was yelling. After our play in the pool, we had to hop out and do our lessons first we had to blow bubbles. I was good at staying underwater even though I was running out of breath. After we got a pair of goggles and a swimming board. We had to swim to the flag on our stomach there and back. I was good at kicking my legs and after that, we had to swim on our back and the teacher told us to look straight up. Then we were floating on our back like a starfish. In our second session. We tried to dive down to touch the floor and get back up. We did breaststroke. My arms made me go fast through the water. The teacher told us to count 1,2,3 then take a breath. In my next lesson, we got into two groups. We were going on a boat. The teacher put all of us in a group. I was in group 5. After that all of us put on life jackets the teacher pushed us off a boat our teacher told us to hold our breath th...

Hard Technology At technology, we changed to hard material. We had to get our chairs our teacher's name was Mr.Piller everyone had to vote for what they wanted to make most people voted for the Whizzer so everyone had to make a Whizzer. we had to get two nails, a hammer, and the shape  of our Whizzer, we had to copy it onto a wooden board so we could get started . Mr.Piller told us to draw lines down our wooden board with a ruler we, had to make sure the lines were straight after that we had to use vise to keep it stable I cut the lines with a coping saw when everyone was finished Mr.Piller cut the rest for us. We wanted to make it smooth so everyone had to smooth it with sandpaper. We needed to choose the design sign I choose an owl to paint then Mr.Piller put a string in the Whizzer. Some new tools I learned to use was how to use a coping saw, a rasp, and a vise