Zespri Challenge

 The Zespri challenge is done all around the world. We are given pedometers that keep track of our steps. each day we enter our steps on the online website. There are also bonus points that you can get from including how many veggies, fruit, sugar and how long you have spent doing mindfulness gaming and sleeping. You can also enter activities that you have done. I think the Zespri challenge is a great fun way to get us, kids, to exercise more. Each day I can get around 15,000 steps. Thanks for reading.

Labour Weekend

Labour Day commemorates the struggle for an eight-hour working day. Labour Day was first celebrated in New Zealand on 28 October 1890, when several thousand trade union members and supporters attended parades in the main center. The average American worked 12 hour days, seven days a week!

My Saturday started off with Ngati Rukawa Under 13 Maori basketball🏀 trails, which went from 9:oo till 10:30. Maori basketball is one of New Zealand's largest basketball tournaments held at Rotorua. Anyway, There were about 15 kids (including me) us working for our spot. We started off with a quick warm-up before moving into lay-up lines. After a while of fundamental activities, we transitioned into 5v5 games. Our team went well taking 2 games out of 4. Now training was finished and I was ready to go home and chill.😌

Sunday was another early start because my Sister had her basketball🏀 training. Once that was finished Me and my family spent the rest of the day at the Otaki Pools🏊. So I didn't really do much for the rest which was good because it kind of gave us a break.

Monday was planned to be a busy day because we had HK under 14 touch🏉 trials and my cousin and friend came over for the day. Touch trials were fun while tiring, when we got home me and my cousin and friend played basketball and played on the tramp. After we got bored of that we went for a bike🚴 ride uptown and got some munchies🍫 and just played on my ps4 for the rest of the day. In total, I like having Labour weekend and really enjoyed the activities that I did, Thanks for reading.

Lion Dance

 On Wednesday 27th of October, our class tried the lion dance. The lion dance originated in China and is now performed all over the world. Our tutor was Winsome, He teaches and tutors in wellington, And he really knows what he's doing. The lion dance is done twos so I buddied up David. Together we performed with the other groups. There are two parts of the lion where the people act. First, the head, which controls the eyes and the mouth, then the person that sits at the back. Overall It was great fun and I really enjoyed it. I highly recommend giving it a go and Thanks for reading

Mandatory Vaccinations Announced

All school staff and high-risk workers should be fully vaccinated by the 1st of January 2022. I think this will not just help schools around New Zealand it will still affect NZ in a good way. So I do agree with this statement made by Covid 19 response minister Chris Hipkins. So far 70% of New Zealand have taken their first dose while only 54% have taken their second dose. Thanks for reading.

My Pet

My pet cat is called Slim.  He is very playful and energetic. He is curious and enjoys sitting in his box. Slim is black and grey and shares the same birthday as me, he will be 1 on the 15th March 2022.  His favourite thing to do is sleep or lie in the sun. Slim is special because we found him as an orphan kitten which lead us to adopting him through the SPCA.  Slim brings our family lots of joy and laughter. Here are some pics of him. Thanks for reading

Keeping Safe

 I agree with Jacinda Aderns comment because if we follow her instructions we will reduce the chance of contracting covid 19.

If we keep our distance and wear face masks we will stop the spread of covid 19.

limiting the number of people we interact with, will make contact tracing easier.

Buddy Blog About Lockdown

After the last few days, New Zealand has met Covid 19.  However, this is the delta variant that is easily spread. We are back into online classes and whaea Destine has given us a task. Today we have to pair up with a friend or someone from class to complete a blog about activities that we have both been doing in lockdown.

I paired up with my cousin Kyra because we have both completed at least 5 trick shots. My favourite one was when I rolled a tennis ball down two paths which then knocked a domino stack, which led to a toy train zooming down the track. Which then powered a golf ball down a lane which was then followed up by bouncing off a pan and into a bowl of water. That trickshot nearly took a whole day. The hardest part was having to restack the dominoes every time we got past that stage. 

I haven't just been doing trick shots over the last couple of days I have also just started practicing skateboarding. Skateboarding is fun because it brings people together and offers a shared interest for people to build friendships around. It also includes creativity and takes your mind off things.

Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoyed reading my blog. (sorry I have no videos for some reason I couldn't add any.