Fortune tellers with Miss McGrath

 Kia ora bloggers, 

Today the Yr 6s were leaving us to go to Spark Arena! We (Yr 5s) were left here at school with Miss McGrath. YAY! not that I don't like the other teachers but, YAY!

Firstly she took the roll. Then she talked about the survey we did last term. My legs were getting sore because we had been sitting on the carpet too long. Once we had talked a bit about wellbeing Miss McGrath said we were going to make fortune tellers. I was really exited when I heard this. Fortune tellers are pieces of card or paper folded in a way to make a cool way of telling you things. We made the fortune tellers to give each other compliments. We could make it for ourselves or for others.

Here is how to make a fortune teller: 

*Firstly fold the corner of your paper to the corner opisite. Now unfold it. Then do the same with the other corner. 

*After that turn your paper so it looks like a square. Then fold the top to the bottom. Unfold the paper. Turn the paper 90 degrees clockwise and do the same as you did before. 

*Then you fold each corner to the middle, turn the paper over and fold the corners over to the middle again.

*Turn the paper over.

*Now, this is the tricky part. If you need help, ask for help. You have to push up in the middle from underneath and push up the flaps at the top, put your fingers under the flaps and push up with your fingers. 

Now it's time to get out your pen (or pencil).

*On the outside of the paper you put on four different colours around it. 

*Now open it up and write 8 different numbers, preferably not over 15.

* Then unfold it again and under the numbers you wrtite positive things you will say to yourself or to others. 

Now that might all sound difficult, so here is a link to a You Tube video:

How to make a Fortune Teller

Now your done!

It was really fun making the fortune tellers with the class.

I hope you have fun making them too.

Thanks for looking at my blog!

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Swimming at Cameron pools!

 Kia ora bloggers,

Since week 1 of this term our class has been swimming at Cameron pools on Tuesday and Thursday. My teacher is Brittany, and she is really nice. Usually we start with our float board and have our arms at the top of the board with our head up and swim to the end of the pool. After that we have our hands at the bottom and our head down swimming all the way to the end of the pool. We do heaps of other swimming styles and eventually we got to about 5 minutes until we hop out and get changed. So Brittany gives us a different kind of swimming. On Thursday in week two Brittany told us to do 5 arm strokes and then a roly poly. (A roly poly is a flip in the water). I really enjoy doing the roly polys at the end of the lesson.

Here is a picture:

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