Last term for the last two weeks our school had swimming lessons everyday at the CLM pool in the bays. For the first two days I could not go swimming because I was sick but on the third day I was able to go swimming! The first to go were the little kids, then the boys and the last to go were the girls. When it was just the girls left we would get changed and wait for the bus to arrive!

When we got to the pools I was so excited but I was also a little bit nervous. When we got inside the pool I was so cold but eventually it got warmer! The instructor was called Paris. She was very nice. All the classes were in different lanes. My favourite thing was jumping in and playing games. I also liked doing the fun races! I learned how  to swim on my back and at the end of the lesson we could jump into the pool by making a big splash. Then we went to get our towels and go back to school.

On the last day of swimming lessons there was a boat in the pool but we had to put a life jacket on first. I was so excited to start swimming! In the end we would turn around and one of the instructors would push us randomly into the pool. When I got pushed I was so surprised! Even though it was the end of swimming I had a lot of fun! The bus trips were fun too! When we got out of the bus I was freezing so I quickly got changed!. I enjoyed swimming so much!

Last Thursday a visitor came into the classroom. Her name was coach Chelsea and this term she is going to teach us a new ball game called Ki o rahi. Before we went outside to play some games we watched a video about the Maori legend.  A few minutes later we went outside. It was raining so we could not go on the fields so we just went to the canopy. Ki o rahi is a Maori game which needs two teams, equipment and a small ball called a ki. Each team needs seven players. 

 I was so excited to learn this new game!. We did not play ki o rahi but we did play some awesome tag games!. My favourite one we played was called “octopus”. Octopus was a game where there were two taggers. One of them will say something that you’re wearing and if you’re wearing that clothing you have to run if you are not wearing that clothing you have to stay and for the runners who are running they have to run to the other side of the canopy. When it was the end and coach Chelsea had to go I was very sad because I had a lot of fun.