Mid winter swimming - day 1

Swimming at the Manurewa Aquatic Centre.

Darius and Manaaki                                                                                  

                             

Find Your Field of Dreams Foundation.

The Foundation was set up by John Walker to encourage children to follow their sporting dreams.  For our Manurewa Central children this means 7 swimming lessons over the next 7 weeks.  They're thrilled!
The children are assessed by the  instructors and put into 3 ability groups. The groups are small and the children progress rapidly under the guidance and expertise of the swim instructors.

Writing - adding detail

The children are encouraged to proof-read and re-craft their writing after they've finished getting their ideas down. Re-crafting is all about the children improving audience interest in their work. They choose at least 2 sentences (depending on the writers ability) to improve. Today they practised adding detail or changing bland words with exciting synonyms (words with a similar meaning) from the thesaurus. Here are some of their little gems.

The chilly pools were freezing ice.   by Darius
While I was playing the delicious smell of a pie wafted past my  hungry nose.  by Guvind
When it was bed time I snuggled into my soft blanket. by Josiah
The crocodile had a scaly, bumpy back.  by Jackson-Lee
The exploding bomb was screamingly deafening. by Michaela Spyve.
My sister's breath is like squashed, pitch-black, burned bananas.  by Tea
The wood is very hard like a stale muffin.  by Nicholas
The horse rapidly leaped over the brushy fence. by Harley
My dad dropped a really outrageous fart which I heard from outside the house.  by Israel.
Wow! This colourful, rainbow flower is beautiful. by Darcy
The snake was slimy and slippery in my hands.  by Rosa
All of a sudden a slimy gooey slug slithered across my head.   by Danny
When I was walking along a large dog came and bit me like a big juicy bone.  by Abby
At my grandma's country house there was an old, broken barn and I over heard the cows saying Moo Moo Moo. Yes,really!  by Kingston.
I heard a noisy lightning storm.  by Cruz
There were seven delicious chocolate chip pancakes with whipped cream, on the bench waiting for me.  by Preceyis
The lime coloured frog munched up the fly in one gulp.  by Ataahua
Once the cake was soft as fudge but NOT anymore. by Jayda.
The ice cream was squashy in my mouth like marshmellow.   by Manaaki
Quickly an ambulance came roaring down the street with a loud furious noisy siren. by Sebastian.
The popcorn felt buttery and greasy.  by Elle
I fiddled with my soft and smooth hair 'cause I was bored.  By Ayveah

Adventure playground - you don't have to be rough to be tough