Cultural Games

Cultural Games

Kia Ora bloggers. this is another blog post about the cultural games that I've been taught by adults. The games that we were taught were Tinikling which was a cultural game from Philippines. We were also taught how to play Pani (from Fiji), two Russian games Ruchei (stream) and the other one was called Wizards. We also got taught how to play Caber Toss from Scotland.

If you want to know how to play these games, then here are the steps on how you can play.

Tinikling

Tinikling has a group of three people, Two of the three people holds each sides of two bamboo sticks and the last person try's to jump over the bamboo sticks. When the person is jumping over the bamboos,both people holding onto each sides of the bamboo hits the bamboo once in the air and then, and then tapping it down twice.

Pani

Pani has two even teams. one team has to try and protect themselves with pieces of cardboard while the other team tries to hit them with the ball and also to try and knock down the tower before they rebuild it. 

Caber Toss

Caber Toss is a game that is individual. you hold a long wooden pole from the bottom. You let it lean forward and then you use all your might and try to make it do a 12:00 cartwheel.

Ruchei (stream)

you look for a partner and you hold that partners hand in the air, and form a line with other people behind you. There should be one person without a partner and they go through the tunnel and grabs a persons hand. when you grab that persons hand, the person that was the hand of that person then goes to the front and goes and it keeps going and going. 

Wizards

To play this game there should be about 3-4 people as wizards and the wizards are trying to tag the non-wizards and if a non-wizard gets tug, then they stand like a star shape. To set him or her free, another non-wizard has to tag him before he gets tug from another wizard.

Trip To Spark Arena

 Trip To Spark Arena

Hello and kia orana. Today's blog post is about the year six trip to the Spark Arena in Auckland.

When I and the year sixes entered the arena, we were welcomed by a lady who was called Suzy Cato and when we entered, we were followed by more kids from other schools. Suzy told us that she was on 'The Masked Singer' TV show and in the past when our teachers were little kids, they used to see her on TV.

First we were headed to a place in  the Spark Arena called the Happy Place. At the Happy Place, we all saw little mini slide that I didn't want to go on, but I was shocked when some of the year sixes went to have a try. When we were crossing the building, we saw the ball pit they said that we were going to play in. We went in a single line to get to have a jump and only three people are allowed to go at a time. After having to get out which was the hard part, we then were told to go to put on our shoes and start walking along the part of the building to where we saw three big boxes and each of them had an effect. One box was covered in yellow rubber duckies with a bathtub inside it, the other one had long white chains hanging above it and the last one had little mini, shining squares stuck to three sides and there was a fan in a corner to make it move and also to make it shine in every direction. After we took a picture of ourselves in each boxes we then moved on into a room that had a big fat cookie in it. It was plastic, but the choc chips were mini doors so we could poke our faces out of it. Meanwhile, when other kids were checking out the Big, yummy looking cookie, I was in the other room looking at a up-side-down bed. I thought it was for a bat to sleep up-side-down, but it was actually for a picture.

After Having fun at the Happy Place, we went back down the building to Sounds Fun. It was where we were welcomed by Suzy. Now we were going to have a play on the trumpets, listened to some music from speakers, and having a try on a device where we could play two games. We got to use a loop machine too.

And last but not least, we went to see paintings that the famous Van Gogh painted. It was a bit boring at first, but when we stayed a little longer, I started to like the interesting features of the paintings.

It was a great trip, we were very lucky.

My Training Diary's

 My Training Diary

Hello and today I'm blogging about My training diary. Us kids got this diary On the first day back at school of term two. For Inquiry, we were given these Warrior diary books Because we were focusing on Taha Tinana or Physical Wellbeing.

 

When we got these diaries, we started using them to show how long  we can hold a plank (maximum is five minutes), how many times we can do burpees in a minute, how many shuttles we get from ten meters and back in a minute, and how much lengths we can run in five minutes. I bet that if you get these diaries, you would be huffing and puffing.For my plank, I held it for a minute and twenty three seconds. I did eighteen burpees, nine shuttles  and for the endurance run, I got seven point two lengths.

 

We also used these diaries to write something positive to someone and say it to that person. We would also use these to write how long we slept for. If You had a diary, you would turn to the second page and you see something called a players detail. You would have to fill it in before turning the other pages. 

 

I hope you enjoyed reading this blog post and I'll blog later next time. Bye!!!