The things I like from A to Z…

B= Ball Sports
C= Clothes
D= Double Beds
E= Electricity
F= Farming
G= Green Grass
H= Horses
I= Ice Cream
J= Jelly Beans
L= Lollies
M= My Own Bedroom
N= Netball
O= Oxygen
Q= Quiche (It’s a Food)
R= Radios
S= Shopping
T= Tennis
V= Vehicles
W= Water

Lucy Dissection

Lucy, Dissection

On Friday the 6th of June Pat came down to the school with a lamb (Lucy) that he had killed because it had eczema. He first skinned it and cut it open around the shoulder blade. Then he showed us a ball and socket joint and told us how it worked. Then he told us that if you put out a hip it is a serious injury because it breaks the ligament in the ball and socket. Then he cut it down the middle to show us the “GUTS” first he showed us where everything is set out and explained that we are very similar to a sheep on the inside. Then some of us got some gloves on and held a piece of lung. Then he got out the liver and we passed that round. The liver really stunk! After that he showed us that the lungs have air in them and they float and the liver doesn’t. Even try it! Some time after we had been looking at the liver he showed us where the heart lived. He opened up the heart and showed us the arteries and all of the chambers that the heart has. Then came the smelly bit. He opened up the stomach and Lucy had just had a feed! There was heaps off munted grass that the stomach had been processing. After we had done that we had an experiment at finding how long the small intestine was. It measured it as 14 steps running. Then he opened the head/cranium. He cut the jaw open so we could see that Lucy had not been brushing her teeth! Then he showed us the Lens in the eyeball. He opened it up and it squirted liquid at him. When he opened it up more you could see this really cool greeny, bluey colour. It looked really effective when it was shining in the sunlight. After we had finished we put Lucy to rest in the peaceful (smelly) offal hole!

Taranaki Netball Trail

On Sunday me and Connie got to go to a netball trail, for the year 7 Taranaki.
When we got there we were freezing cold in the frost at half past nine in the morning.
At first we had to get our number ton our leg. Mine was 4, Connie’s was 5.
Me and Connie pasted the ball around.
There were about 70 kids there and they had to narrow it down to 35 really.
The first thing we had to do was get in to groups of Shooting, mid court and defence. Then we got in to five. And we got a group of five from the mid and the defence and they were the groups for the day.
The first skill we did was dodging and to get the hang of that we played ball tag. When the 20 minutes were up we went to the next rotation which was really, really boring and so were the next 2.
When finally finished we got back all together to have a couple of fun netball games. To show the selectors what we got.
Me and Connie had only got to play two games.
The first game I went GA and then the second I went my favourite position GS.
At least I was getting all my goals in.
When every body had a couple games they called us in to tell us if we are in the top 35.
The lady beside Rachel said that they weren’t going to call the names out in a particular order but they did the called it from the order of your number. So I didn’t have to wait very long because I was number four and Connie was five.
When they had finished calling out the girls that go in to the next trail, we had to go and make sure that they had our right positions.
When it was all over I was very relived that I might have a chance in the Taranaki team and hopefully I do get in with Connie as well.

In the hoildays

In the holidays what did I do? I actually do not know.
All I really did was muck around home. And that made me very, very bored!!!
Some of the time was entertaining but most of it as you know was boring.
In the holidays we had about to go to 3 parties. Two of them were to do with Scott’s 7th
B/Day and the other one was to do with the Douglas tennis Club Break Up.
I started at my nana’s place for a couple of days with Katilyn. We made some flowers and went to Netball and that was really all we did.
By the end of the holidays it actually started to get some where. But as you know we had to go to school.

i luv netball

Last Saturday we played Stratford Primary again but it wasn’t the same team as we played the week before. It was the easiest team.
They were called the SPS Spices.
We started the game and we were just getting goal by goal by goal.
At the end of the first quarter we were the leading team at 16 nil.
And by the end of the game we had won 50 nil. I wasn’t that tired because we didn’t have to even try all our faces weren’t red except their’s.

Netball Again

Last Saturday we played Stratford Primary again but it wasn’t the same team as we played the week before. It was the easiest team.
They were called the SPS Spices.
We started the game and we were just getting goal by goal by goal.
At the end of the first quarter we were leading 16 nil, we really didn’t have to get a drink because to get a goal we didn’t have to even try.
Time went by and by the 3 quarter I had to come off.
They didn’t really get the goals in while I was off, I think they only got about six goal in.
Linda put me on for the last quarter and the end score was 50 nil to us.
After the game we got some lunch and had to go home because Dad had some cattle to get in and weigh and put on the truck the next day.

My Netball

Last Saturday we played our first netball game against Stratford Primary Steelers and this is how it all worked out.
I got there with Nina and Connie and straight after we got there we got a ball and started practicing on court 4 at the Stratford TET.
That day I was playing as GA (Goal Attack) and with Nina at GS (Goal Shoot). That day me and Nina worked well together. The first quarter I got all the goals in with 100% shooting with the other team not even getting the ball in to their goal circle.
The next quarter they finally got one in with it 15 to 1, but the ext half they put their players in their strongest positions and that made them get a couple of goals in.
And when the game was over te finally score was 26 to 4 to us, with me getting 24 of those goals and Nina getting the rest.