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Showing posts with label life jackets. Show all posts

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

Basketball, class visits and water safety ... An ordinary day in Room 10

Such a busy day today!!
We started with basketball and learned more about the rules including the three types of fouls. 'Reaching, pushing and blocking' are all types of fouls. 
We played a warm up game called Hospital tag, where everybody was in, and when tagged you had to hold where you were tagged, like a band aid. 
We learned some more dribbling tricks and practiced dribbling behind our backs and between our legs. 
Then we played Dribble King, which was a game where you had to try and knock the other person's ball away while still dribbling your own. Some of us were really skilled at it!
The trick of the week was learning how to spin the ball on our finger! It was tricky, but most of us got there. 



We also had a visit from Chaplin Bruce today who talked to us about being proud of our differences. He said that when we work together we can achieve more! He gave Hannah an awesome bracelet made out of many rubber bands. She has been asked to share it with other students in the class throughout the week too... 









This afternoon we carried on with our learning about water safety. This time, we practiced wearing life jackets, and how to make sure they are fitted properly. It was much tighter than many of us thought. The best way to test it was to pull them by the shoulders and if it comes up it is too loose! 





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Friday, 7 March 2014

Friday Flash ... Room 10's weekly blast.







What a busy week in Room 10. We charged through most of our tests and had four sessions in the Life Education Caravan with the wonderful Meredith and Harold. We really enjoyed Harold's jokes, and Meredith had a lot of information to share with us about Keeping a Balance and how our brain works. Test out our Keeping a Balance Quiz. 





Water Safety
We also learned about rip currents and talked about to recognise the calm water as a rip. This means that when we swim at the beach, the safest spot is where there are breaking waves, and always between the flags! 
We then talked about what you should do if you are ever caught in a rip. 

  • Keep calm
  • Swim with it 
  • or swim parallel to the breaking waves 
  • Conserve your energy
We then had fun creating our own rip current in the pool. Two groups of us formed lines in the middle of the pool and made 'waves' which moved like currents and formed a rip down the middle of the groups. 
Mrs Parker got very wet! Next week we will practice more water safety, using life jackets and how to be safe in and around water.