Cultural Diversity - Yoga

This term Gri11 2.0 have been learning about Cultural Diversity. Cultural Diversity is embracing other cultures and knowing how different they're to your culture or someone else's. At the moment we're taking action. My group is Doing a yoga class for each syndicate, we are running these yoga classes at a cultural Festival that other students from our class are running. We are also running these classes for one of our school sports rotations, which I'm really looking forward too.

My group and I have worked really hard at organising our class and creating our routine that we will be teaching the students that come to our yoga class. We have done a trial yoga class and the students that came to the class loved it, which makes us feel really good about teaching the yoga.

One of the girls in my group (Holly G) does yoga, so she taught us a couple of the moves that she does at her Yoga class.

Yoga is fun and I hope you can try it sometime!

Jump Jam in Tauranga

On Friday the CSNS Jump Jammers went to Tauranga to compete in the Jump Jam Nationals. We took two vans from school to our apartment in Tauranga. It was a five hour drive, but it went really quick because my friend Ava and I were making up parody's to songs. We stopped in Taupo to eat lunch and play at the park. My favourite part about the park was the swings because there were five swings and they are all facing each other so when you swing on them you hit every ones feet. It's so scary but mostly fun.

When we finally got to Tauranga we were all so excited to see what the apartments looked like. The teachers put four people in each apartment plus a teacher, the apartments were huge! Ava and I got the biggest room and it was awesome. The teachers made us go to bed early because we had a big day on Saturday.

The next day Miss Williams walked into our rooms at 5:30 am ( I know, too early) with her phone videoing Ava and I sleeping. After about 2 minutes she finally woke us up. " It's too early" we groaned. When I finally got up I ate some breakfast and got dressed then they started to do our make up. We had sparkly silver eyes and two pink stars on the side of our fore heads. Next the did our hair, it looked like a mow hawk, but it was cool. Once we had finished getting ready we took the vans to the theatre.

Once we arrived at the theatre, I had so many butterflies in my tummy it felt like i was on a roller coaster. A lady lead us down to the stage, my butterflies got even worse. The group before us walked off stage and before I had any time to realise that it was our turn to go on stage we were already walking on. As soon as the music started my butterflies went away. everyone put so much energy into the performance, it looked awesome! When we got off stage no one could talk because we had been chanting so loud that it hurt to talk. Finally all the performances had been and it was time to find out the placings. We walked on stage nervously, They read out third place " in third place we have..... College St Normal School with Gangnam Style!" We were all so happy we couldn't believe we got a placing.

It was such a fun weekend and I wish I could do it again!

LILY IN THE JUNGLE

FEATURING THE MAGICAL WISHING TREE

On a summer’s day, Lily was making her mother a special birthday breakfast. Lily had light mousey brown long hair with a little red ribbon tied around her ponytail. She wore a red cloak and buckle shoes. With her buckle shoes, she wore high knee socks with little red ribbons at the top of them. She had just made her mother pancakes with maple syrup, muffins with butter and a cup of tea all ready to take in to her mother’s bedroom. Suddenly Lily remembered SHE FORGOT THE FLOWERS FOR THE SIDE OF THE TRAY! Lily grabbed her basket and set out to the jungle to find the perfect flowers for her mother.

Lily had been walking for what felt like at least an hour but still hadn’t found the perfect flower for her mother. She had walked past yellow flowers, purple flowers, red flowers and pink flowers but none of them stood out to Lily at all. Lily felt like giving up. She started to walk back home, when all of a sudden a big bad wolf jumped out in front of Lily. Lily ran for her life all the way to the other side of the jungle. Until she finally lost the big bad wolf. When Lily caught her breath she took a look around her. There were 5 different paths and she was standing right in the middle  of all of them. She looked around her, to her right was a tall tree. The tree was gold and sparkly and all the leaves were even golder and even sparklier. Lily picked a few leaves for her mum and put them in her basket, they were perfect! Lily chose the path to her right, hopefully it was the right path.

Lily had been walking for what seemed like forever, She started to wonder if she took the right path. Lily’s mouth was as dry as the desert. “I wish I could drink some water” whispered Lily. BOOOOOOOM! Suddenly a long river appeared with a sign saying Drinkable Water. Lily was so happy. There was a drink bottle next to the river, Lily scooped the water into the drink bottle and poured the water into her mouth. Lily put the drink bottle in her basket and started walking on the path again, but then Lily stopped she asked herself how did that river and that drink bottle get there and what was that big boom? “I wish I knew” sighed Lily. BOOOOOOOM! “I know what made that river appear and that drink bottle and Now I know what it is, THE LEAVES!

Lily carefully took out the leaves in her basket their were three leaves, she only had one more wish left. Lily closed her eyes “ I wish I could go home” she said in a loud voice. BOOOOOOOM! Lily opened her eyes she was in her kitchen holding her basket in one hand and the three magical wish leaves in the other. Lily’s mouth was dry again, but Lily had to give her mother her birthday breakfast so she set the flowers up nicely on her mother’s breakfast tray and steadily walked into her mother’s room. “SURPRISE” shouted Lily “ Happy birthday Mother.”Lily’s mother was so happy and so was Lily. “Honey grandma is sick can you take her some bread please.” So Lily set off into the Jungle to deliver the bread to her grandma.