Jump Rope For Heart.

This term May Road School have been doing some skipping  and jumping with the ropes. Our school participated in the Jump Rope For Heart Foundation, where we have to jump and skip so that our hearts can beat. We also fundraised money to give to the hospitals to help the children's heart. Yesterday we had the big day, wh

ere we have 10 groups and we go around each station and skip. Each station is a station where you do skills with the ropes. Station 1 and 6 are the same it's the free style station. Where you can go and do some casual skipping. My group was group 6. It was really fun skipping with friends. I did exactly 51 skips without tripping over. I think I Did pretty good. 

We did some pair skipping with our partners. Me and Isabella got 1 rope and we jumped together with the rope. We made it up to 10 until she tripped over. It was actually really fun skipping with a partner.

We even did some skipping with the hula hoops. I couldn't quite do it because I was just too tall and big for the little hoops. It was a challenge trying to get to 10 but I only got it to 3 ..... So I just sat down and had a little rest until I got another hula hoop can started swinging it with my hand, I tried to skip with it until I made it to 8. Well At least I tried.

It was really fun working with other people and skipping with them. I'm glad that I have achieved my goal which was to get up to 50 skips. And I did :D On this photo it looked like Tyson and Asif was having a great time skipping. I think they made it up to 30 skips altogether. In Rm14 our best skipper was Haofei. He could skip up to 100. Wow ! He learned how to skip when he was at china. Now isn't he a pro skipper. 

It was fun to see people smile and feel happy skipping. I pray for all those children in hospital who has problems with their heart to become healthy and so they can have big smiles on their faces!! 

Thank You May Road School For Participating :D

Tennis.

This term my class Room 14 has been learning how to play  tennis ! Learning how to play tennis is really fun. Our coach Josh is an amazing Tennis player. He has taught us a lot of tricks and skills. He showed us awesome tricks and where our hitting position is. Our hitting position is on your hips. So when you hit the ball you hit it just below your hips. 

At tennis we practise balancing the ball on the Sweet Spot. The sweet spot is the centre of the racket. In this photo Ben is trying to balance the ball on the sweet spot.

After we learned our hitting position, the sweet spot, and how to hold our racket we finally went outside and started using the nets. We had a great time practising. For our first session with the nets we had one person with the racket and one person with the ball. The person with the ball throws the ball to their partner and their partner lets it bounce on the ground and on to there ball, then she holds the ball with her racket and shouts out SANDWICH. Me and my partner didn't shout out SANDWICH we shouted out different types of healthy food and things like TOMATO, CEREAL, And CALCIUM. I wonder if May Road might have tennis for sports next year.

For tennis we had a professional tennis player called Josh. Josh is a really good tennis player. He has been playing tennis for at least 10 years, and he is  now 22 years old. Josh is even close with the famous Maria Tutaia. I wonder if I would grow and be as good as Josh.

While we practised Josh got some student's attention from showing them a cool as trick. He got the tennis ball and placed it on the racket, then he turned the racket around and the tennis back never fell off. Isn't that cool??? Tennis this term rocked the whole class... Tennis ROCKS !!