Futsal

This Term, our Kiwisport focus is Futsal.  Futsal is a smaller version of inside football where you get the chance to touch the ball in the game lots more.  You can find out more about Futsal here.


During our sessions, we have focused on developing our dribbling skills. While dribbling the ball, we need to be aware of others around us.  To improve our awareness, we have played different games while dribbling. Kingsley, our coach, challenged us to 'juggle' the football with our feet, our knees and even our heads.  We were working to get the highest number of juggles that we could in a row.


Our favourite part of the sessions so far have been the games of Futsal.  In pairs, we have worked hard with our buddy to try to score a goal for our team.  The sessions have been heaps of fun and we look forward to more chances to explore this sport.


We would love your feedback.  Have you ever played Futsal?  What is your favourite sport?  Please leave us a comment below.

Term 3 Koru Art

Towards the end of Term 3 we integrated three areas of learning -
Geometry, knowledge of Maori Legends and Visual Arts.
*Our aim was to create a piece of art using koru motifs to
create an overall pattern.
*We first explored and drew koru shapes and kowhaiwhai patterns,
then chose one shape and used this to make a paper transfer.
*Using the paper transfer, we transformed the shape to show our
understanding of translation, reflection and rotation.This created a tile pattern on the 12 squares.
*After creating the outline of the tile pattern, we chose which
parts to make positive and negative spaces by colouring in with
a black vivid pen.
*The last part was to think about which dye colours to use to
create patterns within patterns.
*When you look at the final pieces of art, see if you can find...
warm colours, cool colours, block colours, blended colours
AND
lines of patterns, chequered patterns, repeating patterns
*Enjoy viewing the process of our art creations.

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