Cultural Games.

                                                              Cultural Games 

Kia Ora bloggers around the world🌍👈. Today I am going to be blogging about cultural games. Only the leaders of the school learn different cultural games and then they have to explain to the whole school how to play different cultural games that they have learned. We learned games from different cultures. It was really fun . I can't remember all the names of the games that we learned. Yesterday we were  greeted by Valiya who was here to teach us a game. Valiya told us that she was from Russia and she also told us that she used to play this game when she was living there. Valiya told us that the coldest temperature she experienced was -35 degrees! Everyone got shocked, -35 degrees must be really cold. The first game we played was called "Wizard". In Russian language it's called Ruchei . She told us the game is really entertaining. When Valiya explained us the rules everyone said to each other that the game was similar to freeze tag. They were right it was similar to freeze tag. Valiya also said  that when you get tagged by the wizard you have to say chai chai in Russian language instead of saying help help in English. She also said that if you cross the yellow line you are out that meant we had to stay in the square so we don't get out. When we started playing the game I got so excited. In the first round the wizards lost. To make it more challenging in the second round we had 3 wizards. I wanted to be the wizard so I volunteered. In the second round the wizards won!

After playing wizards we played another game called "Stream". Valiya was telling us  that we had to get into groups of 2. My buddy was TJ. After paring up we had to hold hands with our buddy and make a bridge. Valiya explained us the rules of how to play stream. If a person loses there buddy they have to go at the front and go under the bridge to choose another buddy. We started playing stream. So first up Nerys  went under the bridge to choose a buddy and then hold hands with. Nerys choose Arelle. Arelle's buddy was Chrystelle. Chrystelle had to go under the bridge . Everyone had a turn going under the bridge. When my friend Mahdi went he choose my buddy TJ . So I had to choose a buddy I choose Masi. Then Mahdi lost his buddy so it was his turn again to go under. He choose me to be his buddy. The time was 10:40 so that meant we had to pause the game. We all sat down and we all thanked Valiya for coming in and teaching us how to play such interesting games. I will surely be playing wizards and stream with my friends again. What game do you play in your culture?

                                                                       

Below are the different photos of different cultural games we learned and played.

 
                 

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Spark Arena.

                                         Spark Arena Trip.

 Kia ora bloggers around the world🌍👈.  Yesterday only the year sixes went to the Spark Arena trip. I was really excited that all of the year sixes were going to this awesome trip. Early in the morning we had to get our things and had to get ready for the trip. So our teachers lined us all up we had to get in the bus. The person that I was sitting next was my friend Martin. Me and Martin were really happy and couldn't wait to go to the Spark Arena trip. After some time we arrived. When we arrived the place we went to was looking amazing and it even had the picture of Van Gogh the artist . They were also two other schools that came one was Royal heights the other was Lincoln St school.  We were  greeted by Susie Cato and Steve. They told us all about themselves and the three section and activities we were going to do. Susie Cato told us that the ball pit in the happy place is really deep. 

 

The first place that the year sixes went to was called the happy place. The happy place is a place were people are happy and they are having fun. I walked straight away when I heard about the happy place. The  place had a ball pit which was the best part , they had the up side down bed where your bed is upside and you had to scream in the photo. They even had the rubber duck wall and the disco wall which was pretty cool. First we went to the ball pit. When it was my turn I dived into the ball pit like I dive in the swimming pool. Susie was right the ball pit was really deep. We had to climb the stairs to get out from the ball pit. When I got out of the ball pit we took some photos. My favorite photo was when I was in the yellow tub with the rubber ducks. The happy place was really happy and exciting. I had lot's of fun with my friends. The place was making everyone happy. We even took a photo with the word happy. They were all sorts of happy things you could do in the happy place. There was a lot of funny things you could do. I really did not want to leave the happy place. But I knew I had to. We took a lot's of photos. There was even a huge cookie that you could take a photo with. When I saw the cookie I kind of got hungry. 

So my teacher (Ms Sands) and Steve said that we had to line up. The place that we went next was where you could try all the different instrument. It was really cool the people that have not played a electric drum they can play with the electric the people that have played the drums can also play them. You can even get a sticker. So far the trip was getting interesting. The cool 👍 thing about the sounds fun section was we can even make our own music that was the awesome part with our own lyrics. So we had to choose some singers to sing. So Peityn and Mahdi volunteered to sing. The funny thing about Mahdi was when he sang baby shark and pepper pig. Everyone started to laugh🤣 it was really funny when Mahdi sang baby shark. Then Peityn sang. After when Peityn sang the man said that we had to check the whole song then he said that we have created our own song. The music from the background was really cool. We asked if Ms Daly wants to sing but Ms Daly refused. So we sang Ms Daly Ms Daly sing! sing! sing! Ms Daly started to laugh and smile. Then the man said we have made another song. We listened to it and then said the same thing. We spent lots of time with the instruments. You can try any instrument you want to try. The trip was really educational. I was learning a lot of staff that I did not know before. I experienced a lot of things in Spark Arena. I wonder where we are going next.  But still I could not wait to go to the next section. When it was time to line up Steve told us that we had to go to Van Gogh he said to be quite enjoy the arts and enjoy the music.

                                                                                          

             For whose who do not know who Van Gogh is I can tell you. Van Gogh used to be an artist. He died because he shot himself in the chest with a revolver in 1890. I learned a lot of things about Van Gogh. Van Gogh even cut his ear. When we walked to the exhibition we had to be really quite we also had to listen to the music and look at the art work. We were looking at the digital version of the art work. We took some photos looked at the arts and looked at the big screen. Some of the art work looked real. Like the sun flower looked real. My teacher (Ms Sands) told us we might have to do some sun flower art. We looked at all kinds of arts. When we were looking at the huge screen there was a pixel art that I really liked. I was really enjoying looking at all the art work Van Gogh did. We looked at the digital screen for a long time. I was getting really hungry. My favorite place was the sounds fun section and the happy place what would your favorite place be if you ever go to Spark Arena? We lined up again and ate our lunch. Steve said after we eat our lunch we will be heading towards the bus and going back to school. I was really happy that we came to this trip and learned things. After eating lunch we all said goodbye and then headed back to school. When we were heading back to school I was thinking about all the instruments we used and I was thinking about Van Gogh.  I was also thinking about the happy place and the ball pit which was my favorite. Have you ever been to Spark Arena? Below are the Van Gogh exhibition photos. 

                                 

                              

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