Friday, April 24, 2009

What's the time

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Fun Afternoon

Fun Afternoon

Twice each term we have a fun afternoon for those who have earned 1000 pingers or more through completing work to a set standard and for helpful and cooperative behaviour. On Thursday afternoon, we had two groups choose indoor games and developmental type activities, Easter cards or crafts, dough, computer games and best of all the Chocolate Game! Others chose to do outdoor games and got to play prison ball for half of the time and flag attack for the rest of the time. Those who didn't have enough pingers did a PMI - plus, minus, interesting with one teacher and well I guess, didn't have as much fun as the others.

Get That Heart Pumping!

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Maths exercise

Today for Maths the hexagons group did an activity about heart beats. We had to find out our maximum heart rate by taking our age away from 220. We then found our resting heart rate. It took some of us a while to even find our pulse. Joshua thought he must be dead, but Konor was fantastic at quickly finding his pulse and others. We thought of exercises that would quickly get our heart rate up to 75% of our maximum heart rate. We calculated what 75% of our maximum rate would be and then tried different exercises like step ups, skier jumps and skipping on the spot. Most of the group got close to reaching their target heart rate. We realised a minute was a long time when pushing yourself with these exercises.

Maths Exercise