Sensational Swimming

Today is the last day of the Glenbrae School swimming season. 
We've had great success learning to swim (and cooling off!). 
We've gained confidence in the water. 
We've learned freestyle, and some of us backstroke.
We've practiced holding our breath underwater, and floating on our tummies and backs. 
We've learned about water safety (LIFE JACKETS) and what to do if we feel into the water. 

But most of all, we've had fun!

Learning Is Everywhere

The past few days have been very busy for Room 7 learners.

We've had swimming, cricket, art, maths, writing and more.

We really enjoyed working with our classmates during cricket.

Learning to swim has also involved practicing holding our breath and learning to float, we're sure that by the end of the swimming season we will be really confident in the water.

In Maths we tried a problem involving fractions. It was really tricky, but we worked together and solved it in the end.
Can you work it out?

Mrs Raj has netbooks to roll out.

On the first day she does ⅓ of the total.

On the second day, she does half of the remaining netbooks.

On the third day she does ⅕ of the netbooks that are left.

On the fourth day she does half.

On the fifth day she does the last four.

How many netbooks were there to roll out in total?

Summer Swimming

New Zealand is a small country surrounded by water, so it is important that we learn to swim from a young age. Today Room 7 began our journey and made the journey to Glen Innes Pools to get swimming lessons with our new instructors. 

We will be getting lessons with them for the next five weeks so that we can learn to be safe around water in summer. We were getting the pool pump here at Glenbrae fixed today, so hopefully our own pool will be back in action next week.