Sharing My Time Playing T - Ball

Last week on Wednesday and yesterday a women named Kasey came in to teach us how to play T - Ball. we went in two groups because the year seven and eights were doing Soft Ball and the year six and fives were doing T -Ball. We had to split into two groups and one team are the batters  and the other team are the fielders. There are three bases and a home base. The easy parts were hitting the ball and running from base to base. The hard part was actually catching the ball and putting it on the base before the batters got there. You get out by not being able to get a home run when you’re the batters.

Do you think that T - Ball / Softball will be a popular sport in a couple 

 

My Time Playing Cricket

Yesterday half of Te Ngahere went to go and play cricket with a guy called Neil while the other half of Te Ngahere was inside doing Te Reo, we swapped over after about 35 minutes. We did a drill first and then we played Speed Cricket. We played Speed Cricket by splitting the group in half so that one half are the batters which hit the ball with their bat. The other half are the fielders which are trying to catch the ball when the batters hit it. You start with three bats and as you go along there's  going to be one taken out by not hitting the ball when you’re the batter. When the fielders catch the ball  you have to put a bat down, once the three bats are down you swap over.  I think the best part was when we actually played speed cricket. The easy part was standing in line and the hard part was trying to hit the ball with the bat when it came flying at you. Neil taught us how to hold a bat, how to stand when you hit the ball and what to do. You hold the bat by putting both your hands on the handle while your thumb and index finger on both hands make a v. You stand on your side while your front foot is pointing to where you want it to go.

Have you ever played cricket before?

Do you Know How to Play Ki O’Rahi

In Te Ngahere we were learning how to play Ki O’Rahi. If you don’t know how to play Ki O’rahi there are two teams; Taniwha and Keoma. Taniwha is trying to hit the big pou in the middle and there are two Keoma trying to defend the big pou in the middle, there are also little pou that Taniwha are trying to get. You have to hit at least three little pou to be allowed to throw it at the big pou in the middle. The fun part was playing and the boring part was learning all the rules because you have to remember them all.

Have you ever played Ki O’Rahi before?

 

Turbo Touch

On Friday, week one we learnt how to play Turbo Touch with Whaea Shanna. That is our newest teacher for this year, until Whaea Becks gets back from her holiday. We got ourselves into groups of five or six. We had to play against a different  group. (There was big groups and small groups.) First we had to learn all the rules and then we watched a video to see the different kinds of strategies that we could do. The rules of the game is that you have to hold the ball for two seconds or  you have to be two meters away. If you get a penalty, you have to do two passes before you can get a touch. You can pass the ball forwards, backwards and you can also go sideways but you can’t kick the ball. Another rule is that you have to touch someone with both of your hands and then they have to stop and hand it over to another person in your group. After you have gotten touched two times (it could be the same person or not) you have to hand it over to the other group. You have to tap the ball to start a game and if someone has touched you with two hands.  When you drop the ball on the grass they have to hand it over (only if that group has drop it twice in arrow otherwise you get to tap the ball and passes it to someone in your group) My group was Imogen, Jade O, Jade R, jorjah, Autumn and Grace. I loved learning how to play Turbo Touch and I bet everyone else did as well.