Playing To Win Book Review

 

Playing To Win author by FLEUR BEALE

the last few weeks we have been doing book reviews on the book we have chosen from are teacher. The book I have chosen is called Playing To Win it's a book based on rugby well latter on the story. The reason why I choose this book was because the front cover looked interesting and it had drama at the back of the book. How I thought of it was that the book was pretty short but really nice to read and how it had inspiring words. But my favorite part was when todd knocked denny's lunch out of his hands onto the sand and said 

''sandy sandwiches''. Playing To Win characters: Denny, Todd, Alice, Sally, Clara, Zak, Coach, Pete, Kyle, Jake, Mrs Salter, Lucy, Rose, Mr Hargrove, George, Tamati, Andy, Alish. I think it's best that adults read this book or teens because it had lots of club drinking and bad words in it.   

Gymnastics - PE

Today in PE we have been learning new gymnastics tricks to get more energy and to get more flexible.  Find below are various moves on each apparatus.

Trampoline - front flip, back flip.

beam - walking backwards, hop, leap, frog jumps.

parallel bars - walk on hands forwards and backwards, leg lifts.

bar - roll of the bar, tuck legs through roll.

floor/mat - cartwheel, handstand, log roll forward roll, backwards roll.

mini trampoline - flip, tuck jump. 

Something new that I have learnt this term is having a balance focus will help you to have a balance mind and successful result.

100 word challenge

 It all started at this exact place they told me as if it was a ‘‘magic bubble’’ I never really believed in fairy tail stories so I went to go see for myself but my friends tried to stop me because it was dangerous like how is a bubble dangerous? It could lead you into another word. I mean that's cool but you can never come back- to late as I jumped in it took me back into the future I came out right onto my grave my friends/family all around it crying. nosed that I would be stuck in the timeline {Forgotten}

103/100

Gymnastics

 My focus is : to have a balance jump landing  

My 3 activities from the card were :

1. straight jump

2. two feet landing jump 

3. flip jump 

I couldn't find the find the video but i might record myself doing it again.

Freeze fame

Today we have been trying out freeze frames for the past few weeks/days and some techniques skills I have learned like having special relationships with people we have not meet before you could make a new friendship with them and maybe you could get along by helping them find a group to act with or you could let them into your group so they don't feel lonely or left out. Like getting to know each other in the act it is also about cooperation and participating like joining in and having a go just have fun acting and then freeze in a pose that you and your group would agree on. and that different poses give emotions of how the person is feeling or acting  

100 word challenge

 Foot sized adult footprints still freshly there right in front of my door in snow I wondered why they were still fresh like if the person was still here hiding so I followed the foot trail it leaded me to a pouch of snow in the middle of the road I was confused so I cleared the snow out of the way. It was a sewer!. I saw a car coming my way so I opened the sewer and jumped in. ‘’Bad idea’’ the car shut me silled in. I looked around and found missing people that followed the footprints.

100/100

Playing to Win week 5

 Week 5 Questions:

1. Denny has lots of responsibilities in his life; he helps his Mum with finances, has a job, he takes care of his sisters and is part of a team. Do you think these are reasonable responsibilities for a sixteen year old? Why or why not? I think yes because it is respectful and it shows that he loves him family.

2. What responsibilities do you have in your life? How do you manage them and make sure you are completing everything you are trusted to do? Think about what you do at school and at home or in your spare time.  I mostly feed the cat and I make my bed before I go to school. These tasks are good for someone my age.
   
   

3. Denny feels pressured to drink at the party, but he still says no. Why do you think the boys were pressuring him? Why do you think it is important to stand up for your beliefs? What values do you think he was showing by saying no to underaged drinking? He didn't want to drink because he didn't trust it. They were pressuring him and making fun of him for not drinking it. Todd was making fun of him. He knew he didn't want it because it's bad for you.

Playing To Win week 2

1. There is some tension between Todd and Denny since the first day they meet.

2. Why do you think Todd is giving Denny a hard time?

3. Todd is giving Denny a hard time because he had a better car then him?

4. because denny bought a new car
   

5. When you have conflict or a disagreement with someone how do you fix it?

6. What strategies do you have to prevent a fight?

7. I will try to reasoning with them to know what happened in the situation

8. so maybe they could say sorry to one and other and forget about it or become friends.

9. Which character are you enjoying reading about the most? Why do you think they are the most interesting?

10. alice because she's sarcastic and chill

11. What do you predict is going to happen next? I predict that when they get out of the car

100 word challenge

 The sound as if she’s playing my old balle music box gets Louder every time you listen to it. It's like it's lorrying you down to a peaceful place like you can’t return back to reality. It drags you down and down till you go to sleep. It's like it pulls you further down till you can’t move again. Or till there's nothing left but the music playing a duet again and again that you can’t stop playing it around. You wait for it to stop but you can’t help the music that it gets stuck in your head and that you can’t get it out. Then a bird's feather falls on top of the music box as if it ended with a single feather. 

125/100