LI: to edit and check a piece of recount writing.
This week for writing Mr Ogilivies groups had to write another recount, this time the recounts had to be about the kiwisport session we had yesterday. The next day two people had to volunteer for their recount's to be checked, I volunteered but nobody else would so someone else was chosen randomly. When my writing was being marked by the class I realised most of my mistakes and my final number was thirty three. I found that I needed to work on my: Organisation, sentence structure and punctuation. I found that I was doing well on my spelling because I managed to get a six. When I'd finished it I thought that it was pretty good, but when the other groups marked it I saw that it wasn't was good as I thought. My fears were confirmed when I asked my friends if they thought that I did better than last week and they replied with a no.
Ideas: 5
Structure/language: 5
Organisation: 4
Vocabulary: 5
Sentence structure: 4
Punctuation: 4
Spelling: 6
When I first walked into the hall I was surprised to see that the kiwisport was badminton, last year there were badminton lessons in the hall (At lunchtime) and so I was excited to learn again because I’d forgotten.
Although one again to my surprise and delight I found that we were going to do a warm up, and that warm up was stuck in the mud. I managed to help around about 6-7 people, and I was only tagged twice! I really liked playing stuck in the mud, although when I was running around the hall my feet did start to hurt. After that we then had to grab a racket and a shuttlecock, and once we’d grabbed one each we then had to stand on the white line in the middle of the hall. When I’d lined up I looked around and saw the excitement bursting from the others, although not literally they did seem to be looking forward to this. Kevin (Kiwisport teacher) then told us about the fronthand technique, for it we had to curl our hands around the racket and place our thumb on top. After we’d been taught we were then told to find our own space and then practice with the technique to try to hit the shuttlecock ten or more times, some people managed to do twenty or more but I just managed to get ten. Although I didn’t get a larger number I was still happy (And sweaty). After that we then learnt about the backhand technique it was basically the opposite of the front hand we had to use our thumbs to push the racket upwards and curled our hands around the other way. Once again there was a competition and I managed to get fourteen this time while some others still managed to get thirty or more.
Although I wasn’t able to hit the shuttlecock as much as some others it was even more fun to find out that we were going to learn some trickshots. For the first one we had to try to hit the shuttlecock from behind our backs, and for the second one we had to try to hit the shuttlecock from between our legs. We tried these out, I didn’t manage to get very far by myself. I then had an idea and I told Julian about it, I wanted to try and see how many hits Julian and I could get by whacking the shuttlecock to each other through our legs. We were only able to hit it between us two times. After that everyone had to find their own space because this time it was a competition, for it we had to try and keep hitting our shuttlecock for as long as we could and the last person would be the winner. Although there was another twist as well, there were to be two matches and the winners of those matches would battle it out in a finale. A strange thought crossed my mind as Kevin told us that, I wondered about what would happen if the same person won both matches. Sadly for me it was not to be for I managed to place somewhere in the top five for both matches but never first. It was then a battle between Julian and Jonathan, I was in the minority cheering for Julian as the starting word was said but he still won. After that we then thanked Kevin for teaching us and walked back to class.
