Water Fun Day.

Water fun Day.

The 7th of February on a Friday overcast morning. Glenbrae School had a exciting, Wild and soapy water fun day. Starting from 9 - Interval. That day we had to split in to our house groups which were (Rata, Nikau, Kauri and Kowhai). As soon as all the classes were down and waiting we got right in to it.Each activity will either need a Sponge, Half - cut Milk Bottle or a plastic cup.

I was put in the colour Kauri . We had to race in our classes. There were 7 water activities. Every 10 minutes we would hear a whistle which is a  sign to move on to a next station. Every activity was announced first was the Obstacle course, Walk the plank, 3 hand race, Through the legs, Water slide and Zig Zag race. The fair idea was to get as much water as you can into your  bin which had your colour on it. In the middle of the court were four buckets lined up with the colours Red, Yellow, Green and Blue.

My first activity was the Obstacle course. We had to Scoop a cup of water in to a plastic cup then crouch down under a chair run to the middle of the court and tip as much water as you can into the bucket. My class Room 10  had been escorted to the course. Kowhai - Yellow house had to run more times than the other houses had because there were a less amount of them. We showed a lot of support and co-operation in that activity by the time we were all puffed out it was 10 minutes already so we went to the next activity.

The next activity was the Water slide it was exactly the same as the last activity but you had to slide down on the slide with the cup in your hand running it to your colour bucket. The fun part about that activity was you got soaking wet. Also when we finished there was still a bucket water full, what my class did was we got cups full of water and wet the teachers who were in charge of that station. That was a lot of fun for me. So we went to the next activity we already knew what activity we went to it was like a cycle.

Our next activity was called the Zig-Zag race. The game was instructed by Mrs Moopanar. The first thing she told us was to sit at the back of our bucket and wait for the rest of the instructions. As we could see there was a sponge in the bucket, so what you had to do was to soak as much water in your sponge, Zig-Zag through the cones down to your bucket. Our class Zoomed through the cones holding as much water in the sponge to the bucket. Kowhai was exhausted sitting  puffed. Room 10’s next activity was the Through the leg race.

Through the leg race had involved a sponge as well.  What you had to do in this race was the person in the front had to soak the sponge with water and pass it on to the person behind you through your legs and the last person carried it carefully to the bin then go to the front of the line to carry it on again. That race involved a lot of water. Already the whistle rung again, Our next activity was the 3 hand race.

At the 3 hand race you needed a partner. Eseki and I were partners, We came up with a strategy when we wrapped our hands together and covered the cup with the other hand reaching the bucket with already a quarter of water. In that session Eseki and I went up and Mrs Tofa tricked me she told me to put the water into a different bucket so while I was up there I tipped water on her which was pretty funny. As soon as that activity was done I was puffed because of all of the running you had to do on that cloudy day.

Our last final activity was to walk the plank. In this activity you will need to run between the plank and hold the water until you get to your house colour bucket. Extreme fun because you got points for house against house.

As we went  back to the court for that last moment. There we are waiting for the results of how we went Mrs Tofa announced the results. So in 4th place was Kowhai, 3rd place Nikau and that last moment in 1st place was a tie between Kauri and Rata. Relieved to hear that Kauri came a tie with Rata and we were all surprised. Then Mr Nath did a funky dance with the whole school laughing with pride.

There was our exciting water fun day experienced and loved, wish we could do that again in the year.  Thank you all the teachers who put their effort into making this day happen especially to Mrs Raj and Mrs Ripata.

THE END By Te Puawai.