Basketball Games

Today we did games with our basketball coach - Clifton. He taught us two games. One was called the 'Number Game' and the other one was called 'Golden Child'. 

We were practicing dribbling, shooting, passing, ball control, pivot, slide defence and team work. 

For our warm up we had to do knee high running. We did grapevine and bottom kicks. This was our 4th session and we have improved so much!

Zoe's Holiday

 Here is a turtle that I saw when I went diving at Home Bay in the Coromandel.

 This is an octopus that was in a hole. It used its tenticles to try and grab my dads camera.

These are some crayfish that are huddled up under a rock. I also got to see lots of kina and yellow tailed fish. We tried to catch some so we could use them for bait to catch some big fish.

Basketball

In Room 14 we have been doing basketball practice with a basketball coach called Clifton.

He has been teaching us some skills like:

Chest pass

wrap around pass

over head pass

bounce pass 

When you are dribbling the ball keep the palm of your hand off the ball

(keep your hand shaped like a live spider when dribbling)

Keep your head up at all times

keep the ball waist high

dont bounce the ball like a lillypad, pound it.

Clifton taught us warm up activities

At the end of the session we played a game of 10 pass.

We got into two teams. each team needed to pass the ball to its team members 10 times to get a point, while the other team was trying to defend and intercept the passes.

We had to try and use all the new passes we had been taught.

We all enjoyed it!

We cant wait for our next session!