Taine's Archery Success!

A year ago Taine's archery club had a club day and during the day he had two shoots and after they ate their lunch they had a shoot-off. Taine says:

One of the people I was up against, Owen, is 54-ish years old and is one of the top shooters in our club. In the shoot-off, we had to get closest to the x-ring, which is the heart and I got closest to the x-ring, and that's how I won my trophy that I'm holding in my right hand.

On Sunday 28th November 2010 we had an archery tournament in Tokorua. That day, we had lots of fun shooting over rivers and down steep hills. At the end of that day, the adults had a shoot-off and after that everyone had a fun shoot at a flying pig. We then had prizegiving and that's when I got my trophy that is in my left hand, and won lots of prizes.

I like to do archery and I recommend it to other people to start, because it's great fun and you can win lots of prizes, too.

Taine shoots for trophies!

Taine has been doing archery for four years with the Franklin County Archers. It's exciting, because when he does shoots, there are 3-D targets and lots of different 3-D animals. Sometimes he goes hunting with his dad and his two brothers, and he has shot a goat with his bow, and a couple of possums and carp!

He has won lots of awards, but they are mostly certificates. He won his first animal trophy two years ago, and won a competition trophy last year. Taine was shooting against one of the best archers in his club who is about 40 years old. He felt nervous, and was excited and happy when he won.

Taine shoots with a Browning Micro Midas 3. He brought his bow in to school and showed us, because he had been reading about bows and arrows in his reading group, the Chocolate Covered Reading Bananas.

2x2 algorithms!

It was a struggle to figure out how to get the answer. I had to practise the algorithms heaps and Cody helped me by showing me the columns - to go up and then across, because that's what I got confused with. Now I know how to do my algorithms and I feel happy now that I can do my work in time.

2 New Students!

Room 14 welcomes Cody and Taine who have joined us from Room 8. We wish them a happy and successful 2nd half of the year!
They say that this is a good idea because people in this class have higher grades and it's the best class!