We are a class of Year 3 & 4 children at Vardon School in Hamilton, NZ. The purpose of this blog is to share what we are learning with others. Click into our individual blogs to see samples of our learning and our reflections. WE LOVE LEARNING!!! We also love commenting, so please leave us a comment!!!



Showing posts with label Swimming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Swimming. Show all posts

Monday, September 8, 2014

Swim for Life: Lesson One



Today we had our first lesson of Swim for life. We walked to the Te Rapa Pools and were tested on our swimming skills and then put into groups.

Room 7: please comment and tell me what your first swimming goal might be?

What do you think  you need to learn/practice? 

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Swimming

Here is a video of some of us practicing our swimming skills. We are learning freestyle, backstroke, floating, gliding, sculling and the correct freestyle breathing technique. 





Thursday, February 20, 2014

Swimming

We have been practicing our swimming skills every day in our school pool.

Pic Collage made by Tegan

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Swimming

Today Makayla and Ashton used the app called Pic Collage on the iPad to this collage of swimming.

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Splish, Splash, Splosh!

This week we are going to Waterworld each day for swimming lessons. On the first day we were assessed and put into groups. Today we were taught lot's of different swimming skills in our groups. Here are some photos and videos of us swimming in the pool today.





Some of the skills we learnt were:

  • gliding
  • freestyle
  • backstroke
  • dolphin diving
  • floating
  • diving
  • breaststroke
  • butterfly

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Swimming Demonstration to Parents

Our Swimming Demonstration to Parents on PhotoPeach



Today we had a swimming demonstration to parents. We showed our parents our wonderful swimming.