All in a day's work for us in room 15

Indoor golf started on Thursday afternoon in the hall with our coach Larissa. She gave us clear instructions on how to hit the ball very gently so that it lands just  inside the hoop which was placed in the front of the hall.

We thought that nothing could be as easy as this. But later we found out how wrong we were in thinking that. Although we had followed all the steps to the T, yet we either hit too hard or too soft.

 Then Larissa demonstrated how we needed to give the stick a tiny little push and "Wow!" it was in the hoop. "You can have a try now" she said, and then we took turns and just tipped the ball with our sticks and Yeh! we managed to get three in.

After each point we had to pick up a letter that was placed in the ring which would make up the week's Value Word . "O! there are so many letters in this word, I don't think I will be able to make this word" said Kanye to Khobie. 

Then Larissa said "Okay guys, I'll help you- It starts with a 'c'." 

So my teacher helped us unscramble the word.  At last we got it- It's COURTESY.

At Maths time the next day we were learning about fractions. We had to find half of a whole number by using real wafers as materials.

First we measured the length of our pink wafer biscuit and then found the middle, on which we ruled a line from top to bottom. "How many halves in one whole wafer biscuit?" asked Mrs Naidoo.  "Two" we whispered quietly to our buddies. 

Thereafter we were instructed to work out how to make quarters of the whole wafer.
"This is a bit tricky for me" said Delta. "Just measure the width from top to bottom to find the centre. Now rule a straight line from the centre with a ruler. " said Maedana.
 "Wow! now I have 4 equal parts or shares and each one is a quarter of the whole?" 
"That's right!" replied everyone. The best part of the lesson was when we got to eat our fraction wafers. Mmmm!

At 11.30 while some of us were finishing off the publishing of our persuasive writing, the rest were "giving it a go!" with our parent coach, Helle. We learnt the Latin Amercan dance steps called the Salsa and Bachata . 

 "Kanye, you take a step back, as I take a step forward"instructs Maedana. 
"Step to the right side 1,2, 3 and then to the left" counts Tufele with his dance partner Ananiel while dancing to the Salsa beat.

Now here we go again with our favourite Merengue. "I like this the best, because its the easiest of all dances." smiles Kapriyani.

"Watch me now!" calls out William to all his friends. 

We even had Mrs Hart trying out the steps with her partner from room 9. 

"Way to go Miss Leona - give it a go!" we all cheered.

Most of all we are very thankful for parents like Helle who goes out of her way to come and coach us every Fridays. Helle also brings along her own Music Box and teaches us to take steps at our own pace  and she does this all for free. "Thank you Helle, you're very kind to us," says JT.