Outram Room 7: Kiwi Golf With Melanie

We have been learning how to write great recounts, thinking carefully about what information we need to include and which we don't. We have also been looking at interesting sentence starters and other ways of describing the sequence of time and not using 'then I..' all the time!

Today we crafted a shared writing recount about our golfing experience. We brainstormed lots of ideas before we started to help plan which information we wanted to include. Next in pairs we created a great opening sentence, which Mrs Jackson recorded on the board. We then crafted the perfect opening sentence from these. From here we used our brainstorming plan to develop the rest of our recount. We think its pretty good!!

Kiwi Golf With Melanie

The class all lit up with joy when the teacher announced that it was 9:45 – golf time. All at once we raced out the door to line up. Quickly we raced over to Melanie to hear about how to play golf.

We were sorted into groups. Jack was our only left handed golfer. After that Melanie asked us to go to a flag and she began calling out instructions. The flags were there to help us practice how to hold the golf club and how to swing. We were all waving our flags rapidly and Brylee said that it looked like a Mexican wave.

After that Melanie sorted us into groups of three and we moved into our positions. We practised hitting different sized balls. Rhiarna thought the rubber golf ball was easier to hit but Reuben and Laura thought the tennis ball was easier.

Lily found it hard to hold the club. A few of us found it hard to interlock our fingers when holding the club.

Whizz – Liam Barron’s ball whizzed through the air, down the field and nearly took Ava’s head off! She got such a fright!

We had a great golf day with Melanie and hope to have the opportunity again.