Today we immersed ourselves in the Olympics! We are looking at how you can be the best of the best. Miss Hammond set up lots of little stations around the room with different activities to do. The computers had the official website on, there were wordfinds, articles, books and heaps of other things. As we weere working we kept askign question, so we recorded these on a wondering wall and challenged each other to find the answers. Below is what we have learned so far.
Ethan Says - Today we have been learning about the olympics. I learnt that every sport has a different age that you have to be.
Neil Says - There are 26 sports in the olympics. When you are going up a hill in cycling you put it on a lower gear and when you are going down you put it on a higher gear.
Chase Says - It is 22000km from New Zealand to London.
Ella Says - Do you know that their is only 49 days until the Olympics start.
Usharn Says - You have to be the best of the very best to go to the olympics. You can pick any sport, but only if its a sport not a game like tiggy.
Parthiv Says - They expected 405 nations to participate at the olympics.
Dallas Says - I learnt that professionals can't go to the olympics because then it wont be fair to everyone else.
Autumn Says - I heard that when i was reading one of the stories that the olympics was 3000 years ago.
Thomas Says - In the olympics their is a big stadium with running track lanes. The Olympics that the olympics have sports like diving.
Emma Says - If you sign a contract to be a profession al player, you are not allowed to go to the olympics.
Jake Says - One of the games that they play in the pool is waterpolo.
Josh Says - In the olden day olympics there is a sport with painting.
Cameron F Says - I learnt that London held the Olympics in 1904 and 1964.
A huge congratulations to Emma and Cameron who competed today in the Middle School Spelling Bee! It was a tough challenge with Emma coming 2nd and Cameron coming 3rd!
Emma Says - We had to write our answer on a little whiteboard and when Miss Hammond said "Stop" we had to turn our boards around. Mrs Wihongi then came along and gave us a teddy bear if it was wrong in the first round. If you got 2 teddies you were out! In the second round the first person to collect 5 bears for getting the words right won. I had to spell word like ache, knight and wardrobe . They were hard and got some wrong. 
The Olympic Bus tour came to visit today! The Special guest was Sarah Ulmer who has competed at 3 Olympics games, the first one when she was 20! Wow. She told all all about the Individual Pursuit Race that she use to compete in and how she set a world record! She said that although she has won about 150 medals since she was 16, she has lost more that she has ever won. 
Today we immersed ourselves in the Olympics! We are looking at how you can be the best of the best. Miss Hammond set up lots of little stations around the room with different activities to do. The computers had the official website on, there were wordfinds, articles, books and heaps of other things. As we weere working we kept askign question, so we recorded these on a wondering wall and challenged each other to find the answers. Below is what we have learned so far.
Ella Says - Do you know that their is only 49 days until the Olympics start.
Jake Says - One of the games that they play in the pool is waterpolo.
What do you know about the olympics?
