The Dance

Mexico

MEXICO

Mexico is in South America and has 122.3 million people.

Mexicos favourite food is Enchiladas. It is made with a corn tortilla rolled around a filling and covered with a chilli pepper sauce.

Two of Mexico’s animals are the Manatee and the Jaguar.

The Manatee has brownish-gray skin and a large body. They are also known as sea cows because they only eat vegetables.

Jaguars are big cats and it has four sharp teeth. Jaguars are the third largest cats . Jaguars are only found in America. Jaguars like water and are good swimmers. Some Jaguars have black spots and some are all black.

By Isileli

China

China

China is in Asia and is also the 3rd largest country in the whole world.

The capital city is Beijing and is very beautiful. It has the largest

population in the world.

China’s main sport is Kung fu. It is a fitness sport. Gong means work,

achievement or merit.The Chinese flag is red and has five yellow stars four little and one big star.

The chinese dance they use dragons but it is only for the boys because it's very heavy for the girl so the girls use these Chinese fans.

China is a very very old country. It was discovered over 3000 years ago.

China is one of the 4 ancient civilizations along with Lidia,Egypt and

Mesopotamia.

By Ngakiri

Athletics Day

ATHLETICS

On Wednesday 23rd of November 2016 our school did athletics. In athletics we had discus, shot put, high Jump, hundred metre sprint, and relays. My favourite one is high jump because when you make it over the bar you get another turn and the bar gets higher and higher. But when you don’t make it over the bar you just have to watch other people do the high jump.

Hundred metre sprint you have to run hundred metres and back you don’t jog you run because sprint means run.

Next one is relays. In relays you need to have two rows of four people. In each row you need four tubes. The first row has to run to the second row and the second row has to run  to the end and back to the first row so they can go back then choose first, second and third.

In discus you have to get a discus and have to move your arms across three times in the third one you release the discus and then measure the distance where the discus landed.

After that is shot put. In shot put you have to grab a heavy shot put. If you're left handed you face the left side, if you're right handed you face the right side. You bend your knees and turn four times when you throw you use all the power then throw. I don’t like shot put because it’s very hard to throw.

By AJ

Egypt

Egypt is a country and Africa is a continent. Egypt is famous for its pyramids, mummies and the ancient kings. It is in the Mediterranean sea.

Pyramids are 139 meters long and the Sphinx of Giza is twenty meters long. Egyptians built the pyramids as tombs, and there are about eighteen today in ancient Egypt. Most of the ancient pyramids were made from tombs for Pharaohs, the ancient Egypt ruler.

Egyptian children come fast and the population is rapidly going higher. About 80 to 90 percent of egyptians are Muslims. Egypt is home to a wide variety of animals and also plants, including cheetahs, hyenas, crocodiles and cabras.The best places to see Egypt's wildlife are in its 21 protected regions.

The colours of the Egyptian flag are red, white and black with a golden eagle in the white strip.The Egypt colours stand for revolution, future and the black revolutions.

The most popular dance in Egypt is the belley dance, and there is a dance for men called the stick dance.

By Lewis

Maths

Athletics Day

Athletics Day

Today at 9:15 the whole school did athletics.

The first one room 9 did was shot put. We had to go in two lines, boys and girls so it can be equal groups.

Moving on to the next activity,we went to throwing discus. Again we had to go in two lines boys and girls. I came first out out of the girls and out of the boys LJ and Kue’a came first.

How to throw a discus

So you hold a discus bend your knees and with your left hand you move forwards and backwards, and with your right hand you put it straight. You count up to four and on that fourth count you throw it.

The next activity was 100 metre sprint with Mrs Stone who is in room 7 with Mrs Tofa’s class. We had to sprint to her and sprint back. It was tiring because we had to go two times.

After that we had to go to Miss Kay to do relays. We had to go in partners so when we face each other the opposite way out partner can run to us and we can run all the way to the big tree. We had to do practise and then for real. It was fun, exhausting and kind of boring.

The last activity was high jump.  When I looked far away it looked really high but when room 9 came closer it was really low. The girls had to go first and we were backing away and scared. So a teacher told Ngakiri to come and she went. Some of them touched the bar and some of the girls didn’t. It was really really fun and not exhausting, I had to say high jump was my favourite because we had a little play around and room 9 got to laugh and smile.

By Anastacia

What is Music?

During Term 3 Room 9 was learning about music and sound. We wrote poems about music, made guitars out of tissue boxes and wrote a rap about music. This is a music video that we made to our rap to show what we have learnt. Room 9 students learnt, created and are now sharing this video with you. Watch enjoy and leave a comment please.

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