Commonwealth Games 2014- Jamaica.

Intro:

Jamaica’s population 2.712 million and the Capital city is Kingston, Jamaica.

Language: Jamaican English.

Flag: Green represents hope, vegetation, and agriculture, Black reflects hardships overcome and to be faced, and yellow recalls golden sunshine and the islands natural resources.

Popular Sport: Jamaican Basketball.

Teams in the commonwealth games: Boxing team, Running team, Cricket team,

Where is Jamaica?. Next to Osborne Store.

Commonwealth Games Facts.

1	If you come 1st place you get a Gold medal
2	Swimming is in the games.
3	Cook Island, South africa, Tonga, Samoa, Canada, Fiji are in the games.
4	NZ has a netball team in the games.
5	Rugby sevens is in the games.

1	This will be the 20th edition of the Commonwealth Games. The first was hosted by Hamilton, Canada, in 1930 and known as the British Empire Games.
2	Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world.
3	Australia leads the way with a staggering 803 gold medals
4	The Commonwealth games is held in Scotland (Glasgow) this year.
5	Para sports are at the Commonwealth games this year.
6	71 countries are competing in the games.
7	Valerie Adams was carrying New Zealands flag in the opening ceremony.
8	‘Game On Scotland’ is the official education programme of the Glasgow 2014 games.
9	Eric Finau is in boxing for NZ.
10	Valerie Adams is the world’s best shotputter.

My Holidays.

In the holidays I was staying at my nana’s house. This man was bringing us some butter chicken and he sold tickets for $20 dollars to go to the movies. On Saturday we went to the movies in Sylvia Park to go and watch the new ‘Transformers 4’. We bought 3 extreme big buckets of popcorn, and 3 large drinks with 2 straws.

We were at the top seats at the back. We could see the movie clearly, but it was noisy because babies were crying and people were talking.  I told them to “shh…” and they were quiet.

The movie was about a man who found one of the main Transformers.  He went with his friend to their old school to talk this old man. Then they went to the stage and saw a truck that  was old, rusty, and dirty. The man asked the old man “How much is this truck?” and the man said “I don’t know”.

So his friend send “I will buy it off you for $150.00 dollars. Then his friend got angry and said “This is my truck” and the man said “No it’s my truck because you aren't the boss”.

The movie took long then I started to fall off to sleep and then  I was asking to go to the toilet. It finished around 11:00 clock. I really liked the movie because Optimums Prime got to ride Grimlock the dinosaur.

What Does Echolocation Mean?

Echolocation is what Ben Underwood uses to see. It means that when he does a clicking sound it rebounds off the object and the sound comes back. He knows where he is going and where the object is. He is the only one in the world that can see without eyes, and he can hear cars before his friends can see.

Bats use a clicking sound to find food to eat. When they get closer they do a faster clicking sound to see where their food is, like a moth. Bats have really big ears for hearing. Whales make a sound underwater to call other whales and to find food.


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Todays Weather.

(Weather).- Rain.

Todays weather is terrible because it is pouring cold and wet rain. It was raining a little bit yesterday and it was cold too. Some of us was coming school wet in our school uniform.

There was lots of paddles in the senior block, when we walk to class in the morning. The paddles were ENORMOUS!! and cold, and the grass too. It is muddy on the field too. Poor year two’s have to walk on the muddy grass and paddles too.

About Hiwarau Scalan.

Hiwarau is 11 years old and born 2002 July the 19. And 1 meter Cm tall, and got four sisters and four brothers. His hobby is making loom bands and challenging kids at our school.

His brothers and sisters names are Piriniha, Jahvaun , daniella, Amathus, and him too. Some of them goes pt england school and piriniha goes tamaki college. His favourite sport is b-ball.

He is Maori and half Samoa.

Teach At Tamaki College

Teach classes At Tamaki College.

In term 1 every thursdays we always go for teach at tamaki college. The first class I was in was hard materials, we had to insert a picture that we liked. We all had to pick four different kind of people what like a paste the picture in.

After that we had to pick our final picture then draw it on a square shape piece of wood. Then we show our teacher called Mr. Grundy. Then we have had to go and cut our materials, then Mr. Grundy has to pour in the pewter in the wood.

Then when we finished pouring the pewter in we have to smooth in the edges with some sanding tools,