Our little secret!

Do you like my title “Our little secret?” The whole point of our little secret  is... “YOU DON’T TELL ANYONE!” It’s only our little secret!

When is your birthday? Do you like celebrating your birthday? Does that give you enough clues to guess what our secret is.Well if you didn’t get the clues, my I mean our secret is my birthday is coming up! I know it is not a big deal but I would like to keep it a secret. Some people like celebrating their birthday, but at school I don’t!

Yes, I know some of you might be saying “why don’t you like celebrating your birthday at school.” Well I will answer that question, it’s not really that I hate having my birthday at school I just don’t like everyone saying “HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”

But I love celebrating my birthday at home with family and friends! This year Tui and Rita are invited to spend the day full of activities and fun. My birthday is August the 16th but I’m going to celebrate it on the 18th of August instead.

Thanks to the intelligent Tui for reading this, and  who is coming to my birthday. She is truly helpful! If you would like to read some pieces from her blog just click on this link.

New Zealand and there medals

There they are... Walking down with the New Zealand flag! Representing our country walking tall with their heads up high. I am so proud to be a New Zealander!

The Olympic that's what I’m talking about! Yes, yes, yes I know I talked about the olympics alot! But I can’t help it this term is all about the London Olympics.

You may know Valerie Adams... But did you know that she may have missed the chance of winning a medal! Well it’s true, imagine that, the World defending champion not even qualifying. Lucky since she was the defending champ she was able to participate. She won a silver medals.


What about our New Zealand Rowing team! They did pretty good they ended up having 3 Golds and 2 Bronze.  They tried hard and they got reward to, with gold and bronze.

Thanks to http://www.london2012.com/ for the informatshion and facts. Go and see for yourself and you could see the latest medals and the country what has the most medals.

Fencing

This term is all about the london olympics! We were given the task to write about one Olympic sport that were not really familiar with, and get to know more about  the sport. I have decided that I would like to know more about... FENCING.

I am going to make a promise to you, and I will keep it. Each week for this term, I will learn about one particular sport from the London Olympics and I will tell you what I learnt. I will start this week.


Fencing was first introduced in the London Olympics, the year of 1896. This sport is divided into three  Foil, Sabre and  Épée. In each division you are allowed to hit in certain places and in some places you hit you will be. Were you can see the orange is where you’re allowed to hit. If it is not orange you CAN NOT HIT THERE! But this is only Épée.This is Foil. Can you see where your aloud to hit?This is Sabre you can only hit the upper part of the body. Including the head and arms.



Thanks to Tui for reading this, we found alot of new things about Fencing. Do you remember when fencing was first introduced? I had a lot of fun finding these facts and sharing them with you. Make sure to look at Tui’s Blog about her finding more facts about fencing.

Goals for Go for Gold

“Go for Gold” is our motto this term. A motto is a phrase of a short sentence.   What do you think go for gold means? Well, I think it’s another way of saying “If you work hard you can be the best you can be.”

We were given a task to find out what we're not really good at,  or what we want to improve in.  We have to do it physically not mentally so... I have taken the challenge to learn how to play (drum roll please) Tennis! Yes, I have picked Tennis because I've never played this sport before and I really want to get better at playing it, plus it looks really cool to play.

How I will achieve this goal. Well I will do a test at the start to see if I can hit the ball correctly and see how good I’m playing.  By Practising I will eventfully be perfect.

Thanks to Ramona for reading my work, and helping me with my mistakes. I would also like to thank tui.

Term 2 London Olympic

The start of the term 3 is here and as always we have an immersion assembly. This term we are learning about The London Olympics! You may have read some of my other posts and are saying "why are you talking about the London Olympics again."

Well as we know the London Olympics are coming soon, I can’t hardly wait. Before 1896 Women were not allowed to compete in the olympics, they weren’t even allowed to watch the event! In 1900 was the first ever olympics that Women were allowed to compete in. This year's Olympics are really special because this year Women are allowed to compete in every event.

My favourite sport that I’m looking forward to, are: Tennis and Archery. Why did I only say those two, because they're my top two favourite events in the Olympics.  I like Tennis because it is a hard sport and it takes a lot of strength and practice. Also the reason why I like Archery is because of the concentration, the arrow and the bow.

So this term is all about the London Olympics and our motto is "Go for Gold." We were given the task to find something that we want to improve in. My choice  is to learn how to play tennis. Do you have a goal or something you want to achieve?



A big thank you to Tui for reading this and for helping me with my spelling mistakes.
She was a big help and she said "I love your vocabulary." That's good because I'm not that good when it comes to vocabulary. Have you ever been to London?

My christmas suprise

Christmas morning, waking up. One present in particular was from my mum to my dad and I. Feeling the parcel “What is it?” I said to myself! Mum made us guess what we thought it was, we couldn't guess, so I carefully started to open it and...

It was a baby top! “Why did you give us this mum” I froze and looked at her. “you’re going to be a big sister!” Said my Mum in a calm voice. I could feel a big smile coming across my face. “What is it ”I said loudly. But we didn’t know then.

“I was right.” Why did I say I was right? Well, when we went to the baby scan my Mum asked if we could guess if baby was a Boy or a Girl. Only I guessed correctly!
Which name do you prefer Jaxson or Toran? That should tell you what gender the baby is but if you don’t know, it’s a boy!

My Mum is 39 weeks and that is close to giving birth. He is due on July the 7th, the day after my cousins birthday and a month before I turn twelve. I can’t wait for him to come, I hope he doesn't keep us waiting too long. I think I would be a lovely big sister.
He could come any minute. We already decorated his room and it looks fantastic, if I may say so myself. We have packed the bags, and the car seat. We are ready for whenever he decides to come.

London Olympics

The Olympics are coming up and I am so “EXITED! “Did you know that the olympics are held every 4 years?” It’s not always held in the same place...

This year the olympics are being held in London. London... What a great place to have it. With the Big Ben you're sure to know when each event is on!

The sport I’m looking forward to is Equestrian. I am a fan of Equestrian because of the horses. I love animals! Along with all the jumps and tricks, I think those trainers and horses are amazing.

At the london olympics there are three things they have to show what they have trained their horses  , Eventing and Jumping. Each discipline requires different skills from the riders and horses competing.

I got these images from http://www.london2012.com Their are facts, pictures, games and a schedule to tell you when every event is on. To help you say some of the hard words I have broken it down “e·ques·tri·an”.

A special  thanks to ramona for editing my work and giving feedback about my writing.

She really helped me alot.