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Olympics

The Olympics

By Aiden

The first Olympics were held in Ancient Greece in Olympia. In the modern Olympics only men were allowed to compete until 1900, and then women were allowed to compete too.

Winners received silver medals, olive branches, and paintings. The first Olympics where gold medals were given were in St Louis in 1904.

I enjoy watching the Olympics on the TV, and my favourite person is Usain Bolt who runs really fast. I like watching the running and the swimming.

Neighbours

My dictionary says that neighbours are the people who live around you.

All of my neighbours are really nice. I can hear them in the garden lots.

We sometimes see Pippa the dog run past our house. Once I had to put her back over the fence at her house so that she wouldn’t get run over.

When we sold walnuts for $3 a bag some of our neighbours came over to buy some.

The total of the money was $15.

Scratch

In class I have been learning about the points of the compass and directions.

This week I learnt about a programme called Scratch which uses directions to create a little computer program.

My job was to use Scratch to create something that could be shared with the rest of the class. What my Scratch was about was all down to me and my imagination! I had to be creative!

Click on the green flag to start and the red octagon to stop.

Swimming Sports

Swimming Sports is where the Year 4s, 5s and 6s at Havelock North Primary take part in swimming races in their houses. We then had to create a voki for homework about one of the races.

Our voki needed to tell the class about our favourite race at swimming sports and why we liked that one the best. We had to remember to hook our listener in and give the audience lots of interesting information.