Winter Olympics

Rhys Thornbury is a 28 year old man who represented New Zealand in the Winter Olympics for skeleton,

he came 8th place. He is from Perth, Australian and was formerly a weapons technician in the RAF.

Did you know that he was interested in rugby like most kiwi boys, but he wanted to stick to skeleton

and see his country (New Zealand) have the experience and strength in the sport skeleton.  

NZ Winter Olympic Whakatauki

Today for Inquiry Alex, Lyric and I finished off our Whakatauki for the Winter Olympic games. We were to make our own whakatauki in English and translate into Maori. After that we wrote what the whakatauki means.We learnt that play has a lot of synonyms to it in Maori like Purei, Takaro, Hianga, Tauparapara etc. As you can see we decided to choose Purei. 

Olympic And PBS Key Values

L.I - To collect information in order to make a comparison.

As part of Inquiry today we made a Digital Learning Object comparing it to our (P.B.S) values and the Olympic values. First we went on a site and read a text about Olympics and their values. We collected all the information. I learnt that the Olympic values are Excellence, Friendship and Respect. The similarities we found about the Olympic and P.B.S values are that they both have Excellence and Respect in their key values. We did some research about the Olympic Creed and Motto and we found good information. We did little research about our school because something of the things we knew but didn't understand. I think working about the Winter Olympic is an amazing topic to study on.

Venn Diagram - Mascots - Soohorang & Bely Mishka

For Inquiry we have been searching about different mascots. For our task we had to make a Venn Digram comparing Soohorang (main mascot) to another mascot. My group (Alex, Lyric, me) decided to choose Bely Mishka. I learnt that Bely Mishka was one of the mascots who attended the 2014 Winter Olympic. I also learnt that both mascot attend one of the Winter Olympic games. This years Winter Olympic is taking part in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

Winter Olympic Games - 1924 - Modern Times - Venn Diagramm

As part of our Inquiry this term we are learning about the Winter Olympic games. First We watched a video showing some of the games that were played in 1924 in the Winter Olympic games and we searched the games that were played in the Modern time. After watching the video we were splited into groups of 3 and listed all the games played in the 1924 winter Olympic and the games that were played in the Modern times. After that we made a Venn Diagram about the differences between the 1924 winter Olympic and the modern winter Olympic. I learnt that in 1924 they had 16 countries attending and in the Modern times there were 82 to 99 countries attending. I had a lot of fun learning about the differences between the old and new winter Olympics.