London Olympics

This year, the Olympic games will take place in London for the third time ever. The first time that the Olympic Games were held in London was 1908, the second was in 1948. In the London Olympic games in 1948, Fanny Blankers-Koen, a dutch mother of 2 became the only woman in history to win 4 gold medals at one game. The first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens, Greece.

At the 2008 Beijing Olympic games, the country that won the most medals was the USA. Michael Phelps is one of the athletes from the USA who has 16 gold medals and is also looking to win more this year. He won 3 gold medals in 2008 as well.

The world fastest man, Usain Bolt holds the world record of the 100 metre sprint, 200 metre sprint and the 4x100 metre relay. The sports that I know that they are included in the Olympics are swimming, track and field, weightlifting, table tennis, water polo, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball and many others. This years Olympics is going to have some returning champions who won medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

London is a city that embraces the majesty of the old and the excitement of the new. As an athlete, you have to set a goal and try to achieve. If you do then you make the goal more harder. Just like Valerie Adams, her first throw for shot put was 17.45m. Then she practised and practised and practised then she threw a score of 19.66m. Now her personal best throw is 21.24 metres.

I have many favorite activities and athletes but my favorite activity in the Olympics is shot put and my favorite athlete is Valerie Adams. When I watch her throw in shot put, I feel very happy and someday I would like to become a shot putter just like her.  

Maths Whizz

Maths whizz is so fun to go on. When you go on Maths Whizz, you have an activity and when you finish it you get weekly usage. My weekly usage is 1 hour and 49 minute.

Valerie Adams

Valerie Adam is a shot putter from New Zealand. She is the reigning women's Olympic champion and three-time World champion, two-time Commonwealth and World Indoor champion. She first began shot putting in a competition at school when she was 14, she was also seen by Kristen Hellier. Valerie's mother died from cancer when she was 16. Valerie Adams first Olympic Games was in Athens in 2004. In the qualifying rounds Valerie finished in ninth place, missing the cut for the final. One of finalist failed a drug test, dropping Valerie into eighth place. In 2008 Valerie Adams won the gold medal in the shotput at the Beijing Olympic Games. Kristen Hellier said that Valerie is an amazingly competitive temperament, and the mental ability to perform well.

Attitude

This slideshow is about attitude. Attitude is generally a negative person, event, object, thing or just about anything in your environment.

My special place

Special places are everywhere. My special place is in Gisborne. I chose Gisborne because I went to a beach with my mum called Waikanae beach and we had a swim there. It was so awesome! I really liked that place because I got to meet new people in my family that I didn’t know before. It takes a really long time to get there but it’s worth it because I have fun playing with my cousins. It’s special to me because it reminds me of the first time I got to meet new people in my family.

Claude Monet is really talented when it comes to painting. So, that is why I chose him. His style of art is Impressionism. I have decided to base my painting on Monet’s because he makes his art look so realistic. I wanted to try and make my painting of Waikanae beach look like the one of his called ‘Arm of the Seine near Vetheuil’. His art looks like he hasn’t even sketched it. When you look at his paintings, it has no lines at all. It doesn’t really matter what colours you use but the important thing is that you know what colours you’re using. The colours that I have used are dull. I didn’t use bright colours because I like dull colours like green. I carefully used little brush strokes and it was pretty hard to do. I really like my painting and I hope you do too.

Reflection for this term

This term, I have learnt alot of things about art. The other thing is that we even got to learn about artists like Claude Monet, Vincent Van gogh, Henri Matisse and their styles of art. I have a painting of my special place and the artist that I have chosen to look over on is Claude Monet. His art is like when you take a picture but moved a little and everything is blurry. I am proud of what I have accomplished this term.

We even had a performance and it was called P.E.P.A, it stands for Pt England Performing Art. It was so awesome!!! I like it because there were all sort of categories. There were kapa haka, hip hop, ballet, breakdancing and others. A lot of people were very confident at what they were doing because their teacher was very confident as well and her name is Olivia Muliaumasealii. She is the one who made up P.E.P.A.

This term has been a blast. I feel really happy and sad at the same time. The reason I feel happy is because we don’t have to go to school and the reason why I’m sad is because I don’t get to see my friends again until school starts. I hope that next term will be even better.

Art of my special place

The painting on the left is my artwork of my special place. The artist that I have chosen is Claude Monet. I hope you like it