Room 11: July 2016

Saturday, July 30, 2016

Week 2, Group 2 Reading links

Write today's date and WALT into your Reading Activity book
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrLsG2GrrmA
Watch it again and write the name of each 'Habit' into your Reading Activity book. Write them down the page and leave a line in between each one.
Next to each one write what you think it means

After you've worked with Mrs Inglis...

Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IySCpyy297A

Add to your notes about what each 'habit' means as you get more info from this video

Thursday, July 28, 2016

Olympics 2016

Questions about the history of the Olympics

http://www.knowitall.org/content/history-olympics-ancient-and-modern

https://www.olympic.org/ancient-olympic-games/history

http://www.penn.museum/sites/olympics/olympicorigins.shtml

Questions about the point of the Olympics

https://www.reference.com/sports-active-lifestyle/purpose-modern-olympic-games-aae486f34a25253

https://www.reference.com/sports-active-lifestyle/purpose-olympic-games-42539e7709604dd5

http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/first-olympics1.htm

Questions about which sports get included and who decides

Page 9 of this pdf: https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Documents/Document-Set-Teachers-The-Main-Olympic-Topics/The-Modern-Olympic-Games.pdf

http://www.topendsports.com/events/summer/sport-selection.htm

http://sports.stackexchange.com/questions/255/how-does-a-sport-become-an-olympic-sport

Questions about who participates in the Olympics

https://www.rio2016.com/en/athletes

New Zealand Olympic team: http://www.olympic.org.nz/games/rio-2016/

http://registration.olympic.org/en/faq/detail/id/41

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The main Rio 2016 website: https://www.olympic.org/olympic-games

An amazing resource to learn all sorts of cool stuff about the Olympics...

https://stillmed.olympic.org/media/Document%20Library/OlympicOrg/Documents/Document-Set-Teachers-The-Main-Olympic-Topics/The-Modern-Olympic-Games.pdf

Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Link for group 3

Here is the link to find out more about the Maungatautari sanctuary: http://www.maungatrust.org/

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Red Sock Day!

When your class is named for Sir Peter Blake you kind of have to get into the buzz of Red Sock Day! Here is Room 11 celebrating the awesomeness of Sir Peter Blake and feeling lucky :)