2 weeks ago room 6 and I wrote a haiku poem. A haiku poem is where you write 3 lines

and put 5 syllables in the first and third lines and 7 syllables in the middle .

The water is cold

I dive dolphin like

I fell off the boat.

Have you ever wondered when the modern Olympics that we know today started? And did you know where the first ever Olympics were held?

It’s interesting to know that the Olympics started in 776 BC which means that’s even before Jesus was born. It was in Athens, Greece. The modern Olympics as we know today started in 1896.

We looked at an American artist called Keith Haring who drew simple outlines of people. In 1981 Keith Haring started making art when he was at a young age. Keith Haring was interested in the cartoons of his youth, particularly the work of Dr. Seuss and Walt Disney. We made art just like Keith Haring’s and mine is of my athlete I researched who is a skateboarder. His name is Horigome Yuto. He’s 25 years old and he lives in Tokyo. He won 2 gold medals. He represents Japan.

This is a picture of me with my Olympics learning:                                                                            My Athlete

During this international language week, I researched my country, my culture and my language. I come from the Philippines.

Some people think turtles and tortoises are similar and other people think they are different. There are actually many similarities as well as differences between them. Turtles can sleep underwater while holding their breaths, some for 7 hours even depending on their species. However, tortoises cannot go under water for very long. Full grown tortoises are 46 cm long, however Turtles are much smaller.  Tortoises and turtles lay eggs on land, eat vegetables, although turtles will eat small animals that live in water like fish and worms.

Last Thursday afternoon room 6 and room 7  did a waste fashion show. The preparations started on Tuesday with ideas using cardboard, newspaper, paint, and other recycled materials.

I started with cardboard then I cut the shape out of a square. I couldn’t just use a box because the box was too thick. I had to cut the top because  it was too long.

 I finished cutting the cardboard and putting a glue gun on it. Now I had to paint it black. I had to use a lot of black paint. When I finished I let it dry. Now I had to make the eyes – the colours were light pink and purple. I didn’t have light pink so I made my own light pink. I put a little white and not the same amount of red. I mixed it then made the right colour. I drew 3 lines. And painted light pink on the sides then purple in the middle. 

Now I was doing the body. I tried finding the body in the enormous pile of rubbish and I found it! I found the back and the front body part then Mrs Agnew helped me to unfold the cardboard.     

It took me a long time to paint the box black because it was quite large. In the end I brought some black trousers to wear underneath. I was a little nervous after lunch when we had to get ready for our fashion show, in front of the whole school.

We took it in turns to walk across the floor in Room 7 and the whole school was clapping and screaming. We felt very proud of our outfits. It was a great week at school. I enjoyed working on my outfit everyday of the week.