Opening Ceremony

BOOM went the drums,2008 traditional drums and 2008 people playing on each of them wow!
In the very first beginning of the opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics there were 2008 drums with the same amount of people playing on each of them.The suit that the drummers wore was orange white and a bit of red.The sound of the drums sounded like thunder making a perfect sound of drums.After a while the lights went of.It was amazing because red was the only light shining in the stadium.The drummers were using red glow sticks as a drum stick playing in the dark.if I was to be playing in the dark with a red glow stick I would be muddled up because I wouldn't know what to do and I wouldn't be able to See it as well.When the staidum went wild with cheering and there were no drums playing, fire works shot up on the sides surrounding us like roaring lions.I felt like it was a celebration going on around the city because there were heaps of fire works going by like a popping popcorn.The fire works went down the street second after second shaped as a foot print.There were twenty-nine foot it prints representing the twenty-ninth Olympic games.

Immersion Assembly

WOW! I walked into the hall and saw all the teachers dressed in sports costumes.When I was looking for Miss Squires I couldn't find her but when I saw the students from room15 I went and sat down next to them.There was someone next to them sitting on a chair with Afro hair and a basket ball suit holding a basket ball.I decided to look closer because I was thinking it was a real sport person.But when I looked closer Miss Squires dressed as Michael Jordon.

The teachers were all dressed up as Athletes because this term our topic is called "we are the champions".We are learning about the Olympics which are being held in Beijing in a few weeks.

In Assembly when it was term Four's turn to go up and show what their costumes were about it was like the book called "Who am I".This was because the teachers were talking a little bit about the person they were dressed as but they didn't tell the name of the person,we had to guess.I didn't see the other team's because I came to school late,so I could only watch team four.The first team four teacher was Mrs Nua.She was dressed as Irene Van Dyke.The next teacher was Mr Palmer,he was a Rugby player.Then it was the next teacher and she was dressed as a rugby player as well and it was Miss Langitupu.The last teacher was Miss Squires.I already knew what Miss Squires was, she was dressed as Michael Jordon.After team Four it was Mr Jacobson and Mr Burt.Mr Jacobson was a cycling person and his name was Cashy Luke's.Mr Burt was dressed as an equestrian and his name was Mark Todd.

Cross Country Training

This term team four have been cross country training.The track we have to run is not really long but if you do the course twice it will be half the track that we will have to run in the real cross country race.
When we start to run we begin running with our class.The classes start at different times.As we run we have been timed.When we have done the first round around the track we will see a chart with heaps of times.The chart is there so that we will know how long we took.