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Tuesday, 2 August 2016

The Olympics

The ancient greeks started the tradition of having an Olympic flame. In Olympia a sacred flame is lit by the sun's rays and stays alight until the games have ended .The flame symbolized a request for protection from Zeus and the athletes’ struggles for victory.

... ceremony-olympic flame.jpgThe modern flame symbolizes the light of the spirit, knowledge and life. To this day, the torch is still lit in Olympia in Greece, then carried by a relay team, passing runner to runner, until it reaches the host-city of the games .There, the cauldron will be lit and stay alight until .The closing ceremony.

Friday, 29 July 2016

Dogs

The ancient Olympics

The Olympics begin over two and a half thousand years ago in ancient greece in those days greece was made up of several different states  including athens sparta and corinth and they were often at a war with each other    but when the game was on they held a truce this grace event was held at a place called Olympics and this is why the game  is called Olympia they were held for once every four years  in honour  of Zeus lord of all the gods avieg to the  ancient Olympics were abolished by Roman  Emperor and the Theodosus the first who was a Christian and didn't like the games and they were dedicated to a pagan god  but the Olympics were always remembered as a sembull human a chefment and peace.    

Thursday, 7 July 2016

Tessellation

Today we are learning about tessellation. 

My trip to Te tuhi down in pakuranga

First  thing in the morning  we were walking to the bus to Te Tuhi so we can see some art and carefully listened to Jeremy also we did our dream houses  made with shapes then went to the art gallery  and  we saw short movie also we saw movie that you can make metal with   we needed to cut the shapes out and glue them .

Friday, 1 July 2016

Duffy book


Today we got Duffy books from Duffy and I love this book from Farah mohammed.