Our 1st Social Dancing practise

On Wednesdays and Thursdays we have social dancing. On Thursday we had our 1st social dance practise. We learnt 2 dances in 1 hour. We learnt 'Red Hot' it is a line dance and 'Jack in a Box' it is a Partner dance. I found that social dancing wasn't as bad as I thought. I liked both dances, yet my favourite was Red Hot, it was fun and we moved a lot; so that was my favourite dance for our 1st session.

Equestrian

In class we have been learning about the Rio Olympics. We had to write a report about a sport in it; I choose Equestrian. Here is my work.

Equestrian

Ever seen the Olympics; the Rio Olympics, the one that is held every four years, but is always from the 5th-21st of August. Well Equestrian is one of twenty sports there are and has been since 1900. The horses, do you think they are alwaysed used until they pass, well you’d probably wouldn’t know. Do you think the people never get hurt or survive from that Injury. And the best Equestrian, do you think he would be his own team or not?

Have you been wondering what happens to the horses after the olympics? You probably think that they use them every olympics until they get sick or pass, but it is not as simple as that. Even if the horse comes 1st, they kill them; for no reason. Now I know that most people would want a horse and you’d think that they would sell them to people but they don’t. They slaughter them. Once in 1988 this kid who was 12 years old entered and died from her horse falling on top of her.

Ever had an injury, bet it wasn’t as bad as these injuries. Shannon Bloomfield. In 1988 she was going to enter the olympics but never made it out alive. There were paramedics and a doctor at the arena when her horse failed to jump the fence properly, and got killed from the horse jumping on top of her. She was rushed into the ambulance and got taken to the hospital, when they pronounced her dead. She was very unlucky, normally people get bruises or strain or sprain a muscle, there are also those people who get on the unlucky side of things, who fracture, or have a concussion, some people even die.

Do you know the best Equestrian? This year Great Britain got 2 medals, while Portugal got the 3rd; Charlotte DUJARDIN got a Gold and a Silver for Great Britain. And meanwhile Sir Mark Todd went as his own team (For NZ). Ian Miller. Everyone thought Ian Miller was going to bring canada home a couple of Golds or even a medal; but he didn’t obviously.

So just to remind you: after the olympics horses die; they don’t sell them, even if they come 1st place. Shannon Bloomfield was going to enter the 1988 South Korea Olympics when her horse fell on her causing her death. And Great Britain got 1st and 2nd place while Portugal got 3rd, and Sir Mark Todd went as his own team. Now time for some facts about horses, and the Olympics. Did you know that Britain is the only country to win a gold medal at every summer games. Did you know that the fully grown adult brain is half the weight of a horse's brain. Horse’s teeth never stop growing and horse’s like sweet flavour; not sour or bitter. To get tickets for the olympics, you would have to pay $20-$70. There are over 350 breeds of horse’s. The average horse weighs 1000 pounds. A horse of average size has approximately 28 litres of water. The top speed of a of a Horse is about 45 Mph. The smallest horse ever recorded was a Falabella (miniature pony) which stood 48cm, or just under 5 Hands and weighed 14Kg. The largest horse ever recorded was a Belgian that stood 1.8M (6ft) tall, or 18 Hands, and weighed 1400Kgs. Horses have the largest eyes of any land animal.

Mystery Art

In class we have been working on our "Mystery Art". We all got a piece of a word and coloured in the 'word' part and done designs on the outer part. There were 36 pieces and we still haven't finished, although it spells Ruma Iwa; which means Room Nine in maori. Here is the photo:

Amazing Olympic Flags

In class we have been learning about the olympics. We made some of the olympic flags. I choose Egypt and the Korean flag because Egypt I had never seen their flag and it sounded easy(IT'S NOT) and Korean because I wanted to do one of the asian flags. These are my flags.

Korean

Egypt

Hetiki Art

In class we made He Tiki Art. First we had to make our background. We made that by using wax pastels and made sure there were no white bits, then painted it black with poster paint. While waiting for that to dry we used chalk pastel to do our He Tiki. When it was dry we made patterns on the paper with toothpicks, go wild with your patterns. Then you cut out your He Tiki and glue it on. Da Da your He Tiki art is done. Enjoy having a wonderful piece of art on your wall.

First Aid Electronics

From the Get ready get thru website tells us there are four things to do to get ready for a disaster. 

1 Learn about disasters

2 Create a emergency plan

3 Assembly and maintain emergency survival items

 4 Have a getaway kit

The emergency survival items say that we will need Torch with spear batteries. I am going to make some kind of light for an emergency.