Sri Lanka

Introduction:

Where is Sri Lanka? What is Sri Lanka? Is it a person or country? Keep reading and you’ll find out.

What is Sri Lanka:

To start off, Sri Lanka is a small country. The continent of Sri Lanka is Southern Asia. Colombo is the capital of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's population is 20.33 million. Wow! There are more people in Sri Lanka than in New Zealand.

Culture & language:

There are two languages that people in Sri Lanka use.

The first one is the Sinhala language. Sinhala is one of their national languages. The second language is the Tamil language. The Tamil language is mostly spoken by people in Northern East Sri Lanka.

Popular sport:

Volleyball is a national sport in Sri Lanka. Cricket is the most popular sport in Sri Lanka. Rugby union is also is also popular. There are other sports that people like to  play in Sri Lanka. The sports are Water sports, Badminton, Athletics, Football, Basketball and Tennis.      

Flag:

By looking at the Sri Lanka flag, around the backround is a yellow border. On its left is two stripes, the first colour is green and the second colour is saffron. Theres a yellow lion. At the back of the lion is a maroon background.

Did you know facts:

1. Sri Lanka is a country that has a lot of waterfall, so most of their electricity is powered by Hydroelectric Power energy.

2. Sri Lanka is one of the world’s largest tea exports.

3. In Sri Lanka, when someone shaking they head side to side. It actually means “yes”.

4. Sri Lanka is known as a pear island due to its shape.

Words in the story:

Continent mean…..  

Parts of the world’s mainland.  

Population mean….

How many people or thing in a area.

Saffron mean….

It’s a golden yellow type of colour.

Hydroelectric mean….

flowing water that creates every. Just by use water.

Commonwealth Games

5 Facts that I already know about the Commonwealth Games:

1	The winners win a medal. 1 place, 2 place and 3 place.
2	Its all sort of sports
3	The commonwealth game is held in Glasgow, Scotland.
4	Here are some of the countries that are in the Commonwealth Games. Niue, Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, Cook Island, South Africa, Samoa, Tonga and much, much more.
5	It’s a big event because it showed all around the world.

Useful links:

http://www.glasgow2014.com/sites/default/files/attached-files/Glasgow%202014%20Factsheet.pdf

http://www.gameonscotland.org/glasgow2014/

http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/2014/100-facts-about-the-games.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-2290636/Commonwealth-Games-2014--Facts-Figures.html

10 new facts that I found out about the Commonwealth Games: (include a link to the site where you found your information. Your information needs to be in your own words)

1	There are 17 sports in the Commonwealth games.
2	There are 71 countries in the Commonwealth games.
3	In the Commonwealth games there’s 6,500 athletes.
4	In the Commonwealth game the 17 sports they are Aquatics, Netball, Athletics, Rugby, Badminton, Shooting, Boxing, Squash, Cycling, Table tennis, Gymnastics, Triathlon, Hockey, Weightlifting, Judo, Wrestling and Lawn bowls.
5	The first Commonwealth games were held in 1930 in Hamilton, Canada.
6	The Commonwealth games have taken place every four years, but not in 1942 and 146 because of the World War ll.
7	In 1930-1950 the event was called as the British Empire games. In 1954 the event was called British Empire and Commonwealth game. It change to British Commonwealth games in 1970. The event now was transformed into Commonwealth game 1987 and has not been changed.
8	Australia, Canada, England, New Zealand, Scotland, and Wales are the only six countries to have attended every Commonwealth games.
9	The Commonwealth games are also known as the  friendly games.
10	Australia hosted the Commonwealth games five times, New Zealand and Canada four times.

School Holidays

The first week of the holidays, I woke up in a happy mood. Even though my holidays was early. I wanted to come back to school. I stayed at my nanas for the holidays.  

There was a lot of things that happened in my holidays. I also learn some things in those two weeks. I learned about the first mobile phone and who invented them. I also learned about what is Herbalife and found facts about nutritious food. It gets better. Keep reading and you’ll find out.

I watched What Now on Sunday. Gem showed a picture of a girl named Helen Wright who made a dress out of loom bands. Instead of keeping the loom band dress, she sold the dress for $170,100 on eBay. I thought to myself, you can even buy a house with that much money. So that inspired me to create something with rainbow loom bands for the first week of my school holidays.

I sat down on my chair. Then I gathered all of my loom bands and placed them onto my desk. I drew a plan to see if any of my plans in my head could work before I start. My plan took longer than I thought. I had to do chores and help with housework. Finally I finished my plan. I have 3 ideas that can work.

I made a rainbow loom band ball. I thought it was outstanding. It could bounce. It took about 3 days for me to make the ball. Describing it, it’s really colourful and hard.  

The second thing that I made with loom bands is a chain necklace. It took me 2 day to make. The loom band chain necklace look’s like a real chain. It’s more softer and just made out of loom bands. I even made a rainbow loom band flower. By describing the loom band flower, it’s colourful. It only has 4 petals with a stamen. The petals are hard, but the stamen is mushy and hard in the middle.

In the second week of my school holiday, It was all about health. I learned about Herbalife and what it does to you. Also facts about nutritious food. My cousin and I sometimes walk or drive down to Total Nutrition as known as Herbalife. The Total Nutrition we go to is located at Station road, Otahuhu. We go to Total Nutrition on Tuesdays and Thursdays. We also have 24 fit challenge, it’s not only for adults. It’s also for kids. After 24 fit challenge we walk to the park.

My holidays was about mostly learning new things.   

           

What inspired me in the holidays

  

What inspired me in the holidays?

MTV movie awards

Rainbow Loom bands

Teach at Tamki

Every Thursdays class 2, 4 and a half of class 1 walks down to Tamaki college for teach.

At teach there are 3 class. There’s Food Technology, Hard Materials and finally Graphics. Teach is not new for me, Because we had the same 3 class like last year. The only thing that’s cool is, This year is more FUN.  

Last term (term 1) I was in Graphics. For Graphics our teacher is Mr Nobel. When you step in graphics class, you’ll see decks for people to create their design. Alot of art from people at Tamaki college or maybe art that Mr Nobel designed. Even though I was away for 2 months in Australia, I’ve developed a lot of new skills from Mr Nobel. He’s a creative teacher and he has a lot of experience for art.

This term (term 2) I’m in Food technology. In Food Technology our teacher is Ms Heka. She teaches us new and old recipes. Some of the recipes are easy to followed and kind of difficult too. It’s easy because I did Food technology last year. It’s difficult because there are some equipment that I don’t know. It’s really fun in food technology.            

Next term I can’t wait to go to Hard Materials. The teacher for Hard Materials is Mr Grundy. I was in his class last year. He can be a bit grumpy only if you don’t listen or pay attention. Last year there was a lot of naughty boys that made Mr Grundy really grumpy. I think this year will be more better for Mr Grundy and us.