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Kia Ora Katoa!

This week in my Wānanga we have been doing tasks to do with the Olympics which is happening at the moment. My class got six options of tasks to do in class those are: Design a logo for the Christchurch Olympics & Paralympics, write a argument about why you think Olympics should have gone ahead, find 5 different statistics or facts about 3 sports, choose a sport not included in the Olympics and explain why it should be in the Olympics, create a DLO about the Olympics and make a mascot. I choose to create my own mascot.

Firstly I searched up animals in New Zealand I choose Piwakawaka because it seemed like a unique animal to New Zealand. Then I made a google drawing to start tracing the shape of the bird. Once I finished tracing I added details from the Piwakawaka to make it look more similar to the real life version. After I finished the bird I started adding background details, I choose to make it look like it is swimming and I also put a swimming cap on the Piwakawaka's head. Once I finished with everything I choose a name for my Piwakwaka. The name I choose was Piwaka Rarauhue because it relates to New Zealand Piwaka is short for Piwakawaka and Rarauhue translates to Fern from Maori.

Here is what I created:

Hockey🏑

 Kia Ora Readers!

This term in p.e with Miss Bancroft we have learnt skills of different types of sports. One sport we learn't is hockey, it is played with a stick with a bottom curve and a hockey ball.  The equipment used in hockey to protect yourself is: shin guards and a mouth guard. I learnt how to score a goal, how to take control of the ball and how to pass to others without making the ball go the other direction and dribbling . . The rules of hockey are : you cannot use any other parts of your body to control the ball apart from your hands to control the stick, you cannot put the stick over your head and push don't hit. The potions of hockey are goal keeper, left and right defence, attackers and middle attack. 

Have you ever played Hockey before?