Winter Olympics

Only three people have won a medal in the Winter Olympics for New Zealand, they are: Zoi Sadowski-Synnott (Bronze), Nico Porteous (Bronze) and Annelise Coberger who won a silver medal. Nico Porteous won his bronze medal in freestyle skiing, Zoi Sadowski-Synnott won her bronze medal in snowboarding and Annelise Coberger won her silver medal in Women’s alpine skiing.

New Zealand Olympic Whakatauki

This week's inquiry task was to create a Whakatauki for the New Zealand Olympic team, to do it the DLO was supposed to have the English version, the Maori version and an explanation on what the Whakatauki means. After we'd finished it and taken it to be checked by Ms Kirkpatrick we were then told to ask our Maori teacher Whaea Odie to check the translation, once that was done we were then allowed to blog it. 

PBS And Olympic Venn Diagram

This week one of our inquiry tasks was to create a Venn Diagram on the Olympic values and our school values, at one point we had to change something because both of the things being compared had Respect and Excellence as values. To change that all we needed to do was swap them over to the similarities slot, we also found out that the Olympic motto is in Latin and translated it means Faster, Higher, Stronger. 

Olympic Values

LI: To collect information in order to make a comparison.
For inquiry this week the task was to research our school and the Olympic key values, to do that we first read through a text about the Olympics. After we'd done that we started on the DLO, once the Olympic part was done we then did a little bit of research on our school (Because we didn't know some things). I learnt about how the Olympic motto is also in a different language, how their creed is about trying their best (No matter what the outcome is) and also how their three values are excellence, friendship and respect.

Winter Olympics Mascot Comparison

For this task my group and I had to research about the current Winter Olympics Mascot and another one from a different time, we chose to research one called Bely Mishka and also the current one that's called Soohorang. 

Winter Olympic Games | 1924 - Modern Times | Venn Diagram

For this task I was put into a group, all of the groups were then supposed to create a Venn Diagram showing the similarities and differences between the 1924 Winter Olympics and the Modern Olympics. We learnt about all of the types of games that they did back then, how the games have changed and what types of safety equipment they use now.