Your task is to research a Commonwealth Country. Your writing needs to include the following information:

e.g.

NZ

located in Oceania

Maori/European/Pacific/Asian/Indian etc

Rugby and netball

Flag: blue, white, red - Union Jack in one corner, 4 stars of the Southern Cross

Rugby sevens, cycling, netball, boxing etc

* Location: Which continent is the country a part of?

Americas north american

* Population: How many people live in that country?

2.712 million people

* Capital city?

Kingston

* Culture and language (is there just one type or are there many?)

Jamaica Englishes

* Popular sport?

Running, Cricket, Netball, Rugby

* Flag

The colours on the flag is green yellow black. The x lines are green then there is 2 triangles that are yellow and 2 triangles that are black.

* Teams competing in the Commonwealth Games

Usain bolts, Atkinson, St Lucia,

*Links

-http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/sport/Jamaica-and-St-Lucia-to-meet-in-Commonwealth-Games-opener

-http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/commonwealth-games/usain-bolt-lands--glasgow-worlds-3917691

-http://www.topendsports.com/world/countries/jamaica.htm

-http://nordiamc.hubpages.com/hub/Fun-Facts-About-Jamaica#

You need to think about proofreading and editing your writing so that it makes sense.

Use paragraphs to link your ideas.

Check your spelling.

Have you used interesting and complex vocab/words?

Create a QR code to link your writing to further information about that particular country.

Start here:

Jamaica location is an island country, located in the caribbean sea. Which has 6 cities in Jamaica, called Savanna La Mar, Four Paths, Montego Bay, Hayes, Rio Bueno and Kingston. There is 2.712 million people living in Jamaica the capital city of Jamaica is Kingston.

Jamaica is a home for some of the fastest men on the planet. For example, Usain Bolt is known as the fastest person that’s a fact. Jamaica is a country competing in the Commonwealth Games.

Jamaica’s flag has 3 colours green, yellow and black. There is a big yellow X shape on the flag.There are 2 black triangles on the sides and 2 green triangles on the top and bottom. The colours mean something. The colour black represents the strength and creativity of the people. Yellow is for the golden sunshine and green is for the lush vegetation of the island.

Jamaica has entered 3 sports in the commonwealth games. Sprinting, Netball and weight lifting. In jamaica they play a lot of Cricket, Rugby, netball and of cause do a lot of spriting.

Science experiment:

Question: What will happen to the sound if I cut the straw shorter and blow through it?

It will probably make a higher sound.

Links to research about Sound:

http://www.universetoday.com/61166/what-is-sound/

http://www.sciencekidsathome.com/science_topics/what_is_sound.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oElbMctAVlY&safe=active

https://translate.google.com/

https://nz.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100324001206AAGDxon

Hypothesis: (What do you think will happen?) e.g. I think that….

It will make a higher sound the more you cut it.

Materials needed:

Straw and Scissors

Experiment (procedure):

e.g. Step 1 - Get your Equipment

Step 2 - Cut the straw into triangles down below

Step 3 - Cut it between 2 or 3 cm

Step 4 - Blow into it

Step 5 - And found out what kind of sound it makes

Data (What happened?)

Straw Length:       Results:

Long:15cm            (When I blew into it is had a high kind of sound)

Shorter:10cm        ( When I blew into it this time is had a higher sound)

Shorter: 5cm         (I blew into it sound like a party whistle you get in goodie bags)

Shorter: 2cm         (When I blew into it got split in half)

Observations:

Blowing into the straw that our class experience. It makes a type of sound like a party popper. The shorter I have cut the straw into triangles the higher the tone of sound it makes. It makes me laugh sometimes when I blew into it. Like Effect fail.

Conclusion:

It was a great thing we had try out. We learn a lot from that it is gives me great Ideas about sounds.

Commonwealth Games

1	There are 71 countries in the commonwealth games
2	Gymnastic,Netball,Rugby, Swimming , Sprinting, (running) etc is a part of the games
3	Commonwealth games is like the olympics, where you compete in stuff to win medals
4	It is held every four years in different countries from around the world
5	this game is to show which country has the best athletes

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	The commonwealth games had been going on for 20 years
2	Scotland has hosted this commonwealth games twice
3	Scotland had won nine medals in 2010
4	Over 6,500 athletes people had entered in the commonwealth games this year
5	This first game was held in Hamilton in Canada in 1930
6	Commonwealth games was first played in 1930 that the first time it was first played.
7	There was no commonwealth in 1942 reason was because of world war 2
8	The commonwealth games is held in Scotland this year
9	Valerie Adams was holding the flag for the opening of the games for New Zealand
10	Commonwealth games is also known as the friendly games

Immersion Assembly “Game On”

It was our first day of school term 3 2014. We walk into class and notices something odd in class. There's always something odd every term in our class. It was what our topic was about  there was pictures of sport athletes countries there was a sign above all of that that said Game on. Of cause that had something to do with our new topic.

We called the roll and went to the school hall for Immersion Assembly. A couple of teachers were wearing costumes. Mr Burt wasn’t there he was still in London. So Mr J took his place we saw Mr J video clip that he was taking when he went off to watch the bike race. He recorded this guy which he had to Jump on his bike and land back down which he succeed. Then this other guy was on a BMX bike he was a tall guy riding on a small BMX. He said that he was gonna do the jump but add a 360 in it. So he was riding riding did the jump did the 360 but the handle bars came off and he failed the land and the wheel came off the bike.

Team 1 video I thought was funny. There was different type of countries Entering to the Commonwealth games. Miss Gorge was pretending to be Queen Elizabeth. Teacher we laughing at thing I didn’t get.

It was time for team 2 video we got to watch they were acting other new zealanders athletes. It was amazing they were dressed in netball clothes.You can really tell that they use the green screen. Some of there parts in the video was funny. Plus we got our old teacher back at our school. There video was really similar to team 1. Instead of Miss Gorge acting as queen it was Miss Jarman.

It was time for team 3 they were acting this time. On stage about skaters performing with ribbons and hula hoop and a ball. It was cool why we were watching it the team 3 teachers were trying to doing all those tricks. That we were watching. But they did not succeed well some of them. It was really Hilarious.

It was team 4 video we watch it was the same as team 1 and 2. But Mr S was acting as the crowd instead up the queen. I’ve noticed that it was pretty much comedy video clips. Cheering, why the other teachers were warming up for the race but it was about who can make a picture or something made with Potato. 1 made a mountain another made a flower, mash potato.

It was time for teams 5 video clip and they were video clips of them in different countries. They went to Spain, New York, Samoa. And showing us what type of sport other countries play.

Sound

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