Commonwealth country

* Location: Samoa

* Population: 188,889 people

* Culture and language: english,samoan,

* Popular sport?Rugby, boxing, swimming,netball, weight lifting and running.

* Flag:blue, red and white, the five stars

* Teams competing in the Commonwealth Games

Samoa is part of 71 countries that is participating in the Commonwealth Games. Samoa is located in the Pacific Ocean. Did you know that 188,889 people live in Samoa! The languages that are spoken in Samoa is English and Samoan.

The most popular sports in Samoa is rugby, boxing, swimming, netball, weightlifting and running. One of the traditional games that they play in Samoa is called taulafoga. During the Commonwealth games Samoa has one gold,silver and bronze medals.

The Samoa flag has five white coloured stars. The colour blue is said to represent freedom. Red is representative of courage, as well as being a traditional Samoan color.

Commonwealth Games Facts

5 Facts that I already know about the Commonwealth Games:

1	If you come 1st,2nd and 3rd you will get a medal.
2	The countries that are competing are New Zealand, Australia, Cook islands, Niue, Tonga, jamaica
3	Commonwealth games Is about sports.
4	There are heaps of sports like boxing, swimming, rugby, shooting, weightlifting, cycling and running.
5	Instead of commonwealth they also call it “Glasgow.

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	71 Countries Participating http://www.thecgf.com/games/intro.asp?yr=2014
2	6,500 athletes are participating in the commonwealth games.http://www.thecgf.com/games/intro.asp?yr=2014
3	In 1930 The first commonwealth games were held In Canada.  http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/2014/100-facts-about-the-games.html
4	The Queen’s heir may not be the head of the commonwealth games
5	Valerie Adams took part of holding the New Zealand flag at the open ceremony.
6	Eric Finau is part of the commonwealth games and also came to Pt England school.
7	For the New Zealand team, Valerie Adams Is one of the best female shot put players.
8	The next Commonwealth Games will be held in the Gold Coast, Australia in 2018.
9	The Commonwealth is made up by 53 member countries.
10	Boxing, archery, judo, weightlifting, swimming, long distance, javelin are some of the sports in the games.

Immersion Assembly

Term 3

Welcome back Point England, it is now term 3 which means the theme for this term is different, it is called” game on”. The theme game on is part of commonwealth games, commonwealth games is about sports like boxing, cycling, running, weight lifting, shooting and more.

It was great to my friends walking through the gates just in time for class, also i seen some of them at the matariki lights in Glen innes near the library. This morning we have a team assembly which means our topic is different for this term. As we got to the hall all the teachers had a costumes or something thats part of their team, Every beginning of a new term the teachers perform  on the stage or show a movie that's made over the holidays.

In the assembly almost our whole class was here but some of them were away and they are going to miss out on the performances and movies but they can always see some of it on the school news. We started the day of with a karakia then team by team will show us their performances and movies.

Team 1 was first but instead of going on the stage to perform something they made a movie. The movie was about the Olympics, The beginning of the video was showing  people supporting their country and cheering. As the video was nearly done teachers and children were laughing.

Mr J is like a back up principle when Mr Burt is gone to somewhere far or a meeting. since Mr Burt was gone Mr J had to say who's next and everything else Mr Burt usually says. It is now team 2’s turn to show us what they have made. Team 2 Had a movie about the Olympics to. They were dressed up and had funny looking.

It is now team 3’s turn, the teachers did a wicked performance dancing and acting. Mrs barks was the talking person.Now its Team 4’s turn, they also did a movie. They were dressed up as they’re colors from their country’s. The star of the movie was the jamaican guy.

AFL

Aussie rules is another name for AFL. AFL originates in Melbourn.

AFL is named from Australians and The first match was played in the year 1858 and has now spreaded as a common sport in most nations such as New Zealand.

This term class 2 has AFL sessions, today was our last session but we still had fun. Each week we learn different skills to play AFL like the punt, passes, handball and kicks. Today Tim was our instructor and he taught us some skills that we know and a few we don't know.

In the real AFL if you get the ball through the middle goal post you get 6 points(for children you'll get 2 points). What are the positions?Each AFL team starts a match with 18 players on the oval, and four interchange players on the bench, who can be changed as many times as desired.

Texas's Sound Animation

What Is echolocation?

What Is echolocation? Echolocation is something that non humans can use to see. Also echolocation is when you make a sound with your mouth and clicking with your mouth or fingers.  Bats use echolocation to navigate and find food in the dark. Echolocation is the use of sound waves and echoes to determine where objects are in space.

Bats send out sound waves from their mouth or nose. When the sound hits an object it produces an echo. Toothed whales can send ultrasounds that cannot be heard by humans to catch their prey. The other animals that use echolocation produce sounds that are audible to humans.

Ben Underwood was blind, but he was able to move around using echolocation. He was blind at the age of three. He has good hearing and is incredible with his movement. Ben Underwood had a habit of using echolocation. To use echolocation he made little clicking sounds with his mouth and also he clicks with his fingers to find his way around.

He is the only boy in the world thats blind but could do things normally. He can ride a bike, he can play basketball, he can surf.

What Is a mobile phone?

What Is a mobile phone?

There are different types of mobile phones, touch screen, button phones and much more. There are a variety of different sizes of phones and different brands. The device that I'm using Is a touch screen, the brand Is Alcatel one touch.

During the past few years I have been getting phones to have and try out. There mostly touch phones. What people usually do Is texting other people in their state or around the world. Its cool that you can ring any one but you must have credit to call and text. With no credite that means no calling and no texting.

What Is a Simcard?

An simcard Is small and lets you call and text people by topping It up. There are some names of simcards,Skinny, Vodafone, 2degrees, Telecom. I have a Vodafone sim which has different plans and different combos, 20$ top ups are interesting. With my top up It gives me unlimited texting, 300 mb and 20$ credit.

In Auckland there are places like The warehouse, warehouse stationery, Harvey Norman, Dicksmith, Trademe, noel leaming. Those are the places where you can get a phone or anything else.The brands I like are LG, Samsung, Alcatel.

The best brand Is usually the highest price like 990$, The phone I have been looking at Is Samsung s5. Its big, Its a good quality, It haves a front camera, And Its a new model. A mobile phone Is different to a pc(computer). On touch screen phones you can get heaps of apps and games. Its best to wait for specials to come on the t.v ads or look on the paper.