Our Olympic Celebration Winners!

This post is a follow up our Olympic Celebration post a couple of weeks back that we wrote and shared with you all. At the end of The Olympics we counted up the medal tallies for all the countries.

The winners were: Germany! (Jesse, Nikita & Gus)

2nd Place: Japan (Bella N & Tim)

3rd Place: France (Katie, Paige & Ariana)

We brought in lollies and made them medals. It was good how the class did the tallies when Jesse and I forgot to. I really liked how when we sorted out the countries at the start everyone was co-operating and no one complained what country they were in!

                                                             By Violet (Year 6)

Thanks Jesse & Violet for bringing the Olympics to Rimu!

We started at home when Polly and Rylee came over for a sleepover - to watch The Olympics! We made a chart, then thought what a great idea for our class to do!

So we borrowed card from school, went home and Mum helped us draw lines, measure and write the countries. We didn't do the top 4 countries (as that's boring because they get too many medals), then we wrote 10 countries on 32 bits of card. 

I put them in a hat and everyone chose a country! This put them into groups of 2 or 3. We got to include Jacqui, Mrs Royfee and Miss Blair.

Each group then wrote their names on the card and drew their country's flag. If you wanted to find facts, you could too!

We put them up on our chart - here it is!! The idea is we add the medal count each morning - we write our tallies up. Who will win? 

Te Pihinga class loved our idea so much they wanted us to make them one too! So we did!

By Jesse (Year 8) and Violet Clapham (Year 6)