Thursday, 16 August 2012

Olympics Day

Olympics Day
By Sarah
On Friday it was Sunnyhills Olympic day and I was representing Germany with Mr Tucker.
On Friday we were allowed to wear the colours of our country’s flag and since I was Germany I had to wear the colours: Red, yellow and black.
We were first in our normal classes to call the roll and then we went to our adopted countries to call the roll.
First, my Germany team tried to come up with a chant and we came up with:
Duichland, Duichland
Uber alles
Duichland, Duichland
United we stand!
We did try to find something that rhymes with Germany but nothing rhymes with Germany so we ended up with that.
Later on we played a fun game called balloon volleyball and my team was called the red team and my team won.
Next it was time to go to the opening ceremony and Ms Small dressed up as the Queen and said, “I now declare Sunnyhills Olympics open!” and then we left.
We practised our chant one more time and then it was morning tea. 
The whole time in between morning tea and lunch I played games and some of the games we played were straw throwing, ball throwing, hockey golf and cup stacking.
At the end of the day we went to the Closing Ceremony and we walked around the whole hall in our country’s groups and showed off what we had done during the day. We showed what we looked like and then we stood in a line up the front and said our chant. Once every country had walked around the hall and said their chant Ms Small stood up on the stage (dressed in her Queen clothes) and said, “I now declare the Sunnyhills Olympics closed!”
After Ms Small had said that the Sunnyhills Olympics was closed everyone made a loud grunting noise and ooohhh man! And it was funny to hear.
Next we left and went back to our normal classrooms and then we went home.
I had a fun day.

15 comments:

  1. We thought that it was really interesting that you told us what colours were on your flag.

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  2. Hi Sarah
    We like how you described what you did in the day.

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  3. Brielle and Alice16 August 2012 at 11:54

    Hi Sarah
    your chant is so AWESOME!

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  4. Wow Sarah, you did a really good job. I was in Germany to and I wish the chant was: Duichland, Duichland, uber alles, Germany, Germany, above all!

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  5. Carlos and Brandon17 August 2012 at 10:17

    Hi Sarah your recount brought back a lot of memories.
    I really liked your chant Carlos`s was:Olay Olay Mexico we're at the line we're ready to go.Olay Olay Mexico like tacos we will eat ya.Olay Olay Mexico like pinyatas we will beat ya.Olay Olay Mexico were at the line come on lets go!Brandon`s was:China China were number 1.China China we have fun.We're number 1.
    We really like your chant do you like ours?

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  6. Alysha and Eileen17 August 2012 at 10:23

    Wow Sarah,
    We love your writing. You really bought back our memories.
    My name is Alysha I was in Tonga and we played badminton.
    I'm Eileen I was in Greece and I did a three legged race.

    How did you manage to fit all of those games in?
    How do you say uber alles?

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  7. Caleb and Xander17 August 2012 at 10:23

    We really enjoyed reading your writing Sarah.
    We liked your direct speech and it really bought back memories from Friday.
    My name is Caleb. I was in France and we ate snails. They tasted like chicken. Hi Xander was in USA the best country in the world.
    How do you pronounce the Germany chant?
    and how do you pronounce Uber alles?

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  8. Mikayla and Danielle17 August 2012 at 10:25

    We like your direct speech in your recount.
    My name is Danielle and I was in England. We made sashes and crowns.
    My name is Mikayla and I was in Finland. I made the flag and played
    feather badminton.
    How do you pronounce Uber alles?

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  9. MegD and CharlotteN17 August 2012 at 10:28

    WOW we really liked the personal comments you added!!!
    Meg was in Iceland.Meg played tick tock and I, Charlotte, was in Japan.And I played Musical chairs.
    What does uber alles mean???

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  10. Felicity and Maia.17 August 2012 at 10:29

    Hi Sarah, We liked your story because it brought back memories of our own Olympic Day.We liked how you put in some direct speech too.We are learning about direct speech in our own class!!I was in Italy and Maia was in Brazil and we had lots of fun!!!What does uber alles mean???

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  11. Alana and Yue You17 August 2012 at 10:35

    My name is Alana.I loved your story Sarah. It gives us good memories of Olympics day.
    My name is Yue You. I didn't go to the Olympics day because I was in China but it sounds like fun. I know China is too hot but it's a good weather to eat ice-creams. There was a toy in the ice-cream. It was a little sheep.
    What does uber alles mean?

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  12. Jannin and Emily17 August 2012 at 10:36

    We like the way that you put direct speech and we liked the
    way that you put the beginning, middle and end Sarah. We played bowling and archery.
    Did you win a game?

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  13. Michael and Trent17 August 2012 at 10:37

    We thought you did your structure very well because you did it in order.
    My name is Michael and I was in Tonga.
    My name is Trent and I was in Ireland.
    Did you get a bit nervous when you said your chant?

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  14. Lucas and Madeline17 August 2012 at 10:41

    Sarah we liked your recount because you had cool direct speech. Your games sounded like fun. We played Pass the Parcel and Musical Chairs. Our countries were Canada and Switzerland. What does Uber alles mean?

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  15. We really liked how you used a variety of time sequence words. My name is Raven and I was in Sweden. We played party games. My name is Angus and I was in Argentina and we played hockey, shot put and relays.
    We were wondering how did you play cupstacking?
    What was your favourite sport?

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