Brazil

This post is for Mr Woody who posts at http://woodmonstas.blogspot.com/.

History

Brazil is the only Latin American country where the language and culture originate from Portugal. The early explorers brought back a wood that produced red dye (pau-brasil) and from that trees name, the country Brazil was named.

Geography

Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is the continent's largest nation. It extends 4,772 km north-south and 4,331 east-west. Brazil also surrounds every nation on the continent except Chile and Ecuador.

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Soccer

Hi, today in middle block, we played soccer and I scored 3 goals. Each time I scored a goal, nearly everyone on my team would give me hi-5s and congratulate me and I thought it was very encouraging to get out there and give it my best. Thank you to everyone on my team for being kind and caring.

Speed Writing

In case you don't know, speed writing is when you have a certain topic and a certain time to write as much as you can on that topic or anything that creeps into your mind at the time and if you don't know what to write, then write you don't know what to write and you aren't allowed to stop. In class at school on 13 May 2009, I did speed writing. The topics we did were: Green, Lego, A Vampire Cat from Vietnam. Here is what I wrote for the topics:

Green

Green is the colour of nature and nature is good.

Lego

Lego is awesome. I make awesome things out of Lego with my dad.

A Vampire Cat from Vietnam

I don't know what to write. A vampire cat strolled down an alley as he looked for a human to bite. Um, I don't know what...we have 50 seconds left I think. Think, how do we think? We have 5 seconds left.

So, as you should be able to figure out speed writing isn't just writing fast and it can be used as a writing warm up.

40 Hour Famine

Have you heard about the 40 hour famine?
Are you going to participate in it?

The 40 hour famine is creeping closer and closer. It is being held on the 22-24 May 09. If you don't know about the 40 hour famine, then here are some facts for you:

1.) The famine is New Zealands most popular fundraising event with a huge population of New Zealand as participants.

2.) The famine started in 1975 because there was a serious famine in Ethiopia.

3.) You can enter the famine by clicking here. It's that simple!

For more information about the famine click here*It really is a kind thing to do.


*This link will take you to the main page of the 40 hour famine website

Holidays

It's the school holidays today at 3:00 and I'm going to Port Waikato after a weekend at Ohope Beach and I'm so excited because there will be a bouncy pillow and the BEACH!!!! Although there is black sand and that can get really hot so I have to take jandals (obviously) so my feet don't burn. I'm so excited because I'm going CAMPING!