Facts about Brazil and Carnival

                                            Rio carnival 

For literacy we are learning about the Rio carnival. Me and Angie made notes. 

Facts about Carnival

Carnival

1.  Carnival is celebrated in 50 countries.

2. Carnival means Carne Vale in Italy;

3. Carne=Meat Vale=Farewell (Which you are saying goodbye to meat)

4. It is also held on Ash Wednesday which marks the beginning of Lent (Easter).

5. It’s a Christian Celebration

6. You have to give up something you like/love for 40 days.

7. They dance with music & go on & on

8. It is the most important festival in Brazil

9. There is over 2 million people there.

10.Rio Carnival starts on Friday and ends on Wednesday so it lasts for six days

11. People wear masks to hide their face so they won’t be recognized because some people aren’t Catholic. And in many years, this became a tradition

12. There were 1.1M people that went to the Carnival on 2016.

Facts about Brazil

Official Name: Federal Republic of Brazil

Area:  3,286,470 square miles (8,511,965 square kilometres)

Population: 183, 888, 841

Official Language: Portuguese

Capital: Brasilia

Brazil is the largest country in South America and it’s the fifth largest nation in the world. Brazil is the only country in South America that speaks Portuguese. Brazil covers 3 time zones.

The Brazilian landscape is very varied. It is most well known for its dense forests, including the Amazon, the world’s largest rainforest, in the north. The Amazon is not one river but a network of many hundreds of waterways. Its total length stretches 6,840km, making it the longest river on Earth. Thousands of species live in the river, including the infamous piranha and the boto, or pink river dolphin.

Brazil is also home to the world’s largest carnival – Rio Carnival

Most Brazilians are descended from three ethnic groups: Amerindians, European settlers (mainly from Portugal) and Africans. Brazilians are crazy about football, and their country has produced some of the most popular players in the world! Brazil has won the FIFA World Cup finals five times, more than any other nation.

Portugal established its first colony in Brazil in 1530. Colonists created sugarcane plantations along the coast and sent diamonds and gold back to Europe. Soon, people from West Africa were brought to Brazil to work as slaves. The discovery of large inland gold reserves brought thousands of people from the coasts and abroad to the interior of the country.

Joyful Poetry

Joyful

As I walked on the beach my joyfulness just made me feel jolly.

As I see myself weeping my tears of joy as I take my last dance.

So I hear the lovely music of my precious heart.

I feel the ocean breeze as I dance  with passion and confidence.

I smell the fragrance of the lovely red roses.

I taste joy from my free soul.

Joyful looks like walking on the seashore under the sunlight.

this week in literacy

This week in literacy I have been learning about Chinese new year

Chinese new year

so today Maia and I were reading with Miss Hanson in Whakarua we read about the Chinese new year I actually learnt quit a bit so after that me and Maia made a slideshow about the Chinese new year like what you have learnt and what they do.

MY CSA

CSA

Character	settings	Action
Soldier	Hospital	Screamś

One creepy day I was in the dark hospital alone I don't know what happened. All I can remember is that I was playing hide and go seek, so i just came into this hospital and hid from my cousins. But while I was there, I could hear a baby stomping on the stepś Then, when it was getting near the door it stopped and then it started again so then I waited for a while  then I ran for my life, but at the window I saw a man looking at me in a very creepy way. It was like he wanted to kill me… But why? when I itś off limits but when l turned back he wasn’t there but when I looked straight he was there then I was like what the hell so then I just ran and SCREAMED at the same time.

Buddy Checked by: Angie

I love how the way you wrote this horror story and next time put other words than but.

measuring things with metres

In Maths we are learning about measurement.Today we learnt about metres. Our task was that we had to measure things like a table then when you have estimated you go and measure it and the number you guest then you had to work the difference between my guest and the actual measurement and i enjoyed measuring things.

Object	Estimated Length	Actual Length	Difference
Cafe Table	1.10m	1.08m	.02cm
The orange couch	1.50m	1.72m	.22cm
The bookshelf	1m	1m	0cm
The white table	1m	1.09	.09cm
Length of the door	1.50m	2m	.50cm
The window	1.20m	1.18m	.2cm
Teacher table	1m	1.05m	.05cm
Shelf of Toys	1.20	1.19m	.01cm

So for the next two weeks in literacy we are gonna be learning about Chinese  New Year so what I already know is that they go into this long scary dragon suit and also that they have lanterns and it must be really cool to have fun festival´s but the main thing is that in china they have people that go to New Zealand and do really fun activities.