Activity 1: New Zealand will be sending approximately 76 athletes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in August to compete in the Summer Olympic Games. To learn more about these amazing athletes you can read their biographies on the New Zealand Olympic team website. Each athlete has their own page dedicated to them.
For this activity, please choose one of the athletes listed on the Rio Olympic Athletes page, read about them and then write a short description of them on your blog. In the blog please include their name, their sport, and three interesting facts about them.
Activity 2: Take a picture of yourself playing one of the 28 Olympic sports and post it to your blog along with the name of the sport and a brief description of what you are doing in the picture. As an example, I have posted a picture of my son, Aronui, posing as an archery competitor. He made his bow out of a tree branch!
Kurt Baker is an NZ union rugby player. He plays in the fullback position or wing for the Highlanders and he also plays for the NZ international Maori team. Kurt is also part of the rugby sevens and has played 22 Sevens World Series tournaments.
Three Interesting fact:
Kurt Baker was born October 7 in 1988 and raised in Palmerston North and heewent to Palmerston North Boys' High School. He started playing rugby since he was 24 years old. Kurt Baker won't be playing in Rio if his thumbs go up when try celebrations.
Hi Anthony,
ReplyDeleteI think that you might have accidentally pasted the instructions for Day #3 alongside your activity for Day #4.
I have to admit that it took me a minute to figure out what had happened but I eventually figured it out :)
I really enjoyed reading the facts that you posted about Kurt Baker. It sounds like he is new to the game of rugby. Is it true that he first started playing rugby when he was 24 years old? That would be pretty unusual. Did he maybe start playing 24 years ago?
Thanks for introducing me to Kurt. I will look out for him on the TV when I am watching the rugby footage from Rio!
Cheers, Rachel