North America

 North America.

North America is a continent. North America alone is 8,000km in length or 500 miles. Countries in North America are the United States, Greenland, Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Panama, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica, Barbados, Belize, The Bahamas, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, U.S. Virgin Islands, Honduras, EI Salvador, Cayman Islands, Grenada, Turks and Caicos Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, Saint Lucia, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Saint Barthelemy, British Virgen Islands, Anguilla, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Kitts Nevis, Sint Maarten, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Montserrat, United States Minor Outlying Island, and Saint Martin. The main languages in Noth America are English, Spanish, and French. The area/size of North America is 9.5 million square miles. The population of North America is 565 million people. The number of countries in North America is 37. The largest cities in North America are 1st Mexico, 2nd New York, and then 3rd Los Angeles. Only 2.5 million people lived in America in 1776. The American one-dollar bill had a secret spider in the top right corner. Jimmy Carter was the first American president to be born in a hospital. Canada in America has six different time zones. The green ink used for money bills was invented at America McGill University by Thomas Sterry in 1857. Wood Buffalo national park was created in 1922 and is larger than the whole of Switzerland. North America is the third largest continent in the world. North America has been populated with people for around 15,000 years.

I liked that some of the facts are what I already knew so it made it a little bit easier. I didn't like that I couldn't improve it much because there weren't many facts that I could find.

Camp recount

 For camp, we went to bridge valley because there are only two different camps that we could go on and instead of wellington we went to bridge valley. The people in my cabin were Luke, Slade, Harrison, Kohen, Harry, Jari, and I. We got to camp by driving in vehicles but others went in vans. I felt terrible because I get homesick really bad sometimes but this time I was just homesick. It was kind of fun compared to how I thought it was going to be like. My three favorite parts were kayaking, laser tag, and abseiling. I only liked abseiling because I didn't have to do it. I liked the laser tag because it was just really fun. I liked kayaking because I have done it before so I also found it pretty easy. I also have my own laser tag at home so that is why I was better than some people. I think I would rather the kayaks with lower sides so that the paddle doesn't keep whacking the side. 

I liked that it was in my book so I could just copy straight off it so it was easy. I didn't like it because when I had to write it in my book it was kind of hard to think about what I wanted to write about. We went to camp 2 weeks or more ago.

Refugee camps.

 People are fleeing their countries because they have to or it isn’t safe enough at their countries. Last year there were 25,590 people in the refugee camp that is in Greece. People leave because there are shooting and people being killed. People mostly only live in refugee camps because they are forced so sometimes people don’t even want to live in refugee camps. 

Refugee camps can be dangerous because they may or may not have access to 1st aid kits or the hospital as they are in a camp so people can get really sick and not get saved which will be really sad especially if their family is there and it’s only him or her that get them sick. 

Some people can get bullied which is pretty mean because they get abused or they can get made fun of. 

Sadly enough refugees have to leave people and pets they loved such as cats dogs children families. Luckily enough people get to go back to their countries once they are safe. In 2019 70.8 million people were living in refugee camps.

On Friday we have done writing and facts about the refugee camps throughout the world. I liked that I got all of my information pretty much straight away. I didn't like that it was kind of hard because I didn't know what to search for.

Japan

 Japan is made up of lots of different islands. Japan is in East Asia and borders the Pacific Ocean. Celebrations. The largest holiday is not Christmas it is New Year's. New Year's is when the Japanese celebrate the gods they believe in. Traditional sports in Japan. Japan's traditional sports are sumo and karate. Sumo is when people fight but they only slam into each other instead of deliberately punching each other. Karate is when people do hand movements to block or to fight people. In karate, they can also use their feet.