What are the Olympic Games?

Room Five are learning to write an explanation on What are the Olympic Games. We were also learning to group ideas .We had to make an introductory paragraph that had to answer who,what,where and when.

What are the Olympic Games?  

The Olympic Games are  a sporting event  when athletes come to compete against other top athletes from different countries all over the world over 17 days. The Olympic Games are held in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and the next Olympics will be held in Tokyo 2020.

Sports  

The Olympic Games top athletes represent their country by holding a flag during the opening ceremony.The Olympics have sports like the sevens rugby,shot-put,high jump,gymnastics and netball. The athletes have to pass a test to get in the Olympics Games and complete the Olympic Games.

Medals

The Olympic Games  get a gold but the gold is actually silver with a thin top coat of gold. For silver 2nd  gold 1st bronze 3rd. Lots of athletes earn their medals from doing their kind of sport that they do and earn the medals.   

Opinion

I enjoy watching the Olympic Games swimming. I like the Olympic swimming because I like doing swimming at school. The Olympics Games swimming is cool because you can go in water and do freestyle, backstroke and other swimming things.