Facts about Samoa

Facts about Samoa

Samoa is 24 hours ahead of its closest neighbour. ...
The author of Treasure Island lived and died in Samoa. ...
Samoans have their own version of Cricket. ...
Samoans live by an ancient code of behaviour. ...
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is Samoan. ...
Tattooing is serious business around here. ...
It's perfectly OK for men to wear skirts.


Jacob Roggeveen


Jacob Roggeveen, a Dutchman, was the first known European to sight the Samoan islands in 1722. This visit was followed by French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, who named them the Navigator Islands in 1768.


When was Samoa founded?


14 June 1889.


I have bad News, Samoa has measles and 55 people have died!

summer learning journey 2019 (Day3)

Where did the age of exploration take place?

Europe

The so-called Age of Exploration was a period from the early 15th century and continuing into the early 17th century, during which European ships were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners to feed burgeoning capitalism in Europe.

European exploration, exploration of regions of Earth for scientific, commercial, religious, military, and other purposes by Europeans, beginning about the 4th century bce. The motives that spur human beings to examine their environment are many.

Global exploration started with the Portuguese discoveries of the Atlantic archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores in 1419 and 1427, the coast of Africa after 1434 and the sea route to India in 1498; and from the Crown of Castile (Spain), the trans-Atlantic voyages of Christopher Columbus to the Americas between 1492 ...

Summer Learning Journey - Day 2

These are my 3 similes:

1) Shelly is taller than a gate.

2) Shelly is fast as a car.

3) Shelly is smaller than a giraffe.

Today Room9 did some similes about Shelly ann fraser pryce.

She is the fastest at 100 metres, and her fastest time is 10.7.

 Shelly ann fraser pryce was born on December 27th, in 1986. She is a famous Jamaican track and field sprinter.

 She rose to the limelight in her sports career during the 2008 Olympic Games.

 At the time, she emerged as the first ever Caribbean woman to bag home a gold medal in Olympic competitions.

Summer Learning Journey - Day 1

Facts about Lorde!

  Lorde's real name is Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor and she
is a singer, not any kind of singer she's one of the best singer in NZ.

Lorde was born in 1996 in Takapuna, Auckland.

Do you know what made lorde famous? Well it was Royals.

How much is Lorde worth? She is worth $12 million dollars.

Did you know she dropout of school for sing, Lorde really is
the epitome of your everyday Kiwi kid who took the world by storm.

 She was born in Takapuna and raised in Devonport, which is
a sleepier suburb of Auckland that lies across the bay from
the city proper.

 Since becoming a household name, she has bought her
own house in the area and, when not on tour, still loves
to potter around picking up
free furniture and knick-knacks on hard-rubbish day.

 It’s a day in the year when people get rid of their
old but still serviceable furniture and stuff they can’t fit in their houses
anymore, but
don’t want to just throw it away.

Did you know that Lorde's favourite colour is brown.