Current Events: Usain Bolt

Usain Bolt has tested positive for corona.

World record sprinter and eight time Olympic gold medalist Usain bolt has tested positive for corona virus. A week after his 34th birthday he is self isolating at the moment in his home in Jamaica. He didn't show symptoms so it was hard to see how long he had it for. People are saying that it is the only thing that has ever caught up to him.  He said that he is doing fine.        

What's In The News?

Naomi Osaka

This is Naomi Osaka. She made history when she defeated Serena Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open final and became the first Japanese born tennis player to win a Grand Slam title.  The win came with a $4.1 million dollar check  which is the most lucrative payout in Australian Open history.  

The 22 year old star tennis player is now the most paid player in history. 

She was in the news this week because she was the highest earning female sportsperson in the world during the last 12 months.  She earned 37.4 million US dollars.

What's in the News This Week?

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A robot dog 

This machine was made by a company called Boston Dynamics. It is fitted with a camera to monitor how busy Bishan Ang Moh Kio Park is.
It also carries a loudspeaker to broadcast social distancing messages. The robot dog is being used on a trial basis by the National Parks Board and the Smart Nation and Digital Government Group in Singapore to see if it makes a difference in helping to control the spread of the disease. According to Lonely Planet it can even sense how many people are around so it can make a pre recorded announcement about observing safe distances.

                              

Ancient Egypt.

Ancient Egypt challenge

Today in my class we had to do a teamwork challenge to work out our topic for this week.  The activities we did were:
1. Solve 3 puzzles to make 3 pictures
2. An activity where we had to  unscramble words and  one side was a word find that you had to do after  you unscramble the words.
3.  We had to answer math questions and each time we got one right we got one letter of the topic until we spelt the word.
The topic was ancient Egypt.  I really enjoyed the team challenge.

What's in the news this week?

Warehouse Stationery is introducing a new product which
help the company meet their sustainability goals. What is the
product?

Warehouse Stationery is introducing a new product which will move another step towards the company's sustainability goals .

They are making paper from wheat straw and furniture off to save trees.

Wheat paper, which looks and behaves like ordinary copy paper is made in India from the stalks of grains left over from India's crop harvests.

I think this will be great for the environment.  What do you think?