SSR (Peru)

SSR (Peru)

WALT: research about a specific place.

Today for SSR room 9 is researching about Peru.

Peru is the capital of Lima and the populations is over 30 million. One of the official languages is Spanish and it is also a country in South America. Peru is located between Bolivia and Colombia and is the biggest producers of cocaine. It is also the 8th largest producer of coffee and the 6th biggest producer of gold. And has the 2 deepest canyons in the world. 

Canyon names: Colca

Cotahuasi

  

SSR (Melissa Ingram)

SSR (Melissa Ingram)

WALT: identify specific people that are involved with Olympics. 

Today for SSR we are identifying people for 2016 Olympics. The person we are identifying is Melissa Ingram. 

Melissa Ingram is an New Zealand, swimming ambassador. She is a international swimming champion. Melissa was born on 1984 and joined the North shore swimming club in 1999. The club showed great support to help her through her journey also helping her to become a top swimmer. She was only 16 when she competed in her first international swimming race. She contributed in all kind of swimming types of styles, but her best swimming style was freestyle which is how she got into finals in 2004. And she proudly came back home with a bronze medal.