Summer Learning Journey Week 1 Day 4

Ki Ora Everyone for the next few weeks I will be posting blog posts continuously for something that is called the Summer Learning Journey. Today I am doing Week 1 Day 4. I will always put the links under this blurb so that you can go to the sites I had.

Links: Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, Serena Williams, Billie Jean King, International Tennis Hall of Fame, Presidential Medal of Freedom,  BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award, Muhammad Ali, greatest boxers, Muhammad Ali, various charities, inspirational quotes, Dame Valerie Adams, gold, silver medal, Halberg Award for New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year,ta’ovala, Tonga, Fiji, Samoa, Niue,  travel tips

Activity 1. Making a Racket

Billie Jean King, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams are three exceptional, female tennis players. They are not only outstanding athletes and some of the best tennis players in the world, but they have fought for women to be recognized as equals to men in the game of tennis. Billie Jean King famously beat a male tennis player, Bobby Riggs, in 1973, to prove to the public that women could compete at any level in tennis. Billie Jean King was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1987, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and was recently awarded the BBC Sports Personality of the Year - Lifetime Achievement Award.

Know now

1. Serena and Venus were some of the top Tennis players of women
2. Both the girls have kids
3. When they both had their kids neither of them thought they were ready to go back to work after four weeks so they had a few more weeks off and then went back to work

Would like to know 

1. How old were they when they started playing tennis 

Activity 2.What’s in a Name?

Muhammad Ali was one of the greatest boxers of all time. He started boxing when he was 12 years old and went on to become the World Heavyweight Champion numerous times in the 1960s and 1970s. Muhammad Ali was an African American man born with the name Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. When he was a young man, however, he became a Muslim and converted to Islam. When he converted, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. During his life, Ali gave a lot of time and money to various charities. He also helped to feed more than 22 million people across the world who didn’t have enough food. Despite all of his charitable work, Muhammad Ali is still best known for his aggressive boxing style, his confident personality, and his inspirational quotes. Changing your name is a big deal! If you were to change your name, what would you change it to?

If I were able to change my name I would change it to Erika because my mum wanted to name me Erika but it didn't go with my middle and last name. 

Bouns Activity. Worth her Weight in Gold

Dame Valerie Adams (half-sister of basketballer, Steven Adams) is a shot put champion from New Zealand (NZ). She has won the World Championships four times as well as both gold and silver medals at the Olympics. Here, in New Zealand, she has won the Halberg Award for New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year seven consecutive times (2006-2012)! She is a bit of a legend both in NZ and in her homeland of Tonga.Valerie Adams is a proud Tongan New Zealander. You can see her wearing a ta’ovala in the photo. There are many Tongans living in New Zealand - you may be one of them! The Kingdom of Tonga is a group of 169 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is located between Fiji, Samoa, and Niue. Here are some travel tips about Tonga.

(found and made by me)