Prep to Year 2 students have been focusing on the Olympics for the beginning of Term 3, as Tokyo are the lucky hosts.  In Week 2, we talked about how the Japanese would be cheering for their team saying "ganbare", students learned the words like “strong”, “Olympics” and “great”, they decorated their own flag - some creating their own, showing some Aussie pride or drawing a big red circle for the Japanese flag. This week we have looked at the two mascots for both the Olympics and Paralympic games - Miraitowa and Someity and the special meaning behind each of their names. We talked about the different translations of sports, like how basketball and swimming are pronounced - basuketobooru and suiei.