We have been watching the progress of the South African athletes at the Paralympics. We were so proud of Ntando who is only 14 and won a silver medal. He ran 200m in 24 seconds - we wanted to go out and see how fast we could run that distance.
It was raining so we will try tomorrow instead. We looked up in YouTube and found out all about him.
This lead to discussions on other Paralympians - we were so amazed at how people without limbs can swim so well.
Then the discussion turned to the amazing things these physically challenged people do - we tried writing names with our toes and mouths.
I could see how intrigued my class was, so tomorrow we are going to have our own Paralympics - with a few challenging events lined up - watch out for the photos.
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