Where The Heck Is Onehunga?

Different Auckland town centres have adopted Rugby teams from countries that

qualified for the World Cup.

I found out information about :

The location in Auckland;

Something special about this place;

A 'potted' history of the place;

If it has it's own symbol of some sort.

(If we couldn't find a symbol we chose a picture that told more about the place).

Onehunga is in the south east of Auckland city. It is 8kms from the city centre.

Jellicoe Park, a short walk from the town centre, is a good place to start and a truly unique drawcard. There are museums, an historic home, swimming pools and wonderful gardens to enjoy. And then there's the beautiful Manakau Harbour to enjoy, right on Onehunga's doorstep.

From its earliest beginnings Onehunga, one of the oldest settlements in the region, has occupied a special place in Auckland's history.

KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL

We are using the nations of the 2011 Rugby World Cup as our inquiry path.

For this unit we are in one of four teams: Brumbies, Force, Rebels, Stormers. My team is Brumbies
There will be a number of tasks for us to navigate to achieve our goal of an excellent result in this unit. There are a mixture of individual and team tasks to be completed. The main task that will show our learning in this unit will be a Hyperstudio presentation about one of the countries in the World Cup competition.

I'm excited for the Rugby World Cup to see who my team, Samoa, is going to compete with.

Limerick-''Nonsense Poems'' Edward Lear

The hairy old man had an Ox

He sold to get out of his Box

He lived in the House

Just to find his Mouse

That hairy old man with an Ox

If I was a wizard
I’d use a spell to get me FOOD.

If I was a wizard
I’d snap my fingers to become a cool DUDE.

If I was a wizard
I would use my wand to get all GOLD.

If I was a wizard
I would do a special spell to get rid of all the MOULD.

If I was a wizard
I’d help the police to find the most wanted CRIMINAL.

World Wide Web

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web (www). His invention changed everyone's life in the fields of communication, finding and sharing information.

Tim was Born June 8 1955 in London, England. Tim Berners-Lee graduated from Queens College at Oxford University in 1976. There he invented his very first computer with a soldering iron.

From 1981-1984 Tim was the director for Image Computer Systems and in 1989 he started at CERN which is in Switzerland where he began is proposal for the world wide web. In 1990 he had completed his design on the world wide web and in 1995 he recieved a "Kilby Young Innovator" award the Kilby Awards Foundation. In July 1996 he was awarded a Dintinguished Fellowship of the British Computer Society.

He is living his EXTREME life with his family.

The www. has made communication child's play. Tim Berners-Lee invention helps us find and share information. He made these things faster and better and it has become instant. Tim Berners Lee's invention has changed people’s way of thinking.

http://www.thocp.net/biographies/berners_lee.html

http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/berners-lee.htm

Inventors of the Inventions

Karl Benz first car he invented was very different from our cars now. His car had 2 wheels at the back,1 in the front, no roof, no hood, a handle instead of a steering wheel and a 2.5 horsepower engine.

But our cars now are Bigger,Better, Stronger, Faster.It now has a roof, a hood, engine’s with more horsepower, an real steering wheel and it has four wheels.

Looking back-Looking foward

LOOKING BACK IN THE PAST-

Last term was cool, the highlight was camp because we did heaps of extreme activities, the other thing I enjoyed was Tech@Tamaki. We were split into 5 groups, one group for each subject. The 5 subjects were Wood Tech, Graphics, Food Tech, Science and Electronics. Each term we switch subjects but stay with the same group. My subject last term was Electronics. We made a simple circuit that lit up an LED (light emitting diode).
We had the school picnic which was really good.
We also had a Rugby 7’s tournament in which the Pt England intermediate boys won the whole thing and two softball tournaments. We won the first tournament but lost the second.
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE FUTURE-
This term is going to be awesome. My new subject at Tech is Science it’s SOLID. Our topic this term is BIGGER, BETTER, STRONGER, FASTER. I am really looking forward to what’s going to happen this term.