Day And Night

Our theme is 'Outta This world' and we have been searching and studying many things. This is a presentation of how day and night occurs.

Quick 10 Questions

“Weeeeeelcome everbody to our show, ‘ Quick 10 Questions’!” I shouted.

The crowds were cheering and clapping. I began to introduce my contestant, “Theodore
where are you from and what do you do for living?” I asked.

He replied, “I’m from America, I have been playing sports and now I am looking for a job.”

I asked him, “Shall we start?”

“Lets shall, lets shall”, Theodore answered.

“What is the capital city of France?” I requested.

“Paris!” Theodore shouted. “

Correct!” I replied . I moved onto the next question “What continent is France situated on?” Theodore stopped and thought for a moment then replied, “Europe.”

“Correct!” I replied once again. “Theodore, your third question is … What is a major celebration held in France?”

“Bastille Day?” answered Theodore quizzically.

“YESS my friend, next question, ‘Name two neighbouring countries for France?’ I questioned

“Belgium and Switzerland,” He Respond.

“That's the answer”, I quoted, “your fifth question is..... What is the French rugby team’s jersey colour when they play in their main playing stripe?”


He knew the answer straight away and replied “Blue and....Black” Theodore excitedly answered.

“that’s correct! your sixth question is.... what is a local delicacy in France?” I asked

“Escargot!” quickly shouted Theodore

“Woah that was a quick one..... anyways your next question, name a famous french person?” I asked

Theodore was stuck and was thinking hard, and finally he answered..... “Napoleon Bonaparte”.

“ Brilliant! seventh question. Who is the key player in the French rugby team?”

“Dimitri Yachvili,” Theodore humbly answered.

“Excellent. Question eight, In which year did the French Revolution year start?” I asked

“Ummmmm. Oh that’s right 1987?” Theodore answered.

“ Spectacular! So I questioned him again, “What attraction, landmark in Paris has been visited by the most (people)?”

“ The Eiffel Tower” Theodore positively answered

“Cooooorrrrreeeect! My friend, just one more question then you win. Your final question I paused for moment and asked “Has France ever won the Rugby World Cup?”

“NO!” replied Theodore.

“Is that your final answer?” I asked

‘’Yes it is‘’ said Theodore nervously.

‘’Guess your right cause you have just won,” I said excitedly.

Where In The World.....?

The Brumbies were given a number of names of rugby-playing nations of the world. These were some of the nations that are recognised by the world governing body of Rugby Union, the International Rugby Board (IRB), as member unions but did not qualify for RWC 2011. We divided them up amongst our team. I was given the nations listed below:

Hong Kong, Cayman Island and Chile. This is what I found -

1. Chile

2. The Continent for Chile is South America.

3. The Capital city for Chile is Santiago.

4. Estimated total population in early 2011: 17,000,000. Two thirds of the population is concentrated in the central zone.

5. The Sports Chile Plays

1. Hong Kong

This is where hong Kong Is Located In.

3. The Capital City of Hong Kong is Victoria.

4. The population of Hong Kong is 7,122,508 (July 2011 est.)

5. Hong Kongs National sports.

1.Cayman

2. This is where cayman island is located in.

3. The Capital City of Cayman Island Is George Town.

4.the population of Cayman Island is 51,384 (July 2011 est.)

5.Residents of the Cayman Islands keep active! Some of the most popular competition sports are soccer, cricket, basketball, sailing, rugby, tennis, floor hockey and squash.

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I have been learing about the rugby world cup and about the countries that are entering the compition


I have decided to study Chile for our Immersion task.

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.

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.

My Letter Home

Dear Mum and Dad

How are you? Hope you are well.

I have a Blog that you can look at to see what kind of story’s I have written it’s got every story that I have told you about and there is still more publish, on my blog and it’s really cool,
our camp was very extreme we did the same thing from last time, in the activities Rock up there were more games then last year.

Our netbook’s are super fantastic! we have a heap of writing but it helps me to write more interesting story’s I think? we have been doing alright in class, and we go to Tech atTamaki on Mondays my class is ELECTRONICS it’s very awesome we have started doing little paper projects.

On Fridays we have Taonga Time it is when we do Scinece, Te reo Maori, Sports (with Miss Va’afusuaga) and Mosaics, and that’s all have to say.

Thanks for reading this I hope you check my blog for the amazing work I have done, once again Thanks.

Yours Sincerly:
Jordan Schwenke

My Thoughts about Camp

Team 5 Camp coming up in just 4 days MAN getting ready for more interesting activities along with a very delicious meal (YUMMY) I’m looking forward to this cool camp. Yesterday we were sorted into groups My group is the our leaders are Tamati and Rachael two people that I am very close to. It is going to be very cool at camp doing cool stuff even if I don’t know it, I wounder if the Activities are the same as 1 year ago it was SOLID It was called Rock up.

THINKERS YEAH!!!!!!!.

After Camp:
Camp was really awesome especially a chillaxing swim at swimarama first we had a swimming race, the race was really fun our team Thinkerz was coming last but then we Thinkerz had a HUGE comeback from the swimming race when we finished we had our Morning Tea, soon the diving board was open everybody just zoomed off to the bombing pool. Last and not least we GO HOME!

Day1 For CAMP!

''Man! 1st day of Camp, This Camp is going to be SPECTACULAR'' saying it in my head this camp is called ''Camp Take Charge'' when everyone was in the hall in their camp groups , just listening to the teachers how we should take charge of ourselves and our stuff, and we are already gone straight to an activity amazingly really hard work.
First up Mr Barks and his activity we had to do 5 kinds of activities in his session, first was Blowout now this activity is when you have a tyre and a long wooden pole, we needed to get the tyre out of the wooden pole but you can't just take the pole out of the middle of the tyre, I had to put Tamati on shoulders so he chuck the tyre, but the time was to long then i had to put Kaiden on for the second time. Second game was Channel Run (which was a water game), Third, Mark It Up (another painful game for me ) it is someone gets a piece of tape and they put it as high as they can for the team Tamati had to go back my shoulders, Fourth refrigerator run and last of all Pass It Out.

Next Thing I enjoyed was the Delicious, Yummy Food especially Extremely great HANGI! we all were involved doing the hangi, it was like a restaurant Tamati and I with two other friends Samson and Kaiden we had to do 200 pieces of foil for all of the tin plates, in the tin plates were Pumpkins, Potatoes, Kumra, lettuce, chicken, pork and loin chops.
ESPECIALY IT WAS THE CAMP'S 21st BIRTHDAY.

My Holiday Highlight.

In the weekends we went to Wenderholm Beach, on the North Shore, by bus and by car for our church picnic. Not long after we arrived we began to play volleyball. POW! The ball spiked to the ground! “Woah, I can feel the vibration” I said.

On the other side of the space where our picnic was happening they were playing cricket.
YEAH! With the sound of my uncles voice cheering on for his team - WHACK! The tennis ball was connected with the cricket bat and the ball went flying into the sea. JINKES! That was a big hit man. “Hey bro, are you puffing already?” my brother yelled.

Next we played touch on the hard sand. While we were playing I noticed my sister, Lenna, was drawing her name in her own special style.

After we played our Activities my mum and I took off with a plastic bag to put our kina’s in, being followed by my cousin and her friend, they were way to hard to get out as if they are super glued onto,the solid rocks but worst of all they are spiky as a cactus, we needed a knife in one hand but the other bear handed.

After all that fun we started to pack all our stuff away and then got on the bus for our ride home. Once we got home I crashed out on the couch, snoring.