Day and Night

Our task was to research and find out , how Day and Night Process !

My dream holiday "Outta this world'

‘Brring....’ screamed the alarm. I tired to ignore it. I wanted to stay in my dream. My dream ‘Outta This World holiday. ‘

In my dream I went to Pluto. I felt like I waited approximately nine years to see my best dream holiday ever. I was so excited and couldn't wait to get there.

I was surrounded by rocks covered with ice. There were no trees, no birds, nothing compared to Earth. I had second thoughts about coming to this planet. Later on I tried to find a good spot. Nothing was there, “ anyone there “ and yet still no one there.

Thank you Gabrielle and April for reading my work before I post it on my blog, and making sure it makes sense.

Mnemonic planets.

This term we are learning about' outta this world ' and that is the Solar System. We have been learning about the Planets. We had to make a Mnemonic for the planets so it would be easier to remember the orders and the planets. So below is the slideshow take a look.

Where in the world.

Rebels 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:

This is what I found - Cook Island

I have decided to study Cook Island for our Immersion task.

As a self-governing tirritorial democracy of New Zealand , the Cook Island Flag Features the Union Jack (Upper Left), recalling New Zealand

, long association with Great Britain. The 15 Stars represent the 15 main Island group.

The Nation of the Cook Islands comprises 15 islands spread over 850,000 square miles (2.2 million square kilometres) of ocean smack in the middle of the South Pacific between Tonga to the west and the Society Islands to the east.

The town or the big city on Rarotonga is Avarua, the Cook Islands capital.

Avarua is easily seen on foot with main street stretching about a mile along the harbor.

The Population of Cook Island , as etimated in the late 2010 , is 21,390.

Cook Island National sport is Netball.The Cook Islands national netball team represent the Cook Islands in international netball. In recent years they have finished 10th at the 2010 Commonwealth Games and 7th at the 2007 world netball championship.

"Where The Heck Is New Lynn?”

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).

“Where The Heck Is New Lynn?”

New Lynn- Is a suburb of West of Auckland approximately 10 kilometres the population was 15,510
New Lynn was located towards Auckland urban area.
In the north and Blockhouse Bay in the south, the island is a mere 2800 metres wide.

Keep Your Eyes 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.

Rebels

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 reckon Australia going to beat New Zealand in the world Cup by a trashing point.
Rugby Union is not my favourite sport. I like to play Rugby League. My favourite player in the Nrl are Akuila uate , Mattew Bowen and Jamie Soward.

"IF......"

If I was a millionaire.
I would buy my family each a limo.

If I was a millionaire.
I would buy a special land named after my family

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If I was a millionaire.
I would buy my own Shopping Mall named after me.

If I was a millionaire.
I would buy my family each there own company.

If I was a millionaire.
I would buy my church everything they need.

Earle Dickson Band Aids.

Earle Dickson invented Band Aids in 1920. He came up with the idea while working at Johnson &Johnson company . They were for his wife who had constant kitchen accidents. He also went to Osu and Michigan. He went there because he was originally interested in mechanics he graduated from Yale University.
Earle Dickson was born on October the 10th 1892 in Grand view, Tennessee and died on September 21 1961 at the age 68.
After several weeks of kitchen accidents, Earle got a bright idea. Earle sat down and prepared some ready-made badges by placing squares of cotton gauze along an adhesive strip and covering them with crinoline. Now Josephine just had to cut off a length of the strip and place it on her cut. His boss, James Johnson, saw the invention and decided to manufacture “ Band Aids” and sell them to the public. Earle Dickson was made a Vice- president of the Johnson & Johnson company.

Close to 1925,he had to pay $30,000 because he had forgotten to pay tax for 2 year. Soon after,he had to pay $2,000 for his wife to go to the hospital. Then he made $1,000 from Band Aid. By 1927,he had a total of $21,400 from his marvelous invention.

Band Aids is a quick and easy way of treat minor and injuries. Even though Earle Dickson has died but his invention can save life's, their are types of Band Aids like cartoon Characters and Different colours therefore the little ones can be kept entertain.

Invention about Flags.

In the past flags were first made out of wood then they were made out of metal. People flew flags in faraway China over 4,000 years ago. Most people fly there own country flag when they go on a war or visiting.

The Olympics has there own flag with Five Rings and Five Colours. Each ring represents a continent.It means that people from five continents like Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America – come to play.

Railway flags tell the trains what to do. For Example, a red flag tells the train to stop and a blue flag on the side of a train means someone is working on the train. It means nobody can move the train.

Wear it with pride.

This video is a korero about wearing it with pride so please watch my video and make sure you wear it with pride. Please feel fre to comment.

Adverb about Glen Fisiiahi my favourite player.

An Adverb is a description of a verb ( doing word) For Example: The rugby player was dashing very quickly to the try line, before the aggressive players tackle him badly.

Yay! Camp is coming up. Team 5 is having a three day camp at school on the school field. Camp is starting on Monday next week and I’m looking forward to it. Yesturday we got put in to our group and I was hoping not to be a camp leader because I am not good at Taking Charge of my group. Tamati and Racheal are my leaders and our group name is Thinkers.

We had 5 minutes to come up with a group chante but we only got one in the last minutes but no one knew it only Kalim and Tamati did. Kalim started of our chante and him and Tamati finished it of. Mr Bark had a game for all group. We have to use all the equiment that Mr Bark had given us to use. Our job was to get our whole team to the other side of the hall with out touching the ground.We came 2nd. I hope this year Thinkers win this year’s camp.THINKERS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!



Our first day at camp Take Charge was a amazing day because we did a lots of fun brilliant activity,like Cooking,Kayak,Building,Tents and also some game with Mr Harris. Day 2. This is the 2nd time Rock up has come to Pt England School. There were like about 5 difference activity.My favourite was the dunker and the Rock wall. Tuesday night was one of my favourite night because it was our Concert night. I recon we had the best M.T.V. We came 2nd and I was very proud of my team because i thought we wouldn’t come anything. Day 3. Day 3 was my favourite day because we spent the whole day at swimarama. The best pool at swimarama was the diving pool because bombing in the pool was pretty cool.

All About Me.

Kia orana my name is Tracey and I am a year 8 student at Pt England School. My teacher is Mr Harris who was a teacher in Australia. I come from the beautiful country which is Cook island. I have 3 brothers and 1 sister which is me. At school my favourite subject are Reading and Maths. Outside of class all I like to do is talk to my friend. My favourite sports are Rugby, Touch and also Volleyball. My best friends are Racheal, Vaha, Etta, Mauina, Bobbie-Grace and Tamara. I’ve been at Pt England School when I was a year 1.

BEST CHRISTMAS EVER.

Bang Bang Bang! as the pot went that was a signal for us to get up.Waking up on a bright sunny day made me feel good because i was excited.Brrr brrr brrr my cousin Tania turned her truck and of we went to the beach singing christmas songs.

“Where’s the beach” asked Tania.
“i dont know”i said.
So then we kept going straight and there was Pt Cheveliar Beach.Once the car stops i hop straight out of the car and dash to the rest of my family and said Merry Christmas.
“It time for a game now”as my sister answer.”Yay game time now”replied, all the kids.There was one game that was a bit tiring because it made my arm weak.Our games were called “Tug of war”,Touch and plenety more.Christmas 2010 was incredible.

SURF LIFE EDUCATION.

“OMG look at the weather” as a whispers to my brother because i didn’t want to wake up the rest of my family. Once I saw Mui I ask her if she’s gonna go for a swim but she said no because of the weather, it was going to rain. Once we got to Mairangi Bay everyone mostly the boys said,”Wow look at the wave that’s big.” The weather got even worst once we hop of the bus and I started to get cold. I said to myself look at the cloud it so cloudy and the cloud is grey as well. There were four beautiful lifeguard girls that Introduce there self and some of them kept saying that there beach is the best and we should go there. We learned lots of thing like how to be safe and swim between the red and yellow flag. It was time for morning tea and the best thing I like about morning tea was playing rugby because rugby is one of my sport. When Rosie, one of the lifeguard blowed the whistle that was when everyone have to get there bag, walk up stair and put it in to this little room, ready to listen about surf life. “Name the first four letters and they were S.S.S and W. Straight away i knew it was Slip,Slop,Slap and Wrap because Pt England News always remind us what are the Three S’s and the one W. We all had a game outside and there i saw a square with four bright orange cones on the Conner. Megan sent the boys of first to put there togs on then she sent the beautiful girls last. After whistle went that was when everyone got excited because they knew it was time to go for a swim in the freezing cold water. Once my toes nip that freezing cold water and i just didn’t care because wanted to be strong and not to be afraid of anything. We had 15 min free then we will be out to get change . I had heaps of fun swimming with the enormous wave that kept bumping of some of the student. “ BRRRRRRRRR BRRRRRR” the whistle went as I said “oh no it time to get out” I said. On the bus had arrived and it was time to leave Mairangi. My best part about Mairangi Bay was swimming in the beach and also the part I didn’t like was hoping on to the bus. Mairangi Is one of the best beach i’ve eva been to. !!!!!Mairangi Bay Rock!!!!!!!

COOK ISLAND TOUCH TOURNAMENT AT HOUSE PARK.

Saturday the 20th of November we had our Cook Island touch tournament. We were told to leave home at 8:00 am but we ended up going at 8:15 am. Our first game was was at 9:40 right after round 1. I was so anrgy in our first game , because the ball that we were using had no grip and it just kept sliping out of our hand like nothing. Our first game was a draw and if one of our player didn't drop the ball the score would of been 2-1. I was so happy with my team for winning all of our games. When we got in to the final it was a pretty hard game.But unfortually we lost. Our team name is called Mangaia which is the best Island in the cook island.

MANGAIA ENUA UNDER 12 RULE!!

THE REMARKABLE MILLIPEDE'S

This is a Millipede. As you may know the Millipede has millon of legs.The name Millipede is a latin name."Milli" mean thousand and "pede" mean legs. They have long smooth parts such as segment(a part of the body that can separated or cut off).when disterbed they curl themselves up. Millipede have two pair of legs on each side. Unlike Centipede they only have 1 pair of legs on each side. Finally the Maori name for the Millipede is "WERIMANO

FIA FIA NIGHT

At Pt England School on the 23rd of September we are having a Fia Fia Night. If you don't know what Fia Fia is Well this is the time to start reading my story. Fia Fia is when you get to join in a performance and perform in front of your family. The word Fia Fia is like a pacifika language.


In Fia Fia the culture group that i join in was Cook Island because that is my culture. There are lots of kids that had join the Cook Island group.


Cook Island group costume were a Blue lava lava,White T-shirt, yellow lay and also a head ban that go around our head but the boy dose not wear a head ban because it only for girls.


The Cook Island Tutor were Ms Glaze, Ms Mc Kinly,Maine her dad and Maine cousin as well. Ms Glaze and Ms Mc Kinly are teachers at Pt England school but Maine her dad and also her cousin is one of the Students family.



Our Cook Island culture group always practise in our school libary. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday are our only practise days.


I felt very excited dancing in front of my family. Next time i would join the Cook Island group again. FIA FIA ROCK!!

TRIP TO DUNEDIN.

I woke up early on a Wednesday Monring feeling excited because I was going on a trip to Dunedin.
“Mum what number is our seat “as I ask my mum in an excited voice. Next to me was my mum and my Nana next to the window. In front of us were these Asian people that were told to turn there phone off but they didn’t listen. once we laned i got a fright because i didn’t know we have already laned. walking out of the plane there i saw most of my family waiting outside for us. First we stop at my aunty house before we went to the Marae for a sleep. The next day we went for a ride around Dunedin. The resson why i went to Dunedin is because my aunty wanted me o dance at her birthday. I got one hundred and thrity dollars from dancing,then i ended up get another $50 from my cousin. Before i leave Dunedin my other aunty gave me one hundred and twenty. It was time to leave Dunedin and all my family were crying because they miss all the family from Auckland that went to celerated my Aunty birthday. Next time i go to Dunedin I’m gonna go to the cabury factory and get some more chocolate. Dunedin is the best place to go
for an Holiday.

THE BEAUTIFUL CLASS ROOM 19

On a Monday afternoon room 19 walk out on to the field to take another amazing photo for our class blog.We were told to smile and if you don't smile we have to write smile out thousand time. I think room 19 is now my favourite class scene I started Pt England School. Here is our amazing photo of room 19.