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.

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.

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.

Sharing the love.

We are learning to share the love by taking screen shot of there work. Once you click on the picture the picture will take you to the website were i ghot the photo.

MY FAMLIY

This video is all about my family. The reason why I put this movie on is because i love my family very much. If you love my little slide show about my family please leave a comment. Have fun !!!

COOK ISLAND CHRISTIAN CHURCH.

Waking up earlier on a Saturday morning feeling excited.7.00am MY mum and I got out of our bed ready to go to our Church Festival. There were 5 church that completed and it was also held at papatoetoe. We had 4 shows, 2 in the first half and the last 2 were after our break. I just want to congratulate our church for coming 3rd in all of our 4 shows.

PT ENGLAND V.S VISCOUNT.

On Friday 10Th of September the year 7 girls had a rugby game against Viscount. It was Pt England home game. We had a warm up be fore we started our games. Once we walked on to the field I left my girly girl attitude on the side line and took with me a angry attitude. I think the girls did really well and it was a tough game. Unfortually we lost by heaps of score. I would like to thank Angela and Bobbie for trainning us and teaching us lots of skills. Of course our principle Mr Brut and our Manager Ms Flavell.