Where the Heck is papakura.

“Where The Heck Is Papakura”

Papakura is located in the south east of Auckland 15-20min drive from Auckland international airport.

The Papakura Military Camp was established in town in 1940 and remain's an important army base for New Zealand , it is the New Zealand SAS training area.
The History of Papakura?
The Papakura radio club has been there every since 1960.

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 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 think the Rugby World Cup will be boring but I hope All Blacks beat Australia. My favourite Rugby player is Sonny Bill , Richie Mccaw , Dan Crater.

My furniture design.

Last week I came back from my dad’s house up north and now I’m back in Auckland I started back at school on Monday the 4th of July.

A few days after I came back Room 19 had already started on their Prototype for the street it had to be Furniture. On Friday the 8th of July the same week I started on my prototype I looked online and tried to look for something to design. It was hard to choose, so I made my design up in my mind then I drew it on paper in my book.

It was our last week of school and it was a Monday. I started on my Model I had to figure out a way to make 4 box’s on cardboard I drew 2 Armrest , sitting place and the back of the chair.
Then Tuesday came and I masking taped my boxes together and it looked like the couch I wanted. After lunch I started on my gluing I used P.V.A glue and glued the newspaper to my Model.

On the 13th of July I finished paper-’mashieing’ my design and I’m just waiting for it to dry. Just when Interval was finished I got told to take three chair’s into the green screen room and I had to take photo’s with people on chair’s with a Green cloth over the top so you take a photo of there Prototype and get the people in the photo to look like there sitting on there Model. After Lunch it dried up and I started painting half of it then I finished painting the whole thing when the bell ring.

Today I had to finish off my writing for my blog to tell every how I made my prototype.

This term and last term

Term 1:

Last term was alright and I enjoyed it a bit. During last term I had done less last term because we hadn’t started our netball games yet.

During last term we had camp , we wrote our thoughts about camp and this is some of it. My thoughts about camp a unbelievable because I couldn’t wait. Camp was about having fun and taking charge of what you take care of. My group was called Responsiblez. When camp comes up I can’t wait till Concert night that is the best bit about camp. Until Camp comes we can have heaps of fun and watch a movie on the first night of Camp and wait till our Camp concert comes on Tuesday night , I wonder what it will be like? I reckon it is going to be Funny and exciting to watch. Till Camp arrives I will pack and get all my stuff sorted. Well that’s what I thought about camp.

We started up a Maths group last term and we went to different classrooms for it. We also started up a group called Taonga time we also go different class’s for that too.
On the Second week of school we had Technology I was in Electronics it was awesome. Also this term Ms Tito decided to make the Kapa Haka group happen so I can’t wait till we start performing.

Term 2:

This Term I hope it’s even better we are going to be starting up the games for Rugby and Netball the teams have been training really hard and a lot this term before the games come up! Our Netball games a starting up next week on Tuesday in the afternoon. Our Topic this Term is BIGGER , BETTER , FASTER , STRONGER.

We have been doing Immersion Rotation going to different classes. Our Kapa Haka is always on Fridays so we won’t be doing Taonga Time. The Netball girls have started up there games Team 2 have won all there games. Last week the Player of the day for Netball Ocean was Player of the day for team 2 was and April was the Player of the day for Team 1. I’m so happy because we might be able to take our Netbook’s home this term it will be really helpful.

Its a TAP not a KICK

In my Movie it is about a Korero called "Its a TAP not a KICK"Hope you enjoyed this?

RC Acrostic Poem

Responsibly
Enchanting
Incredible
Naughty
Annoying

Difficult

Statistics

1. Analyse:
2. Average:the total of all scores, divided by, how many scores there were.
3. bar graph:uses bars to show quantity or numbers so they can be easily compared.
4. Circle graph:
5. Classify:
6. Collection:
7. Column:
8. Column graph:
9. Compare:
10. data: Collection of Information, usually gathered by observation, questioning and measurement.
11. graph:drawing a diagram used to record information.
12. interpret:
13. mean:average of a number of different amounts.
14. median:Line that joins the vertex of a triangle to the midpoint of the opposite side.
15. mode:a type of average-in a set of scores, the mode is the score that occurs the most
16. object:
17. represents:
18. row:items arranged in a horizontal line.
19. stem and leaf plot:a data display that shows groups of data arranged by place value.
20. table:mathematical information organised in columns and rows.
21. tally marks
22. title:the title of your Subject.