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The history of the Internet

The history of the Internet began in the 1950s and 1960s with the development of computers. From then on computers started talking to each other and rapidly expanded. The Internet was made public in 1995 and now most houses have a computer and are able to access the world wide web www of information.

Telegraphs area short message.Your message could either call or write an message down.The post officer would read your message to another officer he would write it down.

Rena

This is my Rena newspapper.

__ Wrecked ____ Rena ____ after ____ Hitting ____ Reef __

Rena disaster could not get any worse. At Tauranga’s Astrolabe reef on Wednesday the 5th of October 2011 at 2 20am.I have just herd that the driver was drunk and was celebrating his birthday with a few drinks and did not do his job so the boat crashed. The captain went to court. There was 1,785,000 litres of oil on board and 400,000 of that went into the ocean. The wild life was covered in oil- most died. The bad weather did not help the Residents take the oil off the beach. Rain went on and off. But most days it was sunny. Now the Rena is getting better and worse at the same time. The reef must be strong- quite strong. The Rena has 1386 containers on board.

Finally we got to Motat. First we had to hear some rules and what was happening today. Then once we had eaten our morning tea we went into the games room. I really liked the pipes. There were a variety of different lenght pipes that you had to hit with an old jandel. It wasn't very hygenic! The we had to go into a special room which had all sorts of old things in it. The first table was on cameras. Andrew and his mum had a race to see if they could find out how to use an old camera. This camera was not a camera like today - you had to hold it down by your tummy. There were two eye pieces - one for landscape and on for portrait. As you can guess this camera is called a box camera.

The second table had three typewriters on it. On the typewriter you can't backspace like on a computer. The lady that spoke to us said that she used to do her homework on a typewriter and if she made a mistake she had to take the paper out and restart! The third and fourth table both had old telphones on them. The first cell phone was really big and heavy. It had a strap that you had to wear around your neck to carry the phone. You could only get reception in the big towns or cities that had cell phone towers. Not many people had cell phones - unlike today!

One of the fun activites was going on the tram. It was a Melbourne tram and was green. On the way on the tram we passed the small red Wellington tram. The tram trip took about 5 minutes through Motat and passed the zoo. The Vogager is like a UFO. The four smallest people have to sit in the middle because of the projector. I was one of them. We were moving up and down like crazy. It was very noisy but lots of fun. After the ride had finished we shouted ágain and the teacher nodded allowing us to have another ride.

The kiwiana trail was fun. It showed us all the kiwi stuff. For example Marmite, tomato sauce bottles and pavlova. We found out that softdrinks used to come in glass bottles. On our way doing the Kiwiana trip we did the mirror maze. It was quite hard to know which way to turn because everything looked similar. It was easy to get lost and lose your friends. Finally we caught the bus home.

Communication

How did people communicate around the world in the past?
I talked with my mum and BJ ( grandma). They said that they used to communicate via letters, postcards, aerograms, telegrams and pidgeon post. My mum showed me some aerograms that she wrote when she lived in Saudi Arabia. My grandma has kept them all and she showed me a blank one which I have. In the war ships used to communicate via lights and flags ( which is called semifore).Phone calls were very expensive and people had 'party lines' and could listen in on other peoples conversations. How rude would that be!!!

How do we communicate with people around the world now?
Today we communicate via e mail, skype, heytel, fiber and its very quick. My grandma can now skype my aunty and cousins in England and it does not cost. A lot of people are on facebook and it is a very large social network - you have to be 13 years old to join.At work my mum now has video conferencing to people around the world. This means that you can have people from around the globe talking together in real time.

Scitech

In class we have found the ingredients of our prouducts. They are mint,vinger,flax goo and two more. We have found our final prouduct. The name of the product is ninja sheep. I think that was an quite good idear the name came from louis.

Scitech

In class we are testing what natural products have the most bacteria. We are doing the same thing with vinegar. In our testing we are using agar plates which are really good plates and they are really interesting plates. The plates have no bacteria at the start but three days later you start to see bacterium.

Scitech

In class we have been doing scitech. We have been trying to find out how much bacteria on Dom's hand right now. I think there is going to be a lot and there was quite a bit. Next we are checking how much bacteria in household products in some. I predict some will have alot and some will have not much. Our experiment will be the best in the whole world! We will get an award for best experiment in the world

Scitech

At school we have being learning about bacteria.Yesterday we did scitech. Our group is doing a brainstorm about what household prouducts kill bacteria? Here are some examples- Mr Muscles,Basics,Jif and Ajaxs

Speeches

This week we have been doing speeches. My speech is about why aren't all lanuages the same.The criteria is no longer than 3.00 minutes long.At school I have been trying to find as many ways to say hello in different languages.Another key points is a loud and clear voice so that the people can hear what you are saying.

A moment in time

We were at the maritime museum waiting for the cannon to go off. It was going to shoot out paper bullets.We had to count down from 10, but after the 10 seconds, no body said anything. So the man did it again and it shot so fast over the water- it looked like a skimming rock. Then the man took the cannon away. I was really sad when the man took it away.....

Dance this week in dance we performed in front of the other year 5 classes ours was it bit short but still the best by far.yesterday we choose the music and our one is the best because it has a really random scream that is why i like the music so much

Dance

Last week we did dance .We have been making up moves for our assembly.Our moves are going to go in our dance which are going to be in our assembly. I think ours are going to be the best. At the start we got muddled up in what we were doing .Ours is about friendship. My character is Maui. Our story is called Maui and the Goddess of Fire, and there is lots of drama with fire. The goddess of fire in the story is my Mum.

Nessie the Loch Ness monster

This legend take place in Scotland

The loch ness monster was first found in 1933 when it was three years old. It was in the papers. Everyone in Scotland wanted to get to see this loch ness monster people around the world have been say it just saying it is just a elephant swimming in the water that true or is just an excuse that they cant see it for life. Lots of researchers have been saying different things but does any one know the real thing...



__Dance__

This week we have been doing dance.Every

week we are doing different music.This week we are doing james brown.In dance this week we have been doing twisted shapes and symmetrical shapes and we did a performce with an buddy i did my with louis we foget half our moves at the start. .

__Garden to Table__

In class we have doing garden to table. this week I was cooking .We cooked curry in the end the curry was very nice.The other two groups made flax bread and cheesecake.With the curry. I think  well i know we put full chille instead of fine chille.

__Water colours__

In class we have been doing art.These are the techinques we have been learning Wet on Wet,Wet on Dry and Dry on Dry.On Wet on Wet we had to wet our brushes and the paper then paint.On Wet on Dry we wet the brushes but not the paper then paint.On Dry on Dry we did not have to wet any thing. Now we are starting to paint endangerd sea animals.



__ EOTC WEEK __

 M onday Orakei Marae. Lots of fun learning the Haka and waching the girls do a poi dance.Great fun listening about the history of the marae and all the tribes. The tribe that lived on one tree hill oned the whole of Auckland.

Tuesday Tree adventures Lots of fun going throught the trees. The steps now finally down the flying fox.

Wednesday orieteering at Waitarua reserve.Running round looking for the controles where are they looking on the map where is it.Is the number 37 on the controle yes yay

<span style="background-color: #fdecec; color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">Thursday mt Albet wave pools.Waves craching down on us.Going down the hydro slide out and then back in then suddleny terns black.Finally at the end