Emelia



=__THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. . . __= When my dad was a kid ( about my age) there was no such thing as the Internet. Even when my dad left University there was no such thing as the Internet. Waikato University had the first Internet gateway in the whole of New Zealand where it was used mainly for academic research.( An Internet Gateway is like a connection where information is received and sent, in other words it is like a doorway which gives you access to the Internet). Waikato University sold the gateway to Telecom for them to develop it for wider usage in 1994. At that stage Telecom could see there was huge potential. There was a whole industry developed around providing access to the Internet. While there are still many providers of Internet access, Telecom is by far the biggest. Now days the Internet is so full of information, you can do almost everything on it. It provides information, entertainment, you can shop and find information on pretty much everything, but, the amazing thing is that it wasn't invented by a single person nor was it created by one big company. It was created by a whole bunch of people (and companies) working together. Also you could be sitting in you living room and there could be a Hog Farmer sitting in his living room all the way over in West Virginia typing about how he farms Hogs and all that stuff and you could type up 'Hogs' and then Google may come up with West Virginia Hogs and you may click on that and it might just be the man sitting in his living room, or it cold be a huge huge mainframe in a big glass building, you just don't know. 

=__TELEGRAPHS__ =

Telegraphs used to be sent during the war to tell people if any relations were MIA (missing in action) or KIA (killed in action). young men who worked as any kind of telegraph operator so that's chiefs // and // trainees had to have a very good memory to remember all the Morse Code, like we learnt at MOTAT. Also if they applied to be a soldier they would go, train for a while, then the head of their unit would call them to the office and tell them that they couldn't be in the war as a soldier but as a telegraph operator. They would still be in the war, they would work in trenches fixing up telegraph poles and things like that and although they were only fixing telegraph poles and wires they could still get bombed and gassed.

= On Tuesday rooms 9,13 and 26 went on a trip to MOTAT. When we first got there a lady named Elaine took us in and told us all the rules and what each class would be doing for the day. First thing for us was the education classroom. Elaine showed us in and showed us the timeline of typewriters, phones, writing and cameras. Some of us also tried signing our name using flags and then Elaine would have to guess our names! She also let us use the typewriters and try writing our name in cursive with ink and a quill and a piece of paper. Thank you Elaine! = = = = Next up was the Voyager. It's hard to explain happens but I will try my best... = = When you see it from the outside it looks like a big flying saucer and when you walk in it feels so cold. Then you sit down in the seat and there is a big screen in front of you. then they turn on a kind of movie and the craft moves around and it looks and feels like you're on a roller coaster. Then we did the kiwiana trail and that was fun because we got to explore MOTAT! Then we had to go. = = But at least we had fun! =

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= HOW DID PEOPLE COMMUNICATE IN THE PAST? = PEOPLE EITHER WROTE A LETTER OR TELEGRAPH.BUT EVEN BEFORE THEN THERE WERE WAYS OF COMMUNICATING E.G.; PAUL REVERE'S RIDE. HE RODE ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND SHOUTING 'THE BRITISH ARE COMING, THE BRITISH ARE COMING" SO THE VILLAGERS KNEW TO GET UP AND FIGHT. IN ENGLAND A SERIES OF FIRES WERE LIT ON HIGH HILLS TO INDICATE INVADERS; THESE FIRES WERE CALLED BEACONS. BEFORE RADIO COMMUNICATION THEY WOULD USE MORSE CODE.MORSE CODE IS A SERIES OF DOTS AND DASHES WHICH MAKE UP A LETTER OF THE ALPHABET. THE MOST FAMOUS MORSE CODE MESSAGE IS SOS WHICH IS 3 QUICK DOTS AND 3 LONG DASHES THEN 3 SHORT QUICK DOTS SO IT WOULD LOOK LIKE THIS; .. -- .. ON SPECIAL OCCASIONS THEY MIGHT CALL SOMEONE BUT THAT COST A LOT BACK THEN. THE FIRST CELL PHONE LOOKED NOTHING LIKE THE ONES TODAY. THEY WERE LIKE CARRYING YOUR OWN HOME PHONE AROUND WITH YOU. IT WAS A BIG WOODEN BOX WITH A PHONE STUCK IN IT AND A STRAP TO GO OVER YOUR SHOULDER SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO CARRY IT SEPERATLEY. NO CELL PHONES AT SCHOOL!

= HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE NOW? = ==== WE HAVE LOTS MORE WAYS TO COMMUNICATE NOW BECAUSE THE CELL PHONE IS SMALLER AND PHONING SOMEONE DOESN'T COST AS MUCH. WE CAN ALSO E MAIL; SKYPE; TWEET;BLOG;FACEBOOK AND STILL WRITE LETTERS PEOPLE JUST DON'T DO THAT AS MUCH. ====

= = = = =Sci Tech= =we have finally got on to designing our product label. Katrina came up with our name clean beautiful butterfly and the catch phrase it's clean x3 beautiful butterfly. but then sam came up with nature buble and then soph came up with bubbly butterfly so that is our name and the catch phrase is bubbly x3 butterfly oh yeah! we are not actually going to make our product for sci tech but we will make one to use for our desks!= = = = At school all the year 5's are doing a sci tech project. Room 26 is focusing on bacteria which is absolutely gross!!! We have all been divided into groups and we all have different jobs, mine is a manger and I quite like that job. My group is investigating into different types of bacteria. We have to design a anti bacterial environmentally friendly spray cleaner which sounds like a lot of fun but we haven't actually started making the spray cleaner yet because we have to investigate into what things kill what bacteria. = = I can't wait to get started! =

= = = = = A moment in time... =

At school we were learning to write a moment in time and now Miss Ellis has assigned us a awesome homework task which is ...
== WRITING A MOMENT IN TIME ON OUR WIKI!!! We had to do it on something we did on the holidays. My moment in time is from when i went skiing down in ruapahu and i went over a big jump and well i shouldn't spoil all the fun so i'm just going to have to leave it to you to choose to read my moment in time or not... ==

MY MOMENT IN TIME
== whoosh, down the steep slope i went. AAH a big huge gigantic rock in my way! Wait a minute a lot of the people skiing (and snowboarding for that matter) were going around it. i wondered what would happen if i went around the rock. weee, a big turn around the rock leads me to. uh oh a jump i wasn't very good at these well i guess i was o.k on the little ones but this one was almost up to my dad's hips. up,up i went and then woosh i felt like i was flying, hello birdies i'm coming! i was up so high people looked like ants! but, oh no my skis had crossed at the back and i landed with a big crash and i fell over flat on my face sprawled out on the white fluffy snow which isn't actually very fluffy if you fall from at least 4 meters high! ouch!!!!!!!!! ==

MYTHS AND LEGENDS

== In room 26 we have been reading and writing myths and legends. For homework this week we had to find a myth from a different country and re-write in our own words on our wiki space page!!! My myth is from Australia. ==

"It's too cold outside" snuffled Warreen, "and sometimes it rains. I might get wet! I like sleeping in my hut with a nice fire to keep me warm."
==== Mirram the Kangaroo would not accept this. "Your bark hut is dark and smelly. It is much better to sleep out in the clean air under the bright stars!" "No, thank you" said Warreen. "I will stay in my hut where I am comfortable." ====

All summer they played together as friends, but Mirram sometimes still made fun of Warreen's hut.
==== Things changed when winter came. The wind became colder at night while Mirram slept outside. At first he didn't mind. He snuggled up to a tree to protect himself, and laughed at the thought of Warreen in his smelly hut. "Wombat would not brave the wind like me" he said to himself. ====

He told himself that the wind couldn't hurt him - he wasn't afraid. When it began to rain, he muttered "a little wind and rain won't hurt me. I'm not afraid."
==== One night, blasts of wind lashed the kangaroo with raindrops that felt like icy needles. Mirram was so wet and cold, he couldn't take it any longer. He struggled onto his hind legs and blown by the wind, hopped slowly towards the bark hut. ====

"H'mmph" snorted Warreen. "Well, sleep over there - in the corner. You're all wet and I don't want cold rainwater dripping on me." Wombat stretched out near the fire again and went back to sleep.
==== Mirram lay down in the corner, but there was a hole in the wall of the hut and the wind and rain came in. He couldn't dry himself or get warm. The fire went out, but Warreen didn't notice. He snored as he slept and laughed every now and again, enjoying a nice dream. This made Mirram more angry. ==== ==== In the morning his body was stiff and sore. He hobbled outside and picked up a large rock. When he came back, Warreen was stretching and yawning as he woke up. Mirram dropped the rock on Warreen's head, flattening his forehead and making his nose curl around ====

=** DANCE ** = == In room 26 we have been studing creativity through dance and masks. We have been going to the hall evry week an doing some dancing to different music everyday.At dance last week Miss Ellis paired us up with a buddy and we went off and created an imaginary bubble and then Miss Ellis turned on the music and we had to walk around our space and feel the insides before we started.What we did was someone stood on the side and someone stood in the middle of imaginary bubble and made a shape, held it then walked out any way they wanted e.g rolling, bouncing, hopping or crawling.Then we swapped and the person that was originally standing on the side went into the middle and did a pose. We had to try very hard not to touch a part of the bubble that the other person touched. We did this for a while then everyone sat down and we all showed what we had done!!!!! This week at dance we practiced twisted and symmetrical shapes. Miss Ellis put us in a pair and we made a routine up together except we had to have 3 twisted shapes and 3 symmetrical shapes. We practiced our routines before showing it to the rest of the class!!!!! ==

LIMERICKS
== In room 26 we have been wrting all sorts of poems in our writing lessons such as... Senses!! Here we had to write something about each one of our senses. Our most recent type of poem is a..... Limerick!! A Limerick is a poem that has 5 lines, the 1st and 2nd and 5th lines rhyme and the 3rd and 4th line rhyme. Before we could even start planning we had to read a limerick to see what the rythm was. We each got given 1 Limerick to read. A lot of them were by Edward Lear who is a famous poet, he writes mostly Limericks. After doing that we did our plan we could finally do our Limerick!! I quite like my limerick, it's kind of funny. It goes like this: ==

WATER COLOURS
== At school in room 26 we are doing water colour paintings. We're painting Endangered Sea Animals. First we had to do a practice of our background. We used sea colours like,Aqua blue, Dark Blue, Green and some of us used a bright yellow for sand. We also had to do a sketch of different animals we would be allowed to paint. Afterwards we could start painting the real thing!!!! I chose to paint a Whaleshark. For my background I used just 3 colours, Aqua Blue, Green and yellow for sand at the bottom. Some people wanted to do a Great White bursting out of the water but Miss Ellis said the endangersed sea animals had to be swmming in water but that we could do a Great White with his mouth open and he was eating!! We learnt different techniques like dry brush, wet on dry and wet on wet. I had lots of fun doing water colour paintings!! ==

= **On Monday we went to the Oraki Marae.We had alot of fun!!! All the girls learnt a Poi dance and a simple Waiata.A waiata is a maori song and most of them are accompanied with a maori group which are normally girls doing a poi dance. A poi is a plastic bag which is normally filled with a ball of newspaper then tied witha string on the end used as a handle. Pois were originally made out of flax for the men to use to strengthen their wrists. All the** boys preformed a Haka and I can tell you right now that it was EXTREMLY loud!! = = On Teusday we went Tree Tops.We had to have at least 1 carabena cliped to the lifeline at all times.On Wednesday we did orienteering.I got really hot doing that. On Thursday we did the wave pools which was really FUN!!! My favorite part at the wave pools was the hydro slide!!! My favorite days were Tuesday and Thursday,Tree Tops and Wave Pools. Man, that was a fun week!!!!!!!! = = =