Where In The World Is Latvia And Lithuania?

The Force 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:
Latvia;
Lithuania.

This is what I found -


Latvia is in Europe and the capital City is Riga. The population in Latvia is 2,204,708
Ice hockey and soccer atre popular sports in Latvia.



Lithuania is a part Europe too. The capital city in Lithuania is Vilnius and the population of Lithuania is 3,535,547.
In Lithuania basketball and kick-boxing are popular sports.



I have decided to study Latvia for our Immersion task.

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).




Your name;JephteYour team’s name;ForceYour prediction of what nation will win the 2011 World Cup.South Africa


Task One – “Where The Heck Is…..?”
Newmarket is about 2kms from Auckland City centre.

Newmarket has everything from top designers to lifestyle stores, cafés, restaurants, hotels, bars, movie theatres and professional services.

14. Your name;Jephte
15. Your team’s name;Force
16. Your prediction of what nation will win the 2011 World Cup.South Africa

Task One – “Where The Heck Is…..?”
Newmarket is about 2kms from Auckland City centre.

Newmarket has everything from top designers to lifestyle stores, cafés, restaurants, hotels, bars, movie theatres and professional services.

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 Force. 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.

My favorite rugby team is the All Blacks because they have a talanted team and they play fea and they got a great coach. I think the All Blacks are going to win the world cup this year. My favorite player in the All Blacks is Sonny Bill Williams.

In our class we have been working on furniture design for the street.The main thing about designing furniture for the street, is so that we can have a better place to do our work on our netbooks. So when visitors come in they can enjoy our place too.

We searched the Internet to get some ideas for our furniture. We all received a paper and a pencil to sketch designs of our furniture. We all went home and we collected some ways that could be recycled, like toilet rolls, boxes and wood. After we finished making our prototypes we papermashay them with newspaper together with p.v.a glue.

We waited til our prototypes got dry and then we painted them and wait till the paint gets dry.

Rhyming Poem - Limerick

Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall
suddenly he was really small,
He broke into lotsa pieces
These were taken by lots of meese’s,
Poor Humpty who fell off the wall.

"If ..........."

If I had super powers,
I would be invisible,
If I had super powers
I would be super strong,
If I had super powers
I would be super fast,
If I had super powers
I would help people,
If had super powers
I‘d be a SUPERHERO.

Who invented the popsicle?

In 1905 the Popsicle was invented by an eleven year old boy named Frank Epperson. He invented the Popsicle by leaving his soda outside on a cold night and then next morning it was an ice block and that is where Frank
Epperson got the idea of making ice blocks.
Epperson was born in 1894 and died in1983 at the age of 89. He was educated at the Indiana University.Frank Epperson, who accidentally invented the Popsicle at age 11, later worked in California as a powdered lemonade vendor before eventually patenting and selling the rights to his creation to Popsicle Industries. One individual told him about a six-inch glass test tube that he used as a mold. He then invented a machine to make the frozen treat and also stamped his name on the wooden stick. Later, George, Frank's son (he was a father of five children) , renamed the treat - Popsicle, in honor and with permission of his dad.
Frank Epperson’s invention is important even today. Ice blocks are important because they can help you on a very sunny day and they can help you by making you cold.