Group+1+-+Pre-Project

=Task 1: Mini Photo Essays= __Please note:__ 1. Do **not** post individual pictures of students on the internet 2. Do **not** give out your email on this wiki - pass it onto your teacher's spreadsheet to share with others 3. Contribute to the discussion tab above each time you add to the wiki - let others know what you have done and get to know them

=Creators - Tell us about your self and give your blog URL=

KimMinwook at Uijeongbu Science High School in South Korea. My blog is at ......... Patrick (A.K.A The King). My blog is at ......... Jung Duk Gun at Uijeongbu Science High School in South Korea. My blog is at ......... Janine (Senior Editor) at Deer Park Jr. and Sr. Public School in Toronto, Canada. My blog is at http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=112931 Brooke at Deer Park Jr. and Sr. Public School in Toronto, Canada. my blog is at http://www.classblogmeister.com/blog_edit.php?userid=112917&comment= Norain at Deer Park Jr. and Sr. Public School in Toronto, Canada. [|click here] to go to my blog.

Canada
=My School= __(janine)__ This isn't the official Deer Park logo but it still represents it! Our school has roughly 300 students and starts from kindergarten and goes up to grade 8. So this year, we are the Seniors of the school. We have about 25 classrooms and 29 teachers including our Prinicpal **Peter Thatcher** and our Vice Principal **Chris Gorzynski.** In addition, we have a large swimming pool and a very large gym. Plus a lunch room. Our school is pretty big and the picture below (brooke took it) is of the school yard. its pretty big too and as you can see, we have turf!

brooke's

here is a picture of what the soccer field at school looks likes from my balcony. behind it, (so the trees) is the ravine where we practice running and spend some of our DPA (Daily Physical Activity) time. There aren't many people because school had ended a couple hours ago but people still like to spend their time playing soccer or basketball.

janine's Heres a front view picture of our school. Its not very good and its not the whole front but here it is anyways. I tried to fit in as much as I could so, I hope you like it. You might ask why bikes are locked to the school fence. Well just last year, there was a sudden increase in bike thefts. So the office decided to have the bikes locked in front of the school where they could keep an eye on them. .<- This was taken last June

Here are two pictures of our gym. Mr. Jeff Mann is our gym teacher. Basketball and volleyball league games are held in here as well as the usual gym classes. A lot of shows are held in the gym too! The **Talent Show** is a very famous show of ours. Every year a talent show is held and is put on the stage (you can see a little bit of it in the first photo.) Our talent shows aren't cheesy or boring. Usually we have one or more bands perfroming as well as other students singing or showing off their talents!

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This is our swimming pool. We learn how to swim here. (Haha no kidding.) Our swim teachers are Mrs. Margaret Jamieson and Ms. A (I don't actually know what her name is because she's new.) Right now in swim class,we are wrapping up our synchro unit.

Here are just a couple more pictures from around the school. This is what is considered a normal school life here.



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So I brought my camera to school on the day of Halloween and took a few pictures of people and their costumes. Since you kids in NZ aren't big on Halloween, here are a few pictures taken just before the dance. Unfortunately, I **DIDN'T** bring my camera to the dance because it would be hard to take pictures **AND** dance at the same time! Anyone else who took pictures from Halloween or the dance are free to put them up! Go ahead though, we want to see them!





Norain's

My Community
brooke's This is what you will see if you look out my living room window. Most people will think "the C.N. tower" when you talk about Toronto but this is what my community looks like. the C.N. tower is important but its on the other side of my building.

This street is st.claire east. It's very close to yonge steet. Yonge Street is known as the longest street in the world.It starts at the shores of lake ontario and continues for 1,896 km or 1178 miles.

__Janine's Community__
ok, so you've seen what Brooke's Community looks like! Now heres mine.

=== === This is what the city looks like from my balcony during the Winter time, when it snows! The second picture is of Tim Hortons. Tim Hortons is a coffee shop that every Canadian favours! I'm not exactly sure but someone told me that an American bought Tim Hortons now! Tim Hortons used to ONLY be Canadian, but now i guess, its North American.

This is also another picture of what the city looks like from my balcony only only this time it was during the Summer.

Heres a snap shot of Dominion! Dominion is where my parents and I do our grocery shopping. We buy all types of food!

This is just a picture taken outside of the Yonge and Eglinton Centre during Night time. The Yonge and Eglinton Centre is a small shopping mall with stores like HMV, Dominion, Silvercity (the movie theatre),etc.

My City
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Heres a night time view of Toronto. Its pretty cool because you can see the CN Tower and the buildings near it. Although I was born here, I've never actually been to the CN Tower! Sounds funny eh? Well, I just never got around to it. Our city though, is a very great one. We are very multicultural and every corner you go, you find a new place. We've got places like **China Town, Corsa Italia, Greek Town, Little India and Little Portugal.** There are many more places which hold many more cultures, but those 5 are the main ones. What I love about my city is the diversity and the peacefulness Canadians carry out to other countries. And no matter what, there is always something to do here! When i grow older, I'm definitley staying :)

Heres another view of TDot (or Toronto if you prefer that. TDot is just a 'gangsta' way of saying Toronto.) This is the core of DownTown. As you can see, there are many buildings. This is only part of the city as there are more buildings around! Just like most cities in the world, buildings litter the country with advanced technology and high-tech items.

=__**Norain's Community**__= http://www.webkunst.org/toronto/inhalte/ont_place/ont_place_map.jpeg Hey everyone since Janine and Brooke talked about the buildings and stuff, I'm gonna tell you about the fun activities you can do in Toronto! This map shows all the rides in Ontario Place. Ontario Place is an amusement park in Toronto.Ontario place first opened in May 1971 and consisted of five different facilities: The Forum, pedal boats, a marina, restaurants and the world's first permanent IMAX theatre, called the Cinesphere. You can do lots of fun stuff there, you can watch a movie or a documentary in the Cinesphere, shoot some hoops, ride on the Free Fall. Last but not least, don’t forget to bring your bathing suit with you if you want to ride the amazing water slides and play in soak city! This is the skydome... well it used to be skydome it's now called the Rogers Center because it was sold the Rogers. The Rogers Center was completed in 1989. This Dome was a very expensive project because it has a retractable roof that opens and closes that toook over 2000 workers to build. The dome is 86m high. It is 213m in diameter and covers an area of 4.66 hectares. What happens in there?...well Blue Jays, the Toronto baseball team plays their, also in the March Break (the second week of march) when we have a whole week off, there are amusement park rides there!

My Country
Heres a small world map. For those who do not know where Canada is, its right above the United States. Also, to help you, its the country in pink, on my map! Canada's main animal is the **Beaver.** The beaver is also on the Canadian nickel (five cents). Just for fun, here are some fun facts about Canada: //- Canada is the second largest country in the world, with 9,971,000 square kilometres of land.// //- The baseball glove was invented in Canada in 1883. (Honestly, I didn't know that!) - The world's smallest jail is believed to be in Rodney, Ontario, Canada. It is only 24.3 square meters (about 270 square feet). - According to the United Nations Human Development Index, Canada has the highest quality of life in the world - Contrary to popular opinion, Canada does not own the North Pole. In fact, the North Pole is not owned by any country. It is believed, however, that Santa Claus is from Canada.//

For more fun facts about Canada go to http://www.vec.ca/english/2/canada-facts.cfm You might find some other facts interesting!

Norain's This is a sport called lacross. Even though i don't think its the most popular sport in Cananda it is actually Canada's official sport. In case you don't know what it is, this game was invented by American Indians; now played by two teams who use long-handled rackets to catch and carry and throw the ball toward the opponents' goal. Pretty straight forward, but its no as easy as it looks... Since its fall right now...i'll tell you what happens here in fall. This is my favourite time of year becuase the maple leaves changes from green to yellow and red! It happens every fall. In D.V.P (Don Valley Pakway=highway) you can see a whole scenery of it becuase there are lots of trees all around the highway.

i couldn't find a a picture of the D.V.P but the trees look some-what like it there...;) just picture the river the highway with cars moving on it.

My School
My school name is Uijeongbu Science High School. Our school has good domitory. We(230 students) live there.

My Country
Traditional clothes in Korea.

My School
Padre Alberto Neto High School is located in Queluz, near the Fire Brigade and the National Palace of Queluz. Today, our school has 2200 students, 210 teachers and 72 aides. It is very green space, two fields of games, a gymnasium, an amphitheatre, a library, where we have some of 10000 volumes of 500 documents in video and 80 CD-ROM. In addition, we have 36 classrooms, laboratories for Biology, Physics, Chemistry and Geology.



My Community
The city of Queluz has about 111,424 habitants. Queluz is known for having a beautiful palace which is called National Palace of Queluz, which is situated in the district of Sintra. There is, beyond the value of their image, the beauty of the gardens and large stretch of woods that the fence. Today he has tourist-cultural. Traces architectural styles as baroque and others. However, we can say that the palace is organized by gardens of various wings. From the outside, the palace opens two curved arms. As part of the gardens, is a clear articulation of the facades of several appliances, including those that fall Garden of Neptune or Grand Garden.

National Palace of Queluz.



My City
Lisbon is the capital of Portugal, located in the estuary of the River Tejo. Besides capital of the country is also capital of the district of Lisbon. The metropolitan area of Lisbon, is still the main center of the sub-region statistics of the Great Lisbon.

On bridge April 25 is a Portuguese Christ-King is a religious monument that is located in the parish of Pragal, district of Almada. The monument to Christ-King was built in fulfillment of a vow made by the Episcopate Portuguese Fatima meeting in the April 20, 1940, asking God to free Portugal to participate in the Second World War. Inaugurated in to Christ-King is the largest tourist attraction of the county of Almada, after the famous beacMay 17, 1959. The monument of the Costa de Caparica. It is one of the highest buildings in Portugal, with 110 meters high.

The Aqueduct of St. Anthony stands on the valley of Alcantara, in the city of Lisbon in Portugal. Considered as one of the most beautiful places in Lisbon at present. The construction of an aqueduct to bring water to the city has, D. John V (1706-1750), the opportunity to satisfy their passion for grand buildings. Their conduct has the main extension of 19 kilometers, while the total length, including the side channels, is 58 kilometers. With 127 arches, its most famous are the 35 arches over the valley of Alcantara, the highest of which (the Great Arc) measures 65 meters in height and extend 29 meters between Pegões.

The Lisbon Oceanarium is a museum of marine biology located in the Parque das Nações in Lisbon, Portugal, built as part of Expo 98. This flag, resembles an aircraft carrier and is installed on a pier surrounded by water. It is the second largest oceanarium in the world (2004) and contains an impressive collection of species-birds, mammals, fish and other marine habitants. The habitats chosen by their natural wealth in terms of fauna and flora, were: Antarctic ocean, coral reef of the Indian Ocean, rocky coasts of the Pacific Ocean coast and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The main attraction for most visitors is the large central tank, where coexist several species of fish such as sharks, barracudas, rays, tuna and small tropical fishes.



The Vasco da Gama bridge is the longest in Europe, is with its 17.2 km in length, of which 10 are on the waters of the Tagus estuary. The will (length of the board) of the central viaduct is 420 meters. It was built to provide an alternative to the bridge on April 25 for the traffic that flows between the north and the south of the country.

Vasco da Gama bridge





The National Coach Museum is located in the district of Belém in Lisbon, by the river Tagus. It was formerly a school of riding, Picadeiro The Royal Palace of Bethlehem, built by Italian architect Giacomo Azzolini, in 1726. In 1905, it was turned into a museum by the Queen D. Amélia, the wife of the king Carlos, under the name of Coach Royal Museum, which, after the Republican coup, had its name changed. National Coach Museum.

My Country
Portugal is a country located on the Atlantic continental and southwest Europe, in the area west of the Iberian Peninsula and in the North Atlantic. Lisbon is the capital. In Portugal there are also big and important bridges and monuments.



My School
===This is th aorere crest the latin words mean 'character is the pathway to the heavens. This represents my school because it is the crest on every aorere students uniform. Hi my name's patrick (i hate being called patrick star so dont push it) i go to aorere college and i'm a very very succesful person i have a 1 million dollars in the bank( my runescape players bank acc computer game)===

===**My Community** I chose this picture because this represents the manukau city cheifs a sports team that represents manukau. Hi my names patrick and i live in manukau ,mangere auckland and i go to a good church i have a good family and yeah its a big one .===

My City
===This yatch represents auckland because auckland is the city of sales and yatchs are found all over auckland. I live in auckland the city of sails. its a big city the most populated in new zealand and yeah thats about it===

My Country ===I chose this picture to represent new zealand because it says new zealnad on it and it has everything were famous for the fern sheepour flag and thats why i chose it. Its me again Patrick its my last one so get over it i live in new zealand the land of the long white cloud the one with lots of sheep but if you really wanted to know about new zealand you'd come and boost our economy.===

=Task 2: Thinking=

Task A:[[image:Stack_of_books.gif align="left"]]
Brainstorm reasons why this picture could be relevant to your country. Make sure you give a reason for your ideas.


 * **Canada** || **South Korea** || **Portugal** || **New Zealand** ||
 * * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || i think this picture is relevent to my country because my country is a country of education we believe that education is the path way to success and books are were we get alot of our knowledge. ||

Task B:
Brainstorm all the attributes for each of your countries. Combine the attributes of your countries and together create a new country with these new attributes. Be as **creative** as you like, as long as you use the **attributes** of all **four countries**. Tell us...
 * where it would be located and why you have chosen this location
 * how big it would be and why you have chosen this size
 * why we should visit your country
 * and what it would look like if we were to fly over it in a hot air balloon.


 * **Attributes of Canada** || **Attributes of South Korea** || **Attributes of Portugal** || **Attributes of New Zealand** ||
 * * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here || * type your first idea here ||


 * Our new Country...**


 * Senior Editors**

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