Wednesday, 26 November 2014

Constructing shapes


My reflection
I found it easy to find shapes 
i did number 2 and 3

Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Cause and effect

My reflection 
I found this easy because the book had lots of causes and effects.

Friday, 26 September 2014

Monster book marks.

My Reflection
This is me and my buddy having fun making book marks monster book marks
I found it easy because I learnt it before my buddy came after I learnt.
I need to improve my cutting

Wednesday, 24 September 2014

LRRH -Wolf's Point of View


I am learning to write from another character's point of view

I had just woken up I said. I lunged out of bed "mmmmmmmm pancakes" "No pancake mix" mum said
"go to the mall"
"Ok"
(bbbbbbrrrrrrrrruuuuuuuuuummmmm splutter splutter sccccccccrrrrrrrreeeeeeee)
"OH NO THE CAR"
"Never mind dear go to that little girls grandma"
I had just got onto the path when a little girl stuffed cupcakes in her mouth ill tell your grandma (3 minutes later)
"granny your little girl is eating your cupcakes"
(trip)
"oops ... oh no I ate granny... I cant let little red know"
(12 cupcakes later)
"Hello granny the wolf ate all my cupcakes for you no I err he didn't"
of corse he di..."
"oops"
and that is my story.
My Reflection:
I did well on my speech marks and punctuation 
I need to work on making it longer

Taster lunch

My Reflection:
We had the taster lunch for world peace day.
the food tasted good my advice would be to maybe to make sure to name what ingredients are in the food.

A golden morning

5:30 am (snore snore)
"WAKE UP"
"AHH" I yelped as dad explained that it was a rowing race (30 minutes later)
"finally at the start"
"3 2 1 GO!"
"We are in first place"
the boat speed faster than a jaguar
"STAIR STRAIT" dad yelled
the rudder turned
"PERFECT"
the boat turned as we came up on the green pole and turned fast like a jack rabbit running wild for carrots.FWOOSH we were faster than a speeding bullet we shot the eight down the river turned around the pole and shot down to the finish line .
"YAHOO WE WON FIRST PLACE GOLD IM SO HAPPY"




Friday, 1 August 2014

kauri speech

in ten years from now kauri may be extinct if we don't help now hi my name is callum  and my speech is on kauri dieback
f1: did you know over 5000 kauri trees have been killed already
f2:how to stop it:is whenever you go into a kauri infested forest clean your shoes equipment and boots
f3:the soil is infected thats how it spreads on boots equipment and shoes
f4:composting does not remove the disease but it kills weeds that carry it
f5:kauri has been protected for a loooooooong time

well its my time to say goodbye and keep clean.
My reflection:
I did well on choosing my topic and exclaiming. I need to work on my timing
and being slower.

Friday, 4 July 2014

View Point Gallery


My reflection
I found it easy to do the snails view,eye view, and possums view
the birds eye view was the hardest i had to get mrs.allen to crouch down.
I liked this activity because I got to move around the school.

Peaceful Communities

Monday, 30 June 2014

Ruby Rogers- story opening

I am learning to write a tory opening using dialogue

Ruby Rogers
"Hey Roger Roger ROGER stop messing around and help me fix this"yelled Ruby
"Ok fine I will help ok press that red butto..."yelped Roger
ZAP "AAAAAAHHHHHHH" yelled Ruby ZAP
"Ow that hurt! Ruby... RUBY where are you!!!?"said Roger to himself
"WALKING FLY TRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!"screamed Ruby
"Oops fertalizer why do I even have that?"Roger said cautiously
"OH NO"Ruby screeched
... TO BE CONTINUED


SUCCESS CRITERIA:
Speech Marks
I have used
To be Achieved
“ “ around the words spoken
yes
Start a new line for a new person
yes
Capital letter at the start of the speech
yes
Punctuation inside the speech marks e.g. ! ? . ,
yes
Used a comma if the speech is in the middle of the sentence
yes

Friday, 6 June 2014

Bike Skills Certificate

I learnt how to scoot and indicate on my bike with one hand.
I need to work on balance and scoot and mount.
I enjoyed bike skills.

Thursday, 5 June 2014

Camp Merc Persuasive Poster


My Reflection
I was learning to write a persuasive poster
I used : a retorical question. Paragraphs/Sub headings
a good use of a picture/ pictures
I also described the good things and benefits
using exaggerated adjectives and adverbs.
 not too much detail but enough to sell camp and bold eye catching words and words.
I need to work on using bossy verbs and maybe write a slogan next time.
I worked with meherzad and liam

Monday, 19 May 2014

Callum Basic Facts Evidence graph


MY REFLECTION
Next time I want to work on my time.
my goal is to reach 69 by the end of the term

My Reflection
My goal is to get 72 or 88 by the end of the year
and work on my division.


Friday, 16 May 2014

Mathletics



I have been learning how to order fractions . I know that 5/6 is bigger than 1/2 because 1/2 is equal to 3/6 and this is smaller than 5/6 . My goal is to know ninths and sevenths by the end of the term.

Thursday, 17 April 2014

The Big Jump Reading Comprehension

Rangitoto Landscape Art


My Reflection
I was learning to do Rangitoto art using multiple paint skills. I did stipple, then I did drag, then sponge and then card print. I had to start with the dark colours and get lighter. I found it easy to do the card print but I need to work on my stipple.

Tuesday, 25 March 2014

Missing Malasian Plane-summary

                                                                     My Reflection 
I liked this activity because it is like summarising news!. I had to read a news item on Kiwi Kid news. Im proud because I tried hard not to say the wrong sentences. I need to work on just using the important pieces of information and not adding my opinion.

Thursday, 13 March 2014

Camp Chant

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This is a video of the year 6s doing the camp chant at MERC.

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Number Talks- adding 2 numbers


                
My Reflection
This was my maths work. I was learning about different strategies to add 2 numbers. I am good at the place value strategy because I am good at splitting numbers. I need to work on rounding and compensating. My teacher can help me with this.

Friday, 28 February 2014

Camp Merc Certificate


I am proud of myself because I overcame my fear of heights . I liked the body boarding and surf kayaking . I disliked the tree climb.

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Rock Climb Kid



My Reflection
I really enjoyed rock climbing because I got to overcome my fear of heights. I found it difficult to get my legs and hands to reach the grips. Next time I would like to work on more difficult climbs.

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

My Kenning's poem



I was learning to write a Kennings poem
I am proud of my poem because I put in the time and worked hard.I think I could had done more sentences. I think the next time I could improve on my number of lines and use different words.

Wednesday, 5 February 2014

Welcome to my blog

Hello my name is Callum. I go to Elm Park School in Auckland. I am doing a blog so I can post my
work/feedback. I enjoy drawing in my past time.  I hope you enjoy my blog and posts.