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Callum's Blog. Friday 23 November Learning comes in different ways not just reading,writing and maths.

Co-operation I work well with others when we play softball,when we practice our plays and group work.

Particpation I particpate in soft ball as the pitcher and plays I am a hoody.

Thinking skills I use my thinking skills in soft ball because I have to think were to throw the ball and how to hold the bat I use my thinking skills when we prachice our plays too.

self managing i self manage when I work alone Iself manage by not geting distracted and concentrate and not distract anyone else and move when I get distracted.

Friday 16 November For Maths we are learning to add + subbtract decimal numbers. Example __6__ __4__ __64__ 10 + 100 = 100 = 0.64 We have also been doing book work, Mathletics and Zoowhiz.

For Writing walt use a comma to seperate items in a list. Example The flowers were red,pink,yellow and white. We are writing a info report on a animal.

For reading we have finished the book called Saving the yellow eye and we have started to read Einstein - champion of the world.

We have been practising softball with Mrs Ngatai.

for topic we are doing the animal kingdown my an animal is the kiwi I have learnt that the kiwi eats frogs,eels and cray

Friday 2 November For Math’s Walt add and subtract decimals with tens, ones, tenths, hundredths and thousandths. Example 1 4.362 __ +8.244 __ 12.606 We have also done HPJ Mathematics 7 pgs 6-9 and Mathletics.

For Reading we have started reading Saving the yellow eye and we have done the white hat on it. We have also read other stories and done hats on them.

For writing Walt change simple sentences into compound and complex sentences. Example Simple. Humans and dogs are both mammals. Humans walk upright. Compound. Humans and dogs are both mammals, yet humans walk upright. Complex. Although, humans and dogs are both mammals, humans walk upright

Friday 26 octoder For topic this week and last week we have been learning stuff about the animal kingdown and we have to find facts and info about NZ native animals and my animal is the Kiwi. I am going to use the internet an books to find my info. I am using those so I can get recent facts and true facts. We are also finishing our Pa's and we have also chosen a Maori legend to rewrite and we are making puppets so we can perfom them as a play.

for Maths we have learnt how to do number machines eg 6- 36 8-x3-x4-44 1- 16 We have also done mathletics and Figure It Out books

What fraction is shaded in.

For Writing we have be learning about simple sentences and complex sentences, conjunctions and compound sentences, main clauses and subordniate clause. Examples compourd.I walked home after school but I forgot my lunch boxs complex.Although scared,Irubbed my grandmas feet and we have also rewritten a maori legend.

For reading we read abook called kiwi grub for Mohua then made adecription on kiwis and drew, a picture. we have also started reading Escape.

Friday 14 september For maths I have been doing revision on all fraction work. As well as book work and Mthletics. It is going well because fractions are what I understand most in math and I now I am doing well because when Mr T asks us aquestion I am one of the first people to answerit correctly.

For reading I am reading a book called Strange Creatures and it is abnout an alien called Tarek and a human called Zimm who are in orbit and get sent to a planet alot like Earth to check it out. on the way they get hit by meteorites and crash on the planet. What I think wil happen next is that the strange creatures will attack them.Tarek is an Egyptian looking leopard with tenticles and a long chin with hair on it and he wears body armour.

For writing I have written called the crime it is a bout someone stealing a persons car and a highway chase. We are writing examples of similes, metaphors and personafication. eg. the diamond shone like the sun. the rock is a sharp knife the chair complained when the old man sat on it. We are learning this because when you put it in a story it makes it more exciting. I am going to use them in my stories and you should too.

On Thursday we had jump rope we had 4 different stations. Station one we had individual skipping, you could do, bell, skier, double under, rocker, around the school and normal skipping and boxer. Station 2 was long rope skipping were you could do egg beater, long rope,long rope individual, long rope group and double dutch. Station 3 was partner skipping which you could do front to front, front to back,and back to back, double rope. Station 4 was free skipping were we could do any kind of skipping, we had 10 minutes at each station. My overall skips were 951 and afterwards I had a big drink.

Friday 31 August On Monday we went to croscuntry the year4s did 1km year5s did 1.5km the year6s did 2km the year7s did 2.5km the year8s did 3km. I came 6th in my race. On Tuesday for maths cylinders did HPJ Mathematics 7 pg 158 to 159 then we did Mathletics.co.nz. On Wednesday for Reading the Falcons read Strange Creatures with Mr T. On Thursday for writing I had to cut out a picture of a person and write a story about the picture. On Friday for topic we did Guitar Hero 3 band manager then we got to play Guitar Hero 3.

Friday 17 August On Thursday for topic with Mrs Beere we prats our play called little red Howdy. Then on Friday for topic with Mr T we did guitar heror 3 bandmanager tiopic and same of as got to have a go on the x box. For maths with Mr T cylinders did HPJ mathematics 7 pg 154 to 155 using fractions. Fractions are my favrouite paret of maths so I enjoyed it. For writing I made a digam on the ipod touch about my store called Mount crack open a Beer. Then for reading I had to read a store called Disappearing Fogs and then I had to writ the bolld wereds down in my book and writ a sentence for eche won.

=on My first week at Mercer I have learnt a lot of things like how to work out algorithms example= = = 54  X4 4x4=16-10 4x5=20+1+6=216 And I have also learnt that parallel lines go in the same distance but the lines don`t need to be the same length. And I also learnt that congruent lines are the same length but don`t Have to go in the same distance example.

Then on that Sunday after the working bee I was mucking round on my Honda crf100 and my dad’s friend had ago and then I carried on turning the paddock into mud. Then I ran out of gas so I put my bike away and went to bed and all I could hear was my sister playing on her I pad all night. The following weekend I mowed the lawns with the ride on and I had to go slow because the grass was so tall and thick and slippery and I slid into the chicken cope 5 times. I had to keep unclogging the mower and then I towed the sifter round like a harrow and then I put the mower away and had a shower and went to bed.