Year 6 Camp Reflection

This reflection is made using the famous thinking hats.

White hat - Facts Figures and information:

It was at Borland Lodge, Edge of Fiordland National Park, Southland, New Zealand.

The people who did it were the Year 6's at my school, our teachers, and some of our parents and for a wee bit our principal.

21-25 November 2011

MB schools year 6 xamp.

Red Hat - Intuition and Emotions:

It was better than I thought it would be. On some activites I was a bit nervous. For most of the activities I was extremely excited (including the ones I was nervous in).

Black Hat - Judgement and Caution:

The bad thing about camp was the annoying, pesky, mosquitoes.

Yellow Hat - Logical Positive

Being able to hang out with friends for a good quality length of time. Achieving things I haven't done before in my life.

Green Hat - Creativity and Alternatives:

Make sure next time to put tonnes of mosquito repellent on.

Now this one is not a hat but what would I advise next years campers:

Remember to put mosquito repellent on.

Year 6 Camp

Last week the year 6's at my school went to Borland Lodge for camp. Over the next few weeks I will be doing some posts on the activities we did there. I will also include an overview of the camp using the thinking hat tools. Here is a link to their site: www.borlandlodge.co.nz/

Week 6 Reflection: Comic Life

Today I have been working on Comic Life Magiq. It is a great application for making posters as it has good tools which allow you to put in stunning pictures which are framed, have cool speech bubbles and amazing fonts. You can also pick from amazing themes and add snowflakes for example to add to the poster you are making. I would rate it a whopping 9/10!

Drama

As I have not been telling you about inquiry I suppose I should now. After having taster sessions of the different types of art (dance, visual art, music and drama) I decided to go with drama. I must say I have only attended three of the many sessions (as I have been away a lot this term) I have learnt tonnes of stuff about drama. For the art sharing event at school we are going to produce three short plays about things that have recently happened in New Zealand the rugby world cup, the Rena disaster, and the Christchurch Earthquake. Last session we worked on the rugby world cup and I can't wait to work on the other plays we are producing.

Week 4 Reflection: Khan Academy

Over the last 10 weeks I have been working on a site called Khan Academy. In Khan Academy there are over 2,000 videos from simple addition to learning about the plates under Hawaii. There is also an exercise dashboard where you can practice tonnes of math.

Over the last few weeks I have been working on multiplying decimals. I get so close to passing but then I get a question wrong and have to build up my progress again. B

ut today I have finally past it.

I do Khan Academy for some extension as it has problems up to the chain rule (what is that?). Next time when I get to a task which I have trouble at (like multiply decimals) I am going to stick to the task until I have to get off the computer. Here is a link to Khan Academy: www.khanacademy.org

Week 3 Reflection: Tennis Tournament

On Tuesday I competed in the Southland Primary School Tennis Competition. I did this because I decided to enter my schools trial and came out second in the boys category which meant the school would enter me in the competition. I did this because I enjoy sports (especially tennis). I one a game and lost a couple of games. I learnt how to judge how the wind effects where the ball is going to bounce so next time when there is a lot of wind I am going to use it to my advantage.

Cats and dogs, what is the better pet?

Over the last couple of weeks we have been working on persuasive writing. The one I have done is on what is the better pet out of cats and dogs.

Cats and dogs, what is the better pet?

I strongly believe dogs are far better pets than cats. Dogs have a lot more uses, are a lot more energetic, are more loved and are a lot smarter.

Firstly, imagine trying to herd farm animals into the yards using a cat! Now imagine trying to herd farm animals into the yards using a dog. Of course it is much easier to imagine the dog one because somewhere around the world it is probably happening right now. So in the farm aspect dogs win by far.

Secondly dogs are a lot smarter than cats. You can teach dogs awesome tricks like how to shake a human's hand! You can also teach them how to go through an obstacle courses, and there are dog training clubs in every major town. But now lets think about the tricks cats can do. At the moment I can't think of any, and I have never seen a cat training club.

Finally, dogs are more loved animals than cats. I did an investigation and dogs won by fourteen to three. I got a quote from a guy called Robbie. He said "dogs are more playful and are more energetic than cats. Also when dogs are puppies they are loved even more. Puppies are probably the most loved animal in the world! Oops I nearly forgot to mention that some people also learn to be nice to a puppy and that means they aren't as grumpy as they normally are!

In conclusion, dogs are far better animals than cats because they are better help on the farm, they are easier to teach tricks to, they are loved more and are more energetic.

Show me-speech marks

Our fantastic teacher has just set up something called a learning plan. On it there are things we are supposed to complete before the deadline. One of things we are supposed to do is make a showme on how to use speech marks. Below is the showme.