New Years Resolution

This year my goal is going to be A's or b+'s in every subject because the better grades, the better university I will get into and that will lead to a good job and so on. You need a good job so you can do more things in life or you could just get a decent job. I am going to try really hard to get good grades.

My other goal is going to be to help new kids in 6th grade. This year I am a peer helper. I want to be a peer helper because I want to help new people to feel like they fit in, to help them to make friends, show them around so they know where all there classes are. I believe I can be a peer helper because I have had experience in 5th grade and I am respectful, kind, bright, helpful, always on time and caring. I think that I can make school fun for all the new kids. I get a green top, get to go to meetings and get to go to a pool party at the end of the year. But most of all I get to be proud of my self.

My last goal is to read lots of books so I can get my reading level higher. I feel that I need to do more reading. I try hard to find books I like. Reading will help me in life when I am in university to get a good job. It is important goal because if my reading level was a year behind i wont get such a good job. If I had a reading level that was one year higher I would get a better job. Read is one of the most important skills that you need in life.    

Last year I went to NZ. My main highlight is going to Mt Manganui to go surfing with my friends for 3 days. Jack and I were in the water out back were the waves were big. There was a wave coming towards us; suddenly I paddled as hard as I could. In a flash I was up on my board and surfing. I was losing control and my legs were wobbly like a person had no bones. I fell into the water and was tumbling all around. I got back up and paddled out again. I was getting lots of waves but later on in the day the waves were small so I could not surf. Jack and I went back up to the batch and ate dinner.




I hope I achieve these goals by the end of this year!!!

My Learning Profile

1. I learn best when......

I am a kinesthetic/visual learner. I learn best when I am moving and focusing on the whole picture. I also do best when the learning is relevant and meaningful to me. For example in Health we got into partners and acted out different types of behaviors. I feel that I really understood the different behaviors when I acted them out.

2. I need to .....

 In order to learn best I need to see the whole picture and physically do what is being learned. I need to move, especially my hands and feet to process new learning.

3. The strategies that would help me in my learning....

 I need to have encouragement and good modeling from those teaching me. I need to sit close to the front on the left hand side and be able to move around without disturbing others. Some activities that help are reading aloud, doing the thinking caps from brain gym, eye hand coordination play, double doodles, walking and soccer. When I have a balance of art, music, movement and intra-personal skills combined with language arts and math it is beneficial.

4. I would like my teachers to know this about me.....

My teacher puts me at the front and doesn't really allow me to move around that much. I hopes she understands that I need to move and will move me back further in the class so that I don't bother others. I want my teacher to know that i need to do activities that involves putting my hands on things It also helps if i sit on the floor.

I hope my teacher understands me and lets mr do most of these things.

Lit circle

Three of the benefits of working with a classmate is that you can discuss about the chapter and the passage, also you can edit each others work and give feed back to them. When you discuss with a partner some times they give you ideas and good questions. When i worked with Jake he helped me by talking about pictures and then it gave me the idea of putting a picture on my passage. I think it is a good idea to edit other peoples work. Then you can get feed back, so you can change your sentences to make them better or if they saw a spelling error.


Me and Jake had a challenge that we had to overcome it was that we had to find out if the plant was called sticky plant or just a plant. First we went back and found the chapter it was in. Next we found out what page it was in. Third we found out that it was called plant not sticky plant. Finally we discussed why it didn't say sticky plant because the dust stuck to Jacob. That was our main problem/challenge.


The novel helped me understand the life in Kenya. It talked about how Kenya is a poor country and they have low food supply which makes food more expensive. I think the book has made me learn a lot about Kenya because in Kenya a lot of things is happening. It also showed me how the people live in the jungle and survive by rolling around in red dust and blend in with your surroundings, not killing nature by letting animals kill each other and take the meat so you don't have to kill nature.


These were some reasons why i think you should work with a partner and what challenges my partner and i have to get through, and what life in Kenya was about.

LIt Discussion

1. How your groups discussion helped your understanding of the novel.


My group discussion help me under stand the novel because you get to hear everyones opinion and what they think is going on in the book. If it is only your opinion you cant really get the best idea of the story. If you hear 2 or more opinions you will have the best understanding of the book you are reading. You also get a feel of what other people think about the book and get to share your ideas with the group. It mainly helped my understanding of the novel by getting to know other peoples ideas and what they think about the book.


Connections that you made during your discussion?


I made some connections in the book. These are some of the connections. The zoo in the book and the zoo in NZ and how Jacob didn't want to go Nebraska and that i didn't want to go to Malaysia.
In the zoo in the book it reminded me of the NZ zoo i remember going up to the meerkats and seeing them. When i got their and there were people looking at them they didn't really come out of there burrows. When everyone left and there were less people the meerkats would come out just like when Jacob went to the zoo and told how he only really saw the animals when people were'nt around they would come out. When Jacob found out he had to go to Nebraska he was mad. When i got told we had to move to Malaysia i was mad.


Predictions
I have two predictions they were i think JAcob will try to find his dad but then end up on the wrong flight and bill will come with him to Africa.

gun, germs and steel

Papua new guinea has less resources and has less technology and less larger animals and poorer types of food.  These are some reasons why NZ and Australia are more rich.


NZ and Australia larger islands than Papua new guinea when England ship prisoners over and put them in jail normally after getting out of jail they would stay in Australia and raise kids and buy a house and live there instead of going back to england. NZ and Australia have more and different resources than papua new guinea.For example NZ have different animals that help pull things and produce different things. NZ also have better machines and more wealthy people. They also have more population so if they have more population they have more jobs so things can get done. The bad thing is that there is more people to feed and land for them to live.  In Papua new guinea there are more native people than white people because when they came it was a poor country and they didn't need anything so they didn't bother put up comuities there because they weren't interested in the island and they also didn't get along with them.


In Papua New Guinea the type of food they could grow was not as good as the crops grown in Europe. This meant they had to spend most of their time working to get enough food to survive. Also Papua New Guinea did not have the right type of animals to help them farm. In Europe they grew wheat and had cattle,horses,cows and sheep. The People in Europe were living in the right place to get ahead. The people in Europe got more technology and they went to settle in NZ and Aus.

HELP ME

I could hear the giants coming they were getting closer one by one my friends were getting squashed. I have to work out what to do to survive this invasion of the giants. I have to find my kids and save them. I must take them to our borrow. Arrrrrrrr "help me" I am being chased by giants. I can hear my kids calling " dad under the mud go quickly". Save your self kids and take your sister through the under ground tunnel and out the other side of the bridge. I'll tell every one to retreat to the tunnel and meet you on the other side of the bridge. "Ok"

"Guys retreat back through the tunnels quickly". One of the mudskippers shout out" its blocked" the giants must of destroyed it. It's imposable to fix it in only a matter of time. We must find another way. "Lets go", come on. Look I see another way through the mangroves it looks risky. "should we take the path?" um "yes" let’s hurry. I finally find something to eat. I will give the food to the little mudskippers they need the energy and strength the most. "Lets continue". It looks like we are going to come through crab territory they are  vicious. (Someone shouts out) lets find another way we all ready have enough trouble With the giants. its to late we have to sneak past them lets give it a shot "ok". 

Once we were on the other side we realized that we had made it back through  the other side of the bridge safely. I ran to my family so did every other mud skipper. We all had a chat and told our stories about the other way home. After that we all had to build the broken tunnel, which took us along time!!!!!!!!