King ramses

This video Vicky and I did over king ramses II. Enjoy

Caracas Venezuela

In Hum we had to do a PowerPoint about the civilization of a city. My city was Caracas Venezuela. I think I did a good job,because I did every thing that I was suppose to do and more. I had pics and made it interesting .

If I could improve my work ,I would of made my speech longer and more fun. Maybe even add music to the background. But over all, I think I did good. Some times looking at other peoples I think man why did'ent think of that!!!!! But some times I think wow I did really good. I know the just sounds selfish but what can I say?

I learned so much from other peoples PowerPoint. Some more than others and some were not as good. But that is ok ,because at the end of the day all that really maters to you is what your grade is fore your PowerPoint.

Profile P

I learn best when I can see what we are doing. I am more of a visual learner, so when the teacher is talking and explaining, I won't understand much. But if the teacher talks and draws or acts it out, I would understand much better. Yesterday, in Humanities, we learned which side of the brain we use the most. My profile shows that I am right side dominant which means that I am a gestalt type learner. I learn best through movement and thinking about the whole picture. If it is important to me or in a context that I am familiar with I will also do better. Another important way I learn is when I am actively involved. Sometimes it is hard to explain things verbally and I do better through writing. When I am learning, sometimes it takes me awhile to process the information so that it makes sense to me.

To improve in my classes I need to doodle less because when I doodle I dont pay that much attention to what the teacher is saying.   I also need to sit  on the left hand side because my best ear and best eye is on my right side. I think I need the lesson to be more demonstrative so that I can picture it mentally. It would also be good if the lesson is interactive where I can get involved in it.

The strategies that would help me in my learning is to use activities like drawing. The drawing helps me because I like to draw and when I draw something I can remember it better. It also helps me when I listen to music. When I hear the beat and the teacher is talking I hear the teacher talking with the beat. When I hear the beats I can remember better what the teacher is saying. 

I would like my teacher to know that I am gestalt and my profile is a P.  I think that where I am siting is an ok spot. I think that the closer I am to the white bord the beter. Because when I am to far away and we have to read a PowerPoint I cant see any thing because it is to small. I want my teacher to know that in order to focus better I may need to do more activities and more movement. 

Lots of love Camila 

New year

Wow,What a great Christmas holiday. I don't know about you but I had a great holiday. Fore most of it I staid at home. When Christmas finally came I got the best gift ever!!! When my mom and dad asked me what I wanted fore Christmas I did not know what to say! But my mom and dad knew what I wanted most so the got my best friend a ticket so that she can com and visit me. We have not seen each other in almost 3 years!!! I was so happy that she can finally com. Then New Year Eve came. But the day before my cousin came fore 3 day's to spend New Year Eve with us. Yaay! And fore knew year we all dressed like Indian to mix things up. Then when it was 12 seconds till 2011 we eat 12 grapes. Each grape you eat is one wish. I love when I wake up in the morning and i'm all of a suden in a diferente year! Then a few day before school started I went to Singapur!!! Ges where I went while I was in Singapur, I went to Unevertial studios.

Another part I liked about the holidays is that I got to stay home, relax, chill, sleep late, watch tv and lets not forget NOT DOING HOME WORK!!! When ever i'm on a holiday I always get bord because all your friends are gon and you have nothing to talk about so you want to go to go back to school. But when holidays are almost over you don't want to go back to school and think. Fore what it is worth I think that holidays are GRAET!!!

Now it's a knew year and where I am from you have to get a new goals. My teacher ses that it is a good thing because you get to change your self. How do we change are selfs by making a gole fore knew year? That is exactly what I said when he told us that. Then he said why he thinks that. What he ment by changing our self was that you already know how to do this and that lern how to do something els. It dosent have to be that you lern it can be being a beter friend or some thing. meny things can change you.

My goal for 2011 is to become a good photographer. I think that becoming a beter photographer will help me have a beter chance to become a famos photographer. I always liked to be a photographer ever sens I was 3. I have this connection with the camara.

So that is it. I hope You had a grate knew year and christmas!!!

With lots of love Camila

Camila's Zeitgeist

This is my Zeitgeist assignment for the First Semester of Grade 6. Enjoy

Working together

Working Together

When you work with a classmate, it helps you in many ways, like when you don't understand something your classmate can help you. He or she can help you many other ways to. When you cannot do something or forgot your book or paper, he or she can let you use his or her book. It also helps when you finished a paper, he or she can give you advice on how to make it better. When you work with a classmate, you get to do it faster and you have more ideas.

Sometimes you overcome problems when you are working like you don't agree on something. When you work with a partner, you will come head to head with many problems but the problems are most likely to be very simple and small. By small problems, I mean disagreeing and more. When there are problems, they are very easy to fix because you have two heads working together and that is easier than one head working against a problem.

Literature circle

If I have participated in the group discussion, I would have a better understanding of the  novel that we are studying.  I may have more ideas as to how I can improve my responses to the reading before the discussion.  I could have come up with better questions.  I would have thought harder on the connections.  I could have made my passage more interesting.  From the discussion, I would also have better ideas as how to work on my next literature circle.

The connection that I made from the four chapters was that I love the zoo just like Jacob does.  Another connection that I have made is that I really, really want to go to Africa just like Jacob. But the reason I want to go to Africa is so that I can go on a safari. The reason that Jake wants to visit his father and he wants to go to Kenya and I want to go to South Africa.

My prediction is that Jacob will get to go to Africa and he will find his father.  I think that his father will be very surprise to see him there and mad at the same time because his father is concerned for Jacob's safety and will want to send Jacob back home.  Jacob will then explained to his dad that he does not want to live with his aunt because he does not necessary like or know her.  His dad will then change his mind and let him stay for a few days in a cave with him.  They will study the elephants together and Jacob will definitely have an exciting time.

Love Camila