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Student Led Conference – Leif

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The student led conference is when students present themselves as learners to their  parents and their homeroom teacher. For example, I put in my strengths and challenges and how I’m going to try  to achieve them. I also have goals for the end of the year and for next year. Then at the next student led conference, I will look back on the goals I set and see how I have executed them ( hopefully well).

The prep for the student led conference was very long and arduous. First we filled out a spread-sheet highlighting our difficulties and accomplishments in each field of academic studies like homework or science. Then we would fill out the actual presentation template, The template is a presentation that says on one slide, strengths so that is where we would put our strengths.

I feel that the student led conference is a better conference than the parent teacher conference because in the student led conference students get to actually discuss how they are  advancing as a learner, in contrast to the parent teacher conference where parents and teachers talk about the student behind their back and the students don’t know what their parents and teachers say.

I Am – by Leif

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I am happy, a student , a cousin and a friend

I like Dungeons and dragons RPG, Cheese, spaghetti, Dragon ball z, Naruto, Ice cream, pudding, Raspberries, to annoy my friends

I play the guitar and fun games
I hear my mom telling me to clear my dishes, the beeping of Skype and the out doors
I want food, time, cutting edge technology.

I won’t get it
I wish that there is world peace and no criminals abroad
I fear zombies skeletons mass murderers, to get a bad score on HW or tests, long multiplication, land mines, bullys and pumpkins
I have a house, a TV, a favorite color (orange) and a good life.

Blogging challenge #8

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Activity #4This is my idea of how to get more comments on our blog.

1.We could increase the number of comments on our blog by having more interactive things like more videos or pictures on our blog.

2.We could we could put words that people would search in our blog like pizza or national geographic or stuff we are studying so that other kids in other schools might be doing the same thing search it then find our blog.

3. We could have the people in our class contact people they know like relatives and then ask them to contact their friends and it would snowball into a giant mass of comments.

4.We should also welcome comments like saying at the end of the post “well what do you think” or “please comment”.

5. Also we could respond to all our comments then they will think more of us instead of thinking we slack off and not return comments.

6.Also we should be humble in our posts so they don’t think we are really tough and mean.

7.We should not write everything on one topic so that we be open ended and pepole can actually respond to it.

8. Also we should think about new people who have not commented ever before. We need a little page explaining how to comment.

9. We could advertise it on our billboard.

10. We could get in contact with other schools and ask them to comment

My picture challenge by Leif

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Picture challenge My picture was the two kids looking in the hole.


Saint Lenard’s

I looked down the hole with my friend Ellie. In the hole we saw two dim shapes. At first they were blurry like when you are looking through foggy glasses but as we were looking at them they were coming into focus. In the beginning they looked like gray blobs, now I saw there were two kids. I couldn’t discern their features but they might have been grimacing at us.

We waved, they waved just with the other hand. I put my thumbs up, they put their thumbs down. We leaned closer, they leaned backward. I put my head in the hole, they stuck their head back. I leaned backward, they leaned forward. I stuck my hand in the hole and they stuck their hand up throughpicture challenge the hole. I- wait they did the same thing as me!

Then they moved on their own, putting both their hands in the pit. Ghostly hands reached out of the hole then enveloped me. Ellie screamed but her scream was cut short. The next thing I knew, I was ghostly gray, and very angry at my old world.

Book talk By leif

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The Bartimus trilogy The amulet of Samarkand.
Bartimus has been summoned again but something is different about this time, because a 12 year old kid summoned him! He’s going to give the kid a scare so he opts the guise of a whirl wind of darkness with gleaming yellow cats eyes in the center. The kids name is Nathaniel he is driven by revenge to seal a precious amulet from Samuel Lovelace who treated him wrongly in the past. Their drive is to steal the amulet of Samarkand to upset Lovelace’s treasury. But as they try to get revenge on Samuel Lovelace they find out his  plan.

100 word challenge by Leif

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100 word challenge


This challenge is from Hyrstmount junior school

 

Ice Cream Men Aren’t Usually Evil!

I opened the door and saw the hoard of the Ice cream man! Years upon years of Ice cream hidden away in this locked refrigerator at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle. I needed to get this to safety before the ice cream man’s lackeys found me down here and deep froze me. I shut the refrigerator and attached the line to it. I tugged on the line. It started pulling the refrigerator up. I got it on the boat and then the lackeys found us. I sped away. Luckily their frozen boats broke down and I got to shore.

Week #8 Activity #4 – More comments – by Leif

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1.We could increase the number of comments on our blog by having more interactive things like more videos or pictures on our blog.

2.We could we could put words that people would search in our blog like pizza or national geographic or stuff we are studying so that other kids in other schools might be doing the same thing search it then find our blog.

3. We could have the people in our class contact people they know like relatives and then ask them to contact their friends and it would snowball into a giant mass of comments.

4.We should also welcome comments like saying at the end of the post “well what do you think” or “please comment”.

5. We could respond to all our comments then people will think more of us instead of thinking we slack off and not return comments.

6. We should be humble in our posts so our readers don’t think we are really tough and mean.

7.We should not write everything on one topic so that we be open ended and people can actually respond to it.

8. We should think about new commenters – people who have not commented ever before.

9. We could advertise it on our billboard.

10. We could get in contact with other schools and ask them to comment.

The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind – by Leif

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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba.
I like William’s father because his father is fearless and really strong and stays cool in the face of magic and danger. He likes good food and isn’t tempted by criminals. For example, when people heard of his profound strength and said we could use your strength and become very very rich but then William’s father always said no and declined.

William is cool and he is sweet to people. He learns a lot compared to what he knew in the beginning. I like that he includes a lot of mythical tales like when a guy sprinkled “magic dust” and snuck up on a evil rhino that was killing towns’ people.  The book is really interesting.