Saturday, October 18, 2014

paua shell glorious paua shell

I found a paua shell on a beach at gorbay and I wanted to find out about it and this is what I found out . paua shell is a mori given name to three spices of edible sea snail's found in paua shell. the united kingdom as omar shell


Thursday, September 11, 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

Sunday, August 24, 2014

another day at gymnastics

at gym we do lots of stuff like tramping beans bars and so on its a cool and fun way to exersize and probley my faverite we weant to Olympia  now we had to exesersize 

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Lava Lamp




I think its happening because the eno makes bubbles when the food coloring mixes with the bubbles it makes blue blobs of stuff and it floats around the oil


When I read up on why this happened I thought I was quite close - The ingredients in Alka-Seltzer combine with water to form a gas called carbon dioxide. The oil and Alka-Seltzer do not combine in this way though. The Alka-Seltzer tablets sink through the vegetable oil until they reach the layer of colored water. There the Alka-Seltzer dissolves in the water and forms a gas called carbon dioxide. The gas is lighter than the water and oil, so it bubbles up, taking a bit of colored water with it as it moves through the oil layer. You should have seen those bubbles, looking like colorful blobs, float through the oil layer to the top of the jar. At the top the bubbles should have burst (releasing the carbon dioxide gas), and then the colorful blobs should have sunk back to the bottom (now without carbon dioxide gas). The effect should have been reminiscent of a lava lamp.

Saturday, July 19, 2014

my holiday

hi my name is Callum I haven't done a blog post in ages so this feels a bit weird. so about my holidays well we went swimming for awhile it was cool when they got the inflatables out like the twisty one and the crocodile one it was awesome. Total a big fat 10/10, and guess what its my dad's birthday tomorrow.  This is the swimming pool that reminds me of the place that we found. It was so cool. It had lots of hut things. We even found one that had a platform on it. We like it a lot. We even found a sword a wooden one but kayla likes it more. shes our dog and she likes pats.


the swimming pool in Rolleston
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Thursday, May 1, 2014

the trains in hallswall

I really liked the trains. There are lots of different types of them there even a bulleter. It's so cool. There's a little track and a big track too. The big one even goes through a forest .

Thursday, April 3, 2014

vase oh amazing vase


this is my awesome vase i based it on Marian Maguire. She paints pictures of vases except she puts Maori and Greek in. I painted it black and orange. It was my home learning. Its about my really cool holiday in italy.


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Tower of Pisa. Leaning thoughts.


Why does the Leaning Tower of Pisa lean? I'm sure you are all wondering why. Write what you think as a comment and when you all have I will put the answer in. Don't cheat!

Callum's Amazing Language Lesson

Here is a quick wee lesson on Italian from me


Sunday, October 13, 2013

Me and the pigeons


In Venice we went exploring walking down twisting turns and not always knowing where we were going. We. Went to the basilica where people prayed. On the way into Venice we saw a big canoe and we saw a lot of pigeons. Lucky we had nutella sandwichs because they flew on me.

Monday, October 7, 2013

The Quarter History of Venice

Venice is not what you think. It isn't built on water, it is built on islands of mud. But of course the people didn't make them. Before Venice was built there were 116 islands and the first people who got there were fleeing Huns who were invading Rome. The people built on the islands using wooden pylons.

Venice got very rich by using ships to trade things that others wanted and they had. They were good at making and sailing ships which is what you would think, because it is a city almost built on water. Then they started losing money because Portugal had stuff that they had sailed to different countries for.

Venice is today is now a place for tourists coming and going. Its like a playground for tourists and only 60000 people live here which surprises me, because I thought Venice would be bigger than Christchurch.









Ireland

I thought Ireland was cool . It had lots of green grass, hills and it rained often. In the towns all the houses were stacked together.

The favourite thing I did in Ireland was going to the zoo. I liked seeing the tiger up close it was so close it licked the window.

We went to Dublin, Athlone and Galway.

I learnt that the Irish have two languages. Irish and English



Sunday, September 29, 2013

Thursday, September 26, 2013

A day out at Portsmouth

At the place called Portsmouth they had lots of old ships. We went on a tour of the port. We saw navy boats and my favourite navy boat was a Cargo ship on the tour, but my favourite boat of them all was the HMS Victory. The captain was Admiral Nelson. He was shot in the spine and he didn't want to be buried at sea so they pickled him in alcohol and once they got home in memorial they drank the alcohol that his body had been soaking in. The HMS Victory fought in the Napoleonic Wars.







Tuesday, September 24, 2013

The Plane



To get to London first we had to get to Hong Kong which took 11 hours. When we were going to London it took 12 hours and we had little screens in front of as we had movies and games and tv, but also a moving map which showed were the plane was.

I spent same time doing games my favourite game was invaders it was a space game I had to destroy the aliens. I won eventually but it was hard.




Saturday, August 17, 2013

Callum's super birthday





The leap of faith I did was so freke. So freke I felt like I was going to 
pass out. when I did the jungle climb i went straight to the top it was so fun.