Chinese gold miners letter

Chinese Gold Miners Letter  

23/03/1865  

Hello it is your dearest son Zion. I traveled by boat from China to Australia, then to Dunedin. Then traveled on a horse to Gabriel’s Gully where I now live.  

I am living in a poorly made, cold and wooden hut with a lot of other people.

I was very scared on the first day because I didn’t know anyone there. I worked my hardest to find that gold and hopefully by the time you are reading this I should have found that gold and be out.

Yours sincerely,

Zion.

w11 blogger prompt

Expectations and Values - What are they good for?

 

1. What are expectations and values? Use a dictionary to define each word.

Expectations: A strong belief that something will happen or be the case.

Values: The regard that something is held to deserve; the importance, worth, or usefulness of something.

2. Why do we have expectations and values in our classroom, school and community?

Because if we didn't the classroom will be out of control.

3. What are some of the expectations in your classroom?

Treat others the way you want to be treated, Never give up and Respect and encourage each other.

4. How do your classroom expectations influence your learning?

It makes you want to push yourself harder.

5. What would your classroom be like if you had no expectations and you could
do whatever you wanted?

We would all be out of control and probably breaking everything in our classroom, swearing at each

other, doing inappropriate things.

6. If you could make an expectation for your class what would it be and why?

Spend more time doing physical education or at least more time outside.

7. What are your school values? How are they displayed in your classroom and at your
school?
Respect, Excellence and perseverance. Respecting your classmates and teachers. Giving everything a

go. Working to maximum effort.

8. How do you get recognised for displaying your school values?

Teachers giving you a REP card. If you get 30 Respect,30 Excellence and 30 Perseverance you get a

badge for all those values at school assembly's. If you get 50 of all values you get a super rep badge.

9. How do you think your school values link to your learning in your classroom?

Neat book work. Respecting classmates, teachers and devices. Working to max effort.

10. What are your family values and why are they important? If you don't have any come
up with some - what would be important values in your family and why? Being appropriate and caring.

w10 blogger prompt

Blogger Prompt - Week 10, Term 1, 2018

 

Your Success - Who is responsible?

This week is all about ‘not giving up’.  

We are almost at the end of term one and we thought this was the perfect time to chat about what to do when things get hard!

Watch the videos before answering the prompts. They may help develop your thinking around having the ‘courage to continue’.

 

1. "Failures open the doors to success!" Tell us about a time when you failed with something? Being the second best team at touch.

2. Tell us about a time when you had success? What did you do to achieve success? Making the A team for basketball.

3. We are responsible for our own success and learning. Do you agree or disagree and why? Agree because only I'm going to have success because I do it myself.

4. What is a challenge you have faced this year? Explain what happened. High ropes because it was raining.

5. There's no such thing as an overnight success. What does this mean? Do you agree and why? Yes because they train all the time.

6. Why do we give up? What can we do to avoid giving up in the future? Who can help us? Because it might be your only chance to achieve it.

7. "If you do what is easy, your life will be hard." What is this trying to tell us? Do the hard things first.

8. Inner confidence and self-belief are the keys to success. Do you agree or disagree and why? Agree because if don't have any confidence in yourself you won't succeed

9. Who is responsible for your success? Myself.

w9 blogger prompt.

Blogger Prompt - Week 9, Term 1, 2018 

How Well Do We Know Our Teachers?

This week is get to know your teacher time? As teachers we get to know a lot about
our students, their families, their hobbies, likes/dislikes etc.

How well do you know your teacher?

This may require a bit of work. You may need to ask your teacher some of these
questions to find out.

1. What schools did your teacher go to when they were growing up?

St Clair Primary.
Tahuna Intermediate.
Otago Boys High school.

2. What is your favourite thing about your teacher and why is that important
to you? He's fun and takes us out for games all the time.

3. What does your teacher enjoy doing when they are away from school?

Going to the beach.

4. What made them want to be a teacher?

Long holidays.

5. What is it about your school that your teacher likes the most?

All the cool people.

6. Why are you his/her favourite students?

Because I'm always working my hardest.

7. If your teacher could do another job what would it be and why?

Business man so he can make heaps of money.

8. What do you think your teacher would be great at if they were not a teacher?

Owning his own business.

9. Why do you think it is important that you get to know your teacher?

So we get a long.

10. If you were your teacher what would you do differently to make your
classroom better? Discipline and more sport.

Blogger prompt Week 7

Blogger Prompt - Week 7, Term 1, 2018 

NZ Census

Roll call! This year is a Census year. A census is a big question form that gathers lots of information about all the people in New Zealand. The census only happens every 5 years. It is a snapshot of the New Zealand population on one night every five years and is compulsory to complete.

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Here are the questions for this week:

Q1: What is your favourite subject at school and why? Math because you need it for a lot of things in

life.

Q2: Do you have any pets? What are they and what are their names? If you don't have a pet what pet would you have if you did? A dog because they're rough.

Q3: What are some of your favourite foods? Donuts, protein, fries and fruit.

Q4: What is your favourite sport? What do you like about it? Basketball and its just something people do for fun but I also like it because I'm better then most people.

Q5: What is your favourite hobby? Playing Basketball or Running.

Q6: Who do you live with? My Mom, Dad, 3 Brothers and a sister.

Q7: What is your ethnicity? Maori.

Q8: The Census video talks about finding out if there are enough parks. Do you have a park in your suburb? Do you think your suburb needs a park or a better park? What would make it better? Make a basketball court there.

Q9: Why do you think the government does a Census every 5 years? What to change or to find the population.

W6 Blogger Prompt

Weekly Blogger Prompt

How Are You Going To Be More Awesome In 2018?

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Q1. How are you going to be more awesome in your learning
this year? Not distracting others and getting it done faster.

Q2. What is one thing you will do to make this year great? Try out heaps

of new things this year.

Q3. What are you looking forward to most this year and why? Camp but

that has already been so basketball.

Q4. Describe your current learning environment. We have two classrooms

to work in and a hub where teachers can work with other groups.

Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals?
How are you going to achieve them? My work. To finish all my work

to a high standard to set a good example for the school. Working hard

everyday.

Q6. What are the things that drive your learning? Help from others.
What are the things that block your learning? Others distracting me

or me distracting others.

Q7. Kid President said, "Life is School, you gotta show up."

What does this mean to you as a learner? Stay in school.

Q8. What would you like to learn about this year? Basketball. practising every day

Q9. Reflecting on your learning last year, what piece of advice would you have given yourself? give everything a go.