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.