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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? I can't  remember but failure dose open doors to help you achieve  your goals. 2. Tell us about a time when you had success? What did you do to achieve success? I went out and made some more friends and I did that by talk to other people that I didn't know much about. 3. We are responsible for our own success and learning. Do you agree or disagree and why? Agree because you have to engaged in your learning yourself.    4. What is a challenge you hav...

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? That he is so nice and understanding 3. What does your teacher enjoy doing when they are away from school? Going to the beach and spending time with friends and family 4. What made them want to be a teacher? he just fall in love with teaching 5. What is it about your school that your teacher likes the most? That every one is so friendly 6. Why are you his/her favour...

Blogger Prompt - Week 6, Term 1, 2018 How Are You Going To Be More Awesome In 2018? Creative Commons image from  pixabay.com Q1. How are you going to be more awesome in your learning this year? I am going to work harder and try to focus on my work more Q2. What is one thing you will do to make this year great? Make new friends and be more focused on my work  Q3. What are you looking forward to most this year and why? I'm not sure what I am looking forward to yet Q4. Describe your current learning environment. fun and hard working  Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals? How are you going to achieve them? being focusd on my work more and stop get distracted  Q6. What are the things that drive your learning? What are the things that block your learning? I'm not sure what blocks and what drives my learning  Q7. Kid President said, "Life is School, you gotta show up." ...

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. Creative Commons Image https://pixabay.com/en/users/geralt-9301/ Here are the questions for this week: Q1: What is your favourite subject at school and why? Mahi time because you have a different varirty of things to do 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? I have two pets and there names are Bazil and Jess. Jess is a Chihuahua foxy cross and i dont know what Bazli is  Q3: What are some of your favourite foods? Noodle union, burgers  Q4: What is your favourite sport? What do you like...

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP With the advent of social media, mobile devices in the classroom and a range of e-learning tools in the classroom it is more important than ever that students are aware of the  long term  effects of leaving their digital footprint and learn to become good cyber citizens.  The concept of digital citizenship needs to be embedded in all aspects of work in schools with e-learning tools. A good way to start this is to build awareness of what it means to be a good citizen in our community -  local, national and global.  So what is a good citizen?  QUESTIONS Q1.  What do you use the internet for most? What's the first site that you go?  yes for school and google doc most of the time  Q2.   How can we encourage more children to learn to code? Will you get involved in the #hourofcode? im not  sore  Q3.  Who teaches you about staying safe online?  mr foster  Q4....

  What are your interests, talents or passions? netball,singing,dance and sport   How do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example.  Do you think it's important for children to have time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why?so they are engaged in their learning  What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?computers because they are easy to use  The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? not to sore The top 10 jobs in 2017 didn't exist in 2007. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time? not to sore  Inventive thinking requires taking risks, being curious and thinking skills. How do you do this in the classroom? not sore  Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom? by doing genius hour  So...