Kaitlyn's Learning Blog

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, Tahura intermedite and Otago boys high school. 2. What is your favourite thing about your teacher and why is that important to you? That he is not strict when we get things wrong because I make lots of mistakes in my work. 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 decided to become a teacher. 5. What is it about you...

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? I really enjoy doing Maths, English, Art and Digi because I can create projects and learn new concepts and problems. 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 a Ragdoll cat called Prince Caspian and he is 3 years old. I also used to have a Shetland Sheepdog called Tara but we had to give her away when we moved. Q3: What are some of your favourite foods? I like...

Creative Commons image from  pixabay.com Q1. How are you going to be more awesome in your learning this year? By trying my hardest in all of my work. Q2. What is one thing you will do to make this year great? Get a super rep badge! Q3. What are you looking forward to most this year and why? Skiing because it was really fun last year. Q4. Describe your current learning environment. Positive and fun. Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals? How are you going to achieve them? I want to improve on my work by writing neater and putting more effort into it. Q6. What are the things that drive your learning? What are the things that block your learning? Things that drive my learning is positivity and challenges. Things that block my learning is not being able to complete challenges because they are confusing. Q7. Kid President said, "Life is School, you gotta show up....

Blogger Prompt: Week 7 - Term 4 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?  Maybe Youtube or Google. Q2.   How can we encourage more children to learn to code? Will you get involved in the #hourofcode? Creating a scratch game about hour of code that people can play. Q3.  Who teaches you a...

Inventive Thinking, Creativity, Passion & Talent Welcome back to Kidsedchatnz for Term Three.   This week we are exploring "Inventive Thinking, Creativity, Passion & Talent".       1) What are your interests, talents or passions? I like to do art and I love to read. 2) How do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example.  By reading a book each term or maybe creating more things in the classroom. 3) Do you think it's important for children to have time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why? I think they should because it will make their skill rise like if you loved art, and did art every week your skill would grow. 4) What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life? I think the worlds most important invention was the phone because it made a big impact on everyones life and changed the world. 5) The Ki...

Blogger Prompt: Term 4 - Week 6 Classrooms of the future Classrooms of the future Righto, get those imaginations going! We want you to think about your current classroom and what a classroom could look like in the future. 1.What about your classroom do you really like? I like how we have our art and pictures on display around the room and how we are allowed to sit with our friends. 2.What are the things that you find difficult in your classroom? How the bags are now in the classroom because it is hard to move behind people that are next to the bag bins. 3.What would you do in your classroom to improve it? I would put a art portfolio on the wall for everyone, and put a folder that everyone could display one of their works. 4.What is your favourite piece of furniture in your classroom? Why? I like the desks because in Australia we had trays and it was really annoying to get your stuff because everyone would run to the tray c...

Blogger Prompt: Term 4 - Week 6  Digital technologies: 1) Do you think that technology will be a big part of our lives in the future? Why, I think technology will advance in the future because we are so dependent on it now like now if we want to know what 57x86 is we will take out our phones and switch to the calculator app. 2) Will technology disappear? yes, no, why? I think it won't disappear, it will advance. 3) How do you use technology already in your life? I use technology to write down my projects and search up information that is important. 4) Research what the first digital device that was made it and when it was built? The first ever device was built in 1835 by Joseph Henry, an American scientist and it was a relay to help his telegraph system. 5) What do you think about technology at C asebrook is like? And how could we make it better? Technology at Casebook is cool! My favourite part of the technology is the ...