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Blogger Prompt - Week 11, Term 1, 2018 Expectations and Values - What are they good for? 1. What are expectations and values? Use a dictionary to define each word. Expectation: Looking forward or expecting. Values: Worth, Merit or importance. 2. Why do we have expectations and values in our classroom, school and community? To make sure that people don't run around littering, yelling and smashing car windows. 3. What are some of the expectations in your classroom? Our classroom has to be clean and tidy, we respect and encorage each other and encourage other and work super hard. 4. How do your classroom expectations influence your learning? They can help you make friends and push you to do your best in everything. 5. What would your classroom be like if you had no expectations and you could do whatever you wanted? Everyone would be shouting, yelling and throwing stuff around. 6. If you could make an expectation for your class what would it be and why? To be resepectf...

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 Sometimes give on on rock climbing because I have a massive fear of heights sometimes I only get two metres up and I come back down. 2. Tell us about a time when you had success? What did you do to achieve success? At camp because I jumped of the wharf (which was high) and during coasteering I jumped off the highest rock. 3. We are responsible for our own success and learning. Do you agree or disagree and why? Yes we are responsible for our own success because...

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...