Chinese Gold Miners

Create a letter from the point of view of a chinese gold miner

March 4 1860

Today i made $9 from the government for the gold that were mined,

One guy got $24 the lucky bugger.

I had to go down to fetch some water otherwise we would have died :( o-well never mind.

A few more people have to come to New Zealand to mine so we had to build a couple more mud and brick huts.

I think I am going to start a new life in New Zealand and have a wife and children and have a successful life.

But that means that I will have to work a little bit more to pay it off.

A couple of guys had a punch up today but they couldn't get the medical advise they needed.

Weekly 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?

2. Tell us about a time when you had success? What did you do to achieve success?

Get in to the ''A'' Basketball team. I tried my hardest and I got in

3. We are responsible for our own success and learning. Do you agree or disagree and why?

Agree 

if you succeed it is because you have practised and tried hard  

4. What is a challenge you have faced this year? Explain what happened.

Nothing

5. There's no such thing as an overnight success. What does this mean? Do you agree and why?

You have to practice hard and work towards it

I don't agree with overnight success

6. Why do we give up? What can we do to avoid giving up in the future? Who can help us?

People who you can see for help is your teacher

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

Try new things

8. Inner confidence and self-belief are the keys to success. Do you agree or disagree and why?

I agree

9. Who is responsible for your success?

Me

Weekly 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 School, Tahura Intermediate, Otago Boys High School.

2. What is your favourite thing about your teacher and why is that important
to you?
He Is A Fav
3. What does your teacher enjoy doing when they are away from school?

Going To The Beach.

Spending Time With Family

4. What made them want to be a teacher?

Because He Did

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

All The Friendly Students And Teachers

6. Why are you his/her favourite students?

Because I Am A Fav

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

Own His Own Business So He Can Get Paid More.

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

A Basketball Player

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

So He Can Help Us

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

Not Make Things Boring

Blogger prompt week 7

Weekly Blogger Prompt

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?

My favourite subject at school is PE because it is a chance to get outside and have fun.

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 dogs named Max and Scruff and I have fish but they don't have names

Q3: What are some of your favourite foods?

My Favourite food is Sushi

Q4: What is your favourite sport? What do you like about it?

My favourite sport is Basketball because it is fun to play and everyone gets involed

Q5: What is your favourite hobby?

Trampolining and Basketball 

Q6: Who do you live with?

My Mum my Dad and my Twin Sister

Q7: What is your ethnicity?

I am from Christchurch

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?

I have one Down my street and it is BAD!

Q9: Why do you think the government does a Census every 5 years?

To see if the residents of Christchurch are happy with the city and to see what they can inproved.

Weekly 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?

By making it more better with more detail.

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

Try get into more things in school

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

Production because it is always fun and exciting  

Q4. Describe your current learning environment.

We get to chose were we sit everyday

Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals?
How are you going to achieve them?

I need to work on showing more detail in my work

my goals are to try get into the girls basketball team

I am going to show this by participating in all my things

Q6. What are the things that drive your learning?
What are the things that block your learning?

Getting my classmates to help me when i need it

when people distract me 

Q7. Kid President said, "Life is School, you gotta show up."
What does this mean to you as a learner?

you will always get somewhere if you try

Q8. What would you like to learn about this year?

wars

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

don'tlet your friends detracted you

week 6 blog term 4

Digital technologies:

1) Do you think that technology will be a big part of our lives in the future? Why, no because it is bad for your eye sight

2) Will technology disappear? yes, no, why? no it won't it will keep growing

3) How do you use technology already in your life? by going on my device for research and for homework.

4) Research what the first digital device that was made it and when it was built?Atanasoff berry computer and was built in 1942

5) What do you think about technology at Casebrook is like? And how could we make it better? i is good for learning but i think it would be better if we had more devices

6) How do you think technology will change and what will be something you think will be created. EG: holograms, hovering cars. flying cars

7) What are some of the positive effects of technology? it is really good and it is also good for research

8) What are some of the negative effects of technology? it is addicting

9) Leave 3 other comments on other peoples page. Make sure you take the time to write a decent comment. Remember your grammar!

Let's Talk About Term 3

Let's Talk About Term 3

What has stuck with you this term?

Term 3 2017 is nearly over and in our last KidsedchatNZ for the term we like to reflect. 


Put your thinking caps on to REFLECT and talk about some of the things that happened for you during this term.

Questions:

1. What was your favourite part of thisterm. production 

How did this make you feel and why? 

2. What was the most interesting thing that you have learned in Term 3? the production dance

3.What were some of the challenges for you? Tell us why. nothing

4. Do you have any artwork or blog posts that you would like to share with us? no..

5.If you could describe this term in one word, what would that word be? positive

6.What would you like to do better in Term 4? be more confident 

7. What are you planning to do for the holidays? hangout with my friends 

8.What would you like to learn about in Term 4? more about world iusses