Ruby's Learning Blog

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 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 and spending time with his friends and 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 teachers and students (all the fav's!) 6. Why are you his/her favourite students? Because i'm a FAV !!1 7. If your teacher could...

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. 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? PE because it is a chance to go out and get some fresh air after we have been trapped in class all day! 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 Guinea Pigs George and Zoe and I have a black lab called Meg. Q3: What are some of your favourite foods? My favourite food is Sushi . Q4: What is your favourite sport? What do y...

Creative Commons image from  pixabay.com Q1. How are you going to be more awesome in your learning this year? Complete my work to a the best standard that I can produce. Q2. What is one thing you will do to make this year great? Be nice to everyone and include them. Q3. What are you looking forward to most this year and why? Production because everyone in the school participates Q4. Describe your current learning environment. My class and everyone get to choose were they sit everyday so we don't have assigned seats. Q5. What do you need to work on this year? What are your goals? How are you going to achieve them? My goals are to do well in all the sports and my class work and I will achive that by staying concentrated and focused on my learning. Q6. What are the things that drive your learning? What are the things that block your learning? My class mate to encourage me when I don't think I can do something The things that bloc...

What are your interests, talents or passions? Violin, Guinea pigs How do you get to learn about your interests in the classroom? Give us an example. I learn the violin on tuesday Do you think it's important for children to have time each week to learn about something that they're interested in? Why? Yes because it might help them when there older. What is the world's most important invention so far? How does it affect your life?The telephone because it helps with our protection. The Kid President wanted to invent a Catuum Cleaner. What would you like to invent to make the world more awesome? A flying car The top 10 jobs in 2017 didn't exist in 2007. What jobs do you think there will be in 10 years time?Going to the moon. Inventive thinking requires taking risks, being curious and thinking skills. How do you do this in the classroom? I ask questions Is creativity important? How can we encourage creativity in the classroom? Do more art. Sometimes we get stuck wit...

Digital technologies: 1) Do you think that technology will be a big part of our lives in the future? Why, Yes because I would like a flying car. 2) Will technology disappear? yes, no, why? No because everyday people come up with great ideas. 3) How do you use technology already in your life? For my homework and at school. 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 C asebrook is like? And how could we make it better?It is fine how it already is! 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? Its is really fast and effective. 8) What are some of the negative effects of technology? Its addicting and not good for our eyes because it is bright 9) Leave 3 other comments on o...

This week's blogger prompt about athletics as our school athletics is this Tuesday.  Watch the videos attached below.   An awesome high jump video!  The powerful Inspirational true story...Never give up! 1) Research the history of athlectics - when did it all start, why did it start, what country did it originate from? etc. See if you can find some information out. Type out your answers below. DETAIL/DETAIL/DETAIL... Athletics  started in 776 bc in Greece.  2) Explain what you did well on athletics day? At 60m sprints because I got a placing in all of my races. 3) Explain what you could have done better with during athletics day? Long jump because I was saving my energy for sprints. 4) What was your least favourite event and why? High jump because i'm not very good at it. 5) What is your favourite event and why?  Sprints because I am a quite fast runner. 6) Explain how you showed REP on athletics day?...