Elsie's Learning Blog

Here are the questions for this week: Q1: What is your favourite subject at school and why? My favourite subject at school is lunch because no work and talking. 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 2 goldfish called Susan and Anna. Q3: What are some of your favourite foods? None. Q4: What is your favourite sport? What do you like about it? Rugby because it's the only thing I'm good at. Q5: What is your favourite hobby? Watching RuPaul's drag race and Geordie Shore. Q6: Who do you live with? My mum. Q7: What is your ethnicity? I have no idea. 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? No. Q9: Why do you think the government does a Census every 5 years? Because a lot can chang...

What skills or qualities does a person need to have to be a Leader of a Country? Do you have these skills? I think you need to know what you would do as a leader of a country and you would need power. How does the Government of New Zealand affect you? It is a big part of my future. If you wanted to change something at your School, what would it be? Make morning tea longer. How would you go about making that change? Could you lead that change and what skills would you need? I would need power and a legit reason to persuade pupils. What problems do you think New Zealand children are facing? Why are they having these problems? Not enough money. How could we help the children who are having these problems? Fundraise for them. Does your School do anything to help your local community? (Fundraising etc) No What is more important - helping yourself or helping others? It is not selfish to help yourself and in order to  help others you need to help yourself first so I chose yo...

1. What was your favourite part of this term.  Production. How did this make you feel and why? It was exciting to be at school and perform at different hours and not having to do work. 2. What was the most interesting thing that you have learned in Term 3? Learning how to manage and advertise a business 3.What were some of the challenges for you? Tell us why. Working  collaboratively with all peers in our business, as not all of our peers understood my and others concepts as we all think differently. 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? Busy; Term 3 felt busy and filled with exciting trips and shows. 6.What would you like to do better in Term 4? 7. What are you planning to do for the holidays? Travel down to my Nana's with my cousin and stay with her and meet up with my friends down there. 8.What...

Blogger Prompt Wk How do you celebrate Maori Language Week in your class/school? Every day of the week we get a Maori word we have to translate. Why is this an important week to New Zealand? It celebrates New Zealand culture and past. How does New Zealand celebrate Maori Language Week? On the news, the news reporters Can you name any local places of significance that have a Maori name? Why are they significant? What is your favourite Maori phrase or a saying you have heard this week? What other languages are a part of your school and are these celebrated? Esol is a program students go to in school time to learn English, if they are not fluent. What are the three official languages of New Zealand? Sign language, Maori and English. If New Zealand was to officially celebrate another language what language do you think that should be? Why? I think we should learn and speak Chinese because it is the most widely spoken language in the world and more than 1 billion p...

Speech You wake up to the sound of your alarm going off and think to yourself, ‘how is it already time to get up?!” You swear you literally just woke up. “Why must school start so early!?” You sigh. Does this sound like a typical morning for you? I can safely say that most of us experience the pain of a school morning. This is because school starts too early. Hi, I’m Elsie and today I’m here to persuade you as to why school should start later in the morning opposed to earlier. First, students need to get their sleep. According to nationalwidechildrens.org children are only getting around or less than 7 hours of sleep when studies show students need exactly 9 and a half hours of sleep to get the recommended hours of snoozing. So, if we do the math here, most pupils get to school at around 8:20am and we all leave school at 2:50pm, resulting in us getting home between 3pm and 4pm if you were to go home straight after school. Meaning, we would need to be  asleep by 8pm to get t...

Blogger Prompt T3 Wk5 Q1: What is an election? What type of election do we have in New Zealand? As New Zealand citizen's, we have a general election every 3 years determining the future prime minister for New Zealand. Q2: Why do we have elections in New Zealand? To give the public and media a voice in New Zealand's future and choosing who they believe will have a better and positive impact on our country. Q3: What happens during an election? The citizens and residents of New Zealand cast a vote on their believes, based on what the parties have stated and promised for NZ. You vote on a ticket for ONE party and place yoyr ticket in the polling booth and hope for the best. Q4: What do you think would happen if we did not have elections and people did not vote? There could be uprisings and very strong disagreements because our country wouldn't have a choice or say in what happens to them and their future. Q5: Who is the Prime Minis...