Should Teachers use the right gender pronouns for their students? - Writing argument.

We did more agreement writing for term 4. Argument writing is one of my favourite writing prompts.
this prompt was obviously "Should Teachers use the right gender pronouns for their students? "

Should Teachers use the right gender pronouns for their
students?

All through pronouns can be a difficult subject, I strongly believe that
teachers should use the preferred pronouns for their students.

If you make a mistake it's fine, be prepared to make mistakes and to
apologise. Maybe even use a form
to give students more privacy, The reasons I believe you should; it'll make
coming to school easier for a lot of students, It’ll introduce more lgbtq+ into
the school and community making it more normal for people.

Getting to know your students at the start of the year is an important thing.

 if you do a form getting to know them and even add in a question that asks.
‘What pronouns do you want to be called?’ this not only would make it open to
what they're comfortable with it can make a good relationship between
everyone in the class who uses it, it'll make the student feel more
comfortable and in other situations safer. Making this difference will make
kids more willing to go to school.

Have you heard the LGBTQ+ slurs?

This can be a result from not being taught about the community,
using correct pronouns can be a start to people understanding it more.

As long as the students okay with being called it i believe that it's their right
to be called that. As long as its reasonable and not a joke, You'll get kids who
make jokes about it but if you see them use it more than once you know its
more than likely that's what they go by. Letting Trans, Non binary and gender
fluid etc use they prounous they want is just a start to how we can make the
school system more bully free.

Kids being able to keep that in school and not have it leave will help with
situations such as homophobic family members.

Its okay to make a mistake and call them by the wrong thing,
Just be willing to apologise and improve will be enough. Making mistakes when
it comes to LGBTQ+ is natural and happens all the time.

In conclusion,

I believe that students should be called by the pronouns they would like.

It not only will make them happier it could lower the bullying rate and make

people understand it more, Make kids excited to learn and come to school.

Their are different situations in peoples lives and having this could make

having homophobic people in their life a lot easier to deal with. Kids learning

to accept it at a young age will make people when they're older a lot less

hateful.
Whats your opinion on the matter?
do you agree or disagree? i would love you opinion

Tornado Myth

This week we're focusing on Myths and legends.

We had to choose a natural disaster and I did Tornadoes.

My myth is set around two characters Tumanako and Whakangro god of light and darkness being in love but separated. Whakangro has an idea on how he can talk to his lover.

This is my myth:

Tumanako god of light and Whakangaro god of darkness were in love but was sadly separated because of the darkness covering Tumankos heart killing her spreading more and more like the plague….

Whakangaro had an idea how he could talk to his lover so he went and saw

“Please, Please help me!” whakangro cried. In the end they had agreement to send messages between Tumanako and Whakangaro.

But sometimes the messages bump into each other and twirl around like their dancing, The messages keep going causing Tornadoes until they finally get pulled apart and get lost.

If you listen closely after a tornado you can hear their messages.

Math DLO

Today I made a Kahoot for my math DLO But sadly I couldn't share it.


We've been working on Timetables, Area and perimeter.

Timetable have always been easy to me so when we did it in class I didn't need much help and that's what I'll be working with today.

For timestables you can use many different ways to figure it out. The easiest and most common way used is skipping hours until you can’t then doing the same with minutes.

For example:

If the bus leaves at 9:35am and arrives at its destination at 10:30am How long did it take to get there?

So the question shortened is 9:35 - 10:30

You cant add a hour or else  it would be 10:35 which is 5 minutes over.

So we’ll add 20 minutes which will make it 10:00 then all we have to add is the last 35 minutes to make it 10:35

So the answer is = 55 minutes

My Dog

My Dog Born Special

Tison is my male Chihuahua who is 3 years old dog who was born differently from other dogs.
We got him from a lady in Australia,He was the runt in the family and no one wanted him....mainly because he was born with a cleft lip.

(A Cleft lip is when you're born with one side of your upper lip is gone)

The Cleft lip doesn't really effect his every day life other than teeth growing weirdly, When he was younger mum had to stay up really late to feed and help Tison breathe which was sad, I tried helping whenever I could.

Now Tison is healthier and can run around and eat fine, We're trying to find a way to help him more and happy to see him grow.

Welcome to Term 2

Welcome!

First week of Term and we're working hard already!

There is many things happening around school like the Production, Rugby, Chest club, Basketball, School camp and cross country.

Im doing the Production (Which its my first year doing), My Character is General Commotion who is the leader of the Marines. In total I have 16 lines most of them is me arguing with one of my best friends (Who is playing Mayor Doughnut).

Sadly I'm not going to the school camp but it seems like so much fun!

They'll be doing fun activities like Bike riding, Tree climbing, Swimming and more exiting things.

I can't wait to see what the rest of the year brings!

Anzac Poems

Today in Totara 1 we made poems, we all did Diamante poems. But then we had the choice between a colour poem or a Rhyming AA BB (Don't know the actual name.)
I decided to do the colour poem.

There was a pattern we had to follow using Noun,Adjective and Verbs

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Brunner mine dairy entry

This week related to our Brunner mine work we made Dairy Entries.
Mine was about a girl/Me named Charlotte Rose who's dad is a single parent who hasn't been found out of the mine yet and this describes whats happening now and how she feels about it.

 

Brunner mine journey

On Monday the 5th Totara 1 Went to Bunner mine and we had an amazing learning journey.

We Left the school at about 9:15 and arrived at Brunner around 9:30

The first thing we did was get the rules and day planned out at the main entry before the bridge by what we call the 'giant chimney'.

Then we walked down the bridge to the information area, We were split into two groups.

My group went on a little tour first while the other did dress up and photos.
We walked around the whole Brunner mine being told about many different things like, Did you know that they used a method called board and pillar to stop the ceiling from falling on top of them.

After our tour we had little lunch then we swapped rotations

It was now my groups turn to dress up and take photos I couldn't stop laughing I had to hold what I call the demon baby, It was a doll baby that stared at you showing its two front teeth. We took photos as if we were running to the mine after the explosion.

Then we came back and had lunch


After that we went to the cemetery and did activity's based on the graves.


We got back around 2:00

Photos:

Red poem

This week we made short poems about colours I made mine about red.

At first I was going to do purple but I had no good ideas so I changed it to red.

the first thing that came to mind was roses then blood so I made a poem about that.

The next couple of things I had trouble with I thought about fire,cars and Anger.

I thought I would be able to come up with more because reds my favorite colour but it was actually pretty hard, What can you come up with?

For a practice we did the colour Blue,Mine was...

Blue is my eyes fluttering open like a butterfly flying for the first time, As I awake from a slumber.

I know it could use some work but I still really like it.

Cupcake Family Fiesta

Cupcakes

Last Friday Was the family Fiesta and people could make cupcakes for people to bid on. I made Unicorn Cupcakes And i'm really impressed, It was my first time using fondant.

My Favorite were......

Credit: Kristin


Credit: Franklin


Credit: Katelynn



Credit: Angelina

Which one is your favorite? I think Angelina's takes first place.
I Got Highly recommended and so did Angelina

Music

Today with Miss Hines We had to put our favorite song on a Slide then say why we liked it.

I chose 'So Am I' But the nightcore version

Music Notes

Music Notes

This week we're looking at music notes with Miss Hines

We had to make a Four beats note and this is what Me and Angelina made.

Term 1 Week 5

My Math Improvement

Ever since school started up again I've been tracking down my score and I'm really proud.

I started at 78 and now I'm 100. I love having competitions with my friends, Megan is winning right now with 100 in 2 minutes something.

Now I just have to improve my time.

Week 4 Term 1 Technolagy

22-2-19

Technology

For Tech I started in cooking, it started off really easy with fruit kebabs, 

then we made chocolate carrot cupcakes. It was so yum and cool to make,

Afterwards we had to make a site and I love mine so far.

I cant wait to see what we make next week!