How to be a good learner

Education is vital in most families. Education leads you to have a safe and happy life, But in order to have a safe and happy life you need to be a good learner. In the following paragraphs i will explain to you how you can be a good learner.

To be a good learner you need to pay attention. Paying attention requires focus and no mucking around. For example in order to get high marks on your report then you need to pay attention to your teacher so you understand whats going on. And paying attention can show the teacher and others that you really care about your grades.

But what if no matter how much you keep eye contact on your teacher you still need to ask questions if you don't fully understand. So paying attention isn’t the only thing you need to be a good learner, you also need to ask questions. So like when you get sent off the mat after the teacher explains and you still don’t understand then you need to go to the teacher and ask her in order to understand what she is teaching you.

Good learners need to attend to school everyday. Attendance is one of the important things you need to do. Attendance enables you to get  assignments done on time and at prize giving you’ll get awards for your attendance. 

Being prepared is all about being a good learner. So making sure you have everything ready for the following events coming up. For instance if you have a upcoming test or assignment you need to prepare for it and be ready, this is similar if you have a sports event coming up.

There you have it - 4 reasons as to be a good learner. Paying attention, Asking questions, Attendance and Being prepared. With all these qualities you can become a good learner and succeed in the future.

Man and sea

WALT: Test Ready, preparing myself with strategies to do my best in the upcoming tests    

Task description:

Our group has been reading the book 'Man and Sea' this story is about why Samoan's get traditional tattoos such as the pe'a.

Immersion assembly - term four

It’s the start of the term it’s time to find out what our study will be.  As usual our teacher’s are playing things down, keep things under wrap so we won’t know until our immersion assembly.   Immersion assemblies are the Pt England Way! Let me explain to you in the next 3 paragraphs why we love having immersion assemblies.

Being excited - eager to learn!  That’s us - that’s what the immersion assembly today has us feeling. Waiting there patiently for the assembly to start. New term, new topic a good start for this term. Art is the best way to finish my last year in intermediate before i head off to college

Like every immersion assembly, we’ve got a new topic for this term. Te wå toi, and our focus for this term is art. During the assembly Mr Jacobson and Mrs Nua were transforming our principle into …… Although i wasn’t that interested - At the time - Since it was the first day back at school i was feeling kinda tired and couldn’t really focus on the assembly.         

Each team presented something related to art and explained to the whole school what their team has to look forward to this term. Each one was kinda entertaining, although one did take a while to finish, but the ending results were quite good - even though they traced it. Team 3 didn’t quite understand art and instead they just had fun and put paint on themselves and painted the paper with their bodys.

There you have it - 3 reasons as to why we love having immersion assemblies to kick off every term of learning at Pt England School.  Maybe you could use my explanation to help you set up something similar in your learning

Follow up activity

NZ ranked as the 14th laziest country

Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?
New Zealand
What was the key event from the news article?
The laziest country
Where did this event take place?
World’s health organisation (WHO)
When did this event take place?
On 11th of september 2018

Thinking ….

 Find a quote from the main person in this news article?
The laziest 20 nations in the world have today been named and shamed!
In your own words describe what happened in this news article.
New Zealand has been selected as the 14th laziest country
 Find out where this event took place and include some information about this place.
World Health Organisation (WHO)
 Tell us when this event happened and explain what might happen in the future.
It started this year and it’s telling us that we have been selected as the 14th laziest country and maybe if people change and be fitter we could go down or even get off the list
 Explain in your own words why this event took place.
Because 42.4% of New zealand's population fails to hit recommended targets.
Use the Dictionary in the bottom right hand corner to find the meaning of 3 words from the article.
 (THERE IS NO DICTIONARY)

Move your body - Week 9

My Mother

My Mother gave me comfort

And feed me everyday

They say be grateful you have mother

Cause mine was never there

My nana never seemed that bad

And neither did my papa

But i never really knew them well

Not as good as my mother