Argument Writing - Cellphones

At the end of last term and the start of this term we got into groups to create an argument about students bringing cellphones to school. In my group was Mia, Iris and Arielle. I found it quite fun and interesting working in a group to see what the others thought of this topic and how we could add it all together.

Should students be allowed to bring cellphones to school?

Cellphones are definitely NOT suitable in educational facilities!

Do you want your children to have square eyes and be tired and grumpy on a daily basis?

Cell Phones distract pupils from completing given work and following teachers’ rules and instructions as they are accordingly 

‘extremely addictive’. 

A phone is too small, too hard to operate and too hard to change settings to complete work on apps such as Google Drive.  

It is said that using your phone too often on a daily basis can make children (or even adults) grumpy and tired, easily. 

Studies show that children under the age of 13 are limited to around 2hrs of screen time per day. If they bought their phones to school then the amount of screen time would be raised to about 6hrs per day. 

Using a phone throughout the day can simulate the brain and make it harder for kids to go to sleep. 

Cell Phones distract children from completing set tasks and following teachers’ rules and instructions as they are said to be ‘very addictive.’ Working on a phone will mean that you can not get Hapara because they are your personal device, not a school one. Because there is no Hapara, children will stop their work and go on popular social media like Snapchat, Instagram, or Tic Tok. Or very addictive games.  They would not be listening to what the teacher is saying as they will be busy texting their friends. This is one reason why students should not be allowed cellphones at school. 

A phone is too small, too hard to operate and too hard to change settings to complete work on apps such as Google Drive, where as a computer, chromebook or laptop has a much bigger screen. 

When using Google Slides on a cellphone, you cannot add or duplicate slides, so isn’t great for doing long essays/presentations for school. 

Especially on (smaller) phones, it is harder to type using the phones’ keyboard so when writing long pieces it is easier to spell words wrong and to complete work fast.  

In conclusion, we believe that students should NOT bring their cellphones to school as they can make the pupils very tired and grumpy, they distract students from completing given work and listening to teachers rules and instructions and they are too small, too hard to operate and too hard to change settings on apps such as Google Drive.  

W4 Reflection T4

This week for numeracy we had to finish all the activities in the Angles slide. Then we had to find angles on a stick man. After we had completed those tasks we got to create our own stick man and find the angles. 



For literacy this week we have carried on with our topic 'Fossils & Archaeology'. We had to do x2 word work tasks, a fossil sequence, a digital dig, a making connections task, a report plan and also a report. Here are my tasks from this week. 

Making Connections









On Thursday, Madeline came and taught us about a new website that she found called Animaker. We got taught how to make a video about something that we have recently done or something that interests us. I did mine about the school athletics day. 

W3 T4 Reflection

This week for literacy our topic is Fossils and Archaeology. We had to complete a KVL chart for writing, 'what we know about fossils' activity for reading and a word work activity. I was finished early so I did another word work activity. 

For maths we are learning about geometry (shape). We had to complete a slide and make our own tangram. 

Week 10 Reflection

This week has been a bit of a topsy-turvy week because we got hardly any literacy time. For writing we had to watch the skill video that we made last week and write down some notes ready for us to write our explanation later on. Here is my explanation. 

This week for numeracy we worked on position and orientation. We had to do at least 3 of the 6 activies and create them in a cool way like stop-motion, screencastify, animoto etc. We then had to choose one of our activities to do an interactive DLO on. I chose the activity 'Around the World'.  Here is my interactive DLO, and two other position and orientation activities.

Here is a link to my emaze

Week 5 Reflection T3 2017

This week for writing we are learning about the whitebait life cycle and also a salmons life cycle. 
We had to use videonot.es to write down about a salmons life cycle. Then we had to write notes in a plan about a whitebait life cycle as well as creating a diagram. We also had to have one piece of free write to publish. I chose to do my writing on Endangered Species. 







For Word Work we had to found out about 5 terms that relates to a whitebait life cycle. For this we used a TIP chart which means 'Term, Information and Picture'. 


Link to TIP Chart


For reading we had to do a pre-reading activity about endangered animals. There were statements that you had to agree or disagree with. Then at the bottom there was a box where we could write down what we already knew about NZ endangered animals. 





For Maths this week we had to complete a problem solving slide the teacher had set for us. There was a couple of trial and error activities where you try and solve the answer. If you couldn't get it you could just have a really good try at it. We also had to learn the strategies that we got wrong in our diagnostics test and create a DLO about each of them. 

Week 4 Term 3 Reflection 2017

For numeracy this week, because it is maths week we had a hub westamaths competition on Thursday.
We were in chosen teams for this activity and my team came 1st so we each got a chocolate bar. In my team was me, Callum, Lilly, Adi and Jemma.

For PrEP we had to start and finish our PrEP profile and letter. We had to write a letter to apply for a job in PrEP and our profile was about us. Here is my profile.

For reading we had to write down three keywords about whitebait and then find information out about that topic. My keywords were Life Cycle, Habitat and also Food. Here is the information that I found out about my keywords. 




For writing we had to get in pairs on work on our own and watch a video of Damian McKenzie kick the ball over the post. We had to write a piece of writing from two chosen perspectives. My buddy was Katelin. Our perspectives that we wrote from was a Crusaders fan and also a Chiefs fan. Here is our writing.