The Cardboard Cathedral- On my Holiday List

A visit to the Cardboard Cathedral is on my holiday list. If you want to know more about the
Japanese Architect there is a link below to an article about him, as well as a clip from a TED talk.

http://blog.ted.com/2013/08/13/buildings-made-from-cardboard-tubes-a-gallery-of-shigeru-ban-architecture/

A visitor shares his knowledge

  

Terry Ryan with Chloe, Emerson and Paige

Last week Dr Terry Ryan came to visit Burnside and spend time with some of our junior Maori
student and talk about their Whakapapa with them. He also spent time with some of 9Skn and talked to us about the school cabbage trees which are a significant group of trees in this area. They are called
Te Herenga Ora and below is a link to some of the history associated with them.

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/tikoukawhenua/herengaora/

This link below gives more information bout cabbage trees - Ti Kouka

http://christchurchcitylibraries.com/Maori/Plants/Ti-Kouka/ 

Two Quotes to think about

“Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

Dear Parents- We need your comments

Dear Parents and Friends of 9SKn,
We are inviting you to make some comments on our blog. Getting comments is a great way to get feedback on a blog post and it also encourages students to continue their writing on the blog. It is a little scary
but sometimes in life we need to be challenged to enable us to grow. My first goal for this blog was 1000 page views, 100 visitors and for every student to have contributed to the blog. To celebrate this we had
cake- you will see the photos! All comments are sent to me via email to allow me to moderate them. If I don't know the person or they are not appropriate I delete them. I have put a link to my own blog on the blog roll so feel free to comment on that. There are also links to other class blogs with comments.

Here is a link to a How to comment doc.
https://docs.google.com/a/burnside.school.nz/document/d/1mHtNrBo8LiRZwbsGccLmhxkW0Cef0E2DHeRMq_RzoYw/edit


And here is a link to some great "How to" videos from a fantastic teacher in 
the United States whose class are super bloggers

http://yollisclassblog.blogspot.co.nz/p/video-how-to-comment.html 

http://educational-blogging.wikispaces.com/

Victorian Writers

A loose definition of Victorian literature is anything published during the time of Queen Victoria and her reign (1837-1901). Actual Victorians include the British writers who were living in  Britain during her reign, but the term has also been placed on writers from America and elsewhere in Europe. Victorian literature also creates a bridge between the Romantic and Dark-Romantic writings of the early 19th century, to the Progressive/Modern eras in America and the Edwardian eras of literature at the turn of the 20th century. 
(Image and information sourced from Information via this blog)

http://aliteraryodyssey.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/list-of-victorian-writers-victorian.html

Who wrote these books?
a)Oliver Twist and Great Expectations
b)Jane Eyre
c)Treasure Island
d)The Jungle Book
e)Alice in Wonderland 
f)Sherlock Holmes

There is probably a prize for these answers 9SKn students.

Let them eat Cake!

These words were supposedly said by Marie Antoinette,about the starving French peasants. However at long last 9SKn were able to celebrate, 1000 page views, over 100 visitors and everyone posting on the class
blog.

We all enjoyed the cake!

Myth Busted
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/dubiousquotes/a/antoinette.htm

Victorian Life and Society

We have been watching The Secret Garden, a movie based on a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, originally published in 1911, right at the end of the Victorian Era. We have been looking at Victorian Society and Literature, as well as comparing our lives to children who lived at that time.

Here are some interesting facts about this time. Click on the link below. ( link delayed for now)