Nisita's Blog Writing Learning Story

Learners: Nisita                                                                    Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Literacy     Vision Principle: Capable & Connected         Date: Term 3&4

Learning Observed

Nisita began blogging in Term 3.  Her blog has various posts on a diverse range of topics and she also has a number of comments from her blog buddy and other classmates.  We spent time learning to write quality comments using a ‘comment sandwich’ and Nisita is developing her capability to do this on her blog buddy’s blog and thus can connect authentically with other learners.  Nisita’s posts are evidence of how she connects with the things in which she enjoys, whether at home or at school.  She has learned to embed images into posts which enhances their readability.  Nisita has enjoyed reading our Learning Habitat 1 blog as well and has collaborated to construct some posts with her hapu group.  It has been fantastic to review Nisita’s posts since the beginning of term 3 to see how her capability at writing is improving. Some posts of interest were her ‘7 Wonders of the World’,  ‘All About Diwali’ and ‘Capable Playing’ posts because her passion, values and sense of adventure are evident. She regularly blogs using acrostic poems so I encourage her to try some different styles of poems and genres of writing.  I would also now encourage Nisita to co-construct blog posts over the holidays with her family and continue to visit classmates blogs to leave comments.

Evidence of learning

Link to Nisista’s Blog : http://nisita13579.blogspot.co.nz/

Next Learning Steps

label or ‘tag’ each post so they are searchable in the future preview the post before publishing to ensure the images are the most appropriate size proofread each post by reading it out loud, to a buddy at school or a parent at home to develop capabilities at catching punctuation and grammatical errors ensure the quantity and quality of each post are up to standard (aiming for a minimum of 6 quality sentences) continue to practice using the comment sandwich to provide feed forward to classmates respond to comments on her posts write comments on every learning story her Learning Coaches post ensure images are licensed for reuse (creative commons copyright)

The seven wonders of the world

Taj Mahal

Firstly we went to the taj mahal we saw the different places in the area and we saw the gardens.People spending money for the taj mahal spent 30 to 32 million dollars. The Taj Mahal is located in Agra, a city in the Uttar Pradesh region of northern India. The name Taj Mahal means “crown of palaces.The Taj Mahal is made out of white marble.

Chichen itza

Chichen Itza is the second most popular site for visitors to Mexico. It is considered to be one of the Seven Wonders of the New World. Located on the Yucatan Peninsula, Chichen Itza was a large city built by the Maya people. Chichen itza means the mouth of the well of the itza. One of these sink holes was thought to have been used as a place of human sacrifice. These sacrifices were made in times of drought, and men, women and children would be thrown in the well as a sacrifice to the Chac God. The Great Wall of China The Great Wall, one of the greatest wonders of the world, was listed as a World Heritage by UNESCO in 1987. Just like a gigantic dragon, it winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 13,170 miles (21,196 kilometers) from east to west of China.The dragon is one of the most important thing of China. The Roman Colloseum , Itally  It took the Jewish slaves 60,000 o build The Roman Colloseum. There were 36 trap doors in Arena allowing for elaborate special effects.   It is thought that over 500,000 people lost their lives and over a million wild animals were killed throughout the duration of the Colosseum hosted people vs. beast games. Machu Picchu Peru  Machu Picchu was build at the height of the Inca Empire around 1450 but abandoned just over a century later in 1572 after the Spanish arrival in Peru.Archaeologists believe Machu Picchu was constructed for use as a Royal Estate. Machu Picchu is located 2430 m (7970 ft) above sea level on a ridge between the Huayna Picchu and Machu Picchu mountains in Peru. Christ redeemer,Brizal  October of 2006 became a 75th anniversary year of the Christ the Redeemer statue. Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro Cardinal Eusebio Oscar Scheid declared a small chapel at the foot of the statue to become a holly place to hold baptisms and religious weddings. Christ the Redeemer Statue is the tallest religious statue in the world with total height reaching 40.44 meters including its foundation.The statue was included in the New Seven Wonders of the World list in 2007. Petra , Jordan Among the Petra's amazing architecture, The Treasury is the most popular. It is estimated to be over 2,000 years.Petra is though to have been built during the Byzantine Era of the 5th and 6th AD when Petra became an important Christian center. Petra is home to over 800 carved tombs. We had lots of fun doing our Google expotison.

All about story bird

Story bird

Trying to create cool books

Over wheeling 

Retrying to make stories

Yes for story bird 

Be capable for story bird

Interesting pictures

Revisiting story bird

Deserving to go on story bird

Story bird is fun because we get to create our own stories and we get to read others story.

Capable playing

 Capable 

Always be capable

Playing capable

Always show yonger learners how to do things.

Be good rolemodles

Learning to be more capable

Easy to be capaable

                                     

                                            What is capable playing ?

Capable playing is when you are playing and put away your equipment after you lay with it not when you leave your equipment anywhere.                                                 

                                          

                                      How to show if you are capable at playing?

Showing how to be capable at playing is also when you help younger learners to pack their equipments and to show them how to pack away their equipments if they don't know.Being capable is also when you are being a rolemodle and putting away all the equipment's back where it belongs that you see laying around after iBreaks ends.

Friends

Friends
Re helping
Ideas help
End of the year we say bye
Never fight
Deserving friends





I choose to do this poem because I wanted to tell others about what I think best friends mean . I also wanted to see what ideas from this poem could help me see if best friends do this.

All about Diwali

Diwali is a Festival of Lights and where we put on henna to represent our culture and one of our gods have a chance to come and visit our houses.We buy our Indian costumes to where it on that day.Diwali gets celebrated by millions of people in the world.We also do fireworks on that day which also represents the Festival of Lights.

Before Diwali we have to clean our house including outside concreats and underneath the beds.So our houses are clean.We also make sweets and give th sweets out to others before or after Diwali.When it comes to Diwali we light lamps all around the house .

There are lots of thing we need before Diwali like water lilies for our God.Diwali is also about spending time with our families.

We also make something that is called a rangoli we put lots of patterns just like we put on henna.The only difference between rangoli and henna is that we don't put on henna paste we put on coloured powder to make it colourful and we put rangoli on the floor and the power is dry. We put flowers on the design.

The reason I like Diwali is because we get to make sweets and we get to put on henna.

 

Trick or treating

On Saturday It was trick or treating and it was really fun because we went to my cousins house and from thief we went trick or treating.Me and my sister went their and it was really fun we got our pumpkin jar full of lollies.We went different ways to collect lollies me and my sister went a different way and my cousins went a different way.We collected lollies then we went back home and swapped lollies after swapping lollies I went back to my house.We collected more then 70 lollies then when we went home we spawned lollies agin with my sister. 

My procedural writing

                                                       My procedural writing



Every monday's we have our shared writing each term we have our procedural writing this term which means a type of writing that has instructions.Our topics are fun because we are doing halloween treats and we have chocie's out six three of them are easy and simple and the other three are challenging.

Chocies :
Dracula's teeth
Pretzel mummies
Creepy candy apples

Chalange
Pumpkin cake pop
Witches finger cockies
Meatloof Rats  

 I did a Witches finger cockies I found it easier then the other ones.

Term 4 acrostic poem

Term 4 

Every one came back

Remember everything again

Making good choices 

Fabulous 

Owersome

Upstairs in LH1

Returning to school

I looked forward to see my friends again.

Personal Identity iExperience

Learner: Nisita Sharma                                                   Date: October 2015

Learning Area: iExperience - Identity                             Learning Coach: John Dyer

Learning Observed

A good afternoon of learning in which we discussed what identity is and what it means to each of us. I became involved in a conversation with Nisita and Neeha around our names, their meaning and whether our names impact on our identity. Nisita talked about the meaning behind her name and it’s cultural significance. We also discussed elements of our identity that we are born with vs those that are learned as we grow. Nisita demonstrated maturity and confidence when sharing her thoughts and opinions. Well Done!

Evidence of learning Neha and Nisita spoke with confidence about personal identity and what it means to them. What a great way to start the term. You can be very happy with yourselves. Well done.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable

Next Learning Steps

I would encourage Nisita to look more at the meaning of her name, its origin and the names of others. It would be interesting to see if there are any observable links between identity traits and names, and whether people become stereotypes of their names or whether it has nothing to do with it. Let’s see what results in the coming lessons!

My iexplore presentation

Making Kahoot
Yet was fun

Interesting
Exploring different things
X hard to find words 
Playing Kahoot
Liking to present
Our iexplore
Revisiting my presentation
Everything was fun
       



On Thursday we did our iexplore presentation and I was getting ready. My presentation was in google slides so it wold be easier to present.


This is My iexplore presentation  link. On Thursday's we have a our conference with Ms Wilkes. My presentation was about How can penguins survive in cold climates.


At the end we played a game of Kahoot which I created all about penguins.

Nisita, Alex and Vrishti's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learners: Vrishti, Alex & Nisita    Learning Coach: T.Dillner            Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Vrishti, Alex and Nisita chose to participate in 3D Printing during iExperience during Week 7-10 this term. We initially learnt about the Thinker’s Key called ‘BAR’. BAR stands for Bigger, Add, Replace. To practise, the learners had to pick either a pen, lunch box or tennis racquet to make a feature bigger, add to the item and replace something. The learners had as much creative license as they needed and then they reflected on how functional the item had become - could it still be used for its original purpose? The next stage was to come up with an item that we use at school and repeat the BAR process. Vrishti, Alex and Nisita decided to make a new version of a pencil case. Vrishti, Alex and Nisita had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved pencil case. They had to use the pre-existing shapes to form their 3D model which was then printed out by our LH1 3D printer. After analysing their printed model, the girls were able to write a description about who would use it, why they designed it and what its features were. They also spent some time reflecting on improvements and redesigning it on TinkerCad to show these changes.

Evidence of learning

Vrishti, Alex and Nisita’s explanation of their 3D pencil case.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Vrishti, Alex and Nisita were collaborative during this process by sharing ideas and coming up with other ways to show creativity (Thinking, Participating & Contributing). They demonstrated curiosity by engaging with the entire technology process of designing, making, redesigning and evaluating. Vrishti, Alex and Nisita were connected as they were able to show their learning in three different mediums (paper, digital and printed model).

Next Learning Steps

Complete the second design on TinkerCad and print if time allows. Use the 3D printer as a component of an iExplore. Teach another learner how to use TinkerCad.

Summer acrossic poem

Summer
Umbrella helps get shade
Making icebocks
Making ice cream
Every day is fun 
Revisiting beaches



What is summer?

Summer is a warm season just after spring finishes.Summer starts from December to February.

I like summer because it is really warm in summer. I did umbrella for shade because it helps keep cold. Making ice blocks and ice cream is my favourite thing to do in summers mostly. Summer is fun because I get to play on my in the garden. Revisiting the beaches is fun because we can swim in the water.