Penguins iExplore Learning Story - September 2015

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Learner: Nisita                                                                 Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: Literacy and 4Cs                                      Date:  Term 3

Learning Observed

Nisita has been diligently completing her iExplore on teaching others all about penguins.  She has been researching, refining her ideas and creating a helpful presentation for others to use to learn and improve their knowledge about penguins and how they survive in cold climates.  Her iExplore learning adventure stemmed from her curiosity about how the flightless birds survived in Antarctica. Nisita has learned to give credit to her sources of information, how to make slides more visually appealing to an audience and has practiced graphic organizers like a KWL chart to help her organize her thinking.  She is going to present her learning to our group in Week 8.  Nisita has responded to feedback from Learning Coach and learners in our conferencing sessions and is open to ideas.

Evidence of learning

iExplore Conference Doc (Slide 17) see presentation above

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Nisita has shown she can be collaborative when sharing her research and receiving feedback.  She has demonstrated her capability at researching to answer specific questions- skimming and scanning and pulling our key ideas when summarizing texts.  She has made connections to her prior knowledge and experiences.

Next Learning Steps

present to our group write a blog post about your experiences create a quiz using kahoot to check for learning from the focus group put the presentation into your Learning Pathway as a learning artefact and share it with your family

Nisita's Operation Big Science Learning Story

Learners: Shreya, Henry, Louisa, Nisita                              Learning Coach: DWilkes  Learning Area: Science                                                                            Sept: August 2015

Learning Observed

Shreya, Henry, Louisa, Nisita had a blast conducting Operation Big Science in Week 7.  Thanks to the New World kit of ingredients.  Lots of learning resources as well about the Types of Mixtures and Chemical Reactions in Baking.  The learners learned that cooking is scientific fun and that the science capabilities are for life.  After initially watching a short video explaining the difference between chemical and physical changes the learners were challenged to explore their curiosity by examining their materials and to discuss their priori knowledge about the materials and cooking with them.  They had popcorn, nuts, chocolate, sugar, baking soda, glucose and butter.  Then they collaboratively devised an experiment - a cooking experiment, using the ingredients they selected.  First they identified a question and then a hypothesis- making connections to their prior knowledge.  As a group they needed to plan their method too.  During the cooking they made observations- noting what they notice, think and wonder.  Nisita did well working with her group to complete their experiment. She also developed some capability at measuring while completing their recipe.  Their concoction was a success and they shared it with the other learners.  It was collaborative and delicious!

Evidence of learning

Operation Big Science - Video

Next Learning Steps

complete their Operation Big Science experiment plan with observations and explanations write a reflective blog post about the experience use more specific measurements when writing a recipe give detailed observations about what you noticed before, during and after tent on the LH1 blog post about Operation Big Science

The Talent Show Finalists

                                                                      The Talent show Finalists

The day came when we were waiting for the talent show finalists.The talent show was held by Aleena in the Multi Space.

There was nine people in it and they were Neha, Henry, Aryan, Kavisha, Gracy, Anjli, Taanvi, Ved and Rahi. The Judges were Ms Wilkes and Mrs Patrick.

So first up was Ved he was playing a guitar then as it went The judges gave comments to each nine of them.The one that I liked the best was Neha, Gracy and Kavisha because Neha Did a song that was sending a nice message and Gracy was dancing on a Indian song as well as Kavisha.I think they all did a great job for showing their talents.

The winners were Henry and Aryan for third place and Neha for Second place and Gracy for first place.

I really enjoyed it.

The speech competition

                                                       The speech competition

We had a speech competition at Ormiston primary.The learners in the finals were Jessica, Neha, Seth, Mohammed, Jahnavi, Aleena, Jasmine, Ash and Kevin.Each of them said their speech's.The speech's I liked was Jessica, Jahnavi,Jasmine, Aleena ,Neha and Ash.They all had a different topic and used lots expression.They did topics like why we should have mine craft at school, Why we should have uniform at school, Why we should play music and many more.While each of them said their speech they were getting chosen as three finalist by Mr Mcnell and Miss Denuwara.After they all finished their speech's Mr Mcnell and Miss Denuwara announced the three finalist and in third place came Mohammed and in second place came Aleena in first place came Jahnavi.

NYLD iMovie Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Jessica, Nisita & Karleil                                             Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

Jessica, Karleil and Nisita collaborated together to provide a wonderful and inspirational component to the ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that all the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  The learners co-constructed a presentation and talk about the highlights from the NYLD day (which can be found in the Leadership Experience presentation).  They sparked the curiosity of the crowd with the strong message of leadership.  The learners loved watching the video and most walked away thinking about the leaders who have influenced them.  Practicing their public speaking, writing, presenting and leading was what they did while the audience enjoyed their entertaining iMovie.

Evidence of learning

Sharing the iMovie of NYLD highlights they co-constructed   Sharing what leadership means to them

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

While Jessica, Nisita and Karleil collaborated they made direct and indirect connections to their experience at NYLD and their knowledge of leaders/leadership.  They related to others, managed themselves responsibly and participated enthusiastically on the day.  They were collaborative and responded to changes with resilience.  The preparation for the presentation was great and their short blurbs were a nice finishing touch.

Next Learning Steps

add more pictures and sub-titles to the iMovie to make it longer practice your speaking parts more before presenting so we can all hear you and slow down your pace as well write a blog post about the afternoon including your reflections share your learning with family at home

Zoo trip

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                                                            The best zoo trip ever

What did we do and where we went?

Guess what on Thursday we went to the Auckland Zoo!I was so excited we went on a bus.We were in teams I was with Mrs Dillner and my friend.As soon as we arrived Me and my friend were asking each other so many questions like what types of animals we will get to see,are there any animals that we have not ever seen,what would our favourite animal be.Even peanut the pukeko went and even kea came with us at the trip.first we saw the red pandas there was a baby one and two adult ones and the last animal we saw was a elephant there were two elephants.

What was my favourite animal and why was it?

My favourite animal was the fur seals because we got to sea them swim.They were really big and really tall while they swam.I also like the red pandas because they looked cute and tiny.

What are some interesting facts I learnt from the zoo!

What I learnt was that when Flamingoes are cold they put one leg up to make it warm.

Another fact I learnt was that cheetahs are not good at fight for their preys but they are good at running.A cheetahs tail helps it move side to side faster to get there preys.Crocodiles have long narrow V-shaped snouts, while those of alligators are wider and U-shaped.

maori week

                                                                          Maori week

 What does Maori language mean?

Maori was the first language that was spoken in New Zealand.The Maori people were the first to find New Zealand.They came here more than 1000 years ago from their before they came to New Zealand they lived at Hawaiki . Maori have been celebrating matariki as their new year.It is also known as the seven stars which are the seven sisters.The Maori people named New Zealand Aotearoa in Maori.They named the South Island motu ki te tonga and another North Island  is Te raki ha.

What I learnt this week?

We learnt how sign numbers and how count in Maori from 1 to 10.We practised a song in Maori with Ms Wilkes.With Mr Dyer we did a waiata.With Mrs Dillner we did finding information and putting them on pic collage