Ireflect

For this weeks we had a lot of fun because we had iActive in a fun way .We were doing iActive so how it goes is that one week we do the same thing like next week we will do octopus.This is how our time table goes for the whole day.

Tuesday:

On Tuesday we did the role.Then 

.9:00 -9:30 whole school hui

9:30 -10:30 iExplore 

10:30-10:40 iActive 

10:40-11:15 iBreak 1 

11:15-11:30 iRead 

11:30-12:30 idevelop

12:30-1:15 iBreak 2 

1:15-2:55 iExperence 

2:55 HOME TIME !!!!!!

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.