cross country

I liked cross country cos I tried my best and I got 7th place. 

STEAM Club Narrative- Aug 26

Learners: Kim, Selestine, Sharon, Harry, Aditi, Hamish, Rudi, Louisa, Selene, Maanvi & Iman	Learning Coach:  D Wilkes	Date: 25-08-16
Learning Area:  Technology & Science NZC Achievement Objective: Level 2 Technological systems:  Understand that there are relationships between the inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs occurring within simple technological systems. Investigating in science  Extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.	Key Competency:    Thinking Relating to others Participating & Contributing Using language, symbols & text	4C:
Learning Observed: The learners were invited to use the www.buildwithchrome.com program to design a house but to do so creatively.  We began by logging into the website and signing in with their own google account.  Aditi and Hamish couldn’t sync their account initially but it worked when they published their design- yay! Then the learners used their imagination to design a house with the lego blocks.   This challenge was enjoyed by the learners immensely:   Selestine ‘this is #oresome!”   Louisa “I love STEAM club!”   Hamish ‘how do I add a window?’   Kim ‘I’ll show you, click here.’   Harry ‘I wish we could do this in learning time!’   Ms Wilkes ‘Why don’t you use it for your iExplore Harry?’ The learners were asked what this had to do with STEAM and this is what Aditi, Maanvi, Selene and Iman came up with:
Evidence of learning: Look at the #oresome fun the group had in this Photopeach SlideShow→ http://photopeach.com/album/142xx3p# The learners were making a lot of connections to their previous experiences with lego and designing .  The learners were very collaborative and helpful with each other and demonstrated a growth mindset mentality.  The learners were developing capabilities with prototyping, spatial awareness and visual representations.  Curiosities were evident in the Louisa’s rainbow house, Maanvi’s swimming pool home and Selestine’s various iterations! We talked about which kind of home would influence their design→ igloos, houseboats, teepees, tents, mansions, treehouses etc.  Selestine wanted to make them all!  Selene’s creation had a larger than life TV and Sharon built an entire village.  Harry, Kim and Hamish were the closest to a finished home but they were all able to publish and save it so they can work on it later if they choose.
STEAM- buildwithchrome on PhotoPeach
Next Learning Steps: Practice using www.buildwithchrome.com to create new designs See if they can re-create their design with actual lego Write a blog post about what they learned and how using www.buildwithchrome.com relates to STEAM learning areas

Collaborative iExplore Brainstorm of Curiosities

Learners: Hamish, Shaval, Humaam, Charlotte & Siddhesh Learning Coach:   Stephanie Hooker         Date: 24 August 2016

Learning Area:          iExplore                                         Key Competency:     Participating and Contributing NZC AO:                    Level 2 Language Features: uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to make meaning & shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text

Learning Observed

In iExplore today we worked collaboratively in small groups to share and record our wonderings and questions.  The focus for this particular activity was to identify areas of learning for our future iExplore learning adventures.  We share ideas for topics and make open ended questions that we can research and explore. Providing our learners with the opportunity to make choices about their learning promotes self directed learning, and research tells us this increases focus and motivation. Hamish, Shaval, Humaam, Charlotte and Siddhesh co-constructed some wonderings and recorded them in a shared mind-map so all could look at them. It was great to see them make connections to their curiosities.

Evidence of learning & learner voice

Hamish - I wonder “How old is the Pacman game?” Shaval - I wonder “How far can a paper plane go?” - I wonder “if we can learn about geocaching” Joshua - I wonder “Why Pokemon is bad for you’

Next Learning Steps

Chose one idea to explore  and decide whether you will Create, Research or Organise your topic Form this wondering into an open question eg. Why…? What if…?  How…? Will you work independently or with a partner or a small group? Make a copy of our online planning and design templates and get started! Share learning at home

speech

I am doing good in my speech. I have been reading it to Nic.

iRaflect

Olympics

Today in iExperience I hope I will learn something new about the Olympics because I love the Olympics. My Uncle Tony is a coach for the Mens NZ rugby 7's team. I think they might win a gold medal. My uncle said he will email me and tell me the score.

IRefl lecl

8.8.16

Something I am looking forward to is week 6 because I have been training in Rugby.

Something I found hard was trying to keep standing up in tug of war!  Such a challenge!

iRelect 5.6.16

Hamish & his Reading Narrative Assessment

Learner: Hamish Learning Coach:   Stephanie Hooker         Date: 3 August 2016

Learning Area:          iDevelop: Reading                                          Key Competency:     Using Language, Symbols and Text NZC AO:                     Level 2 Language Features: uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to make meaning & shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text

Learning Observed

Today we completed a Running Record using the PM Benchmark assessment kit with Hamish to assess his reading capability. On a Level 10 book he scored 90% for accuracy and was able to answer 4 out of 5 comprehension questions to show his understanding of the story.  Hamish retains meaning when reading but often includes his own words and doesn’t always attend to print. He uses the re-reading strategy which is great and now needs to combine this with word attack strategies.

Evidence of learning

I wonder if Hamish practices reading at home? How does he solve new words? Does he need to keep pointing to the words?

Next Learning Steps

Choose appropriate books at his level using the “Best Fit” strategy Attempt unknown words with decoding - using his letter sound knowledge Answer questions during and after the story Read everyday, both at home and school- is he taking his Book Bag home each day with a new book? Read to Hamish and with Hamish from books that interest him

Olympics

i think the olympics is awsome because it's a sports 

Problem Solving- Using stats to spell!