My Poem-Diamante Poem!

This is My Poem For The week 10 Learning Challenge (independent) and I did a Diamante Poem

because I remember in Term 2 when I was with Mr Dyer we had to write a Diamante Poem in our book and then publish it on a mac and take a screenshot, it's about the 4c's and what the 4c's mean to me and all of the definitions. On it, it says:

                                                                       The 4c's
                                                                Capable, Curious
                                                        Searching, Helping, Finding
                                         Ormiston Primary School's 4c's or 4 things to do
                                                       Respecting, Sharing, Thinking
                                                           Collaborative, Connected
                                                                        The 4c's

Miko N' Nummy Character Animating

For 2 weeks during Miko N' Nummy Club we have been letting the people in the club try to animate how they want to look like in the movie/clips. Then when they finished animating how they want themselves to look like then we will help them animate in with the template and fix up some mistakes they made. Also it is one of our favourite explore's from primary school because we had it at our old school but we didn't have explore time we had to do it at home and we couldn't have buddy's.

Divya's Fortress World

This blog post is about Divya's Fortress world. In her fortress world she has a few fortresses and I live in a protected fortress which is far away from the spawn but the fortress is really tiny. She has a mine in her world and it turned into a real mine/cave and found a lot of iron and diamond, coal and gold. One of the things in her world that I like is the farm because there's a lot of animals in it and I like to breed them. Thats all I've seen in their world but its really big so I haven't explored the whole world yet also some places I can't explore because some of the world is blocked from me and there is only secret ways to go into the next part of the world/ fortress.

The 7 Wonders of the World!

This morning we had a google expedition  and during  that time we had google cardboard glasses and what it does is inside of it there's a phone and it has a simulator inside of it and if you look around in it theres a lot of stuff and its so decorative and it feels like your actually there. We explored 7 different Wonders. We even had 5 minutes extra time and in that extra time we explored the underwater wonders and what it looks like underwater. I really enjoyed using the google cardboard and I hope we can use it for our learning and just for fun!

Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya's Trash to Flash Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna & Divya      Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: Term 4, Week 6-10

Learning Area: iExperience - Technology

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In the second half of Term 4, all of the OrmPS learners have been participating in Trash to Flash - turning old used items into something new and usable. All of the LH1 learners began this journey by spending time looking on the LH1 Pinterest account. Everyone selected a category that they were the most interested in. Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya all selected Girls Fashion. They were curious about making an infinity scarf out of old t-shirts. However, before they could make this, they had to go through a test run with the Design Thinking Process. As a group, all of the Girl’s Fashion and Pets & Animals learners made ladybug fridge magnets. The girls then took the template we used as a larger group and the personalised it to their infinity scarf creation, demonstrating their capability with understanding the design process. Collaboratively, they shared this template and filled it in on Google Slides.

Evidence of learning

Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya with Neha, Taanvi and Jahnavi with their prototype Ladybird Magnets. The infinity scarf Design Thinking Process presentation.

Next Learning Steps

Add some photos to your blog of your final creation in Week 10. Reflect on how successful your planning was, as well as how well you felt your final product turned out. Make another prototype showing changes and improvements to the design.

Movember!

This month Mr Dyer and Mr Hattie are doing something called Movember. Mr Dyer and Mr Hattie are gaining there beards and making them a different/funny shape. On Friday everyone that made a beard has to bring it and show it off to the whole school. I am currently making one at home and I'm making it cotton balls because they are fuffy and it feels like hair. I also want to see if the cotton balls will stick to the straw because I'm using a straw to hold it. One thing that i also wonder is how long is Mr Dyer and Mr Hattie's beard will be at the end of the month and its only a few days away!

C.A.T time!

This week right now was suppose to be CAT time for the people who got CAT time last week but sadly Ms Wilkes isn't here and she planned the whole thing so we have to wait for her to come back. I also want to be in this weeks CAT time so I can be in CAT time for maybe 2 days in a row. I wonder what Ms Wilkes is planning right now for CAT time and maybe she is planning something that mostly everyone likes which is Minecraft maybe we will be playing that and building something together but I really want to know what Ms Wilkes planned for CAT time because it might be interesting.

National Young Leaders Day

Thursday 21 May

            Today we met so much different leaders like Jamie Mcdell and William Pike, they were all
             leaders and did something very amazing. They had great achievements of doing something
            special and here are they people that were introduced
                      - William Pike climbed Mt. Ruapehy
                      - Rukumoana teased but followed her dreams for whatever she wanted even though no one supported her.
                      - Riley and Steve an underwater cameraman and on tv (our big blue backyard)
                      - Darryl Sabin head injury and is still recovering after 6 years.
                      - Libby Christopher helped saved the dolphins
                      - Phoenix a great person at Hip Hop.
                      - Alex and Corban leaders of The Block
                      - Alison breakfast news reporter
              But today I'm going to do Jamie McDell
                 She is a famous singer and she was writing songs everyday after school it was like a diary
                 of the day but in a version of a song so if she was in detention she would write a song
                 about it.z
                   

My Favourite Game!

This blog post is about my favourite game and my favourite game is called Starstable. Starstable is a online horse game and horses are my favourite animal and on the game I'm a lifetime star rider and lifetime star riders have unlimited quests onand they can level up to any level and also unlock places like Silverglade/steve's farm and dino valley and also golden hills valley. Also there are quests to get more xp and also if you press l on your keyboard you will get a quest log and the quest log says all the quests and races that are available. The races level up your horse and the quests are for you to finish. Some quest take 8 days to finish like unlocking places and a quest to find Tan's wallet it takes about 5 days to do it.

Halloween!!! Trick or Treating!!

On Saturday me and my sister Johanna went trick or treating and we had fun we collected a lot of candy but not from every house because we went trick or treating with our grandma's friends and there were a lot an some people ran out of candy and me and Johanna never got some. But when we arrived at house we ate 2 pieces of candy and we still have a lot I still have about 29 pieces to eat and I might still eat some more tonight because tonight we have to go to kumon so I might bring some candy there to eat.

Halloween!

This week Saturday is going to be halloween and because its going to be halloween I'm going trick or treating!!! And it going to be my first time, I'm really excited and nervous but I still don't know what I'm going to be me and my sister don't want to be the same thing but we both want to be Mavis from hotel Transylvania so I have to think of something else I wonder how much lollies I will get from trick or treating. Aleena want us to meet at school and go together but we have to go with our grandmas daughters children so we might not go with her.

Friday's Offical Opening

On Friday it will be the schools official opening I'm really excited because school will end early so i can play on my macbook. We will be singing Te Pu and Im really nervous for the official opening I will be able to finish more of my tasks on Friday because we will be home and there is no workshop on Friday its just setting up for the official opening so we have less time to finish our tasks, a few guests are coming but I only know one which is William Pike he was also at NYLD which was only for the year 6's. Also I hope that we have less tasks.

Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Johanna, Jasonta & Aleena's Ko Te Pu Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Jasonta, Johanna & Aleena     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 14.10.15

Learning Area: The Arts - Music (Preparing for OrmPS Official Opening)

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

For the Ormiston Primary School official opening the learners in LH1 had to learn a waiata with actions. To prepare for this, some of the NZSL Club members and Deaf learners spent some of their iBreaks working on the signs so they would be able to teach it. Ashmira, Divya, Johanna, Jessica, Jasonta and Aleena all chose to lead LH1 in the song Ko Te Pu. The video below shows that they are developing their capabilities in both learning new signs, and communicating these to a wider range of people. All of these girls demonstrated curiosity regarding the fact that they chose to spend their iBreak time learning new signs and opting to have the extra time to prepare. They are also showing the at OrmPS we value the official languages of Aotearoa New Zealand, by honouring the connection to Te Reo Maori and NZSL in this song.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Lead the habitat regularly in our practices. Do an iExplore around other songs or poems that connect English and NZSL or Te Reo and NZSL.

Getting a macbook!

In the holidays our dad came back on the second week of the holidays and came back on Monday, first thing we did was unwrap our macbook and went on it our password was 1234 but I changed it what we did after was download our favourite game called star stable its about horses and on Saturday we got star rider. Next Monday we are going to get our cases my case is black with a ombre rainbow wave and Johanna (aka my sister) got a galaxy case. We are both getting the same keyboard cover which is also rainbow and its so awesome because right now we're using our mum and aunty's macbook case and its really blank when i get my case I will update this on a next blog post!

Miko & Nummy iExplore Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Divya, Jessica & Johanna                                         Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Term 3-4                                                                       Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

Jessica, Johanna and Divya are certainly developing their animation capabilities in their current iExplore around creating a series of animated videos ‘Miko and Nummy’.  The three girls have been working together collaboratively- making substantive decisions together, negotiating their next steps, sharing tasks, taking turns and thinking forward. They have had ample opportunity to make connections to their prior knowledge, for example, the programme is based on one they have seen before, their previous experience with animating (including what they learned at the Google Learner Summit) and how to reflect.  They have watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme, self directing their learning. This iExplore is large in scope and it is interesting to observe how the girls are designing their series and mapping out their time.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve. They have had voice over auditions, planned and pitched a club successfully to get a team together to assist them, investigated the setting up of a channel to house the completed episodes and learned new software.  They are inspirational and resilient!  This is a perfect example of what an iExplore learning adventure should be- something the girls are passionate about and invested in.  They are learning as part of their process and not for the sake of it.  Teaching and leading others in their club will help them make connections, teach others and foster curiosity in others.  I am so excited to see where this goes- well done girls!

Evidence of learning

See a short video of their animation here See their iExplore Learning Model Doc here

Next Learning Steps

keep updating your iExplore doc- this can’t be all Jessica all of the time and ensure sufficient detail and reflection (this includes what is going well and what the challenges have been) write a reflective blog post about your iExplore experience to date including your club set up and what you will do for the club make an iMovie of what you are doing like a lesson, to teach other learners how to animate the way you are set up a sub-channel on our LH1 Youtube account

How it's like to be twin #3 dress up

So this is part 3 and part 3 is all about being dressed up me and Johanna need to dress the same unless we're in our onesies so every weekend we go to Manuka and everytime we dress the same! It's not that fare but me and Johanna like to pretend we are each other because if we trick people we think it's fun and sometimes if someone asks if I'm Jessica sometimes I say no and say she is but she says I am and so because of that we pretend we're both Jessica and Johanna so that's most of it of how we dress the same stay tuned for part 4 but for now it's.... To Be Continued

Neha and Jessica's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learner: Jessica & Neha     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Jessica and Neha 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. Jessica and Neha decided to make a new lunchbox with an added ice box and magnetised handle. Jessica and Neha had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved lunchbox. They had to use the pre-existing shapes and objects 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

Jessica and Neha’s explanation of their 3D lunchbox.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica and Neha 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. Jessica and Neha 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 other learners how to use TinkerCad by making a video/animated tutorial.

How it's like to be a twin #1 introduction

As a twin people can't tell you apart which is annoying because people will ask your your name another thing is as a twin most twins have to wear the same clothes and dress the same for everything and when you ask to not dress the same your parent will say no. The other thing is that twins fight a lot when I say a lot I mean a lot we normally fight for a long time and the next time you see twins fights go away because they make a lot of noise and they will blame you... For real! And last thing is twin telepathy no we can't read each other's mind but we kind of think the same they won't like mostly the same things but TV shows are always the same like a YouTube channel called the merrel twins also talk about it and the TV show Liv and Maddie also talks about being a twin, sometimes a twins name will be pronounced wrong like once my name was pronounced right and Johannas was wrong. Lastly is Nic names if you are a twin you will most likely get a Nic name like divya calls me juice and calls Johanna John one Nic name is bubble and squeak and mr dyer calls us that Johannas bubble and I'm squeak it's normal for us because we always get nicknames....... But this is the end of part #1 and stay tuned for part number #2!

How it's like to be a twin #2! How we get told apart!

Normally people can't tell twins apart if they just meet them, as you get to know them you will learn how to tell them apart for example Johanna has this black thing behind her ear and a freckle just below her eye, and well I don't have anything but I do have different earrings ones a teddy and ones a heart and our best friend divya she can tell us apart because we have been friends for about 2 years now but one of my friends can tell me apart without looking at our face because Johanna was with her in year 2 and I was with her for year 3, 4 and in year 5 we were not in the same classrooms but we still talk and still talk now. Some of our friends now like Aleena and ash can tell us apart sometimes but teachers can't like Ms Wilkes today got us mixed around and called me Johanna, sometimes it's akward outside of schools like when we go to karate people always ask us are we twins and what's our name and says hi are you Jessica or Johanna and ash has to tell them yes we're twins and that persons name is Jessica and the our is Johanna.... I hope you enjoyed part number #2!

Workshop #7 follow up

Literacy follow up workshop #7 (also in docs)

Text: scatterbungle another flitterwing tale
Author: Edrei Cullen

Edrei Cullen used the blurb and title, cover images, descriptive language to show what the story is about. All of these things help me to know the purposes are when I read this novel.

The blurb talks about Ella's school being invaded and asks you what will happen and tells you a bit about the flitterwing and magicals in the story.

Edrei Cullen tells you how the characters speak like when she adds more words to show how
they speak like.

I think the image of the girl in the front cover is Ella as a flitterwing which shows her flying in the air with another tiny flitterwing behind her pulling her shoelace

Design a habitat Showtime!

On Monday half of the habitat showed our design a habitat and for design a habitat me, Aleena, Johanna and Divya made a insect habitat and in the insect habitat we put butterflies but they were actually bats because we don't have butterflies in minecraft. We had lots of great feedback from everyone that visited and we were well prepared the only two groups that showed their design a habitat were the localize it and the digitize it group the other two groups (make it and draw it)
are going to show next time we have time.

Miko n Nummy auditions!

Today in ibreak one there will be auditions for Miko n nummy it's me johanna and divyas iexplore!

We are going to be seeing how people sound like so that they can be a voice for our iexplore. So today people are going to audition for Miko n nummy so they can be a voice actor, if you didn't know what Miko n nummy is it's our TV animated show that we're making for our iexplore, and for the auditions we need to hear if their voice is confident enough to see if the microphone can pick it up, and how their voice sounds like because if it doesn't sound like how we need it we will suggest another character or they might not be able to do Miko n nummy because we can only have a limited amount of characters!

Speech Learning Story - Term 3

Learner:   Jessica                                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Jessica began to learn some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of the oral presentation.  Jessica learned about emotive language features such as the use of adjectives; persuasive features such as rhetorical questions, repetition, quotations, statistics, contrasts and lists of three ; and varied sentence structures like statements, questions, exclamations and commands.  She learned about the structure of a speech including introductions, endings, sequencing words and and how to make her point clear. Jessica also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger.  This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  Jessica did a superb job of being persuasive and represented the Pukekos in the school Speech Competition.  Ka Pai!

Evidence of learning

Jessica’s Speech                                                    Oral Language Rubric Here   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuEguQ90fNY Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on why we should have Minecraft in Education- she made everyone wonder what the possibilities would be if we had Minecraft at school!  She connected with her audience using emotive language and confident delivery - in her hapu group and at the school competition. She collaborated with other learners while practicing her speech and responded to feedback and lead the discussion, writing and providing of feedback and feed-forward to the other learners when they did their speech or poem.  Her public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Jessica representing us - the Pukekos!- at the Speech Finals- she is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a copy of you presenting the speech (get the Swivel copy from Mr McNeil and upload to the LH1 Youtube channel) practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section

My speech!

This is my speech do you like it, our hapu groups are presenting our speeches on Friday 2 block.
Here is my speech:

My topic is: why we should use minecraft for education

My question or opinion is: we should use minecraft for education

My Introduction:

Did you know that some schools use minecraft for education? Today I will tell you why I think this school should use minecraft for education. Besides people say minecraft is used for education because it helps with social life, math, English and teaches you about what things are made out off. Do you thinks it's weird how this school doesn't use minecraft for education. Well in this speech I will tell you why this school should use minecraft for education and will be telling you 3 reasons why 1.3000 other schools in the world use it for education 2. Minecraft is a world famous game and has sold more than 20 million copies from 2009-2015 and in the last 24 hours 10 thousand copies or more have been sold and 3. It will help you if you if you're creative and want to learn how to build. Hundreds of schools are named after minecraft like a Swedish school is called mojang because that's where two students made minecraft and named it cave game. Now I will tell you why we should use minecraft for education

My first idea is that we should use Minecraft for education because 3000 schools in the world use minecraft for education and we can join them if they’re using it that means it’s good for education and it will to help us  to learn, another thing why we should use minecraft for education is because schools like it and if 3000 school like it maybe this school will like it.  If you want to be an engineer it teaches you basic skill of how to set-up things with redstone and teaches you the basic skills of how redstone works.

I also think we should use Minecraft for education because it is a world famous game and has sold more than 20 million have been sold and more than 10 thousand copies have been sold in the last 24 hours so if it’s world famous that means it must be well-known by even people that don’t have minecraft

My third idea with examples/proof: We should use Minecraft for education because it will help you if you if you're creative and want to learn how to build… But it's the easy way if you want to be a builder, we will become very creative and learn how to make a garden and build a house or even a statue. Children will be very creative which is good when we need new ideas but bad-ish if we're learning and we’re talking about this educational game.

My Conclusion

For these reasons do you want to use minecraft for education? I think I really want to use minecraft for education. As you know we should use minecraft for education because 1. 3000 other schools in the world use it for education and 2. Minecraft is a world famous game and has sold more 20 million copies and 3. It will help you if you if you're creative and want to learn how to build. I now hope you know why I think this school really should use minecraft for education.

Google Summit Learning Story- August 2015

Learners:  Aleena, Kavisha & Jessica                          Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Technology and KCs                            Date: Aug 12, 2015

Learning Observed

Aleena, Kavisha and Jessica made us all proud when they represented us at the first ever Student Google Summit on Aug 12 at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  They were joined by hundreds of other learners from around Auckland and facilitated and participated in some exciting workshops about learning with digital technologies.  There was a lot of work leading up to this day.  First the girls met with Ms Wilkes to express their interest, brainstorm what they could present and then write and submit their pitch to the GEGNZ.  They demonstrated passion, commitment and skills while meeting their deadline.  This was their pitch: Using Google Sites for our Learning Pathways We are going to be presenting our Learning Pathways. Our learning pathways are in Google Sites. Every learner at OrmPS has a Learning Pathway, even all of our Learning Coaches. We like using Google sites because it has some features that some site makers don't for example: In Google sites you can edit the background on the site so that it won't be all blank, we can embed docs and other online artefacts, put in pictures, link out to our learning, share with our learning coaches and families and so much more! Come and learn with us on our learning pathways journey. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and including a fun kahoot game as well.  The learners decided it would be great if they could practice their workshops the day before to iron out any crinkles and so they were able to facilitate their workshops for the rest of the habitat.  Amidst technical difficulties they persevered and responded to feedback making some small changes to improve their presentation.  On the big day the girls demonstrated confidence and resilience when many devices couldn’t access the internet.  We were very proud of the way they solved problems, remained calm, positive and supported the participants.  Way to go Aleena, Kaivsha and Jessica!

Evidence of learning

Trial run of workshop with LH1 learners = success! Aleena, Kavisha & Jessica intro Learning Pathways   OrmPS Girls working the crowd!     Kavisha & Aleena with Peanut             The OrmPS Crew at the end of Google Summit

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica, Kavisha and Aleena showed they could relate well with others both in their collaborative effort in creating and facilitating their presentation and in responding to feedback.  They participated and contributed, managing themselves in 3 other sessions on the day and took their learning back to OrmPS to share with others.  They showed curiosity in the google cardboard session and made connections to prior knowledge.  They were capable at solving problems when there were technical difficulties and constantly collaborated to maximise their own learning and that of others.

Next Learning Steps

start thinking about their presentation for next year write a blog post about their experience teach family members some new skills/tricks they learned