GAFE Summit

On Wednesday we went to GAFE we had to come to school by 7:20 so it was really early, when we got there we went inside we got bags and in the bags there was a lanyard, a card to write our name on it so at the end of the day we could get a prize... Anyways our first session was the animation one we picked a character and went to slides we made the character move and move higher. The next one I went to was Johanna and Ashmira's one they made us play a game from the movie dog with a blog. It was fun but not much people went there one about 7 people were there. It was 2 break time we played on the playground and had fun until break time was finished. It was my turn and about 25 people came to my workshop, we played a game called kahoot and had 2 rounds one was by yourself and the  other was in a table group. We made everyone do a mini survey but only our school could view it which was sad because that meant we couldn't see what people thought about our workshop. Onto the last one we went to google cardboard we had a piece of cardboard and put a phone in it, looked around in it and was magical! Well not really magical it was just an app.

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

LH1's trip to the zoo!

Last week Thursday LH1 went to the zoo we saw lots of animals at the zoo and  the first animal we saw were alligators and one of the facts that that i saw was very interesting about it is that mother alligators lay 10-60 eggs each time they give birth, when the whole class met back at the elephants place we ate our food. At 12:30 we all sat on the stairs where the elephants were and one of the people that worked at the zoo introduced us to our next station we were learning about flamingos first. We learnt that flamingos used their beaks to comb their feathers to make them pretty and soft.

Next station was the elephant station which we saw munching on some food,  John showed us some elephant parts and one of them cost an elephant its life and it was carved and was taken off someone that shouldn't have it so they gave it to the zoo. Last station was the cheetah station, I saw a cheetahs fur and it was lumpy and i learnt a fact that cheetahs can run 100km in just 3 seconds! Half a hour later we had to go so we went on the bus and went back to school it was a really fun day and i hope we can visit it again.

Maori Language week

This week is Maori language week and this week Mr Dyers old school Manurewa Intermediate performed for us and we split up in 2 groups (boys with boys and girls with girls) and the boys learnt the haka and girls learnt how to sing a waiata, which we then performed in front of LH 2,4 and the boys won because they were very loud at doing the haka. Maori language week and has been going on for over 40 years now and this week we learnt how to sign and say 1-10 in Maori.

Collaboration

                                                                         Collaboration

     

Collaboration is one of the 4C's in our school logo,

it means to share things like our ideas.

One of the most important things that you need to know about collaboration is that you need to listen to who is talking because if you don't listen to the other person who's talking that means your not collaborating with that person because your just talking over them.

It's like people working together to complete something like ants when they work 

together to get food to carry home to share eating.

We can also collaborative if we work together and if we listen to each others ideas we will be collaborating and learn other thing from other people.

Literature Circle Learning Story - Adjectives Group

Learner:  Jessica (Adjectives)                                              Date: June 2015 Kevin, Imran, Shivran, Rahi, Nehaal, Shivin, Sadeen & Vrishti

Learning Area: Literacy                                         Learning Coach: Diana Wilkes

Learning Observed

Reading research shows that good readers Read extensively Integrate information in the text with existing knowledge Have a flexible reading style, depending on what they are reading Are motivated Rely on different skills interacting: perceptual processing, phonemic processing, recall Read for a purpose; reading serves a function With this in mind we deliberately constructed a ‘book club’ of sorts this term. We began by learning about how to select and why to select a ‘Best Fit’ book- please ask Jessica what book she is reading and how she knows it is a best fit on a regular basis.  The Adjectives learned all about the 5 finger strategy to help them choose a book.  The Adjectives group was also introduced to an online book resource called http://booktrackclassroom.com which can be accessed anytime. In our Literature Circle each learner has a different role each week:  Summariser, Literary Luminary, Word Wizard, Discussion Director, Connector, Artful Artist or Researcher which ensures that the book club runs smoothly. It has been fantastic to observe Jessica engage with each of these roles seamlessly and actively contribute to conversations- she is a role model for the other learners.

Evidence of learning

Collaborative Google Doc        Snippet of meeting

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica is showing Connectedness by relating her learning to the text we are reading. She is relating to others well by remaining respectful while others speak and she is Collaborative when she is participating in the discussion.  She is also developing her Capability in reading conversation and oral language.

Next Learning Steps

Always have a Best Fit book at school everyday and read every night at home, out loud when possible Visit booktrackclassroom.com often to read new books

Drama Learning Story - May 2015

Learner:   Amin, Shivin and Jessica                                             Date: May 20, 2015

Learning Area: The Arts- Drama                                 Learning Coach: Diana Wilkes

Learning Observed

During iExperience this term with the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT), we have been learning how to use movement and space to effectively communicate.  The lasting understanding is that people represent their culture and heritage in different dramatic ways- past and present.  Learners had a variety of opportunities to explore the use of space, props and their body for communicating different ideas. Amin, Shivin and Jessica worked in a group to use dramatic techniques to explore drama elements and conventions and exhibited a real passion and enthusiasm for performing. When asked to initiate and develop ideas with others to create dramatic 1 minute skit about a culture, the group selected British culture.  They generated many different ideas of what they could present and did a clear mime of fencing and drinking tea using real and imaginary props.

Evidence of learning

The group makes effective use of space, facial expressions and movement.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

All members of this team demonstrated that they can work Collaboratively with others towards a common goal. Together they exemplified Capabilities in following complex instructions and ultimately met the success criteria.  They related to each other well and managed themselves and their time wisely. Together they were able to make Connections between what they knew collectively about the culture and how to express that with movement, no sound and imaginary props.

Next Learning Steps

Further explore movements they can make with body, voice, space, and creation of facial expressions to enhance dramatic effect Focus on staying in character- especially that the actions are aligned with facial expressions