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