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

Jessica's iDevelop Literacy Learning Story

Learner: Jessica F            Learning Coach: Bex Remington            Date: 1 April 2015

Learning Area: iDevelop - Literacy: Reading

Learning Observed

During our literacy session, learners are able to choose from a range of independent activities. I have noticed the Jessica enjoys the free writing choice.  She is able to choose her topic of writing and how the writing is presented.  She tends to write narrative stories and can write for a sustained amount of time.  I have noticed that Jessica likes to write while she is sitting in a group and she shares in the small group to get even more ideas.  When I asked Jessica to share a piece of writing with me she was excited to share a poem that she had just written.

Evidence of learning

This is Jessica sharing her poem:

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica enjoys writing and demonstrates the ability to understand language, symbols and text. She is happy to share her writing with others and use some of their ideas which means she understands how to relate to others. She is developing her capability in writing and it will be exciting to see her written work change and grow as the year goes on.

Next Learning Steps

To share her writing with a wider audience To create collaborative pieces of writing with other people in her group Begin using different genres of writing other than narrative

Jessica's Narrative Assessment- Digital Citizenship - 12.03.15

Learner: Jessica                        Learning Coach: DiWilkes            Date: 12.03.15

Learning Area:  Social Sciences / Key Competencies

Learning Observed

Today, Jessica was selected for a special ‘capability corner’ session in order to upskill some learners in our habitat as experts.  Jessica demonstrated a natural affinity for using digital technologies and can discuss what makes a good digital citizen and what we should avoid doing online to be safe.  She can explain what her ‘digital footprint’ is and how to keep it positive.  She spent some time navigating to her Learning Pathway and blog and was able to explain to others new ways to access this.  Jessica also contributed to her blog and added to her iReflection document.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During this session Jessica demonstrated she was highly capable at navigating our Google Apps for Education platform, easily accessing her Learning Pathway, her blog and various documents in her google drive.  She managed herself well and collaborated with others to offer help, generate ideas and seek clarification.

Next Learning Steps

complete her ‘digital footprint’ image in google docs write a weekly blog post on a topic of her choosing upload video to Youtube, create a Photopeach and/or iMovie

Why I Love ormPS

I love OrmPS because we have inexperience and all of them are fun.

Also I love OrmPS because we get to choose what we want to do in iexplore.

I love OrmPS because we get to choose what we want to do in iexperience.

I love OrmPS because I met people and became friends with people on the first day of school.

And it's very very close to my house 200-300 metres away.

My New Learning

We are currently learning about blogging. Here are a few things i have learned that I did not know before.

1. I learnt how to blog on this site (blogger) it was so awesome learning about how to do this.
2. I just learnt how to create a new blog so i dont just have one blog out of this whole site but I have 2 now.
3. Now I know how to make a blog more exciting not boring like keep on writing and and and and and because thats just boring

What does everyone else know about blogging?

By: Jessica Fan :)

Wonderopolis!

Title: Wonderopolis

Here is a link to a website i have found: wonderopolis

I found this website: My teacher

One thing that i learnt on this website is: all the facts that it told like when was the first movie made and how many people do you need to make a real life movie. I thought that you need only 100 people but it said that you need 2000 people and more.

You should visit this website because it tells you facts about global imfomation, and let me know what you think by commenting below!

By: Jessica Fan B)