Week 6 Blogpost

The Secret Of the Unicorns

Once Upon a Time there lived a Little Pony named Tim , Tim lived in the meadow with all the other ponies. The Meadow was near The Enchanted forest.Tim used to get teased because he was scared to go into the Enchanted Forest.So One day Tim's mom was teaching him the 
Horse Code Tim was lost in his own world and thinking about his friends .The next day Tim and his friends were playing truth or dare Time chose dare by accident and his dared him to go in the 
Enchanted Forest Tim didn't want to look like a baby so he did it.Tim Went into the Enchanted Forest.Tim went deeper and deeper into the forest and soon got lost Tim cried and cried for help but he had gone so far no one was there to hear him.Just then he saw a 
castle in the distance Tim ran towards it while he was crying at the same time.When he got to the castle he saw a statue of 
Sir Thomas the horse Tim thought it must belong to a Pony when he got to the door he knocked on the door and a loud voice said to enter you must know Horse Code Tim cried and cried and cried because he hadn't listened to his Mom a voice said you know it and you need to think hard.Tim remembered once at school his teacher saying the horse code is in Morse language.Tim said his name in Morse (Hinaloo)
and the doors opened he went inside he told the horse inside the whole story "so" said the horse "I will give you a magic potion which will take you back to your family" Tim said "thank you" Tim drank the potion in one gulp and in the matter of seconds and suddenly he was home and he ran to his mom and said I love you Mom thank you and everyone lived happily ever after.

  this is Tim

Ashmira's Animal Habitat - Digitise It Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: Ashmira                                                                       Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats. Ashmira has been building her language and developing her understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  Ash is very able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of many specific animals. She used her curiosity and creativity to research adaptations for the Penguin (Habitat).  She recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive and could identify these in detail for the penguin.   Ash was fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where many animals captured her curiosity.  She used the learning from the zoo trip to create a creature using the www.buildyourwildself.com wesbite.  Ash also demonstrated leadership and supported many of the other learners during the process. Ashmira  then needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for the penguin.  She opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that she wanted to design the creature habitat in Minecraft and demonstrate her capability at using it.  She went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the penguin, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of their choosing.  Ashmira collaborated well- listening to other learners and asking questions.  She also used Tinkercad and other tools to design her habitat on the days she was without her iPad showing great resilience and a growth mindset. Ask her to show it to you!  When it was time to share their learning, she presented her habitat with heaps of pride and confidence to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  See her assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about the learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. iMovie to show the habitat in Minecraft create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in the final product learn about the different species of penguins- do they have different adaptations?

Ashmira's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:    Ash                                                                        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 Ash refined her knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of her oral presentation.  Ashmira’s speech about why boys and girls should be in separate learning spaces demonstrated her ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Ash 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. Ash also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger. This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  I was so impressed with how Ashmira refined her speech through practice and responding to feedback- she was a winner in the habitat competition and did a great job at our first annual school competition.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here   Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Ash cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on boys and girls being together for their learning- she made everyone wonder if this would be a positive trend in schools.  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 in discussing, writing and providing feedback and feed forward to the other learners when they presented their speech or poem.  Her public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Ash representing us- the Pukekos- at the Speech Finals- she is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.  Ka Pai!

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a recording of your speech practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section future speeches will be strengthened by using some facts/research that has been done to validate what your opinion is and additional persuasive features

Week 4 Blogpost

#Oresome

Ready

Mature

Intelligent

Superb

Terrific

Ormiston

Never give up

The Monster In the pool

The Monster in the pool !

It was a dark and rainy night and there was a little girl about to go to bed. Rosie heard a noise in the pool , SUDDENLY ! She jumped up and screamed "Oh for god's sake help"! She walked out the door but Rosie saw nothing.Out of nowhere she saw a shadow in the bush.Rosie walked towards the bush and she saw a chicken with an injured wing.Rosie heard the sound again and it wasn't the chicken this time.Step by step Rosie crept towards the pool.The water became darker and darker.Something black lurched out of the pool and grabbed her and pulled her in to the pool.She felt it shake her "Rosie its time for school"Said Rosie's Mom.

By : The Pukeko's Group

Google Summit Learning Story - Aug 2015

Learners:  Ashmira & Johanna                                      Learning Coach: DWilkes

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

Learning Observed

Ashmira & Johanna 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, Ash and Johanna 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 which they decided to do on our Blogs: Blogger We are going to talk about our personal Google Blogs and how we use Blogger in Our School. We use Blogger to write posts about our learning and what we do at school that we think we should write about to share with the learners and learning coaches. We also get narrative assessments in our blogs. These are learning stories that our Learning Coaches write about our learning for us and our parents to read, comment on and learn about our day to day learning. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and included lots of interactives like writing a blog comment in their blogs.  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.  Ash and Johanna did their practice run with a group of 18 learners and responded to feedback,making some small changes to improve their presentation.  On the big day they both demonstrated capability and collaboration.  They also 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 girls!

Evidence of learning

Ashmira and Johanna practice their workshop with Lh1 Johanna and Ash present confidently to an interested crew Ash and Cooper & Johanna join the OrmPS gang for a googliscious photo!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The girls 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

Ashmira, Sadeen and Neha's Leadership Learning Story

Learners: Neha, Ashmira and Sadeen    Learning Coach: T.Dillner        Date: 10.8.15

Learning Area: iActive - Leadership

Learning Observed

Neha, Ashmira and Sadeen are the leaders of Group 2 during iActive time. I have noticed that this term these three learners have really stepped up their leadership skills. I can rely on them to lead the group in activities like Rob the Nest, Line Tag and the Collaboration Station. Neha, Ashmira and Sadeen communicate clearly and simply to everybody, making sure that the other learners understand before proceeding. They are always organised and will make sure that the Group 2 learners from LH1, LH2 and LH4 are organised too. Neha, Ashmira and Sadeen try their hardest to keep to our timeframe and ask questions about what is coming up next or how they could help more. They are a good example of leadership to other learners in our school and I hope they maintain this in the future.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

These three girls work collaboratively to set up, lead and pack up for the Group 2 iActive activities every day. The demonstrate that to be good leaders, people must work together for a common goal (Managing Self and Relating to Others). They have developed their capabilities in this area from the beginning of Term 2 until now (Term 3, Week 4) and I am sure this will continue to grow and improve.

Next Learning Steps

Demonstrate the same leadership during learning time in our Habitat and mentor other learners. Recruit younger learners within the group to help with small tasks e.g. counting the balls at the end of Rob the Nest.

Leadership Experience Learning Story - August 2015

Learners: Aleena & Ash                                                              Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

It was impressive and humbling to watch these two year five girls lead the entire year six cohort in providing a ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  Aleena and Ash co-constructed the presentation that housed all of the other learner’s presentations and they MCed the event like true professionals.  When the order of appearance changed multiple times they just rolled with it demonstrating confidence and resilience.  They selected some inspiring videos, facilitated a leadership brainstorm and kept the energy levels high for the entire afternoon.  Practicing their public speaking, writing and leadership was what they did while the rest of us enjoyed a fantastic afternoon of entertainment, inspiration and wonder.

Evidence of learning

Aleena and Ash lead us through our dress rehersal   MCing our Leadership Experience like pros Introducing our special guests from OrmPS and Phoenix and his dance crew

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Ash and Aleena collaborated on the presentation and demonstrated leadership capability throughout the preparation and delivery of the ‘Leadership Experience’.  They related to others and managed themselves like responsible young adults.  They were incredibly agile and resilient when faced with changes and connected with other learners, our special guests, learning coaches, each other and their prior knowledge.

Next Learning Steps

write a blog post to share their experience with others and reflect on your learning journey comment on the blog posts of your classmates share the new learning with your family

LH1's Zoo Adventure Blog Post

On Thursday 30th July The whole LH1 went to Auckland Zoo.My Dad came as a parent helper too.There was lots of cool animal like Zebras and Tasmanin Devils. My favourite animal is the merecat's because there small and cute.My favourite thing was the merecat's tunnel.I also liked the Girrafes because I like the colour yellow.In my group I had Me , Neha , Aleena , Harry , William , Alysia and Sadeen. It was really fun at the zoo with my group and my dad.

Ash

Maori Language Week

On Monday some people from Manurewa Intermediate came to OrmPs to show us a Moari Waiata and a Haka.

Once they showed us , The Boys had to learn the Haka and the girls had to learn the Waiata.

We only had 20 Minutes to learn the Waiata and the actions.

After We had to show the LH2 Learners in the Multi-Space , we did well because you can't really learn much in 20 minutes .

Then we sang a song to them the song was Te Aroha .After it was time for lunch so we said thank you and bye.

Then We had Lunch.

By : Ash