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 

Collaborative Blog

Collaborative 

Being collaborative looks like :

Working together 
Listening to everyone
Working Cooperatively
Joining together to get something done (ex.Work)
Take Turns
Try not to take charge of everything.



These are the meaning of these things.

Working Together:Working in a group Collaboratively to achieve a common goal :)

Listening to everyone:Taking turns to talk and not cutting people out.

 Working Cooperatively:(Same as Working Together)

Joining Together to get something done:Getting in a group and helping others and working together.

Taking Turns:Not just one person doing everything let other people take turns (ex.If it includes a camera lets everyone take a turn taking a picture.)

Trying not to take charge of everything:Let everyone have a go let everyone speak share evenly and give everyone a turn at everything even if they a are a little bad at it.

By:Ash

Ashmira's Maths Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira & Aleena    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 2.6.15

Learning Area: Mathematics

Learning Observed

Recently, Aleena and Ashmira’s group have been working on solving problems using Order of Operations. During the teaching session, the girls learnt about how they need to use the correct order of Brackets, Exponents, Division, Multiplication, Addition and Subtraction. They asked a question about exponents and what they are. After a brief discussion they were well on the way to fully understand this concept. Their group (Pythagoras) had some BEDMAS problems to solve as a group and then some to do on their own. We marked these and discussed strategies to check for accuracy. The final task was for the learners to get into pairs and make a video using the app Educreations to explain their learning using examples. Aleena and Ashmira worked together excellently. They used their time extremely well and made sensible and mature choices about where to work. Their video was completed ahead of time, proving to the other learners that this task was easily achievable. By watching their video, it was clear to see that Aleena and Ashmira had a strong grasp of the BEDMAS rule, even including examples of negative numbers.

Evidence of learning

Click on the link to see their BEDMAS video on Educreations.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Collaboration was key here. Aleena and Ashmira came up with their problems in advance which made for better viewing and consistency in their video presentation. Together they made decisions, explanations and contributions (Managing Self, Thinking, Participating and Contributing). Since the learning was to be completed on a device, Aleena and Ashmira were curious about how they could best use the app. They took time to get to know the tools and features of Educreations and utlised them appropriately (Thinking). They are confident, connected learners as they were able to work out how to share their presentation with no adult help. Aleena emailed their presentation to me and I was able to watch it after school.

Next Learning Steps

Look for appropriate opportunities to use this app in their learning in the future. Share this presentation with other learners to teach them about BEDMAS. Create and solve BEDMAS problems that use exponents.

New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL Week)

NZSL Blog 

This year on New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL Week) we learnt lots of things a couple of them were.

A long time ago the people in Milan had a big Meeting and decided to have no sign language in any country so all deaf people would have to learn to hear and speak even though it was really hard they had to and if they were caught signing they would get smacked on the hand.Another thing about New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL Week) is that the butterfly represents deaf people as it represents beauty and freedom. My most favourite activity during NZSL week was The Butterfly Art Competition because I like art and it was fun Drawing and Painting Butterflies. 

By:Ashmira Gupta 

Ashmira's ANZAC Blog

        Anzac!

I learnt heaps about ANZAC in the past 2 weeks some of the things are

Soldiers

This soldier (9/523 Sgt. R.C Travis VC, DCM, MM , CDG)

  won 4 medals 1 of them are  , 

The Victoria Cross (named after Queen Victoria) 

I learnt Anzac is on the 25th  of April

I also learnt people at the youngest of thirteen

I also learnt that the last Anzac was Alec Campbell and died on 16th may 2002  

By:

Ashmira Gupta

Ashmira's Literacy Readers Theatre Learning Story

Learner: Aleena, Neha, Ashmira & Kavisha      Learning Coach: Bex Remington                Date: 2 April 2015

Learning Area: iDevelop - Literacy: Reading

Learning Observed

This week the girls’ literacy group has been learning how to use their voices and expression to entertain an audience.  We did this through using Reader’s Theatre.  The script was based on an excerpt from the BFG by Roald Dahl.  The script had more parts than what there were members in the group so the girls soon realised they needed to change their voices completely so the audience could tell the character had changed.  While practicing they also quickly learnt that they needed to listen to each other reading so they could keep up with the story because if there was even a short delay when recorded it sounded like a really long pause.

Evidence of learning

This is a video of the girls reading just the first page of their script.  The actual voice recording they created was 10mins long and was shared with the rest of the literacy group:

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

By working on this piece the girls demonstrated that they could understand language symbols and text and relate to others. There was a lot of focus and concentration needed and while they were recording they also realised they needed to be patient with each other when a mistake was made and they needed to start again. Putting together the final recorded piece took collaboration and the girls were proud of their finished piece.

Next Learning Steps

Try another readers theatre piece Move from readers theatre to acted out plays Share their final piece with a wider audience to gain even more feedback