Champs and my adventures

Me and champ had an amazing day and here is the proof.

Me and champ had an #orsome day. When we came home from school we got to eat some yummy ice cream, I had strawberry ice cream and champ had chocolate ice Cream.(We didn't give some to my little sister because she was sleeping but we weren't anyways going to give her ice cream, shhhhhhhh don't tell. After that we played outside together happily ever after but wait our adventure doesn't end it rather is the beginning and while we were outside playing my sister woke up so I new I had introduce her to champ.After that champ stole my iPad and took selfies which made me jealous. After that I went to the shower while champ was playing with my sister. Then champ got new friends! I thought champ was a little bit lonely so he got some new friends and that's when I could see a smile on his face. All day long me and champ were taking so many selfies so we had a break. Me and champ did our home work and went to bed and that was my day with champ.

From champ: Thank you for looking after me.

Google expedition, 7 wonders

We got to see the seven wonders and it was really fun. We got to 

see the Taj Mahal in India, Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, great wall of China 

in China, Machu Picchu in Peru, Petra in Jordan, Rome colosseum 

in Rome, Italy and Pyramid at Chichén Itzá in Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico.

 It was surprising because I never went there the always wanted to go to 

some of these places like the Taj Mahal. The goggle glasses were a 

little bit bright so I had to take them off after some time because it stranded 

my eyes. I felt like I was really in those places but flying. Whenever I 

looked through the google glasses I always moved around in my square 

just so I could look at the different areas. Over all it was a great experience 

and adventure. 

About art club

Art club is really fun because we get to do lots of amazing art. I loved doing art from when I was five and after that. For these few weeks we have been doing aboriginal art. Lots of people usually stick to basic and cultural patterns and some people like to use there own imagination. I picked to do a snake because we were supposed to fill the hole paper so I made it go in different directions. Our first step was to color the paper using rainbow colored dye, then after it was dryed we went on goggle and searched for aboriginals art and I found a snake photo so I sketched it out on my paper. We then have to make black dots on our paper using a sketching pencli but we could leave spots. I don't know what I have to do next because I'm not up to that part. So this is what I do for art club and maybe you might want to join art club bye.

Taanvi, Jahnavi and Neha's Trash to Flash Learning Story

Learners: Taanvi, Jahnavi & Neha      Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: Term 4, Week 6-10

Learning Area: iExperience - Technology

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In the second half of Term 4, all of the OrmPS learners have been participating in Trash to Flash - turning old used items into something new and usable. All of the LH1 learners began this journey by spending time looking on the LH1 Pinterest account. Everyone selected a category that they were the most interested in. Taanvi, Jahnavi and Neha all selected Girls Fashion. They were curious about making an elephant pendant from an old fork. However, before they could make this, they had to go through a test run with the Design Thinking Process. As a group, all of the Girl’s Fashion and Pets & Animals learners made ladybug fridge magnets. The girls then took the template we used as a larger group and the personalised it to their pendant creation, demonstrating their capability with understanding the design process. Collaboratively, they shared this template and filled it in on Google Slides.

Evidence of learning

Taanvi, Jahnavi and Neha with Jessica, Johanna, Ashmira and Divya and their Ladybug Magnet prototypes.

Next Learning Steps

Add some photos to your blog of your final creation in Week 10. Reflect on how successful your planning was, as well as how well you felt your final product turned out. Make another prototype showing changes and improvements to the design.

The Girl Who Found Her Talent

One day at Emily's school there was a talent show that was held on the 14th of November. She thought it was a great opportunity to show here skills and her interstice.But there was a problem and the problem was that she didn't know what her talent was. During her art class she has still thinking about the talent show on what to do.She got so confused on what she should do on the talent show that she forgot all about her class. After her class she went to her car and took off for home.  At first she thought she was good at dancing so she had a go and it went really bad and she knew she was a bad singer, so she gave up and dicided not to be in the talent show. Two days later she finely found her talent art! But she wondered how to present that. Then the lightbulb came “ I'll make a slide on what I learned in art class and some tips and tricks”. So when the day came she was really nervure and she felt like there were butterfly's in her tummy and when her name was called out she got even more nervous. She looked at every body then took a deep breath and let it go. She was ready, she was confident and she was proud. After all that hard work it paid off, and even though she didn't win she had always been a winner to herself. That was the story of the girl who's found her talent.

Crhristmas candles

Christmas is about to come so I wanted to share this poem.

My Eleven Friends

Anjli: she is nice, she is helpful and she is one of my best friend.

Riyah: she's funny, she is orsome, she a great new friend to have.

Margaret: she's caring, she is fun to play whith and always active.

Ash: she is funny, she is smart, she is the best, she is confident.

Jasmine: she is orsome, she is friendly, she is foceced in her work.

Jahnavi: she is also confident, she always smiling and helpful.

Aleena: she is nice, she is fast, she is smart, and very active.

Johanna: She is so nice and smart,she is funny just like Diviya.

Jessica:  funky, funny and a nice person to go to when you are lonely. 

Divya: very intelligent,smart and sensible in making good choices.

Neha: she is an #oresome friend which makes me happy all the time and ver focused in work.

Cookie Crew Learning Story

Learners: Taanvi, Jasmine, Anjli & Kavisha    Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: iExplore (Science, Maths, KCs)  VP: collaborative & connected Date: Term 3

Learning Observed

The group of girls, Taanvi, Kavisha, Jasmine and Anjli, worked collaboratively together to make this fundraising event a success.  They raised money for hospice and PE equipment.  It was quite an involved iExplore and it was great to observe the girls work through and negotiate the conflicts that arose along the way.  It was great to see Jasmine take charge of the spreadsheet where they connected with maths in determining how much of each ingredient they needed to make the quantity of batches they wanted to sell.  There was valuable learning in this process especially when the girls, Anjli in particular, realised that everything cost a lot more than they initially thought!  They realised that this was a huge job and elicited the help of two other learners- Aleena and Ash, who were very helpful, collaborative and supportive- though with the six of them in the kitchen it got a touch noisy!  On the day of the sale, the girls had help from Mrs Doidge and Mr Dyer and the lines were literally out the door.  There was some excellent forethought in having learners pre-order so they could anticipate how much of everything to make.  Through this process the girls learned how to use the iExplore Leanring Model document to track their progress and receive feedback to grow their capabilities and connect all of their learning.

Evidence of learning

This is their Reflection Presentation   iExplore Learning Model Document Initial Plan using the Golden Circle

Next Learning Steps

learn to distribute tasks so group members do not duplicate tasks and lose valuable time ensure that they communicate clearly with Learning Coaches and leadership team (eg. Ms W stated no ingredient shopping until the spreadsheet was completed but the girls went shopping with Mr M anyways as he didn’t know this) finish the reflection presentation with a video or images and complete the iExplore Learning Model document- responding and actioning the feedback from Learning Coaches reflect on what they would do differently to make this even more successful next time!

My procedural writing week 2

How to make a desk without tools

What you need:

1.  (T) pipe

2.  Elbow

3.  12 inch pipe

4.  24 inch pipe

5.  Plywood

Method:

First grab two 12 inch pipe and a (T). Screw the (T) with the two 12 inch pipe and make three more for the legs.

Then use an elbow piece and screw it in on the top of the piece that we just made and do the same to others.

Get two of the legs and a 24 inch pipe. Connect the 24 inch pipe with the elbows and do the same with the other two.

After that get two more 12 inch pipes and attach the two leg with the (T) that we joint in the beginning. Tighten it so we can make it into a base. 

Finally add the plywood on the top and there we go. 

A little suggestion is that when you are trying to make a small desk, in step three use a smaller pipe to adjust it to the right wideness. If you want it to be more pretty for a girl or boy you can spray paint it with whatever colour you like.

I have chosen do copy and paste my procedural writing so you can see how easy it is to make a desk with only 5 materials.

Halloween and my birthday

My birthday is on Halloween day! It is the best thing that has happened to me. When I was small I didn't know what Halloween was until I grew up. Halloween is very fun for me since I get lollies and present. But sometimes I think it is more of my birthday then Halloween. This year I would like to balance it out so that we could still celebrate Halloween. Still we will mix things a bit like buy Halloween coloured balloons and spooky table clothes but my rooms will be completely spooky. It's good to have your birthday on a special day because you get a variety of food and treats. One of the things I would make this year would be ghosts meringue, mummy cake pops, carving pumpkins and my most favourite, my mums home made apple crumble. It is a good idea to make red velvet cupcakes to get into a spooky spirit. I love to celebrate Halloween  in these ways  what about you?

Diwal is coming up

Diwal is important for me but it's really fun.One of my fravirote thing

 about Diwali is that I get to decorate the house and make 

 sweet. I would like to make rangoli but I've never really made rangoli 

patterns and I wish I would get a opportunity to do so. But when I see

 rangoli it makes me feel happy and delighted.It makes me feel that way

 because I see how hard everyone is working and I see that they are doing 

it nicely. I like to go to other people's house and last year I went to my friends 

house which was fun.

Taanvi & Jahnavi's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learners: Taanvi & Jahnavi    Learning Coach: T.Dillner            Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Taanvi and Jahnavi chose to participate in 3D Printing during iExperience during Week 7-10 this term. We initially learnt about the Thinker’s Key called ‘BAR’. BAR stands for Bigger, Add, Replace. To practise, the learners had to pick either a pen, lunch box or tennis racquet to make a feature bigger, add to the item and replace something. The learners had as much creative license as they needed and then they reflected on how functional the item had become - could it still be used for its original purpose? The next stage was to come up with an item that we use at school and repeat the BAR process. Taanvi and Jahnavi started with the idea of a waterproof bag, and made a few changes which resulted in the final idea of a desk chair that could be used in the MySpace. Taanvi and Jahnavi had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved desk chair. They had to use the pre-existing shapes to form their 3D model which was then printed out by our LH1 3D printer. After analysing their printed model, the girls were able to write a description about who would use it, why they designed it and what its features were. They also spent some time reflecting on improvements and redesigning it on TinkerCad to reflect these changes. Finally, they had an opportunity to share their design process and thinking to a variety of learners in the 3D group, as well as standing up and presenting to the entire habitat! Great effort girls - you thought creatively, yet realistically.

Evidence of learning

Taanvi & Jahnavi’s explanation of their desk chair.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Taanvi and Jahnavi used all four of our OrmPS Vision Principles. They were collaborative during the entire process by sharing ideas and challenging each other to be more creative (Thinking, Participating & Contributing). They demonstrated curiosity by engaging with the entire technology process of designing, making, redesigning and evaluating. Taanvi and Jahnavi were connected as they were able to show their learning in three different mediums (paper, digital and printed model). They could make connections between each medium and knew how they fit together to form the technology process. Finally, they showed capability and confidence when presenting to the whole habitat. Taanvi and Jahnavi could clearly outline the purpose of their object and fulfilled the purpose of the experience.

Next Learning Steps

Complete the second design on TinkerCad and print if time allows. Use the 3D printer as a component of an iExplore. Create a tutorial video to teach other learners in the habitat how to use TinkerCad.

Don't give up if somethings in your why

This is a poem that I think is what we all should trust 

Sometimes it's good to not listen to others if you don't think it's right.You should never feel down or angry just if a little things in your way it makes you not believe and you can do it.

Ormiston acrostic poem

Orsome

Right choice 

Mature 

Inteligent

Success full

Talented

On time

Nice

I have chosen to do a acrostic about ormiston primary school because they respect others, there are  also lots of function like the disco, talent show and soon the cookie and hot chocolate stand as well as polar bear cupcakes.

Ormiston primary is a school which has freedom and time to get back to school.It has a mixture   of things to do such as clubs iexplores iExperiance and lots of things going on.

The lonely Girl got a friend

One day there was a little girl who lived in a small cottage.Have any friends or parents, she mostly spends her entire life alone.She looked through the window and saw people waking th the village she wondered why.She was so curious that she went to go have a look too.She saw colours and shops and people gathering around the town hall.She saw a lonely girl and she wanted to be here friend but she was shy. Soon everybody started to leave so she went over to here and asked if they could be friend and she agreed so they became best friends.Now everyday she would vist here frind and now she isn't lonely.The end

Spring writing

Here is my spring writing

 

Acrostic poem

Talented 

Awesome 

Amazing 

Nice

Very friendly 

Intelligent 

The lucky plant poem

The lucky plant 

A little seed alone and cosy

Growing tall in a sight of light,

Rain drop falling off of height.

Blooming high into the sky,

Touching the clouds brave and proud.

Dancing gracefully happy and bright, 

Sing along in happy thoughts.

Tallest Tower Technology Challenge - Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Anjli & Taanvi                                       Learning Coach:  Ms Wilkes

Learning Area: Science and Technology                        Date: August 2015

Learning Observed

Taanvi and Anjli were 2 of four learners who initially showed interest in representing OrmPS at a technology challenge at Point View Primary School on August 26.  They met each Friday for a new challenge.  Their first challenge was to make the tallest free-standing tower they could using only the materials they were provided with:  5 sheets of paper, 6 straws, 30cm tape, 2 pipe cleaners, a couple of popsicle sticks and their imagination.  There was a time limit and they were up against the girls!  Anjli and Taanvi strategised together before they started building showing some fantastic problem solving and an ability to pre-plan.  They also made adjustments as they went demonstrating that they were resilient and could respond as needed.  They used the materials wisely and tried to keep the brief at the forefront- great effort.

Evidence of learning

Anjli and Taanvi go head to head against Justin & Nelvin in our first Technology Challenge!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Anjli and Taanvi participated and contributed enthusiastically, relating well to each other and managing themselves.  They used strong thinking strategies to maximize the use of their materials to strengthen and heighten their tower.  They collaborated strongly demonstrating an ability to listen to each other and communicate.  Their curiosity was evident in their design and although their design did not win they developed their capability at thinking and planning for technology challenges.

Next Learning Steps

continue to come and participate in challenges every Friday consider starting and leading a club for technology challenges in Term 4 practice for the competition! ensure that you always stop and think before making decisions write a blog post about this!

Google Summit Learning Adventure - August 2015

Learners:  Anjli, Taanvi & Jasmine                          Learning Coach: DWilkes

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

Learning Observed

Anjli, Taanvi and Jasmine 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, Anjli and Taanvi 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 GAFE in our Learning Adventures We are going to be talking about our google drive, docs, slides, sites and much more. We will also be sharing with you all the stuff that we use on our devices for learning. We are lucky to have BYOD and lots of school devices. Our Learning Coaches use Teacher Dashboard to share docs with us which is really useful. We would like to share with you some examples of our learning. Come to our session if you would like to join us on our learning adventure!!! They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and included lots of videos and interactives like padlet.  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.  On her own as Taanvi was unwell, Anjli (amidst massive technical difficulties) persevered in her practice run with a group of 15 learners and responded to feedback,making some small changes to improve their presentation.  On the big day Jasmine demonstrated capability and collaboration when she offered to support Anjli with her presentation as Taanvi was still unwell.  Jasmine and Anjli 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

Anjli practices (even when she had no projector!)               Anjli and Jasmine present to 13 learners             Anjli wins a prize! The OrmPS Google Summit Crew 2015

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

Zoo trip

I was so excited to go to the zoo since I haven't been there for a long time.
The animal I was most excited about was the new Asian elephant named anjeeli.
I didn't expect going in groups but I loved to collaborate with other people.
Our first vist was at the tigers and the I so pose.Our next vist was the monkeys and they weren't in cages so they could come out but Ms Pactric told us a fact that monkeys don't like water and
around there area they have water around them so they can't hop out.Then we saw the native birds
then the seals and penguins .Then we went to the watering hole and ate our lunch after our lunch we went to see the elephant "yay my favourite part"and we got to do some activities like find out things
about, flamingos, elephants and cheetahs. Then we went to see the African animals then the sad part it was time to go back but I still had lots of fun.

Maori blog post

On Monday a school came named Manurea intermediate.
They performed a whaiata and the Haka. After that we had to practice thewhaiata
and the boys had to practice the Haka.I didn't get the song that mach but I cept on trying
and I got the moves right. But the boys on the other hand were really loud, we could hear them
from a classroom so I got a little bit nerves.After that a learning couch came to call as so we could preform to the little kids.It was the girls tearn first and when we started half of us didn't even do the actions. It was the boys tearn and ovesly the boys sang loud and did the moves right so they won. Before the school went they showed the dance again to little kids then we sang our whaiata then we went back to work.

collerbrative

Collaborative:

What does collaborative mean?

To me collaborative means is to work together and use there own strengths to get the work done. Collaborative can also get people to be friends.

E.g

On Monday me and my group had some hard challenges but the one I thought we collaborated was when I had to go through the maze and my group guide me through the maze and it worked.Or when we were doing the alligator sump and we had to work together to get the chair to the other side with out getting of the chair.  

Taanvi's Collaboration Learning Story - July 2015

Learner: Taanvi                         Learning Coach:   DWilkes                Date: 22-07-15

Learning Area: Key Competencies (Collaboration)

Learning Observed

On our first day back in Term 3 we had a super day of “Collaboration” immersion activities.  While the learners worked on the Collaboration Challenge in mixed ability, mixed year level groups they collaborated on a variety of tasks which encouraged discussion, problem solving, perseverance and teamwork.  It was great to observe Taanvi as she was very engaged in the tasks, demonstrating patience, sharing and teaching others.  I noticed that Taanvi took a lead during the ‘can we make it float’ challenge.  She calmly demonstrated and explained her ideas, welcomed ideas from others and ensured all were taking turns.  Taanvi thrived in the challenges and was very collegial and cooperative in her approach.

Evidence of learning

Designing a kiwi habitat           Using Pic Collage to collect evidence    Using teamwork to master a challenge                 Designing a float

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Right from the start Taanvi embraced the challenge demonstrating collaboration strategies such as asking questions and making decisions together.  This activity challenged her and her team to develop their problem solving skills (Thinking).  She definitely related well to others and managed herself to maximise their collective learning.

Next Learning Steps

grow capacity for collaboration by working with a variety of learners use a new digital tool like Storybird to write a collaborative story focusing on the learning of the activity rather than racing to get it finished, she needs to take her time and be thorough when researching to answer