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.