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

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

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats.  They were fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where the live primates captured the curiosity of Henry and he wanted to learn more about chimpanzees.  He has been building his language and developing his understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  Henry is very able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals like the chimpanzee.  Henry not only recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive, he can identify and discuss these for a variety of animals. The learners were instructed that they needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for their animal.  Henry opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the cheetah habitat in Minecraft to demonstrate his capability at using it.  Henry went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the Chimpanzee, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool -Minecraft.   Henry collaborated very well- listening to others, supporting others with his knowledge and asking questions.  He assisted other learners who were using Minecraft.  When it was time to share his learning, he presented the chimpanzee habitat confidently to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about their learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. iMovie to show his Minecraft to others create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in their final product learn more about the chimpanzee by reading books and websites about it

Henry's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:   Henry                                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all Year 5-6 learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Henry refined his knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of his oral presentation.  Henry’s speech about ‘Minecraft’ demonstrated his growing ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Henry 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.  He learned about the structure of a speech including introductions, endings, sequencing words and how to make his point clear. Henry also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger. This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  It was wonderful to see Henry do his persuasive speech on a topic that he is passionate about.  His iExplore is all about how we can get Minecraft at OrmPS for enhancing educational experiences too.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here           Henry’s Speech work                                                                   Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Henry cultivated the curiosity of others with his speech about Minecraft- he clearly it! He prompted everyone to wonder if we should have Minecraft.  He connected with the audience using emotive language and confident delivery - in our hapu group. He collaborated with other learners while practicing his 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.  His public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. We were very proud of Henry he is a real asset to our OrmPS whanau.

Next Learning Steps

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

My Birthday Weekend

In the weekend it was my birthday, at my birthday we started on Saturday and on Saturday we went to the cake shop to buy a cake. The cake I wanted was the profile picture of my youtube channel Stupid_Henry_Funny.      

Next day was my birthday not my real birthday my early so that means I am not officially 11 yet so yeah, The first thing we did was get the cake, We had to get the cake at 10:30 to 11:00. When my mum came with the cake the cake looked fabulous

So this is my cake it looks fabulous as I said, The first thing we did on my birthday was Rock Climbing we stayed at Rock Climbing for like 5 Hours. After 5 hours of playing and climbing I saw Amin at Rock Climbing with his brother and his cousins? So After the playing we went to the restaurant at papatoetoe called Vietnamese Steamboat. I met my dad with the cake and when I saw the cake it was Fabulous as I said but before we ate the cake we ate some noodles, soup and rice, but you had to choose what to eat but if you choose the rice it comes with the soup. Then it was time to eat the cake when I was cutting the cake my friend said "Stupid Henry Funnnnnnnnyy. It was the best birthday ever but one problem is the birthday was on sunday but my real birthday is tuesday so I am no officially 11 yet but that was THE BEST BIRTHDAY EVER.

Zoo Learning Story - July 2015

Learner: Justin L, Henry, Willie, Rohullah and Nehaal                           Learning Coach: DWilkes                              Date: July 30, 2015

Learning Area: Science

Learning Observed

Our trip to the zoo was a learning adventure for Justin, Henry, Willie, Rohullah and Nehaal.  The boys were split into small groups while we toured the zoo visiting animals from around the world and observing their behaviour and habitats.  The boys loved seeing the red pandas, reptiles, primates and the African mammals.  While the observed the different enclosures they were prompted to ‘notice’ the animal habitats and discuss and describe the zoo habitat each animal lived in.  They all asked lots of questions and were eager to move from area to area.   Willie and Nehaal wanted to know why people poach animals? Justin and Henry were curious about the size, shape and colour of the elephant tooth and Rohullah and Peanut the Pukeko were fascinated by the colours of the flamingos.  They all thought is was very amusing that one of the elephants had the same name as their classmate “Anjli”.  The boys were attentive, collaborative and curious.and enjoyed the opportunity to talk about what they already knew about animals, their adaptations and what they need to survive.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During the animal encounters with the zoo keepers the boys demonstrated their curiosity when they got to touch the cheetah pelt and skull.  They wanted to know how the zoo keepers got them. All of the boys were managing self during the zoo visit by staying with their groups, buddies and listening to instructions.  They was collaborative and participated and contributed in all 3 animal encounters: flamingos, cheetahs and elephants.  Justin, Henry and Rohullah enjoyed watching Willie and Nehaal connect to their learning from school when they got to hold the elephant artefacts at the front of the encounter and because they could tell us which continent a lot of the animals came from.

Next Learning Steps

Visit the Auckland zoo website to learn more about the animals and their habitats. -share and contribute ideas and questions with the wider group -use zoo learning and wonderings in their Habitat Design learning adventure when we go back to school -make connections to their observations of the animals habitats at the zoo to their natural habitats

Henry, Markus & Taivero get their groove on - Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Markus, Henry & Taivero                                          Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

Henry, Markus & Taivero collaborated together to provide a wonderful and inspirational dance component to the ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that all the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  The boys co-constructed and collaboratively choreographed (the music can be found in the Leadership Experience presentation) a fun, spunky and energetic movement marvel.  They sparked the curiosity of the crowd with the ‘how did they do that?!.  The learners loved watching them move and flip and jump and dance and most walked away thinking about how they could dance like them.  All lot of iBreak practices and preparation was evident in the quality of the dance.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

While the boys collaborated they made direct and indirect connections to their experience at NYLD.  The related to others, managed themselves responsibly and participated enthusiastically on the day.  They were enthusiastic and responded to changes with resilience.  The preparation was great.  They made us curious and they inspired us while warming up the crowd for Phoenix!

Next Learning Steps

learn some editing so you can pull out the snippets of video that you really want to capture and then put into iMovie write a blog post about the afternoon including your reflections share your learning with family at home

Maori Culture Experience

Kia Ora Ko Henry ahau that is Hello my name is Henry is Maori, in Maori week in OrmPS which is week 2 we got a special performances from a intermediate from manurewa. They came over to teach us what learnt from their school to our school. The boys taught the boys the haka and girls taught the girls a song about maori. After they taught us their stuff we got to show what we learnt to the younger learners and other teachers. Then the manurewa intermediate did a special performance, Also on Maori Week we learnt maori numbers Tahi, rua, toru, wha, rima, ono, whitu, waru, iwa and tekau.