Willie, Henry & Justin's SCRATCH Jump Scare Learning Story - Sept 2015

Learner: Henry, Willie & Justin                                                    Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities.  Henry, Justin and Willie enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge.  They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme.  They used the Makey Makey and Scratch to create a game console successfully.  Henry also supported other learners with using the Makey Makey- great collaboration and leadership.  For Week 9 and 10 the boys worked collaboratively to design and create a jump scare game using the Scratch programme.  In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed the tenacity and resilience of Willie, Justin and Henry.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve.  See their game here.  Willie even wrote a blog post about it already!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

add another few levels to the game or create another, more complicated game add more code to the game and share it on the LH1 website and/or teach another learner how to code using Scratch complete your design plan more neatly show the game to your family at home (BOO!) use Makey Makey to extend the game

My Progress about my Minecraft iExplore.

For my iExplore I chose Minecraft because I want the school to play Minecraft, so me and willie decided to present the why we should Minecraft in school is by making a Minecraft pitch. So first we made a stage where we are going to record, willie decided that he'll be recording the video and will be the crowd and audiences. Secondly we read a article of how to make a pitch, after we read how to make a pitch we survey the LH1 learners if they wanted to have Minecraft in school. Then me and willie thought we ready to record the pitch so we started recording the video but when we  went to our conference we showed some of the learners at our conference and Ms Wilkes gave us some feedback of what we should change, so we we'll make a another of the recording to make it better. So me and willie said that " For the pitch we video we could wear tuxedos or black suits, so we found a app where we could edit our skins to look "Fancy"  for the video. We also decided to record a tutorial so we could teach the learners some basic starts of how to start playing Minecraft,  Kavish and Daniel made a Minecraft club so when we finish recording the Minecraft pitch they could use the pitch for the learners to decide for the Minecraft club to go through.

Rahi, Willie, Henry & Kevin's Collaborative PE Learning Story

Learner: Kevin, Henry, Rahi & Willie     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 4.9.15

Learning Area: Physical Education

Learning Observed

The Year 6 learners were grouped to complete Collaborative learning tasks in PE. They had to be able to flip the gymnastics mat without stepping off of it. Kevin, Willie, Henry & Rahi initially had 7 people in their group, which made the challenge even more challenging! With a little help, they were able to figure out that if three people stepped to the side, it would be possible to complete the task. It was very entertaining watching them work it out. All four boys were working together and having a great time all at once. Out of all the Year 6 and Year 4 learners, these boys were the only ones to figure out the trick to this challenge! Great collaborative thinking!

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Collaboration was key to this activity and all four boys were able to show this skill. It was good to see them communicate with each other, but they might need to remember that calm and clear conversation is the best way to be successful (Participate and Contribute). All four boys showed curiosity when the task was introduced and they were very excited to give it a go. They remained engaged with it until they were finished. As they were the only group to complete this challenge, Rahi, Henry, Willie and Kevin all showed they were capable of problem solving and finding a solution (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Solve the challenge with the 7 original team members. Teach this activity to friends and family using a rug/mat or similar.

Henry's Operation Big Science Learning Story

Learners: Shreya, Henry, Louisa, Nisita                              Learning Coach: DWilkes Learning Area: Science                                                                            Sept: August 2015

Learning Observed

Shreya, Henry, Louisa, Nisita had a blast conducting Operation Big Science in Week 7.  Thanks to the New World kit of ingredients.  Lots of learning resources as well about the Types of Mixtures and Chemical Reactions in Baking.  The learners learned that cooking is scientific fun and that the science capabilities are for life.  After initially watching a short video explaining the difference between chemical and physical changes the learners were challenged to explore their curiosity by examining their materials and to discuss their priori knowledge about the materials and cooking with them.  They had popcorn, nuts, chocolate, sugar, baking soda, glucose and butter.  Then they collaboratively devised an experiment - a cooking experiment, using the ingredients they selected.  First they identified a question and then a hypothesis- making connections to their prior knowledge.  As a group they needed to plan their method too.  During the cooking they made observations- noting what they notice, think and wonder.  Henry did well leading the group through their experiment. He also developed some capability at measuring while completing their recipe.  Their concoction was a success and they shared it with the other learners.  It was collaborative and delicious!

Evidence of learning

Operation Big Science - Video

Next Learning Steps

complete their Operation Big Science experiment plan with observations and explanations write a reflective blog post about the experience use more specific measurements when writing a recipe give detailed observations about what you noticed before, during and after tent on the LH1 blog post about Operation Big Science

The Talent Show

On Friday there was a special event and that special event was the first ever talent show of the history of ormiston primary and I was lucky because I audition and made it to the finals and came third. My act  was a dancing act, there was so many girls of the amounts if boys. On the day of the talent was when i was sick but I was brave enough to fight the sickness in my body and perform in front of the whole school, before the talent show started we had to practise to warm up our confident and wear our clothes for the performing. There was so many singing from the girls that made into the finals, Ved was the only one who played a instrument so that was kind of sad. I could of never came third if I didn't try my best but I did.