Narrative Assessment - Collaborative Learning Film

Rainy Day Reflection

Today wasn't that bad but it was a rainy day for about the whole week so we had to play inside for 5 days but like I said it wasn't that bad, I felt sad because we had to stay in and play indoor games because indoor games are not that fun because we have to play games like snakes and ladders or last card and also the most annoying game ever!!! " SNAP" its so boring because all you do is stack a lot of cards until you find the same card as the card you have then you have to race to snatch the cards before the other player does, Me and Justin L made up a game called Connect 4 Knots and Crosses, the way you play is the same way you play connect 4 but you have to write it down on a whiteboard like knots and crosses then you have to race to get 4 crosses or knots so that you can win, me and Justin L have been having so much fun playing this game that some of the boys wanted to play too because they found it not boring.

Narrative Assessment

The Buddha's Birthday (Fo Guang Shan Chinese Temple Visit)

On Friday the 20th LH1, LH2, LH3 and LH4 went to the Fo Guang Shan Chinese Temple because it was the Buddha's Birthday and also we were there to learn about the 4G and 3G. LH1 and LH3 took the same bus to go to the Chinese Temple and LH4 and LH2 went in a separate and different bus to get to the Chinese Temple, so we were the first ones there so we had to wait for 5 or 10 minutes for them to arrive then they finally arrived in a few minutes. So the first thing we did was the greeting from the Chinese helpers and also they introduced themself to us but we already knew them from last year because we visited them last year too but some of the new learners that just came to Ormiston Primary School this year didn't noticed them or knew them at all. The activities we did at the temple was the same activities from last year but the same thing the new learners didn't know what the activities were, the thing we learnt at the temple was loads of information that I couldn't remember because there loads but I knew some of the things we learnt, we learnt the lotus flowers and the Buddha's Life. At the end of the day we watched a video of  how the Buddha live throughout his life and what he accomplished, it showed a lot of stories and people and things that had happened to the Buddha in his life. At the end of the video the Chinese Helpers gave us a pendant of a brown small foot that had a spider on it, the Chinese helpers told us that the spider meant greatness. Then we had to go back to the school because we have finished our lesson at the temple, I had a fun day at the temple and I hoped there's more to learn about it.

Swimming Aftermath

Every Monday we go to the Otara Swimming Pools, so'we can develop our swimming so we don't drown when we are swimming in the pools or the beach when the tide and waves comes in very big. We took a small bus to go to the swimming pools, we were all put into 4 groups on what time the groups go to the swimming pools my group had to go at 12:30, so we hopped in the bus and took a 15 minute drive to the pools and arrived at the front of the building. Then we walked into the building and went into the changing rooms to get ready for swimming, then the instructors tested us at the floating starfish, freestyling and the rocket-ship swimming technique on how good we were at swimming then we were put into 3 groups of swimming, I was in group 3. Group 3 hopped into the big pools with the random guests, and the instructor tested us on freestyling and backstroke on how long and how many laps we could do in the big pool, sadly I only did 2 or 3 laps in the big pools, then after the instructor tested us in the big pool, he gave us a number, my number was 5. Then the other group from school came and it was their turn to hop in the pools and swim and we had to go back to our school. My next steps are to get better at swimming by going to the swimming pools in the weekends so I could develop my swimming better.

Reflection on this day

Today was a Tuesday so we did P.E and art because on a Tuesday and Friday we do P.E and Art. We were split into groups Italian and Mexico, I was in Italy so we got to go first to go play P.E. At P.E we were practicing our Non-Stop Cricket on Friday so we practicing our throwing, catching and batting by playing 4 games that involves throwing, catching and batting. To do these 4 activities we had to split into 4 groups, I went to a activity where we had to throw a ball at the cone, the next one was to throw the ball to the your partner and practice catching the ball and throwing the ball.