Yesterday I made a picture was Snake and Ninjago. My favourite colours were blue,red,yellow. I put the paint on the tile and I saw that paint was going very quick dry. I was feeling very very happy and tile have to dry for 2 nights and 2 mornings and maybe if on Monday woman will giving me my tile. Maybe my tile will be so beautiful colours and I will see my tile in Omiston Primary School when I grow up.
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Habitats and Continents Learning Story
Learner: : Seth, Mohammed & Jasonta Date: July 2015
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Learning Area: Science Learning Coach: DWilkes
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Learning Observed
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The learners are beginning learning in the area of animal habitats, adaptations and survival needs in preparation for our trip to the zoo. During the session the learners began to build their scientific language and develop their ability to communicate in science. In matching the animals to different continents Seth & Mohammed began to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat, Jasonta really enjoyed this activity. They can recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive. While learning the continent song, they actively participated and could sign and say the names of all of the continents. They could also identify them on a world map. Jasonta, Mohammed and Seth can define what the word habitat means and they can state which continent certain animals are found eg. panda in Asia, giraffe in Africa
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The boys were enthusiastically engaged in all aspects of the lesson participating and contributing while demonstrating strong collaboration and communication with Jasonta. They asked each other for help and didn’t hesitate to check for understanding with other learners or the learning coaches. During the matching activity I observed excellent questioning and problem solving strategies while they worked with Diane. While some of the animals were matched incorrectly to the continents, they persevered to get it correct showing a strong desire to develop their capability in this area. They are able to make connections between what a habitat is to an animal and what a habitat is to humans drawing on new learning and prior knowledge.
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Monday, August 10, 2015
Learner: Seth Myburgh Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick Date:23.07.2015
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Learning Area: Collaboration Narrative Story
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Learning Observed
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Seth was a member of a group of 4 learners who were engaged in an activity where they had to reach consensus about placing statements about “promises” into categories under the title of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. An example of some of the promise statements were “ I promise to clean my teeth every night” or “I promise I will grow taller than my dad” or “I promise I will try had to learn” and “ I promise to keep any promise”. This was a challenging activity as in the first round the learners were not allowed to sign/talk but shuffle the statements into the categories until they were all happy with the outcome. The second round the learners were able to sign/talk and had to justify why they moved and why they thought statements belonged or didn’t belong in the specified category selected. Seth was quick to learn the signs for the 4 different categories.He was able to explain why he thought statements should be moved and why. He was really keen to see what other groups had decided on. When his group compared their results with another group they realised they had several statements that they all felt the same way about but there were a few which were quite different. He was able to listen/attend to their explanations and was accepting of people’s different opinions.
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Seth is displaying an increasing level of participation and was relating well to the other learners. He was contributing his ideas and showing he made connections with the other learners by showing respect for their different opinions. He was focused throughout the activity.
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Thursday, July 2, 2015
Seth's Art Narrative Assessment
Learner: Seth Date: June 2015
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Learning Area: Visual Arts Learning Coach: John Dyer
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Seth is a friendly boy who I enjoy interacting with. He is always polite and willing to share his time with others. I have noticed him trying his best in a range of learning experiences and taking pride in his work during this term.
All the learners in our habitat are designing a ‘Google Doodle’ to be entered into this year’s competition. The theme for this year is ‘If I could go back in time, I would… Seth had some effective ideas and enjoyed designing his image.
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A proud Seth with his Google design that showed detail and originality.
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Seth can use his design skills to create images and logos for Te Manawa. There is good opportunity for designs in our new school with blank canvasses all around.
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Trip to the Umupuia Marae
Guess what??? I went to Umupuia Marae and it was amazing.
The coolest activity was the taiaha. It is a traditional weapons of the Maori. It is used for short, sharp, strikes. I liked this because I want to learn a ABC moves and I just want to pretend to kill bad tribes.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Seth M-Reading Narrative Assessment May 2015
Learner: Seth M Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick Date: May 2015
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Learning Area: English- Reading Narrative Assessment
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Learning Observed
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Seth chose the text “Carnival Time” for his PM Benchmark Level 21 reading assessment. Seth is oral but uses key signs in English word order as he reads. I introduced the word carnival to him and he related it to a fair where people go and look around at what’s happening. He relayed to me that he had been to a carnival and could describe the floats being pulled along by cars or trucks. He was able to skim the text and use his word attack skills to say the name of the town ”Mayberry”.
He had quick recognition of the high frequency words and accurately decoded topic specific vocabulary eg: parade, floats, costumes, streamers.
He used the context and meaning to insert substitute words rather than read the words in the text in a couple of occasions. eg: kid for child and every for always. These didn’t interrupt the flow or meaning of the story and went unnoticed by Seth. He mostly used a natural rhythm and intonation except when he was focusing on producing the correct sounds in words. Seth continues to need prompting to “tell me more” during his retell of the story. The ability to retell a story including lots of details has been one of his previous IEP goals. Seth still needed to refer to the text for this. HIs ability to find answers to inferential questions has improved and he scored 3/3 correct. He accurately explained the applied knowledge question drawing on his own prior experience.
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Last year Seth moved up 5 reading levels so after moving school I tried testing him at Level 21. Seth scored 98% reading accuracy, 83% comprehension and 73% retell using the PM benchmark Reading Assessment and VADEC Formal Retell. He is beginning to identify the clues that help him make inferences.This text was easy for Seth and he is ready to move to Level 22 and possibly Level 23. He is demonstrating and developing his capabilities in Thinking and Using Language, Symbols and text.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N2ePNzxhPyxiajqRc9gW1TrGm166Gm-5CQV5DDgpX-Y/edit
Learner: Seth Date: May 20, 2015
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Learning Area: The Arts- Drama Learning Coach: Diana Wilkes
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Learning Observed
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During iExperience this term with the Strategic Leadership Team (SLT), we have been learning how to use movement and space to effectively communicate. The lasting understanding is that people represent their culture and heritage in different dramatic ways- past and present. Learners had a variety of opportunities to explore the use of space, props and their body for communicating different ideas. Seth worked in a group with Taanvi, Nehaal, Mohammed and Anjlii to use different techniques to explore drama elements and conventions and exhibited creativity and enthusiasm for performing. When asked to initiate and develop ideas with others to create dramatic 1 minute skit about a culture, Seth worked well with others offering ideas and demonstrating creativity and a sense of fun. His group selected the American culture and crafted an entertaining performance indicative of this culture featuring some swish Michael Jackson dance grooves!
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Evidence of learning
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Seth makes effective use of space, imaginary props and movement.
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Seth demonstrates that he can work Collaboratively with others towards a common goal. He shows his Capabilities in following complex instructions and strives to meet the success criteria- managing himself well. He is able to make Connections between what he knows about a culture and how to express that with movement, no sound and imaginary props.
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