Dance Creation

Learner: Elnaz     Learning Coach: S Blake      Date: 11 August 2017

Learning Area: iExperience

Learning Area:  iExperience (The Arts, Dance) NZC Achievement Objectives:   Level 1 The Arts (Dance) Explore movement with a developing awareness of the dance elements of body, space, time, energy, and relationships. Improvise and explore movement ideas in response to a variety of stimuli. Share dance movement through informal presentation and share their thoughts and feelings in response to their own and others’ dances.

Learning Observed

During iExperience Elnaz has been working on creating the dance for the production. Elnaz started exploring dance and movement during a taster iExperience and then chose to opt-in to the next week and begin to create the dance for the production. During these workshops she has been making connections between the song and the dance we are creating. Elnaz has demonstrated her capability by remembering the dance routine and her part in it.  Elnaz has participated and contributed in the dance iExperience and in the production dance opt-in. She has shown her collaboration by sharing her ideas with other learners as well as listening to others share their ideas. In the production Elnaz will be onstage as a flower. I’m looking forward to seeing her polished performance on stage at Ormiston Junior College on November 23rd.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Carry on with the production and go onstage in November Finish creating and learning the dance

Literacy Narrative

Learner: Elnaz     Learning Coach: S Blake      Date: 10 August 2017

Learning Area: iDevelop

Learning Area:  iDevelop (Literacy) NZC Achievement Objectives:   English Level 1; Listening, Reading, and Viewing; Structure Students will… recognise and begin to understand text structures; understand that the order and organisation of words, sentences, and images contribute to meaning. NZC Achievement Objectives:   English Level 1; Speaking, Writing and Presenting; Structure Students will… uses knowledge of word and sentence order to communicate meaning in simple texts begins to sequence ideas and information

Learning Observed

During iDevelop (Literacy) Elnaz has been working on using questions during reading and during writing she has been doing instructional writing. Elnaz has been exploring questions who, how, when, where, why and what during reading. As a group we read the book First to the Top by David Hill (from the school library) and asked questions about the book and Edmund Hillary’s story.Elnaz demonstrated her thinking capability and curiosity by thinking of questions during reading activities.  Elnaz participated and contributed in many workshops on asking questions and showed her collaboration by sharing her ideas with other learners. Elnaz has also been using instructional writing to explore how instructions are written and the details that are needed when writing instructions. She was able to help co-construct instructions for how to make a nutella sandwich with the group and then wrote instructions with a buddy about how to make a shape with blocks. Elnaz again showed her great collaboration skills while working with the group and with her buddy.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Ask questions during reading at home or on bugclub Write instructions for your friends and family about how to do something that you enjoy