Measurement

Learner:  Elnaz             Learning Coach: M Lennon            Date:   16 October 2017

Learning Area:  iDevelop - Mathematics

NZC Achievement Objectives:   Level 1 Mathematics Measurement: Students will create and use appropriate units and devices to measure length, area, volume and capacity, weight (mass), turn (angle), temperature, and time. Patterns and Relationships: Students will generalise that whole numbers can be partitioned in many ways.

Learning Observed

In a measurement unit during iDevelop Elnaz has been learning to identify different units of length.  She has been participating in a range of practical activities using both standard and non-standard units of measure. Elnaz has demonstrated her curiosity by making estimations about the length of various objects using non-standard measures (e.g. how many giant steps to the door?), then carrying out investigations through practical activities in order to check her estimations. During the measurement unit Elnaz is showing she is a capable learner by being able to use language, symbols, and text in order to measure the length of a particular object. Elnaz is a very connected learner, taking her previous experience with measurement and applying it to her current learning.

Evidence of learning

“The cubes were best to measure because they were all the same size so our answers will be the same.” - Elnaz

Next Learning Steps

Keep making estimations about the length of various things. Begin using more standard forms of measurement

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

Oxygen Experiments

Learner:    Elnaz           Learning Coach:  M Lennon              Date: 26 May 2017

Learning Area:  iExperience NZC Achievement Objectives:   Level 1 Science:  Nature of Science:  Investigating in Science Students will extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.

Learning Observed

During iExperience Elnaz has been learning about the properties and uses of Oxygen. Firstly Elnaz learnt that all living things need Oxygen.  She showed great capability in being able to explain what it means to be living.  Next she participated in a range of experiments involving Oxygen. Elnaz demonstrated great curiosity by asking lots of questions and making accurate predictions.  She also made connections with the new learning through experiments and being able to describe different processes. During the experiments Elnaz managed herself while participating, making sure she was always in the right place at the right time, doing the right thing.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Continue questioning the world around you. Remember to predict and re-predict as you are experimenting.