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

Exploring Geometric Shapes

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.

Adding Two Digit Numbers

Learner:    Elnaz           Learning Coach:  M Lennon              Date: 25 May 2017

Learning Area:  iDevelop (Numeracy) NZC Achievement Objectives:   Level 1 Number and Algebra; Number Strategies Students will use a range of counting, grouping, and equal-sharing strategies with whole numbers and fractions.

Learning Observed

During iDevelop Elnaz has been learning to add two digit numbers together by counting on from the bigger number. Elnaz demonstrated capable thinking and perseverance and was able to quickly adapt to the new learning.  Elnaz began by using a numberline to make single jumps forward, then attempting to make jumps in both tens and ones to make solving the problem easier. As the numbers grew bigger, Elnaz began to source materials and make connections by reverting back to previously learned strategies in order to solve more difficult problems.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Keep practising making jumps in both tens and ones. Begin subtracting two digit numbers from a larger number. Consider other ways to solve problems involving larger numbers.

iExplore (Construction)

Learning Coach: Mrs Bachu      Date: 19/05/17 Learning Area: iExplore (Construction)

Learning Observed In learning habitat four Elnaz has been curious about “What makes a good construction?”  She has enjoyed  investigating types of construction vehicles and their uses, learning about  how cement is made and looking at different types of tools and materials used on  construction sites. Elnaz has enjoyed watching the construction workers working on the new buildings being built on our school grounds and has enjoyed working collaboratively with her peers to design, build and make their very own constructions.

NZC Achievement Objective Speaking Express simple ideas and information, usually drawing from personal experience and knowledge. Visual Arts Share and express ideas about how and way their own and others works are made and their purpose, value and context. Science Find out about the uses of common materials and relate these to their observed properties.

Next Learning Steps Continue to develop our capabilities to ask questions and search for answers.

Sequencing Stories

Learner:    Elnaz          Learning Coach:  M Lennon              Date: 10 May 2017

Learning Area:  iExplore 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.

Learning Observed

This term Elnaz has been learning to sequence and summarise stories during reading workshops.   Elnaz has been working to identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story, before progressing to summarise the story using this language. Elnaz actively participated and contributed in many workshops, initially showing her capability of identify beginning, middle, and end parts from shared stories.  Elnaz then worked collaboratively with others to help them to identify different parts of the story too. After making connections and drawing on her own experiences, Elnaz was able to confidently apply her learning in order to summarise a self-chosen story using the language around beginning, middle and end.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Continue helping others to sequence and summarise their stories. Try sequencing harder stories by using pictures.