Perfect Art Day

I enjoyed painting on the tile. I painted the letter A  in collaborate. I put black and blue paint the letter. I drew lines, sun, heart and an apple on the background. The tiles will be put in my school. 

Continents & Habitats Learning Story

Learner: :  Seth, Mohammed & Jasonta                                                        Date: July 2015

Learning Area: Science                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Observed

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

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

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.

Next Learning Steps

more practice matching animals to different continents review saying the names of the continents - use the continent song here reading about animals at home, visiting the zoo website or playing these games http://switchzoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm http://www.abpischools.org.uk/activescience/module2/home.html http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ey/science/animal_h/index.htm http://interactivesites.weebly.com/habitats.html

Learner: Jasonta Poki             Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick     Date:23.07.2015

Learning Area: Collaboration  Narrative Story

Learning Observed

Jasonta 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. Jasonta was quick to learn the signs for the 4 different categories.She was able to explain why she thought statements should be moved. She was very proud of herself at creating a new category for explaining why “promising to keep a secret”  belonged between agree and disagree and role played a scenario. She  was really keen to see what other groups had decided on. When her 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. She was able to listen/attend to their explanations and was accepting of people’s different opinions.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jasonta  is displaying an increasing level of participation  and was relating well to the other learners. She was contributing her ideas and showing she made connections with the other learners by showing respect for their different opinions.

Next Learning Steps

use these skills in decision making situations during learning blocks, iBreaks and at  home. grow in confidence sharing her viewpoint knowing everyone’s ideas are valuable when solving problems.