A poem for 4C's!

4C's

Helpful, wondering

Wondering, helping, friendly

Wonderful, happy, cheering, friendly

The 4C's work well at school and are #oresome!

At the end of Term 4

I'm just waiting to get to the holidays because I can spend time with my family and text and facetime my friends still.

I'm going to miss some of the people that are leaving from year 6.

I'm going to miss the learning coaches even though they are staying next year.

I can't wait for Christmas with all of the presents and gifts under the tree. I also enjoyed decoating the tree and making it look awesome.

I think that I've done a lot with my work and I'm proud of myself for getting a lot of work done this year and also learning a lot.

I've got a lot of nice and awesome friends:
Mragret, Riyah, Jahnavi, Aleena, Ash, Johanna, Jessicas, Divya, Kavisha, Taanvi, Anjli and Neha and many many more.

Margaret: she is always kind, helpful and always is happy.

Riyah: funny and silly and awesome.

Aleena: leader queen, but also, awesome at sports.

Ash: plans the best discos.

Johanna: talks in her own way.

Jessica: cute and cubby

Divya: star stable queen

Taanvi: the  best worker

Anjli: awesome at dancing and is brave at preforming.  

Neha: awesome at singing. Sang at the talent show without any music.

Justin V: super kind and is a awesome roll model.

Our iExplore for next Term

My iExplore is to make a cake for the learning coaches.

Anjli and Margaret are doing a mask party for the year 6 and 7 for next term.

Riyah and I are making a chocolate heaven cake for the learning coaches. I have searched up the way to make the cake, frosting and eatable play dough. 

So both our groups are working together to get our iExplore's to work and make sure its successful.

We are having a lot of food: fruit punch, ice cream, ice cream float and many more.

So how we are going to do this is we are going to get the learning coaches to be build folded and then we and going to bring out the cake and surprise them. 

The left over cake will be for us and some other learners.

We are going to have music with fun party music. We are having Margaret and I doing the music playing and working out the music.

We all are making the cake. No more people because 4 should be enough because last time, we had a lot of people doing the hot chocolate and cookies and we had problems through out the day.

Trash to Flash

In LH1, we are doing a trash to flash iExperince. 

What we have to do is find what ever we have at home and bring it for a trash to flash item.

My item is a snowy bear or panda. Is a meant for a Christmas decoration but it can be placed in on a shelf and kepted on forever and ever. Their choice.

My group includes: Aleena, Kavisha, Vrishti, Margart, Riyah, Sally, Sadeen, Norah, Nisita.

items we have to have are: cotton balls, foam circles, ornaments, black marker, glue.

So this is how to make it for people that want to try it out:

Step 1. Shape foam into a 3D circle shape and glue a ornament underneath. Your ornament cane be any colour you want. You can also use any glue you want but it has to be sticky.

Step 2. Shape cotton balls into arms and legs for your bear and glue those on. Also shape ears and also glue them on.

Step 3. Then draw a face with your black marker. There are many faces you can draw and so you choose.

This is a Christmas decoration and id perfect for people that enjoy Christmas time and want to see a cute bear at their sight.

So, I hope you're not this weeks blog post. Make sure to try out the Snowy Bear or Panda project!

Bye for now!

Oh, by the way, here is picture of what the bear would look like:

Goggle Expection about Sharks!!

Sharks

My learning from the Google Expection is about Sharks. 

There are many species of sharks that are lowing down because a lot of people kill then just because they kill people. You shouldn't be doing that because sharks didn't mean to do it and after, they are like 'Yuck! That human tastes gross!'. At lot of hunters and mean humans cut shark fins off for shark fin soup. That is one way for a species of sharks to lower. There are many sharks each day that die all around the world and the more they die, the more their species don't exist anymore.

There was many sharks out there that exist and they are unique in their own way. Like the great white. The great white is the the most human eating shark. That is why swimmers have to stand in a under water cage to be able to research them because if they go out, they might be eaten.

Did you know that many sharks are lowering because of human hands? Yes! Humans are the ones who kill them. Shark fin soup! Humans cut the fins! 

After cutting their fins, they just throw the sharks back into the water. Some sharks live but a lot don't live after their fins are cut off. Shark fins and the most important parts of a shark. To us, it warns us if sharks are near and to them, they don't really know because there sharks!

A lot of sharks that don't swim will die. Crazy right! Sharks have to swim because they look for prey and also watch out for their enemies.

100 million sharks are killed each year. That is a lot and you have to think how sharks are. They don't mean to kill you. They are just hungering. Sharks also die from hunger if they don't eat. A lot of other people guess that 273 million sharks are killed each year. That is more that 100 million of them.

Sharks primarily feed on smaller fish but some species prey upon seals, sea lions, and other animals that are mammals. Sharks have been known to attack when they are confused or curious. If a shark sees a human splashing and playing in the water, it may become curious and try to investigate, leading to an accidental attack to the human body in anyway.

Primarily, if people see a shark fin, they would run out of the water. A lot of the times, life guards call out to the swimmers because a lot of the time, swimmers don't see the shark. 

A lot of sharks spawn in beach water. So a lot of people have shark attacks there. 

Baby sharks (called pups) are born with a full set of teeth and are fully ready to take care of themselves. They quickly swim away, even from their mothers who might eat them. Litter size ranges from one or two pups for a great white shark) to over 100 (for a large blue shark and the whale shark).

So there you have it. A shark blog post! Please make sure you don't ever go into the water with a dangerous looking shark like a great white. Please stay safe.

Thank you for tuning into my blog today and I hope you enjoy facts about SHARKS!!!!!!

Oh, before you go anywhere, another thing we did at the Google Expection, we also learned about shark habitats and where they lived. We also checked out the 7 wonders of the world. They were awesome. From temples to land and we also used the Google glasses. It seemed like we were there, under the water with the sharks. The whale shark kind of frightened me a bit because it was so big! When it came to under water, it seemed like we were sitting on the ground under water. I was kind of expecting the sharks to be a like a real under water research team there where the sharks move but no. :( Everytime, it seemed like you were there and when we saw the trees, we were sitting on the dirt. Yuck! When it came to the 7 wonders of the world, we were flying in the sky and it was so cool. It was #oresome!

Hapu Birds!

In LH1, we have Hapu birds. Kea, Kiwi and Pukeko. Mr Dyer is Kiwi's. Mrs Dillner is Kea's and Miss Denuwara is Pukeko's. 

There is a challenge in the Hapu groups. We look at a picture of where our bird is at. If we know where that place is, we go and take a picture and then show it to the learning first person gets to take the bird home.

They have to write a blog post about a adventure they went on and post it on the habitat blog site. They could be on a roller coaster, eating dinner, playing, visiting the new pak n save. Cool places like that. 

Aryan was the first out of the Kiwi's.

Justin V was the first out of the Kea's.

Aleena was the first out of the Pukeko's.

I feel like, having birds and bird names for our Hapu group is #oresome because it gives us a chance to learn and we may want to a iExplore about it, I don't know. 

I hope you enjoy today's show (aka, blog post) I hope you learned about our Hapu birds and thank you for tuning in. Bye!!

iDentity

In LH1, we have been learning about our identity's.

Each learning coach did a different topic based on identity.

I missed out on one of the iExperinces because I was doing something in Antarctica. I did a blog about Antarctica and what I did so check it out.

Mrs Mcan's iExperince: what we did on thee first time we did it was we went on a website and had to write down 5 facts about one of the topics. Taanvi and I choose Farming and Harveting. First finishers did a quiz. We got only 60%. :( On the second part, we did some colouring. We had to colour in a sheet and then glue it into our book and then write a reflection.

Mr Dyers iExperince: On the first part, we had to draw or take a pic of us and then write what identity means and what it means to us. I did a Pic Collage. On the second part, we searched up on what our name meant. My name meant a flower.

Those were the iExperinces I did.

Thank you for tuning into my blog for this week.

Christmas!

Christmas is the season of giving. Enjoying life and spending time with family and friends.

There are many awesome gifts to give to a person and they would love it anyway.

A lot of people put up a Christmas tree. They sometimes put important things on the tree that their child made or something that means a lot to them.

Something that means a lot to me is this light up Christmas tree. It is important because it some how is the only thing that I love. Even my sister got one.

Some people go early Christmas shopping and some go late Christmas shopping. Don't go on Christmas day because all of the shops are going to close.

On Christmas, some stores close down for the hoildays. My mom and dad only close down on Christmas day and they start working on Boxing Day.

I'm so exicted for Christmas and I can't wait for the hoildays too. It is going to be awesome and I hope that you all are going to have a great Christmas too.

Thank you for tuning into my Blog for week 6.

Book Review

Welcome to another book review! Today's book is Geronimo Stilton Lost Treasure of theEmerald Eye. Basically, Geronimo and his sister are finding the Emerald eye. Since they don't know where it is. They set on a big life. Geronimo sister gets in charge and they make a tree area into a house. That was my favourite part.

This book tells you to be brave and search fro what you want.

When they go back on the plane they saw the Emerald Eye. It was a lake shaped as a Emerald Eye! They completely finished their mission! 

Here is a picture of the book cover:     

Summer Poem

Summer, Summer

Is almost here

Time for fun

And swimming gear

Trips to the beach

Are always such fun

Along with baseball

And games where we run

Summer, Summer

Is almost here

I can hardly wait

Let's give a big Cheer!!!!

Hope you have a great summer. Here is picture I got the peom from. You can search it by typing Summer poems and they would give heaps to choose from!

Learning Habitat 1!

Learning Habitat 1 is #oresome!

It has many awesome learners and learning coaches! 

We have fun activities and games that everyone enjoys a lot. The learning coaches plan awesome outdoor activities.

We have a chance to choose our own iExplore. I have been planning a Ormiston sleepover. 

We get awesome iExperinces where we get to learn new things and we also get to do new activities like to make a animal habitat for a animal. I made a habitat for a bat. 

We have cool iBreaks where we could spend time with friends and see the cute little learners. 

We have literacy and maths workshops where we learn new maths and literacy things. We get follow ups that we do after the workshop if we have time. We have to finish it as fast as we can.

We sometimes have time to finish work.

The task that we have are, Storybird, Blog comments, Blog posts, learning possessions, learning story's.

Storybird is a website where we can write our own books. People can also buy it. I have many books there.

Blog comments is when we comment on a buddy's blog post.

Blog Posts is when we write a blog. Go check out my blog.

Learning possessions is where we put a date and put evidence to show our learning to the teachers.

Learning story's is where we comment on a blog post that the learning coaches posted for us.

There is learning habitat 1! Thank you for tuning in!

The V8 Supercars Event!

On Friday, Ormiston students went to the V8 Supercars Event. 

We went to see the training and on Saturday was the real race.

We watched the training and we played on the big field.

When the cars came zooming on the tracks, it was so long. Sometimes the cars came and there would be a pop like a firework going off. 

We got a really good view and we claimed the tree as ours.

There were 5 students that were able to ask questions to the drivers. The two people from our group was Ash and Taanvi.

We went to see the cockpits. It looked like little houses for cars. If a car had a flat wheel or it needed changing a wheel, they would turned into the cockpits and get it changed. There are trained people that learned to change wheels and help with any problems.

We got posters and we were able to sit in a race car. It was awesome.

The V8 Supercars Event was super fun and I want to said thank you for the learning coaches for making this possible.

Thank you for tuning into my Blog this week.

Antarcitca

Mrs Dillners Antarctica group has been learning many things.

In the mornings, we would have a question auto call. This is where, any questions from other schools or from us are answered. It would sometimes lack but our questions were still answered. 

Sometimes in experience time, we would do some tasks and learning more about Antarctica. We would go onto Shelleys dairys that would be updated.

Antarctica is the coldest place in the world and can you believe that the Antarctic Ocean is warmer than the air? Awesome!

Some people would go to Antarctica to learning about everything that Antarctica has to offer and some 

famous divers would go for under water research. 

My favourite question that they for answered was, Is there any Internet? The answer is no, so you may be wondering, how do they answer our questions? Well, they use walking talkies. 

Shelley would sit there and listen to the questions being answered.

One of our Antarctica students, Karis, has over 100 questions. She took her time to write all of those. Wow!

Antarctica is awesome to learn about and it may be cold but there are things that haven't been discovered yet!

Thank you for tuning into my blog post this week! Bye!

Cookie Crew Learning Story

Learners: Taanvi, Jasmine, Anjli & Kavisha    Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: iExplore (Science, Maths, KCs)  VP: collaborative & connected Date: Term 3

Learning Observed

The group of girls, Taanvi, Kavisha, Jasmine and Anjli, worked collaboratively together to make this fundraising event a success.  They raised money for hospice and PE equipment.  It was quite an involved iExplore and it was great to observe the girls work through and negotiate the conflicts that arose along the way.  It was great to see Jasmine take charge of the spreadsheet where they connected with maths in determining how much of each ingredient they needed to make the quantity of batches they wanted to sell.  There was valuable learning in this process especially when the girls, Anjli in particular, realised that everything cost a lot more than they initially thought!  They realised that this was a huge job and elicited the help of two other learners- Aleena and Ash, who were very helpful, collaborative and supportive- though with the six of them in the kitchen it got a touch noisy!  On the day of the sale, the girls had help from Mrs Doidge and Mr Dyer and the lines were literally out the door.  There was some excellent forethought in having learners pre-order so they could anticipate how much of everything to make.  Through this process the girls learned how to use the iExplore Leanring Model document to track their progress and receive feedback to grow their capabilities and connect all of their learning.

Evidence of learning

This is their Reflection Presentation   iExplore Learning Model Document Initial Plan using the Golden Circle

Next Learning Steps

learn to distribute tasks so group members do not duplicate tasks and lose valuable time ensure that they communicate clearly with Learning Coaches and leadership team (eg. Ms W stated no ingredient shopping until the spreadsheet was completed but the girls went shopping with Mr M anyways as he didn’t know this) finish the reflection presentation with a video or images and complete the iExplore Learning Model document- responding and actioning the feedback from Learning Coaches reflect on what they would do differently to make this even more successful next time!

Literacy Learning Story

Leader: Jasmine    Learning Coach:            Date: 27/9/15

Learning Area: Literacy

Learning Observed

The learning observed was to write a piece of writing for a how to, step by step on how to make furniture. We had to write down the title, what we needed for the furniture and the step by step part and then the conclusion. We had to write it all down on a document and then save it into our iDevople folder. If wLearnere were doing a desk, like I did, we had to write the cuts of wood needed.

Next Learning Steps

To add more interesting words to persuade people to make it. To make sure it sounds good and makes sense.

My Labor Hoildays

Have you all enjoyed your Labor Hoilday? Hope you did. 

My Hoilday wasn't that special but I'm still going to share it with you all. 

So on Saturday, my grandpa stayed home and did some cleaning. He always did that and sometimes. My grandma gets a bit annoyed. My sister and I do sometimes like to help out but it's mostly my sister but she can't do anything. She just goes around watching my grandpa. My grandma and I then went shopping for her desserts but we didn't find what we were looking for. I did get some things for school at least.

On Sunday, my grandma, my sister and I went shopping at the mall. I mean, what else should we do. I got some new pants and three new jackets. We ate McD and the food was yummy. My favourite personal is the frozen Coke. It's sooooooo good. And it's turning into summer so how can you beat a frozen Coke. We also went out for dinner and my sister and I got candy. My favourite candy was the super sours because if you all didn't know, I like sour candys. Weird right? 

Lastly, Monday was the day. We stayed home but we all made our selfs useful. Not really though. I did my Kumon homework and played on my iPad. Oh, my grandpa also stayed home again.

So even though my Labor Hoildays were quiet boring I must say so myself, I still enjoyed it. Spending time with my grandpa and nanny and also my cute sister. It turned out well though and I got my Kumon homework done. 

Thank you for tuning in my blog today and I hoped your weekends were better than mine and less boring. 

Math Learning Story

Learner: Jasmine    Learning Coach:            Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Math

Learning Observed

Review improper fractions, whole numbers and decimals. So we had to, like 11/5 = 2 1/5 because 5 times 2 is 10 and then add it by 1 would equal 11. Then we had to times the whole number and the denominator and then add it by the top fraction number. Like this 9 1/8 = 73/8.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Use decimals to solve problems. Changing numbers into decimals.

My Friends 2!!

My friends are awesome in their own way, that's why I'm writing this blog. 

Jahnavi - she's smart and clever. She's the best!!! 

Neha - she's also smart and clever. She could solve any problems!

Taanvi - she's weird and funny. She gets her work done in time and as always, she's the best.

Aleena - she's fast at running. She is weird and funny.

Ash - she can make any time fun and will fill up any boredom.

Jessica - she's clever. She talks soft in her way.

Johanna - she also talks soft in her own way. She is also smart and clever.

Anjli - she is funny and also fun. She will fill up at boredom at any time and always cheers me up.

Sadeen - she may be small but she's fast at running. She is clever and is brave at sports that she's never done before.

Divya - she's good at Minecraft and clever. 

Nisita - she's sweet and helpful. She's also funny.

Vrishti - she's weird, funny and goofy. She may be weird but she's her self.

My friends may be the same. They may be different. And they may be weird or funny but they all are still my best friends and I'm grateful that I get to spend time with them.

How to make Furniture

So Balloon and Kites have Shared Writing.

We have to writie a step by step on how to make furniture.

At first I didn't like the idea because I mean, making furniture is not common.

I liked the Shared Writing when we were able to choose what we wanted to do.

I'm doings a step by step writing about how to make a Morden Desk.

We had to follow a YouTube video unlike last time where we could follow a website.

It was hard to find because as you know, making furniture is not common. 

My Hoildays

On the last day of school, I was really excited for the holidays because I could spend more time with my sister and family.

When I went home from school, I was super tried and I just wanted to rest from all of the study I did. I'm pretty proud of myself though because I've learned a lot.

The sad thing about my holiday was that I still had to go to Kumon. Kumon is my after school program that I have after school on Mondays and Thursday's. I get homework too😓

I did not enjoy doing homework in the Hoildays though but it was ok. It was for my education.

My favourite thing I did was I went to a wedding. So in the morning we went to the owners house and we had breakfast there. We also got there things with little oranges inside. We had fruit and a lot of fun. And the problem with me was that, I knew no body.

At the wedding we got these little pink and blue boxes with little love bears inside. At first I thought nothing was inside but when I opened it, it surprised me that something was inside. I had a lot of fun and somehow I did dance a Iittle Shhhhhhhh!!!!!

I still enjoyed my Hoildays though and I'm happy that we're back at school because the Hoildays did get a bit boring.

Thank you for tuning in to my blog for Week 1, Term 4.

Aleena and Jasmine's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learners: Aleena & Jasmine     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Aleena and Jasmine chose to participate in 3D Printing during iExperience during Week 7-10 this term. We initially learnt about the Thinker’s Key called ‘BAR’. BAR stands for Bigger, Add, Replace. To practise, the learners had to pick either a pen, lunch box or tennis racquet to make a feature bigger, add to the item and replace something. The learners had as much creative license as they needed and then they reflected on how functional the item had become - could it still be used for its original purpose? The next stage was to come up with an item that we use at school and repeat the BAR process. Aleena and Jasmine decided to upgrade the cubbies that the learners keep their bags in. They designed cylindrical lockers instead. Aleena and Jasmine had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved lockers. They had to use the pre-existing shapes to form their 3D model which was then printed out by our LH1 3D printer. After analysing their printed model, the girls were able to write a description about who would use it, why they designed it and what its features were. They also spent some time reflecting on improvements and redesigning it on TinkerCad to show these changes.

Evidence of learning

Aleena and Jasmine’s description of their lockers.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Aleena and Jasmine were collaborative during this process by sharing ideas and coming up with other ways to show creativity (Thinking, Participating & Contributing). They demonstrated curiosity by engaging with the entire technology process of designing, making, redesigning and evaluating. Aleena and Jasmine were connected as they were able to show their learning in three different mediums (paper, digital and printed model).

Next Learning Steps

Complete the second design on TinkerCad and print if time allows. Use the 3D printer as a component of an iExplore. Make a tutorial video to show other learners how to use TinkerCad.

Minecraft!

Minecraft

Minecraft is a cool app where you can build houses, farms and many many more.

Minecraft is also a app where it can be useful. If you wanted to build a habitat you can using the blocks or a model of your house in the future.

There is two settings. Survival where you can fight zombies and many bad infected people. You have to kill the animals to get food.

In Create, you can explore your land and also you can build your houses in green areas.

My other favourite setting is flat so you can build your world!

Thank you for reading my Minecraft blog post for Week 10!

Here is a overview of my Minecraft house that I'm still working on:

Loud Shirt Day

At Ormiston Primary on Week 9's Friday, we had Loud Shirt Day.

That day is when we could wear a loud shirt to support the deaf.

Nearly all of our students were wearing loud shirts. There were bright colours and patterns.

I was wearing a bright orange shirt with a heart pattern and I also wore a black light jacket.

All of my friends wore colourful shirts. We all wore our jumper but I took my jumper off because I was wearing another jacket under.

It was amazing to see everyone wearing colourful shirts! Even the little ones were wearing loud shirts. They were running around and the pop of colour really shined!

Even the learning coaches were wearing bright shirts. Mr Dyer was really funny looking and Mrs Dillner looked really pretty.

Loud shirt day was really fun because, one, we were able to wear bright shirts but the sad thing was that we were not allowed to wear different pants or something. Two was that, it was fun to see the little ones and the learning coaches in bright shirts too and three is that, we all had fun!!

I really enjoyed Loud Shirt Day! Thank you for the learning coaches for planning this for us!!

Exploration Lite

So, Minecraft is a favourite to everyone. Minecraft gets everyone hooked.

The simple game that is the same as Minecarft but has different features is Exploration Lite. 

You can build many things and you even get water and lava blocks. You place that block somewhere and then you hit a button on the right.

There are many ponds, rivers and lakes in the game and also, huge pieces of Earth where you can climb. 

Now, real Minecraft is better but for me, I like starting easy so I play Exploration Lite but, if I want to fight zombies and that, I would play real Minecraft.

In Exploration Lite, there are three settings. Earth, Flat and Flying Blocks.

In Earth, you can explore the whole area and there are lakes and ponds. And with the ponds, you can build a pool!

With Flat, you can build your own world. House and many many more that you imagine.

And lastly, Fly Blocks. It's a bit cray-cray there. There are blocks all around you no if you fall off the edge, you come to the same place over and over again. All of the blocks are floating and you can even jump on them!!

So, remember, if you want to play Minecraft but you don't want to spend $9 on real Minecraft yet, get Exploration Lite. It's for free. (Ps, yes, real Minecraft is for $9)

Thank you for reading my Minecraft blog post this week!

Here is one of my Exploration Lite creations that I made:

My 3 Book Review

Hi everyone! Today I'll be doing a book review on the series of Choose Your Own Ever After. 

This series gets you to decide for one of the characters in the book.

Now, by the title of Choose Your Own Ever After, they mean that. You get to answer the question. For example, Would you let Frankie get her ears pierced? Yes or No? You choose. Just turn to the page that they said and read.

So, the book has more than one story in it.

My favourite book from the series is A Hot & Cold Summer.

Thank you for reading my Book Review this week! :)

My 2 Book Review

Hi everyone, today I will be doing a Book Review of the book called DorkDairies TV Star.

This is going to be my second book review.

It all starts when Nikki Maxwell gets a offer to be a TV star but it isn't going to be easy.

The camera crew keeps following her around home, school and going into her private space.

Nikki Maxwell also gets to go skiing. She has a lot of fun until. . . Someone pushs her down the cliff. She falls and falls until she starts doing really weird gymnastics moves.

At the end she wins the award and one of her meanest friends gets really angry.

Now, do I suggeste you reading it? Well, yes. It is a #oresome book to read.

Thank you for coming in and reading my blog post for Week 9.

 

Ormiston

Oresome

Respect

Marvellous 

iActive

Students

Treating others nicely

Ormiston

New

Pleased

Respectful

iExplore

Mind our business 

Art

Responding to others

Yay

 

My Friends

My Friends

My friends are cool.

My friends are smart and clever.

My friends are brave.

My friends are always by my side where ever I go.

My friends are caring.

My friends are always helpful.

My friends are also always doing the right thing.

Undoutfully, my friends are #oresome!!

Speech for Jahnavi

Speech for Jahnavi

So, on the 7th of September 2015, a lucky student from our school went to Papatoetoe North School.

It took about 15 mins to get there and also 15 mins to come back to school.

Jahnavi was so scared. I saw her legs wobble because she was that scared.

She had to go head to head with 11 other schools and many teachers and parents looking at her.

Mr McNeil, Anjli, Taanvi and I were sitting on the chairs waiting for Jahnavi to have her turn.

At the end of everything, we got to know all of the people that came in places.

The first place went to a speech about Teaching your parents how to use a Smart Phone.

The second place went to a speech about laughter and the third speech went to a speech about robots.

I'm really proud of Jahnavi for at least coming to the speech finals!!

Well Done!!!

Jasmine, Neha & Jahnavi - Author's Purpose Learning Story

Learners: Jahnavi, Neha & Jasmine    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 3.9.15

Learning Area: Literacy - Author’s Purpose

Learning Observed

Jahnavi, Neha and Jasmine attended a literacy workshop which was aimed at one of the Learning Progressions that each learner has on their Learning Pathway. We were looking specifically at how an author might use features on the cover and spine, in the blurb and in the text. The learners had to work together to analyse a text and identify why the author included these features and what they told the viewer about the text. Jahnavi, Neha and Jasmine worked as a group on a variety of novels, connecting how the author may have used features that were the same or different on each text. They showed an increased capability in this when talking together about how the cover image, title, blurb and first page gave an idea of the theme and the author’s purpose. As they collaborated, each of the girls were able to extend their own knowledge by building on it with the ideas of the other group members.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Finish a Best Fit Novel and analyse the Author’s Purpose after reading the entire book. Record this analysis either in writing, video or audio. Upload this as evidence in their Literacy Learning Pathways.

Create a Habitat

Create a Habitat

So, in the past weeks, LH1 students have been planning and creating a habitat for a animal.

I was in the Make It group. I worked with Vristhi and Jahnavi for our habitat. Our animal was a Bat.

Firstly, we had to choose, if we were working by ourselves or with a group. I decided to work with a group since the word Collabaortive was our main word for Term 3.

Vristhi and I first searched up facts about Bats. The kind of bats we were doing were Fruit Bats. Vristhi and I then wrote all of our information on our fact file which is a sheet of paper that we write on about our animal which helps us with our habitat.

We also drew our plan of our habitat and wrote down our things that we needed to bring or buy.

Jahnavi then came to LH1. She was the newest student here and Vristhi and I asked Mrs Dillner if she could join our group for making our habitat. We explained everything to her and told her what we were up to.

We then started painting our box and started making our tree. We also painted the tree brown and added pieces of green paper and hot glued it on the top of our weird looking tree. We then glued the tree into the bow and we then started making some fruit out of clay but they didn't turn out so good. We then just decided to use form and cut out shapes for the fruit and paint then. We made a cave out of cardboard and put it into the box near the tree and painted it brown and we dried brush it black and silver. It looked really cool!. We lastly made a mini pond by cutting a weird shape out of the form and painted it light blue and added a hint of white and dark blue.

We dried brushed the outside of the box with brown but it looked weird, We just ticked with it anyway.

Jahnavi made a cute little bat out of pipe-cleaners and we painted it black. and we hot glued it onto the part sticking out which is for the bat to hang on.

On Monday, Week 7, some of us presented out habitat while the others went around with post-its that they had to write and give to the presenter.

I was with Sanyia!!

I'm really proud of the people that made their habitats in time!!

Book Review (Geronimo Stilton, Cave Mice, Help, I'm In Hot Lava)

Hi everyone, my name is Jasmine and today I will be doing a Book Review on Geronimo Stilton Help, I'm in Hot Lava.

This book is from the Cave Mice series.

So, this book is mostly about Geronimo, but in this case, Geronimo Stiltonoot, going to Cheesey-La. Geronimo doesn't want to go because he thinks that Cheesey-La isn't real.

What I learnt is that you should go anywhere you haven't heard of before being you never know what may make you happy or interested in. So, just remember that just go where your parents want you go because you may never know what might interest you.

So, thank you for reading my Book Review for this week and I do say that you should read this book. It is a really cool book and you may learn something from this.

Speech for 2015 (part 2)

Speech for 2015

Here is part 2 of Ormiston's speech for 2015. This is the first speech for the history of Ormiston. 

There were 9 people in the area where we had to read our speech in front of LH1 (all of them). 

First after iBreak 2, we did the roll and we had Habitat Hui which is a Hui that we have on Mondays where we talk about new things and events.

After we went down to our indoor court. The speech readers sat on chairs and the rest of them sat on floor. Ash's parents came to watch us and some of the LH2 kids came too but they left early. 

Before, after morning Hui, Mr McNeil gave us numbers that tell us the order we go in, so like if Ash got number one and I got number 2, that would mean that Ash would go first.

We also had a iPad filming us. It felt really weird because the iPad was following us if we had the remote.

When it was my turn, I felt like I could do it. I read my speech to all LH1 students and after, I felt really good. I was happy because it was all over now.

If you didn't know, my speech was about Feelings. It was kind of based on Inside Out.

We then heard who was the first, second and third. Jahnavi (a new student added to our school) came first, Aleena came second and one of the deaf students came third.

I am really proud of them (even though I'm not a learning coach aka teacher) for trying. 

Congrats Jahnavi!! Your Oresome!!!

Thank you all for reading my speech blog his week and I hoped you enjoyed!!