Narrative Assessment

Narrative Assessment

Party Plan Problem #2

                 Party Planner

                                                              Jasmine, Taanvi, Vrishti and Prisha

Jasmine - I think it went well. Our group worked collaboratively and we were able to work out our total amount. The downside to our group was that, we sometimes split up and we also sometimes disagreed on some things. Otherwise, we worked well. We all learned how to work together effectively, had equal air time and also we learned how to subtract and add decimals. 

Taanvi - For collaborating i give 8/10 because at some times we went wondering to another group but we still had time to share our ideas and we also made our party creative. We made our game creative by adding a candy scavenger hunt and get to play charades.

Vrishti - My opinion in this activity was positive because we all participated equaly and we had a lot of creativity in our final copy! but sometimes we would walk to other groups and waste our time talking and mucking around.Overall I would say we collaborated effectivly and used our time wisley as we had a limited amount of time.

Prisha - I liked how we did the sequence  of the party to go with it to show that we had planned a proper party and just not the budget. Aside that the collaboration wasn't quite good. Because when Vrishti was sharing she didn't know what to share. So that clearly told us that we weren't good collaborators

The Party Problem

During maths this week, we worked in groups of four and tried solving a party plan problem. Our goals were to figure out what we could buy under the budget of $50. We also needed to worked out how many people we were serving and how much we would get of the items we were buying. There were e.g cups, different sized pizzas and party hats.

We also needed to find a way to be creative and have our own thinking.

My group was Vrishti, Prisha and Taanvi. I think we worked together pretty well. We were able to agree on things and we were able to work together to solve it.

At the end, we presented our work and was also able to look at other groups thinking and see what they did as well.

I learned how to be creative and do things my way and how to subtract and add money/decimals and also be able to plan and look at the cost for my party. My group also learned how to work together or be Collaborative.

I want to continue working collaboratively and also keep on learning how to add, subtract, divide and times decimals.

The connections that my group made is that, decimals are similar to ratios. Like we used one thing to eight people - 1:8.

What we all learned about decimals:

Decimals could be converted into fractions and percentages

1/10 or 10% or 0.1 is all similar to each other

Decimals could be equivalent to fractions and percentages
Decimals could be added, subtracted, times and divided and could be changed into another decimal

So that was my groups party planning. I would rate my groups collaboration a 4 out of 5 because. We did spit apart from time to time but still did lean in and have equal air time/talking time.

The Boy On The Top of The Mountain

Hi everyone! Today's blog is about a literature circle book that my group and I are reading. Here is a summary of this book:

Chapter 1: Three Red Spots on a Handkerchief
The book first talked about Pierrot's family and his best friend Anshel. Anshel was born deaf so Pierrot and him created a sign for each other. Anshel gave Pierrot the sigh of a dog while Pierrot gave the sign of a fox for Anshel. Pierrot would also help Anshel with his stories that he writes. Pierrot's mother rarely talks about her husband but Pierrot could imagine him as a tall man who would mimic the sounds of a horse. Pierrot's mother was also a French while Pierrot's father was a German. One day, Pierrot's mother had something a long the lines of a change reaction. She coughed non-stop and one day, while she was coughing into her handkerchief, when she pulled it away, there was three res spots of blood on it.

Chapter 2: The Medel in the Cabinet
This chapter talks about the Durrand sisters, Adele and Simone. They grew up in a large mansion about eighty miles away. Their parents owned a orphanage where they take care of children that's lost their familys or parents. After they died, the Durrand sisters took charge of the orphanage and did the same things as their parents. Pierrot's mother then died of a disease and his father died after he fell under a train. Pierrot was then sent to the orphanage.

Chapter 3: A Letter from a friend and A Letter from a stranger
The orphanage wasn't that great. The beds were thin and hard ad the food was plentiful. Pierrot was also bullied by a boy named Hugo. He really didn't like it. Hugo threatened Pierrot to give him five francs or he would continue to bully him. Pierrot didn't accept so Hugo lashed out his fist and punched Pierrot directly on the nose and he fell to the ground. At the end Josette went and told the Durrand sisters what had happened.

Chapter 4: Three Train Journeys
In this chapter, it talks about Pierrot being sent to his aunt Beatrix's house. He goes a train three times. This first stop is Mannheim. Josette is sort of upset that Pierrot is going and she was also sort of curious about Pierrot's aunt. In his first train, there was this mother and son sitting in one of the carriage. A tall man dressed in black came and sat at the fourth seat. The lady didn't enjoy it and the conductor thought he was creating a big problem so he kicked him out. His second stop was Munich. Before he got on his train, he tripped over a man also in black and Pierrot recovers himself at the end. He is put in a carriage with these older kids and one of them steals two of Pierrot's sandwiches that he was sent with for his journey. The boy ate the first one in three big bites and started on his second one. His last stop was Salzburg. In the train, he starts reading a book called Emil and the Detectives and he found that Emil had some common things with himself. When his journey was done, there comes up a lady saying that she is his aunt.

Chapter 5: The House At The Top of the Mountain
Pierrot woke up the next morning to find himself in a room. He was changed in his nightgown and everything was gone. He suitcase and clothes. Then there comes one of the mistress of the house that expects him to be clean and told him that his suitcases and clothes were possibly ashes by then. He also found out that the house was on top of a mountain.

So those were the chapters that I've read for my literature circle. So far, I would give this book a 4-5 rating so far. It's pretty good. So that's the end of this blog. Stay tuned for more!

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Counting Cogs

This week, LH3 did a maths activity called Counting Cogs.

Our first step was to colour in one tooth on the paper cogs. My group was Aleena, Ash and Vrishti. We each got two. We needed to find which cog tooth fits into a empty space on the other cog prefectly. We then had a piece of paper and we wrote down which pair worked and which didn't.

Our challenge was to find which cogs fit. We found that 5 and 7 didn't work because it is times to a odd number. 6 and 8 did work because they times to a even number. So we found that even and odds mattered.

We all got help from this digital tool linked on our maths design. It lead us to this 'app' that lets us experiment with the different sized cogs. My group found it cool and really easy to work with. It helped him a lot.

We then wrote on our poster which cog pairs worked and which didn't and our 'conclusion' that we found.

I think my group worked really well. We exchanged ideas and we listened to eachother so our work became successful.

What I want to do next is to learn how the cogs work and how thy fit together. Like, is there a different why to solving it and how else could we check it instead of the timings method.

Over all, this activity was really fun and cool and it got my mind going on how the cogs worked. I also think that it was amazing to work with other people because I could exchange ideas and we could help each other. I also liked how this activity was a lot different than our other maths activity.

Character Description

My character is called Cotton. Here is my description about him:

Cotton has ocean blue eyes, he has tiny lips but is talkative. He wears a white suit and has glasses. He has gleaming teeth and is petite. He has fluffs of cotton as hair. He has a smiling mouth and a button nose.

Cotton is a cool fluffy guy. He's kind, caring and friendly. He is always happy and always smilely. He's smart and loves reading so he's just a book worm. He's helpful and adventurous, but shy. He is sensible and thoughtful. He's careful and charming but daring. And lastly, he's brave and is up for any challenge he comes upon.

His background story:
Cotton's parents are back in Cotton Land while Cotton traveled to LA. He lived with his aunt for 5 years and once he became a young adult, he moved into his own home. He is now living happily. Cotton dislikes mean, uncaring people. He is 20 years old and likes reading and writing as his hobbies.

Here is a picture of my character:

Motat

Today the year 6 and 7s went to Motat. We had a fun time there and we got to see items from the olden days. 

The day started when we all got on the bus and rode off to Motat. When we arrived, we went to our meeting space and our instructor Nik, told us what the day was going to be like and the rules while Mrs Jensen told us our group's.

My group's first area was exploration. We got to explore Motat and we even went to go see Leonardo Da Vinci machines that he created and used for himself. We went to a convention area as well and it had some rooms that had different as-specks. There was even one room with a giant eye ball! It wasn't THAT creepy. There was even a room where you could watch someone game on a large screen. It was awesome! Plus, we got to see 3D creations that the instructor had created. They were creative and cool. There was also a upstairs area with tech stuff which wasn't that interesting.

Our second lesson would be in the classroom. Nik talked about items that improved and why people invent stuff. Like someone founded that white flies were attracted to his yellow t-shirt so he invented a yellow fly catcher that flies are attracted to. We got to look at the improvements of the telephone and moblies and even cameras. We got to try a typewriter, write with a quill and also write on a sleet board. The only down side to a typewriter is that if you make a mistake, you need to restart the whole thing or either choose to use a ink correcter.

After we had lunch while the other group went to their lesson.

Lastly, we went exploring again and we saw different conventions and even a crystal ball that if you put your hand near it, it looks like you are conducting eletricly. We just walked around and we even saw the old steam room. My favourite working item was this caged chair where you pulled a rope and them let go and you would go down. There were two different kind. One that went down really slowly and the other fast.

So that was our Motat trip. It was so much fun and a big thank you to Nik and the learning coaches who made this possible. This trip was incredible!! There is much more I could talk about but I don't want to make this blog too long so bye for now!

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Native Birds:

Hi everyone and welcome to another amazing blog reflection! Today would be a very different topic. Its gonna be about the natives bird puppets we created!

At the beginning of our project, we had to get into a group of 4. Of course I went with some amazing people. Aleena, Mervlyn and Margaret. They are all very creative and would make our puppet look bird-tastic. After we got into our groups, we planned. We wanted to make a owl but at the end. . . . . We founded out that we needed to make a bird that is native to our planet so last minute, we made a kiwi but at the end, someone took our kiwi and we just decided that it would have been best to just continue with our owl. It turned out, pretty good I think.

Two days after we planned, we were ready to create. We used a empty paper towel roll and we made a head by crunching up pieces of baking paper and stuffed it into a smooth piece of new baking paper. We hot glued the end so it wouldn't come apart. We then stuck it onto the top of the paper towel roll. We used a marker to draw a owl looking face. It looked pretty similar to a owl I personally think. 

We then made the wings. We collected some feathers to stick onto our wings to make them feel and look more realistic. We drew a wing shape that we all liked and cut it our and stuck it onto our owl body or base. We stuck on some feathers which gave it a realistic feel and look. My group ended up using red and blue feathers but it was our choice and I think it looks pretty cool.

Our finish product looks similar to a owl but not that close. We have the owl wings, face and the realistic look and feel of a real owl. I think it turned out cool! What I like about it is that we chose a different bird instead of the kiwi that many other groups were making. We added our own touches and we put a lot of thought into it.

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Mervlyn and I's Oobleck iExplore

The Box Method

Last week and this week, workshop 3 have been using the box method to solve timetable problems. This week, we are focusing on disivon in parts and using the strategy for bigger numbers. 

If u don't know, the box method is a super easy strategy that you could use to solve multiples. We would need to draw out a three boxed, box and fill it in. For example, if you have the problem, 8 x 123, you would need to draw a three boxed box. On the left side, write the one digit number and on top of all the boxes, write down the number places for the three digit number. For example, 100, 20 and 3. Then times it and write your answer in the boxes, so, 800 in the hundreds box, 160 in the tens box and 24 in the ones box. All you have to do now is add all your answers together. The final answer for the question is. . . . . 984! Its easy as that,

I founded this strategy helpful because it was super easy for anyone to use. I learned it quickly and founded that I could help others from workshop 1 and 2 also learn the strategy. They also founded it cool and quick to do.

What I want to learn next with this box method is, use it to help me solve 2 digit and 2 digit problems. I want to learn how to use it fpr disivon in parts. 

Over all, I think this is a great strategy to use for maths and is super quick to learn. I think anyone could use this. I really also enjoyed learning this method and founded that instead of writing down the boring way of doing it, I could now show a different method and also I now know a new strategy and I could now add it to my interactive journal. 

Oobleck!

What is Oobleck?
Oobleck is just a mixture of cornstarch and water. It acts like a solid and a liquid.

How does it act like a solid and liquid?

Well, the cornstarch particles are bigger so they move a lot slower while the water particles are smaller and move a lot quicker. Plus, the cornstarch is a lot more densed than the water.

Where did the name OOBLECK come from?

There was once a Doctor Seuss book called Oobleck and that's where the the name OOBLECK came from.

What is Oobleck used for?

A lot of people have fun with Oobleck. Some people even walk on Oobleck! That's crazy isn't it? Well the over all answer is that people use Oobleck for fun. Some people as use Oobleck to find out more about it like why does it act like a solid and liquid.

That's a little about Oobleck. If you want to find out more, make it your self. All you need is cornstarch and water. If you don't want to make it but still want to find out more, please read my other blog that was also posted about Oobleck.

Literature Circle

Hi everyone, welcome to other ones of my reflections. Today I would be talking about the Literature Circle that we did today. 

If you don't know what we do in a Literature Circle, it is basically when we all are in a group and we have jobs like the Connecter and Work Master. We all have a book to read. My book is called, One Biy and his Dog. We would have to read up the chapters that have been decided and do our job. Once we have done all that, we would meet up as a group and share our work that we have done for our jobs.

Today was our first ever Literature Circle this term and it went great. I don't know how the other groups went but I'm pretty sure they went great! 

My job was to recap all that I have read so far. It wasn't that hard of a job. I founded it super easy. My friend Margaret founded it kinda hard but I don't blame her. 

I wasn't nervous when we did our Literature Circle. The book I was reading was super interesting and I wanted to share what I founded out so far about it. 

A little recap of the story:

This boy wanted a dog for his birthday but never got one. His dad decided that it would be a great idea fo rent a for the weekend. Does the boy get a dog for real? Does he encounter the dog as part of his family? You guys really need to read this book to find out. 

Ok guys, this comes to the end of my reflection. Hope you enjoyed! Bye for now!!!

The Olympics!

I have two choices on what I want to do went I go to the Rio Olympics. 

My first thought was netball. I already play netball and go and represent our school in our netball games but I want to represent New Zealand with netball. I find it a interesting sport and its really easy to understand. I also want to know why men don't play netball as much. Men could play netball, not just girls. 

You don't have to have much skill with netball. It is all about getting the ball and shooting it. It's simply! Its similar ti basketball expect your players have didn't positions. Netball has more rules like the goal shooter has to stay in the yellow area. I find that netball is a fun sport and I really want to represent New Zealand with it.

My second thought was running. I like running and I think it would be a awesome idea to represent New Zealand. Running is a easy sport. It may not be as much fun but to some people it is. Running could make you feel refreshed. Every morning, a lot of people run. This is great way to start off anyones day. 

If you train your hardest, you could go ahead and run you heart out. Many people find running hard and they don't encourage themselves to run more and more. Running is great way to get fit. If you want to get fit, run during break times. If you believe in your self, you will differently, see a different. If you put your self to the limit, you could even run 5k. 

It is amazing to see people representing New Zealand. Heaps of people are able to go to the Olympic games. Everyone person that plays is so inspiring. They show us that we could do anything and if you put your self to the limit, it is a great knowing you could do it.

Oobleck iExplore

So, Aleena and I have presented our Number System iExplore and I am now working with Mervlyn for our Oobleck iExplore. 

If you don't know what Oobleck is, it is a cornstarch and water mixture. The most interesting thing about this mixture is that it acts like a solid and a liquid. When you punch it or put in your finger really fast, it is just like punching a rock. If you put in your finger really slowly, it is like when you touch water, so it acts like a liquid. 

Mervlyn and I were interested in Oobleck because we wanted to know how it was discovered, who was the first person to make it and why does it act like a solid and a liquid. We have many more questions but those were our main ones.

Our plan is to let some people have a chance at making Oobleck and asking them what they think about it. Does it feel weird or like slime. All that stuff.

Mervlyn and I are planning to make it ourselves and describing what we think it feels like. I think its gonna feel similar to slime but a lot cooler. 

What I know so far is that:

- it acts like a solid and liquid

- the water compounds are a lot smaller than the cornstarchs

- its fun to play with

- it has a putty texture

- it melts in you hands 

- there are many cool things you could do with it like put plastic wrap on a beat boax and then put the Oobleck on the plastic wrap and last, turn on the speaker and watch it move around and so awesome things.

Things I want to learn:

- why does it act like a solid and liquid 

- what is this type of mixture called

- who first discovered it

- why does the cornstarch and water react this way

There are many other things we want to find out but here are out most interesting thinkings. 

I really think this is a gonna be a great iExplore. Its gonna be a blast and hopefully, our habitat is looking forward to what we have installed for them.

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The Number System:

This term, my iExplore is about the Number System. I'm working with Aleena for this one.

We are about finished. All we have to do is inbed our information to our slide or presentation and then we are ready to present. We are still making up our mind if we want to present to the whole class or just our learning coaches. We just don't know yet. 

Before our iExplore was even thought up of, Aleena and I wanted to do, 'How was the number zero invented', then Ash (one of our friends) suggested that we should do the whole number system. I thought that it was a great idea and we have stuck with that idea until now. 

We chose this iExplore because we wanted to learn te history of numbers and how they were discovered. I found it pretty interesting because no one had ever thought up of this idea yet. I wanted to learn more about numbers cause, well, we use numbers everyday and some of us don't really know how our base 10 number system was created.

Did you know that we use a base 10 number system in normal life and then we use a base 60 number system for time. Cool right!

I think this wasn't Aleena and I's best iExplore, but we still had interest in it. We could have thought up of a fun science experiment. That would've been cool.

Here is a interesting fact about numbers:

The number 0 wasn't in our number system before. It was then thought up of Hindu mathematicians. So, zero wasn't in our number system back in the olden days. 

My next iExplore would be with Mervlyn. We are doing a science themed iExplore. We are researching about this cornstarch and water mixture. I think its gonna be cool. We are planning to give some people a experience with this strange mixture and grab their opinions about it. I think Mervlyn and I are gonna make it successful. Hopefully everyone likes it!!!

I hope you enjoyed this blog about my iExplore. This was pretty interesting to talk about. What do you all wonder?

The Beep Test!!!

Today we did a Beep Test. This test is to test our fitness and how much we could run scuttles during a preiod if time.

We used the courts and I must said, the courts was giant so it did take some time to run there and back to where we started.

We ALL did it and I wish we didn't because I fell behind at the back of the line so it was kind of tricky. I wish we did it in our hapu groups. Lucky we didn't do it one by one because it would take a long time and we would probably be judged by others on how we did.

I now want to run more and do the Beep Test again and see if I've improved. I must said it wasn't the most funest thing we've done but it was fun cheering on our friends. 

I felt tried when I finished. I didn't get too far but I think I did ok. If we weren't able to make it to the start line until the next beep went on, we would have to call it a quit and we are out. 

My friend Aleena did the best! She is a good runner so that might explain why she enjoyed it so much. She wasn't the one out of our group that dreaded it. She was excited for it. I was speech less and I wondered how she did it. 

Now I've set my goal to do more scuttles when we do the beep test again or the cross country which is coming up.

It was amazing to see my class mates and my friends do amazinf job at it. I was able to set myself a goal on how much I could run next time by just seeing what my friends and class mates have done. 

I was only able to run up to a Level 3 number 6. I could see some ways I could improve. 

Zavier was the only one left after everyone was done. He did a amazing job and I can't believe he ran that much. Have did he do that?! Anyway, Well Done Zavier!!!

My Next Steps:

1. Encourage myself and tell myself I could do it

2. Believe in myself

3. Know that I wouldn't be the greatest runner but I tried my best

4. Set goals for myself so that I could improve set by set in my running

Here Are Some Ways You Could Improve On Your Running:

1. Practice makes prefect

2. Train at home and around your neighbor hood

3. Ask two friends to watch you race and ask them for some things they could improve 

4. Ask friends to help you out

So thats todays reflection. I hope you enjoyed! 

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Collaborative Community Day!

WHAT:
Today was the best day of school I may have ever had! Today was Collaborative Community Day! There was food, fun things we got to do in our PB4L groups. I ALSO got to go to a book competition, but this blog isn't about the competition, its about our Community day.

SO WHAT:

We made this day possible because, we could Collaborative with each other. it gives us a chance to!

I got to Collaborative with some people I haven't worked with so far. It gave me time and I could get to know the little ones and spend some time with them.

WHAT NOW:

My next steps are:

1. Collaborative with more different people

2. Help others out and teach them how they could work together as a team

What's going to happen next Term or Year?

Book Competiton!

WHAT:
Today, I went to a book competiton. Even though our school didn't win, it was still fun! Guess what! It was our first time there and they made a very #oresome intro for us. I felt really welcomed!

SO WHAT:

We went there so:

1. We could go and see what they helded and maybe we could do it again?

2. We could get into books more

3. We could test our knowledge to see how much we remember from the book

It really tested me and even though I got a lot of my the answers wrong, it made me think more and it got me to give myself my own next steps.

WHAT NOW:

My next steps:

1. Maybe, we could have been a tiny bit more prepared and ready.

2. We could have tested each other and helped each other out more instead going our own ways for reading

3. We could have gotten more copies of the books so a lot of us could have been reading the same book instead of us having to ask each other for the book

Could we do this again?

I had so much fun. Thank you to Mr Dyer for making this possible! :)

Swimming!

For the past weeks, we have been going to swimming classes. Next week Monday will be our last session. 

I have really enjoyed the classes that have been going on. I think our instructors are really prepared every session so they know what they're doing and they always support their students to amek sure they get the hang of the actions. 

I have learned many actions like free style, arm circles, kicks and many more. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us next week. 

I think they have done a great job and should really get a certificate themselves for being great swimming instructors. They always have things they need to work on with us and they are prepared to teach. They don't need to look at anything to tell them what to do.

One of my favourite sessions is the life jacket session. It was so much fun and we ALL got to go into the deep pool. I have been in the deep pool before but that was when I did my swimming classes in my last school I went to. 

Swimming is awesome and I'm lucky I got to be able to do swimming this Term!!!!!

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LH3's Maori Performance!

WHAT:

Today, we practiced for our Maori performance. I went into Aleena's group and we are doing our preformance with the sticks. We got into groups so we could help each other and at the same time, practice our actions so we could be able to preform to our learning habitat and the whole achool if possible. 

SO WHAT: 

We are doing this because we want to learn more about Maori culture and we decided it would be a good idea to make a preformance to show case how Maori people dance, use the sticks and the poi's. 

I learned how to use the sticks and the poi's and why Maori wariors use them. They use the poi's so their waists could get stronger and they could then be able to use weapons. I learned a song that was sang by Stan Walker that we released on Maori culture day. 

WHAT NOW:

I want to learn a full verison of the song with the actions. I would like to show my learning and the preformance to our school so they could also get a idea on what Maori people do and what others do to represent Maori culture. 

I wonder, how did the Maori people preform their preformances back then?

Limestone Experiment!

During this week, we did some science experiments. We got to choose our own teams and we would them choose a box or bag that contains the items we need to do our experiment. Margaret, Aleena, Mervlyn, Ash and I choose a Limestone experiment. This blog will show you what to do and what you"ll need to do this experiment if you would like. Its really simply and you may only need to buy 1-2 things. Lets get started!

Things you will need:

1. Garden Lime (any brand will do, it just needs to be garden lime)

2. Water (tap water works best)

3. Bowls

4. Something to stir with (we chose a popsicle stick)

5. Food colouring (this depends if you want your rocks to have the colour of limestone)

6. Black paper

Lets do this:

1. First put some of the garden lime into the bowl and add tiny amounts of water to it and stir. It needs to be like dough where you could mold it.

2. Add some food colouring if you want to create a more suitable colour for your limestone.

3. When you have you 'limestone' dough, roll them into balls or put blobs of it onto the black paper and let your stones dry. This could take 1 whole day.

When your stones have dried, you could get some normal water or vinegar, pour it into a bowl or tall glass and drop your limestone into the liquid. Watch the stone and liquid react with each other.

HAVE FUN!!!!!!

This is a great and fun experiment to do with friends and family. Predict what will happen and them see if your prediction was right or wrong.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post. Try this experiment at home and see what others think of it. Until next time, I'll see you all on my next blog! Bye!!!!

Designing Our Own Day!

WHAT:
On Monday, LH3 got to design their own day. We could decide what we do.

SO WHAT:

We did this because we could then manage our own learning and our own day without giving our learning coaches a ruff time planning and design what we all have to do. We could instead plan our day ourselves.

I thought that it was a great idea because I could manage what I did through out the day. I could step times on what I do and I would try to complete what I'm doing in a good amount of time. I founded it more easyer because every block we wouldn't have to go through what we need to do. I think Miss Pearsen and Mrs Jensen has founded it easyer as well.

NOW WHAT:

I would want more days where I could design my day. I think it would be good for everyone. All of our class mates could plan and design their and they would know what they need to do.

A Visit to a Science Road-Show!

WHAT:
During the week, LH1, LH2, LH3 and LH4 went to a Science Road-Show. We got to watch a show and got to test out the experiments that were step up in the hall. Some of the students that went to the school helped us out and took lead of each station.

SO WHAT:

We went to learn about science. In LH3, we did a day of experiments. My group did a limestone experiment. We made limestone using garden lime soil. At the end, we would drop the stone into water or vinegar and watch the limestone react with the water or vinegar. Right now, we are letting our stones dry and I'm exicted to see the reaction!

I learned that anything could be a experiment. I predict that the limestone would react to the vinegar more because vinegar has this kind of acid that reacts to things more.

WHAT NOW:

We still need to complete our experiment but that's coming up.

I want to learn why limestone reacts to the water or vinegar after our experiment. What properties does the garden lime have that could react and make a science change.

I would like to explore the world of science. What other experiments could I do next?

SOIL!

What:

This week, Learning Habitat 3 are experimenting with soil. In my group, we are processing bacteria. We are growing bacteria from the soil. Are you guys interested? We have to use mud  for our experiment. 

So What:

The purpose of this was for science purposes. This also gives a better understanding of soil. We could do experiments with soil. We have to grow fruits and vegetables with soil. It also shows us that we could experience now types of science themed projects. We also had to be Collaborative in our groups. Working together to make it happened.

Now What:

Well, we are going to let our soil experiment work its magic for 1-2 weeks and we will check back on it. 

The learning I got out of this is, your could do any science experiment out of soil, out of water or even eggs. This gave me a better understanding of how bacteria could grow. We can't see the bacteria but we may still know that its there. On our skin, on our dishes. Anything. 

I would like to learn:

Question: How does soil create more bacteria over time?

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Narrative Assessment!!!!!!

How Could We All Be Safe Online?

In LH3, we have to look after our devices so the rest of Ormiston Primarys students could use them, but thats just one thing. How could we be safe online?

Here are some examples of how to be safe online. Trust me, you need to know all this!

1. Never share your password to ANYONE! Even your close friends. Someone might just log into your account and do something bad on it.

2. Never post a picture of home street sign or even your school logo on your uniform. That could be a big give away to anyone that has a smart brain.

3. Never show anyone personal information that contains your home address, phone number or even your real/full name! That could also be a big give away, and I'm pretty sure your parents won't be happy! 

4. Don't read a email that someone you don't know sent to you. That could be very dangerous and could put you to harm.

5. At the end of your research, add, 'for kids'. That will come up with websites that are meant for kids.

You may be wondering, what does this have to do with part of my learning? Well, some of us had a workshop about how to write in our own words. We shared our learning to a buddy. While we were talking, we realized that we were explaining our learning in our own words.

The learning I got out of this was that, writing in your own words is better then copying and pasting from a website. You will also need this learning in collage which is good cause we are already learning it now.

We were also taking notes using our own words.

What I want to learn next is how I could write long sentences in my own words.

😮 I was pretty surprised on how much learning I got out of it!

Narrative Assessment

Our Temple Trip!

The Last week, all of Ormiston Primary School visited the Fo Guang Shan temple. I was super fun. 

The activities we did were:

We made a lous flower. Which is a flower that grows in muddy water. 

We all got a tattoo that had the 4G and 3G

We got brownies and cured our thrist with some water

We also got to look at the art and learned how to meditate. It was SUPER silent with we did it. 

3G:

Think Good Thoughts

Say Good Words

Do Goods Deeds

We went in groups to each activity. It was kind of sad being apart from my friends but I still had fun with the rest of my group. Go group 5!

Here is a picture of what the temple looks like. Its pretty cool!

Goal Your Learning!

What:
This week, we all went swimming. It's every Monday from now on! It was super fun and I really enjoyed teaching others and myself this week Monday.

So What:

I learned so much and if you were all wonder, what was the purpose? Well, what if we couldn't swim. Learning how to swimming is important because we could live if we were out at sea because we know how to swim!!

I learned how to kick in the water and how to do my free style. I also learned how to glide with the help of a board to keep my balance.

Now What:

I want to learn how to:

1. Learn how to hold my breath for longer

2. Learn how to kick my feet in the water for longer

3. Learn how to do my free styles better

I want to explore how the Otara Pool and Leisure Centre community began?!

Own Your Learning!!

Hi everyone! Today is yet another reflection. 

WHAT:

I have been doing my geometry challenge and had just finished writing all of my explanations in my book. The next thing we have to do is make a book using 10 chosen words from the list of geometry words. 

Another thing I've done this week is, since it's NZSL week, we have been doing activities. I was in charge of the bing-go and NZSL conversation. It was pretty #oresome to see all of our learners signing. 

SO WHAT:

This week was NZSL week which is also known as sign language week. We did this because it was part of sign language and we would also like to see our students signing to each other. We all know a bit of sign language. Most of us know heaps like Ash and Aleena.

The learning I got out of this was learning how to sign and be able to talk to our deaf learners. 

WHAT NOW:

The things I still need to complete with my geometry challenge is my book.

I want to explore the world of sign language and how people founded out that it existed. I also want to learn how to sign more. 

Term 2 Reflection!

Hi everyone!

What:
The first day of school felt normal for me. I was excited to see Ms Pearsen and Mrs Jensen and also my friends.

We talked about what would be happening throug the week and some things that were new around our learning area.

Through the rest of the week we started doing some #oresome things. We did a Anzac challenge and so we had to do 4 good quality activities. We practiced for cross country (which also means we ran and ran and ran!) We also started doing a geometry. I had to find out what the geometry related words meant and then I would have to choose 10 words to create a book for the little ones.


 So what:
I think the purpose of these activities was to challenge us and see what level high work quality we could do.

The learning I got out of the Anzac challenge was to challenge myself and learn a lot mroe about Anzac day.

The learning I got out our geometry work was, understanding the keywords of geometry so in our future we wouldn't get confused and we would know the answer right away if someone asked us.

Now what:
For my Anzac challenge, what I want to learn out of that is how productive these challenges actually are.

For my geometry work, i want to know more different shapes and the words that fit with it. I also want to see how many different geometry shapes and different words there are.

ANZAC Reflection

Hi everyone!! ANZAC is coming up in the hoildays and we were asked, 'What does ANZAC mean to me?' A lot of people sometimes never celebrate Anzac day but I'm pretty sure people know what Anzac means to them.

Here is my reply:

What ANZAC means to me is blessing soldiers that died in the world war. It is the remember them and be thankful for what they went through. I would bake Anzac cookies with my family and I would also craft some paper poppys. Being grateful for your friends and family is important. A lot of familys have lost their relationship between the person they love and even though their gone, they still bless them and remember them.

Anything you make or bake could mean something to the people that went through war!

Mrs Jensen and Ms Pearson!

In LH3, Mrs Jensen and Ms Pearson are our learning coaches. 

Mrs Jensen:

Shes sweet and kind

She is caring and stands up for us

She gives me such good learning 

She also gives me such good advice

She includes others

She shows all of the 4 C's

Ms Pearson:

She gives good advice

She solves problems very quickly 

She thinks very quickly about things

She shows all of the 4 C's

She always seems to mention me, which makes me HAPPY!

To Mrs Jensen and Ms Pearson:

You guys are awesome learning coaches. I had such a good term with you guys and I'm hoping it will continue on until the end of the year!

End of Term 1 reflection number 2!

Welcome back! If you checked out my other term one reflection, then you know whats coming up! If you don't know, I'm listing some Pros and Cons of this term. Hope you enjoy!

Pros and Cons:

Pros:

1. I had good friends that cared about me and was very helpful!

2. I got good learning out of this term!

3. I had #oresome learning experiences with English, Maths, iExplore time and also iExperince time.

4. Mrs Jensen and Ms Pearson were #oresome this term and I'm hoping they would still be awesome next term as well.

Cons: 

1. I found maths kind of hard! But i got through it!

2. Sometimes, I felt lonely because all of my friends had clubs, basketball or netball.

3. I didn't like p.e in the first place because I already knew what the rules were and how to play!

4. Meeting new learners were hard because, when they meet you, they follow you and ALWAYS count on YOU!

Hope you enjoyed those Pros and Cons about my term 1. Everyone has their own Pros and Cons about their first term. 

End of Term 1 reflection!

Hi everyone! So you may already know, but, it is right now the last week of Term 1. I'm super excited for the hoildays. I sometimes find the hoildays kind of boring!

Here are some of my favourites things i've done during the term:

1. Meeting friends was scary for me. Even meeting new Learning Coaches.

2. Learning things that I've learned or heard about!

Here are some expectation vs realitys that I expected on the first day in Learning Habitat 3:

Expectation: Knowing that your friends would just run up to you and hug you!

Reality: Friends don't care!

Expectation: Getting new and awesome school supplies!

Reality: Mom is TOO busy!

Expectation: Getting to know your learning coaches right away!

Reality: Learning coaches don't notice us!

This is just my first words for Term 1. My next reflection would be about Pros and Cons! 

Stay tuned! See ya!

Jump Jam & iActive Leader Narrative Assessment

This weeks AWESOME reflection!!

Welcome back to another weekly reflection. Todays topic is about SCIENCE🤓!!!!!

What: today i'll be talking about science. So today, i had science club. It was a lot of fun. We had to recap what we did last week. Anjli and I did the vinegar and baking soda balloon experiment. 

Here is how to make this science experiment happen:

What you will need:

Balloons, baking soda, vinegar, little soda bottles

Steps:

1. First, fill your balloons up with baking soda. The way we founded easy was to full a cap up with baking soda and stretch the balloon over he top of the cap and then tip it unpside down!

2. Full your mini soda bottles a third or a quarter full of vinegar. 

3. Stretch the balloon over the to of your soda bottle and them tip the balloon so the baking soda goes into the bottle. The baking soda and vinegar will react with eachother and create gas that will fill up the balloon. 

So what: i choose to do this because I love science and its fun to see the cool experiment work. My favourite was the coke and mento even though i didn't do it, it looked and seemed fun.

Now what: what i would work on now with my experiment is to figure out what is the best amount of vinegar i should put into the bottle and also how much baking soda i put into the balloons.

Anjli and i tried one with heaps of vinegar and one with less vinegar. The one with less vinegar worked best. It blew up the balloon more than how we did it last time. The bottle with heaps of vinegar didn't work as well. I think it didn't work because insode the balloon, there was less baking soad than vineger. It only blew up just a tiny bit.

Week 5 reflection!

Today I showed I was Capable by doing my math pre-test. I didn't do it last week so I did it today. 

When I saw the questions, i was like, I can do this! We had to use strategys that is good and that is easy to do. 

Strategys I used was rounding, number line and using what I learned before at school last year and my tutor, Kumon.

I was able to finish all of the questions. As did my friend Nisita. They were pretty easy questions and I understood it right away.

You may be wondering, what is the point of this test? Well, it lets the learning coaches know where we are up to and which group we should be in.

My other favourite things I did today was PE and art.

For PE we did some throwing themed activities. 

The first game was where you had to throw there balls into either hoop 1, 2 or 3. Sadly, i only got four points but it was fun still.

The second game was cricket. We had to learn how to throw the ball to the bater and how to aim and all those skills for cricket.

The third game was trying to throw the ball to knock over the cone. We were a small group so we only used two cones for it. Margaret and I got two points while the other group got four or five points.

The last game was when you throw the ball and aim.

Art was pretty cool. I learned how to mix coloures and how to make it seem like it is going from dark to light. We worked on a puzzle piece and at the end, we would then connect all of the pieces.

What: here i tell you about how i was capable and what i enjoyed today.

So what:  i choose to do this because i wanted to share my learning experience with you guys and also share what i enjoyed today.

Now what: i want to improve on my colour mixing and how i make it come from dark to light. I also want tp improve on my throwing skills. I have terrible aim but i try my best.

Narrative Assessment

Week 4, Wednesday Reflection!

What: what i did today was learn about what you can do to save the earth. What you can do to reduce wasting energy in your house. We also presented our energy facts/silde. Here are some examples of things you can do to save energy in YOUR house:

1. Walk to school instead of driving because, it will save fuel, you reduce air pollution and also, you get a good leg work out. (This may not be a house energy saving idea, but it's a car saving idea

2. If you are a person that spends like 2 hours in the shower, set a timer near your shower. 

3. Reuse plastic bags instead of asking for more and also instead of throwing them away because it takes a very, very long time for plastic to break down.

So what: I've chosen to do this because, it helped me understand that wasting energy was bad for the earth. Water and trees can make more energy but, we will lower down on water, trees etc. . . People wouldn't be able to breath if there were no trees and also, people would be thirsty because there is no water. The moral of this is, think about all the energy your wasting and what you can do to help keep the energy going.

Now what: what i want to learn next is:

What is the purpose of energy?

My guess: well, i think the purpose of energy is for loading iPad websites etc. . . 

Why can't we just use one type of energy source?

My guess: i think its because we need enough energy sources so people thought of different ways to make energy.

How can people use energy wisely?

My answer: people can use energy wisely by (see some examples up above)

Here is a pic of some of my ideas of how we can save energy:

 

Week 3 Reflection 2!

Hi everybody!!

Welcome to another Week 3 reflection!!

Today we had Mrs Hooker and Mrs Arahill teaching us.

In the morning block we take the roll. I must said, Mrs Hooker was really good at it! We then went into iExplore. Aleena and I practiced and practiced many times for our presentation for tomorrow. I'm super excited for tomorrow's presentation. Hopefully it goes well!

After iBreak 1, we did our English lessons. Mrs Hooker was #oresome at leading this lesson. Even for her firat time in LH3 with us older ones. We had to summrise and use keywords and write 25 words in our book.

After iBreak 2, Mrs Arahill did the roll call. She was awesome at it! After we did a statistics investigation about how many people walked, biked, scootered and went in a car. In my investigation, many people went in a car. We then did a reflection and we are now ready to go home!

I hoper you enjoyed my second reflection this week. Until my next blog, Bye!!

Week 3 Reflection!!

So what I learned today was about saving the earth in iExperince. Here are my ideas on how we can save the earth:

1. We can reuse plastic bags from the supermarket instead of throwing it away cause it takes very long time for plastic to break down

2. Walk to school instead of driving cause, it will save your fuel and reduce air pollution

Jump Jam!! Today was the first ever jump jam show!! We had three stages and Taanvi, Sadeen and I were on it. It was kind of nerve wreaking when I was up there. I was scared I was going to fall. I believe we can continue Jump Jam the way we did today. What I founded hard was that it was hard to choose a learner that was #oresome because everyone was awesome. 

What I would improve on now is to work on saving the earth. I sometimes walk to school but this year, I want to walk as much as possible!

I had heaps of fun doing, iExperince and Jump Jam and all that. I feel like I can work on researching about Chinese New Year. Even though I do celebrate it, I want to know heaps more. 

In iExplore, I did a presentation about the dragon dances, Nian, lanterns and the zodiac signs.

I got Connected with Anjli because she was all alone and I felt sorry for her so I went up to her and spended some times with her.

I was Curious about Chinese New Year. It was awesome to learn about all of how they celebrate Chinese New Year.

I hope you enjoyed this reflection! Until my next blog, I'll see you all later! Bye!!

Here is a picture on our ideas about how India and NZ behave on the road. India has way more traffic than New Zealand. India has more air pollution than us. What I wish Indian would work on is the lanes. They should work on how they drive and traffic lightes, but heres the picture:

 

Chinese New Year: Nian

This is my silde about the Nian which is half lizard and half lion. We were working on a iExplore about Chinese New year. I hope you enjoy reading this silde. I worked on this with my friend Aleena. You may have heard about her heaps in my other blogs!!

Fact: The Nian hates light, nosie and the colour red. Thats why the colour red is a good luck colour on Chinese New year.

Hope you enjoy!

Week Reflection!!

This is my identity art. We did this to show people what we liked. Thos was for anyone to see since the learning coaches are going to pin it to the wall. 

We started off by folding the paper and out lining the art we want on it. We then started colouring. Last, we had to out line with a black marker to make it 'POP'!!!!!! Then, our work was put on the wall.

I really enjoyed doing this piece of art cause, we could use different colours and make it pop. I mist said, every colour really pops with all of the other colours.

So what I learned was, it doen't have to be prefect but it has to be at your best. It doesn't matter if your not good at art. You don't have to be embarrassed at how your art pieces look. It also doesn't matter if you haven't coloured inside the lines.

Now, what I would change is how the out lining looks. It looks bold and good but it was kind of weird seeing black maker on coloured areas, so I would change the out lining colour. I would also change how I did my name. I didn't know what would look good so I only just went for normal style, but next time, I would make it something different. Like to make bold writing, fancy writing or block writing. Any writing would be good but I would change it up. 

Tuesday: So for iExplore, we learned about deaf culture. We watched a vid on how a hearing aod was made and answered our questions.

Wednesday: For iExplore again, we did deaf culture. We continued answering out question and presented some of our answers to the whole group.

Thursday: For iExplore now, we did Waitangi Day. We had to pair up or get into a group and answer our questions. 

Firday: For iExplore again, we did Waitangi Day. We did a challenge and finished answering our questions.

For experience time, I did Twitter. We answered some questions and tweet some things on Twitter. I had to work with boys and Taanvi and I didn't get a turn. Tweeting tweets was super fun though. It was also fun to see all the post from the ret of the class. On the last day of our experience time, we did a blog about Twitter and what we learned.

I hope you enjoyed my blog today. Stay tune for a next blog. Bye!!!  

LH3's Blog about Twitter!!

Hi everyone, I'm Jasmine and today I am going to wirte a blog about my Twitter experience.

Twitter is a page where you can tweet you thoughts. Not really your thoughts but hash tags and short little comments to people out there. The letters were maximumed to 140 which, trust me, is not a lot. To me in the first place, I thought, short words seem short when you write them but when there was letter countings, it was suprising.

Yesterday, on my first leason, we learned about how to use Twitter and we got a intro into KidsedchatNZ which is a blog for kids. I had a lot of fun. Really, many students at our school haven't used Twitter before so I feel like it was a great experience for us. Even though most of us know what Twitter is or used it before.

KidsedchatNZ is a blog. You answer questions based on the topic of the day. The blog includes people  tweets from all around the world.

Our topic was Greatness. We watched a video talking about Greatness. We then answered some questions. The rest was home learning. We had to answer the rest of the questions at home.

Here are some example answers from the questions:

1. My nanny is the best cook in the world. She is so sweet and cares about my sister.

#kidsedchatnz @OrmPS

2. I want to improve on my basketball skills like throwing aim. #kidsedchatnz @OrmPS

3. I'm looking into Maths and Reading. Learning all the skills needed. #kidsedchatnz @OrmPS

You can veiw many comments from Twitter. Its really easy and lets you get ideas for your next tweet if you wish. You can veiw comments by going to the Me page and pressing tweets. It will show all the tweets so far from you and some from other people. You can also search up someone's Twitter page and press comments.

You can be Capable at being great by showing you care about your learning. Practice will make prefect and when you practice, your becoming the greatest you can be. Everyone is prefect but you all can become great. It does not matter of someone fails at something, at least they try and work hard.

Collaborating with people around you to be great if something everyone can do. Being great is not impossible. Anyone can be great and can improve pn anything. 

Here is a picture of how it will look like when you log in and search KidsedchatNZ: