STEAM Club Narrative- Aug 26

Learners: Kim, Selestine, Sharon, Harry, Aditi, Hamish, Rudi, Louisa, Selene, Maanvi & Iman	Learning Coach:  D Wilkes	Date: 25-08-16
Learning Area:  Technology & Science NZC Achievement Objective: Level 2 Technological systems:  Understand that there are relationships between the inputs, controlled transformations, and outputs occurring within simple technological systems. Investigating in science  Extend their experiences and personal explanations of the natural world through exploration, play, asking questions, and discussing simple models.	Key Competency:    Thinking Relating to others Participating & Contributing Using language, symbols & text	4C:
Learning Observed: The learners were invited to use the www.buildwithchrome.com program to design a house but to do so creatively.  We began by logging into the website and signing in with their own google account.  Aditi and Hamish couldn’t sync their account initially but it worked when they published their design- yay! Then the learners used their imagination to design a house with the lego blocks.   This challenge was enjoyed by the learners immensely:   Selestine ‘this is #oresome!”   Louisa “I love STEAM club!”   Hamish ‘how do I add a window?’   Kim ‘I’ll show you, click here.’   Harry ‘I wish we could do this in learning time!’   Ms Wilkes ‘Why don’t you use it for your iExplore Harry?’ The learners were asked what this had to do with STEAM and this is what Aditi, Maanvi, Selene and Iman came up with:
Evidence of learning: Look at the #oresome fun the group had in this Photopeach SlideShow→ http://photopeach.com/album/142xx3p# The learners were making a lot of connections to their previous experiences with lego and designing .  The learners were very collaborative and helpful with each other and demonstrated a growth mindset mentality.  The learners were developing capabilities with prototyping, spatial awareness and visual representations.  Curiosities were evident in the Louisa’s rainbow house, Maanvi’s swimming pool home and Selestine’s various iterations! We talked about which kind of home would influence their design→ igloos, houseboats, teepees, tents, mansions, treehouses etc.  Selestine wanted to make them all!  Selene’s creation had a larger than life TV and Sharon built an entire village.  Harry, Kim and Hamish were the closest to a finished home but they were all able to publish and save it so they can work on it later if they choose.
STEAM- buildwithchrome on PhotoPeach
Next Learning Steps: Practice using www.buildwithchrome.com to create new designs See if they can re-create their design with actual lego Write a blog post about what they learned and how using www.buildwithchrome.com relates to STEAM learning areas

iReflect 22.8.16

The most exciting thing that I did today was doing my speech I got to put my speech in a dock it is going well I only need too do the end of my speech. I can't wait to complete my speech.

Another thing that I did was cross country I am always exhausted but it is good that I can make it. Cross country is really hard so I have too always try my best. I try too not stop running. I can't wait till cross country happens.

iReflect 18.8.16

The fantastic thing that I did toady was iExplore I started my action plan and my slides. My next thing that I had to put my questions on the slide. I'm very excited to watch videos to watch videos about Ancient Rome. I am going to make a castle or a house. I love history! I also did my speech I had to edit. I am very excited to finish my speech.

iReflect 17.8.16

Today the fantastic thing that I accomplished was reading in bug club. The book that I read was Mystery Of The Missing Finger. I liked the book because it was a mystery. The mystery was about a robber stealing a painting in Marchmont Hall. It was a blind horse man painting that costs 9 million dollars. It was called Missing Finger because the robber had a missing finger. The robber did not have a real missing finger. The robber tried to frame the housekeeper that had a missing finger. The robber was the owner of Marchmont Hall! He did not have any money too keep Marchmont Hall so he stole the painting. I liked the book because I love mystery books they are so interesting and keep me not bored. Also it is cool because it makes me want to read more and not want to stop reading. I highly recommend the story and you should definitely get a account on bug club. I can't wait too read another interesting stories on bug club.

Gardening iExplore Narrative

Learner: Sharon, Alysia, Seline, Mahi, Annia,Seraya and Shubhi     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie          Date:2016

Learning Area: Learning Habitat 1 - iExplore

Learning Observed

Maanvi, Sharon, Alysia, Seline, Kim, Mahi, Cassandra, Annia, Shubhi, Katherine for iExplore are showing their Capabilities with organising an iExplore about a Gardening Competition. This will be run across the entire school. Today they were working on getting the garden prepared for each plot. For this they had to learn about meter rulers and find the area and perimeter of the garden bed. This was new learning for all. Sharon, Alysia, Seline were really excited about their new learning. Seraya was unsure about the process but with perseverance she managed to understand it. Once they knew how big the garden area was they had to section it off for each plot. For this they stapled string to the garden to section it off. Sharon, Alysia, Seline, Mahi, Annia,Seraya and Shubhi got the meter rulers and they measured the size of each plot. Sharon, Alysia, Seline, Mahi, Annia,Seraya and Shubhi all worked very well together and have shown their Capabilities with Math and iExplore.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Sharon, Alysia, Seline, Mahi, Annia,Seraya and Shubhi next steps are to: Collect entries for the gardening competition. Write a reflection about their iExplore Use area in other areas to make Connections

iReflect 16.8.16

Today I achieved finishing my speech plan and I started my speech. I finished my plan. I learnt how to plan a good speech. My speech is about Why kids should not do speeches. I am excited to finish my speech.

iReflect 15.8.16

Today I think the most fantastic thing that I did today was doing my new iExplore with Sharon. I did my questions in my books. I achieved doing my questions. My topic is about Ancient Rome. I think this is fantastic because I like learning about history and asking questions. I can't wait to start learning more!

Learner:  Stephan, Tristan, Seline, Toni                 Date: July T3- Wk 1, 2016 Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick                         Narrative Learning story

Learning Area: iExperience  Developing our capabilities

Learning Observed

During iExperience Week 1 Term 3 we were exploring what “being capable” means for us as learners and how we can develop our capabilities. The groups of learners experienced a range of fun tasks and their challenge was to participate and collaborate to improve their skills. This led to talking about setting goals to help us improve our capabilities. This group of learners set a goal to build the highest tower of cups. After their rotation of different fun tasks the learners gathered together to think and discuss what being a capable learner would look like. They came up with these ideas: being independent; having an attitude of “I can do it”; being confident; being persistent and not giving up; trying things in different ways and self managing themselves. They also made the connections with ways they could develop your capabilities:  by training your brain by practicing and  remembering, trying your best, working hard, having an open mindset to try and learn new things and setting goals. They were  introduced to the SMART acronym to help with setting goals. The learners had time to think about the things they were capable at and then consider the areas they need to develop their capabilities in. The learners were then asked to think of 4 goals for themselves . An academic goal,a social goal, a physical goal and a #oresome goal.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

*complete writing an academic goal, social goal, physical goal and #oresome goal. *discuss these with their parents/whanau and caregivers. *publish them in their Learning Pathways. *present them on the art shapes they created.

STEAM Club steams ahead!

iReflect 4.8.16

My Experience was about new sports. I learnt how to play handball it was cool because I found out it is like  soccer with the hand. I also learnt the different types of sport like fencing and judo. I liked learning about the Olympics.

iReflect 3.8.16

My iExperience was about Olympic codes. We played a game where we had to disagree with a sport and agree. We also played a class game it was the same game. But we had bigger groups. The group the I was in always wins and it is the NO! side. I learnt boxing was a sport. I liked learning about the Olympics.

iReflect 2.8.16

Our hapu group did for iExpirience a Olympic flags . We learnt the different flags of the world. I started doing Japan and France. We had to say what we connected with. I connect with Philippines because I was born their and I am Filipino. I really like the part where you made the flags because we get to find out new flags and get to draw them in.