Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll Date: 5 December 2016
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Learning Area: Maths
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Learning Observed
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Maya had two independent activities this week to complete during iDevelop. One was an activity focussed on our ‘number of the week’. This week the number was 59. Maya was able to show this number in a variety of ways (using language, symbols and text), e.g. tally count, place value and expanded form. She was also able to write the number +1, -1, +10 and -10. Maya collaborated with a learning partner to complete this activity.
The other activity required Maya to cut out number words and numbers, then match them up. Maya managed herself to complete this correctly - taking care to cut the shapes carefully, glue the matching pairs together and pack up when she was finished.
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 28 November 2016
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Learning Area: Writing
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Learning Observed
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Following our trip to the Auckland Zoo, we decided to write about what we saw and what we liked the most. Maya’s hapu group brainstormed the people that helped us and all the animals that they saw. With some help from Mrs Paraha, Maya wrote about where she went and what she saw. She was given support to sound out unfamiliar words and to write on every second line (a requirement for our draft writing).
Maya finished off her writing by including an unrelated idea about what she did in the weekend.
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Evidence of learning
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Maya is demonstrating that she is:
Collaborative - working alongside other learners to share her ideas and receive support from Mrs Paraha.
Capable - choosing what she wished to write to and what she wanted to write about.
Using Language, Symbols and Text - taking care to write the size and shape of most letters correctly.
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 18 November 2016
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Learning Area: Zoo Trip
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Learning Observed & Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Today Maya joined LH2 and LH4 learners to travel by bus to the Auckland Zoo. This trip was organised as part of our learning about animals - how we can help them and how they can help us.
The learners were greeted by some zookeepers when we arrived at the zoo. We had morning tea and then, with a zoo map in hand, began our journey around the zoo. The map was used frequently to help guide us around the zoo and many learners used their map reading skills to identify where we were and where we should go next (Using Language, Symbols and Text).
After visiting the tortoises and reptiles, we met up with John from Auckland Zoo. John took us into the Discovery and Learning centre where Maya found out what the zoo does to look after the three Sumatran tigers that they have. John had a large black plastic container and Maya learned that the tiger would be able to smell her scent if she touched it (Connected).
John then took us to the Vet Centre Viewing Gallery. Maya learned that sometimes visitors can watch an operation take place, but today the windows were covered with curtains. Here we learned how humans can make life very difficult for some animals. Our plastic bags can be very dangerous to sea animals if they are swallowed.
After lunch, it was time for more exploring (Curious). Maya enjoyed walking through the Meerkat tunnels, watching the playful orangutans and observing how gracefully the giraffes walk. Our day at the zoo went very quickly and there wasn’t even enough time to play on the playground! I’m sure that Maya would love to come back again with her family to share her learning with them.
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Maya has learned about what Auckland Zoo do to look after the many animals that they have. Some are even endangered. Her next step could be to research an endangered animal to find out why it is endangered and what people are doing to help keep its species alive.
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 29 August 2016
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Learning Area: Reading
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Learning Observed
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Maya has been learning to recognise more high frequency words from the Magenta reading series. Today she was reading a book titled ‘I am Tall’ that used the high frequency words ‘I’, ‘am’ and ‘said’. Maya used the pictures in the story to help with decoding unfamiliar words, e.g. monkey, clown. She was able to answer some questions about the story, and why the clown was cheating.
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Evidence of learning
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Click on this ‘fotobabble’ to hear Maya read some of the story.
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Maya is increasing her capabilities to read some sight words with greater independency. She is using pictures and initial letters to try and decode unfamiliar words (Using Language, Symbols and Text).
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 28 July 2016
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Learning Area: Maths
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Learning Observed
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Today during iDevelop, a group of Learners were using materials to explore place value of tens and ones.
I asked Maya to find out how many ‘ones’ cubes she would need to make a ‘ten’. This understanding is important as it will support her thinking when she begins to add numbers in which the total is greater than its place value, e.g. 7+6 = one ten and 3 ones.
Maya was then asked to count out the number of ‘ones’ cubes and ‘tens’ sticks to make a given number. She needed some support to understand that each small cube had a value of one.
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Evidence of learning
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Maya counted out the materials that she needed to make the number 57
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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During this learning, Maya demonstrated that she was:
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 18 July 2016
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Learning Area: Maths
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Learning Observed
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Today we were investigating what it means to classify objects. This is part of the geometry strand in maths, level 1. The Learners were placed in mixed ability groups of 4-5, then they rotated through three different activities where they were asked to work as a team to discuss the objects and find different ways to classify (group) them.
Maya worked with her group to first group the objects by colour, then to separate the dinosaurs from the other shapes. They then classified them another way by putting all the animals into a circle.
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Maya worked in a collaborative way by thinking and acting with her team. She required support to share her ideas with every Learner in her team as she still prefers to work with several self-selected partners.
Maya demonstrated that she is capable of listening to, and following a set of instructions. She was required to think about the learning taking place and understand what the other members in her group were doing when they were creating new groups with the materials. Maya was able to manage herself by remaining on task and moving to the next rotation when instructed.
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Learner: Maya Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2 Date: 17 June 2016
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Learning Area: iParticipate
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Learning Observed
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Today all the Learners and Educators at Ormiston Primary School were invited to wear their pyjamas and crazy hair to school as a result of reaching the halfway mark in the fish tank with #Oresome tickets. Maya arrived at school with a huge smile on her face and was excited to show off her pyjamas and join in with the fun activities and learning for the day.
Maya has received many #Oresome tickets throughout the term to acknowledge her positive behaviour in learning and play.
Thanks for helping us to get our fish tank to halfway Maya!
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Evidence of learning
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Maya has had a successful term with positive behaviour both inside and outside of LH2. She is Capable of managing her behaviour most of the time and quickly learns to correct her behaviour when necessary. Maya enjoys opportunities to learn Collaboratively with her friends and enthusiastically Participated in this special day.
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Learner: Maya, Samara, Taylor, Vanisha, Yuri, Zoey Learning Coach: T Morgan Date: 16th June 2016
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Learning Area: iExperience - Dance
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Learning Observed
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Maya, Samara, Taylor, Vanisha, Yuri and Zoey all have one thing in common - they love to move! Today during iExperience, these girls chose to do dancing for the afternoon. Today we wanted to challenge ourselves a little more and these girls chose songs that they liked and started to choreograph their own dances to them, instead of copying from videos.
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Evidence of learning
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These girls showed their moves on the dance floor! They came up with some pretty good moves!
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Key Competencies/Vision Principles
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Maya, Samara, Taylor, Vanisha, Yuri and Zoey are developing their Capabilities in dancing. They were working together to combine moves they came up with to make a dance to their favourite songs that they selected (Participating and Contributing). They encouraged the learners who were a bit more shy, to have a turn at suggesting a move (Relating to Others). They decided calmly and fairly what song they would choose next and who’s turn it was to choose the song (Managing Self).
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