Shreya, Sally, Natasha : Rights and Responsibilities/ Citizenship

Learner: Shreya, Sally, Natasha    Learning Coach:  N.Denuwara         Date: Term 4

Learning Area: Social Studies

Learning Observed, Key Competencies/ Vision Principles

Shreya  is participating in an iExperience session. This particular session focuses on learning about Rights, Responsibility and Citizenship. For this topic the learners are given the task of creating their own country. Today the first part of the task includes deciding on a name, emblem and motto for her country. To accomplish this task Shreya  has to use Key Competencies such as understanding language symbols and text. In order to create a name, emblem and motto for her country she has to show curiosity by researching how existing countries around the world got their names, emblems and mottos. By using the internet to research Shreya  shows that she is capable of using technology to execute a given task. Shreya  is also being collaborative because she is working in a group with two other learners. His group is brainstorming ideas together for what the name, emblem and motto of their country could be.

Evidence of learning

Brainstorm for country name, emblem and motto

Next Learning Steps

Decide with her group on one of the names, emblems and mottos they brainstormed to be their final choice. Publish the country’s name, emblem and motto on a good copy. Learn about the contents of a national anthem and write one for the country she created with her group.

Our iExperience with Ms Denuwara

This week the year 4's were learning with Ms Denuwara about rights and responsibilities in our habitat and in our school. One right we have in our habitat is to use devices and a right in the school is that we have a right of bringing out own device. A responsibility we have in the habitat is to clean up your messy and a responsibility we have in the school is to make people feel welcome. After a little talk about that we had to design our own country. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE!!!. Like your own country. We had to get into some groups and in my group I had Natasha, myself and sally. Then we had to think of some names for our dream country. Out dream country was Disneyland well you might be wondering Disneyland is already an existing place well we wanted to make it into a whole country. That would be AWESOME!!. After that we had to design our own motto and emblem. Our motto had to be 1-5 words long. Our one was "safety and peace for all". Next we had to make a draft of our own national anthem. So as our NZ national anthem is we had to Change it a little bit. After our draft of our national anthem we got to draw it on a nice copy. We are still on our good copy. After that we had to design our flag. We are not on that part yet though it's about what you like. Lastly is the laws. As I said on the flag we are not on that part yet but we will try to hopefully. 

Shaun, Nehaal, Shreya, Natasha and Amin's Fractions Learning Story

Learners: Shaun, Nehaal, Shreya, Natasha & Amin     Learning Coach: T.Dillner/K.McCann           Date: 16.10.15

Learning Area: iDevelop - Maths

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In Maths, the Green group has recently been learning about fractions and how these can be represented as a shaded area of a whole or as a numerical value (decimal). Shaun, Nehaal, Shreya, Natasha and Amin were given a set of cards to make sets to represent all of the different ways to show a fractions value. They all showed that they were curious about this concept as they remained engaged with the task, giving their full attention to seeing it through to the end. All five learners had to collectively share their knowledge and collaboratively match all of the cards correctly. From this, they were able to see the connections between the different ways a fraction can be recorded.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

To build on this collaborative knowledge, take the time to complete other Capability Tasks independently which will solidify new learning. Be sure to ask questions to clarify thinking when needed. Teach this concept to another learner or support them in their learning if they are confused.