Inquiry Presantation

Description: In science we have been learning about how to be a good scientist.
my inquiry was about sea otters. We had to find information about our main question we were focused on. We were mainly focused on their biological adaptations and behavioral adaptations.

Purpose: To think like a scientist


Criteria: 

• Talking like a scientist
• Thinking like a scientist
• Making predictions
• Doing experiments

Presentation:




FeedBack and FeedForward: I think you did a good job at adding a lot of detail also adding some sound. Next time you could make the answer to your question more clearer. -Zara

Tortoise And The Hare

Description: For our reading portfolio post I decided that I shall choose for my tic tac-toe The Tortoise And The Hare. My goal is Comprehension we read the story and then we had to answer some questions about the story.

Criteria:

• To use text to text connections
• Make connections to the world etc. text to world
• Make connections with your self and the character
• To Visualize

Questions for “The Hare and the Tortoise” 

Big Idea: To make text to text, text to self and text to world connections.

Evaluation:

In my workshops I have been learning to make connections with the text. 

(Text to text, Text to world and Text to self.) I know I am getting better because I can make connections to the world, text and to myself. I can improve on making text to text connection i think I succeeded making text to world and text to self connections.

FeedBack/FeedForward:

Great job Grace. I love your honest evaluation on what you could work on. I agree that you might need to work on making text to text connections. You have answered the questions really clearly though. Great work, :P Aye

Conjunctions Writing

Description: In writing with Elly we have been learning to use conjunctions more in our 

writing here is a piece of writing that I have written to show conjunction. The ones that

are highlighted yellow are the conjunctions I have used in my writing

Writing

As I look out the foggy window, I see santa claus run across a snowy thick roof

puff! Flakes of snow (shaped as snowflakes) drift and swirl around santa, he rises up

and lands on the floor of an old cottage, but the first thing santa spots is the mince pie and a nice big glass of orange juice. Santa makes such a loud gobbling noise that a little girl around about 6, skips into the room. She has orange hair and a few freckles placed neatly on her cheeks.

She spies santa dressed up in a red and white uniform. SANTA! She yells, she freezes then faints. Luckily santa has a present for her that is a doctor's kit. he quickly pours some fright medicine in her mouth and she awakes immediately.

Catch Me If You Can- Defense

WALT: Defensive skills and movements

Description:

Every week we learn about skills and movement that will help us play sports. This term’s focus has been around defense. We made a video showing some of the goals we have been practicing. I have highlighted the things I think I have done well YELLOW and one thing I would like to work on PINK.

Success Criteria:

Body Movement

• Weight on balls of feet
• Feet shoulder width apart
• Knees flexed
• Concentration and eyes on ball, head and eyes up
• Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass
• Quick small feet, stay on balls of feet
• Arms within confines of body
• Take feet to ball
• Land with a SBP

Intercepting

• Body angled to see player and ball
• Anticipate pass and player movement

Restrictive Marking

• Meet player as they start towards the ball/where they want to go
• stay close to the attacking player
• Head and eyes up, arms close to body to avoid obstruction/contact
• Angle body so attacking player is ‘pushed’ away from where he/she wants to go
• 0.9m from ball carrier

Evaluation: I think that I need to work on Push hard off outside foot and go forwards to attack pass.
One thing I think I did really well was pivoting out to the ball and away. I think I also need to work on landing in a stable position.


FeedBack and FeedForward: I think you did really well at having your knees bent so you can get that ball. Next time you could work on your SBP ( Stable body postion) because you are stepping when you have got the ball. Georgia

Writing Task

Description: We have been learning to use ing words at the start of a sentence here is
some sentences I have done about the animal pictures I have chosen.

The Wild Cheetah

Spying something in the sky he stays quiet and alert for his prey.














The Wild Elephant

Stomping over to the shade the elephant eats some grass to fill it's
empty tummy.

Senior Discovery Time

Description:  On the 15th of May 2015 we did Senior Discovery Time. Discovery time is a time where Poutama does some fun activities (etc Sewing, Chalk Drawing and Life Still Drawings.) and more. Here is a picture that I took to show what I was doing.  

I showed Excellence by... making my stitches in the sides of my pillow as perfect
I could, I pushed past my limits definitely. The thing I think I need to work on more is
Creativity.   

Ing Verbs

This week I had a writing workshop with Cindy and we were working on
having ing at the beginning of a sentence. (Example: Arriving, Morning, Going)

Here is the work I have done-

Blockers And Drivers

I did a task on the tic tac toe about what I think blocks my learning and what drives 

my learning (Blockers & Drivers.) 

Here is a pages document that I have created

about what are my blockers and drivers and sometimes in

the middle.

Party Pool Pups

I did a task on the tic tac toe about some party pool pups were you could bring your
pup along to the pool. But your dog had to have had it's vaccinations and that it
was friendly. It was run by a Pet food company called (Purina.) They raised $2,000.
AMAZING!

Here is a link to the article - Pool Pups

Here is the questions I had to answer about the article

1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article? The main group of people were a Pet food company (Purina.)

2. What was the key event from the news article? The Key event was a Dog Pool Party.

3. Where did this event take place? The event was set in Auckland.

4. When did this event take place? The event took place on the 6th of May 2015.

Time Words Task

Description: On the 5/5/15 (April) we were working on time words this
Is the task we had to do. Time words are in a piece of writing using what time it
happened. For an a esample ( In the morning, Next year, In the future, In the past.)

Purpose: To improve using time words.

My Evidence of Learning/

Visualization Writing

Date: 29th of April 2015

Purpose:  To write a piece of writing that has a picture you are trying to
create with enough describing in your writing to create a picture in the readers head.

A flutter of blossoms with the warm spring air a breeze of hazelnut seeds

with oak colored twigs, break off and blow away in the wind. A orange and shiny black creature approaches a twig breathing in the wonderful blossom smell. Cherry erupts the garden with beautiful flowers, blooming in the warm afternoon sun.

Children prance around the garden with delight, the grass with clear dew drops drying out in the warming sun.

PLUCK! An apple off the tree and CRUNCH! the juice pours out, with a splash, the juice soaked into the dirt, they start giggling and laughing as it drips down their chins onto their tops.

By Grace.S.

Writing Goals Term 2 2015

Description:
Poutama have sheets that they have to find their goal on, we went through some of our writing peices
and telly marked in the space if we have something that is on the sheet here is my goal and a image of my telly marked sheets.



Goal: To use Connectives in my writing.


Focus On Words:

Focus On Ideas:

Focus On Sentences:

Inquiry-Portfolio Criteria

WALT: Gather Information 

Description:
Eb (dress from around the world)-
Every Wednesday we have been learning about the inquiry process while finding out about different cultural dress from around the world. The first stage of an inquiry is to gather information ‘Get It’. First we chose a culture we wanted to find out more about and then started researching. 

Get It, Sort It, Use It Model 

Evaluation:
1. What are you most proud of? The thing I am most proud of is that I found lot of information then I made a new creation that did not look the same to the indian headwear I was making.

 2. What did you find challenging? The challenging thing was attaching the side fabric to the wire.

 3. My next ‘Get It’ goal is? Is to make more indian patterns to make the piece more cultural.

Writing Sample

WALT:  Entertain

My writing goal this term was use a variety of simple, complex, and compound sentences

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I have used a variety of simple, complex and compound sentences to build interest and suspense.

Structure
I have organised and sequenced my ideas into paragraphs for purpose and effect.

TASK: craft a free-choice piece of writing that shows how I am developing my goal

First Piece:

Focus Piece:

Evaluation
How has your writing has improved this term? Yes because Suzanne has taught me that I can't tell the reader you describe to the reader and I think I have improved that.

The part of my story I am most proud of is paragraph... I think I have made the reader build more suspense because I have used lots of words like suddenly, just then I heard.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? My goal for next time is to create more imaginary I will do that by using more similes and rich language.

Feedback/Feedforward: I really like the way you have made me want to read more so I knew were she was. You have some very cool similes and fit into the sentences. There were a couple of words that were mentioned a few times in some of your sentences. Like realised. 

Reading Sample

My reading goal this term was... Use and discussion to consider alternative  viewpoints.
                                                             

WALT

GET IT...use a range of sources by questioning and predicting
SORT IT...analyse and sort information to answer my question: see if my thinking has changed, look for patterns by questioning inferring, summarising.


USE IT…discuss what I have found out with others and make connections.

TASK (Callum and Liam T your task is different: you need to write a description here of 

what you are trying to find out.)
inquiring readers go through a process to gather, organise and respond to new information. We have been using  the ‘GET IT, SORT IT, USE IT’ process. After reading ‘Wonder’ by R.J.Palaccio our group felt moved to DO something but we didn’t know what! We all had lots of questions so we decided to research more about disabilities before deciding. I wanted to know more about 

different disabilities. We tried to find the difference between a disability and a disease.

SUCCESS CRITERIA
I can research using different sources.
I can think logically, creatively, and reflectively.
I can make generalisations from patterns and connections 

We made this poem as well, we got inspired by a poem called my invisible disability we renamed our poem we made up my visible disability. Here it is.

My body has a tear,
I have two paralysised legs,
And I'm half paralysised with fear.

My rage increases everyday,
And I'm the one who has to pay,
My angers growing right inside,
And yet I have no place to hide.

I've been forever cursed with this visabl disability
Which stops me from having,
Every cool ability,
This is my fatal flaw and the whole world can see,
ME!
                                              

Did my thinking change or stay the same during the ‘GET IT’ stage? My thinking changed because I found out new infomation (Exsample: I thought that desaises did not efect disabilties but they do.) Thats why my thinking changed.

From ‘SORTING IT’ I can make these generalisations: People with disabilities are normal people but they can not do something we can. Normally people with disabilities wasn't to be independent. People with disabilities think their normal and we are different.

‘USE IT’ (what did you do- those who did a social action, or what could you have done for this stage- for those who didn't know. My group did a poster that I showed you the image. We found out lots of facts and made connections to our poster.

Maths Sample

WALT: Continue a number pattern and find the rule for finding the next number. 

Description: For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems.

Task:  Make a short movie to prove that you have achieved your maths goal.

Criteria:

• Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it
• Clear message
• Two questions to show your learning
• Correct answer

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I am most proud of that I showed in my movie how I knew and the things that were required. 

2. What challenged you the most and why? The thing that challenged me most was that explaining the goal.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Don't rub the speaker while talking so it does not make background sounds that cover my voice.

Feedback/Feedforward:  I think you did a great job and you had a very clear voice. I think you could do something about the background sounds. Rosalind:)_______________________________________________________________

The Learning Pit

WALT: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens. The good learning happens in the PIT!

  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Evaluation:

Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit.

How did you feel when you were in the pit? I feel annoyed but know I'm going to get out.

What did you do to work out of the pit? You can do it never give up. Hold the grip and keep on trying.

Feedback/Feedforward:

I think you have done a great layout on your post. I like your learning pit thoughts and ideas. It shows what you know and understand. I think you could make it a little bit easier to read because the colours are really light. When you see it on the post. Rosalind:)

Te Reo Sample

WALT: Communicate a message

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts. We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I am most proud of the visual and things we put to our message into.

What challenged you the most and why? The most thing that challenged me was when I showed a teacher and she liked a colour as a background to be the same on an object.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? To do something different like a long thing you could say Example: Hello how are you.

Feedback/Feedforward:

 This is my Feedforward. I like the way you told us Māori like it is a fact. You used photos to represent the word in a really cool way.

Aye

This is my feed back. You could use different words instead of 'Did You Know'.

Aye

Set Smart Goals Term 2

W.A.L.T: Set Smart Goals

My writing goal is to: Write a variety of simple, compound and complex sentences.
The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because: because it was in my report.
I will accomplish my goal by: trying to use it every day.

My reading goal is to: to use discussion to consider alternative viewpoints. 
The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because: it was in my report.
I will accomplish my goal by: Finding more about view points and asking Suzanne my reading teacher more about my goal. 

My maths goal is to: use a range of strategies with accuracy. 
The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because my report said it
I will accomplish my goal by: Using a range of strategies like double half or the split strategy.

My personal goal is to focus on the learning intention.
The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because: it is in my report I need to work on that.
I will accomplish my goal by: trying to focus on the learning intention always.

Grasshopper Tennis Sample

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: We have been participating in a tennis programme with Big John (John Salisbury) from Tennis Manawatu. He has taught us some tennis skills that help with controlling and hitting the ball

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?     

Buddy Comment: Well done Grace! You are doing really well at grasshopper tennis you just need to work on you 'Cut the cheese'!  

                          

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I am proud that I can balance the tennis ball on the racquet while moving it.

2. What challenged you the most and Why? The thing that I was challenged by was cut the cheese because it is harder to use the slimmer side of the racquet.
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4. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? To work on cutting the cheese so I can get really good at tennis.