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Get Set Go! Ekamjot's next steps are: Further develop her  Capabilities  when pushing a ball with a noodle or hockey stick Include balancing games during iBreak Practise throwing and catching a ball at home

Learner:  Ekamjot      Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2        Date: 6 December 2016 Learning Area: Writing Learning Observed Ekamjot has been learning how to write a diamante poem.   The structure of a diamante poem required brainstorming describing and doing words.   All the learners were invited to share their ideas about what would be appropriate words to write a diamante poem about ‘summer’ and ‘holidays’.    Together, with the relieving learning coach, the learners wrote a shared diamante poem.  Ekamjot was engaged and Connecting to her learning through her sharing of ideas ( Collaborative ).   She then began writing her own poem independently. The following day, I suggested that Ekamjot type her poem on a Google doc for publishing.   She was Curious and excited to be using a chromebook and her Google drive for this activity.   E...

Learners:  Skyla, Sunny, Jessica, Harman, Ekamjot, Kaka, Ian, Kaiariki, Riley-Collins, Ash & Lucy Learning Coach:   Megan Croll                                                   Date:  31 October 2016 Learning Area:  iExperience Learning Observed In our iExperience session today, the learners were involved in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activity.   They were assigned the task of making a cage for an animal that would be strong enough to stay up, should a tree happen to fall on top of it if there were to be a terrible storm. First, we looked at some images of animals and which ones we thought that we might see at our zoo trip ( connected ) later in the term. ...

Learner:  Ekamjot      Learning Coach: Megan Croll - LH2        Date: 22 September 2016 Learning Area: Writing Learning Observed Language features, e.g. similes, are used to give our writing impact.  A simile is when a person or object is compared with another object by using the word ‘as’ or ‘like’.  Ekamjot has been learning how to use a simile in her writing.  The Black Gibbons worked together to brainstorm some similes, then I invited them to use similes to describe the colours of the rainbow. Ekamjot participated in the group brainstorm and discussion, then used some of the ideas from our brainstorm to create her own poetic piece about rainbows.   After writing her draft, Ekamjot then proceeded to publish her writing and illustrate it; using the correct colours and sequencing as in a rainbow. Evidence of learning       Key Competen...

Learner: Ekamjot       Learning Coach:   Megan Croll - LH2         Date:  24 August  2016 Learning Area:  Maths Learning Observed The Black Gibbons have been 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.   Ekamjot worked with her group to first group the objects by colour, then to separate the colours and group them according to their shape.  In their next rotation, Ekamjot supported others in her group to classify some wooden shapes.   They put them into three groups - one group of shapes that were rounded, another group of shapes had point and the third group we...

Learner:   Ekamjot        Learning Coach:   Megan Croll - LH2           Date:   30 May 2016 Learning Area:   iExperience Learning Observed This week is Samoan Language week and here in LH2 we have been learning about the art and language from Samoa.  Today Ekamjot and her fellow peers from the Manta Ray hapu group were learning how to sing the first verse to the song ‘Savailivali Means Go for a Walk’. http://1samoana.com/samoanlyrics/traditional/savalivali-means-go-for-a-walk/ Ekamjot and her friends, Harman and Datar, were excited to share their learning with others so I invited them to share by performing in front of their hapu group at the end of the day.  Ekamjot was confident and sung very clearly.   She demonstrated leadership qualities and her positivity encouraged the other two learners to continue with the performance. Evidence...

Learner: Ekamjot              Learning Coach: Mr Dyer                        Date: Week 3 - Term 1 Learning Area: Writing Learning Observed We have hit the ground running and are already challenging ourselves to identify what makes writing effective and how we can capture this learning in our own writing. We have identified that our best writing comes from the heart and involves sharing our thoughts, wonderings and feelings about a particular subject. We have also begun exploring ‘Show’ not ‘Tell’ to develop imagery and depth in our writing, along with writing about our sensory responses to daily events. Finally, through selecting elements of Who, What, Why, When, Where and How, we can focus on different elements of our writing in more detail. Ekamjot has begun to use some of the above writin...