#2MUCHHUGS

On Thursday December the 3rd it was my birthday as I came to school I was drowned in a pool of girls hugging me. Yup it's my birthday I was 11 finally not a tiny person anymore!!! I had got a early birthday present so I guess I was happy my mom baked me a continental cheesecake and she also had bring a cake from work and also in the weekends my dad bought a cake. My birthday present was 3000star coins on starstable star coins are very value able when you start the game you only get 200 if you become star rider (not including starrider weekends) you will get 100 star coins every Saturday. Tip : Star coins are currency star rider is membership. On my birthday I bought 2 horses 1st is a American quarter horse named Dark knight the 2nd is a Morgan horse named Summer star me Jessica and johanna we all have Morgan's! Named after star Jessica has sky star, johanna has night star, and I have summer star.

Biomes & 7 Wonders of the world

On Friday we had a Google expedition on google cardboard we visited these biomes, tundra, tiger, tropical forest, rainforest and desert. On our second expedition we saw the 7 wonders of the world the, Taj Mahal, the Great Wall of china and statue of Jesus at rio were 3 of them. I thought this expedition was really cool because it was like hovering in a helicopter but with a 360 view. My eyes started to kinda hurt after awhile because the phone was too bright. My favorite was was the statue of Jesus because you saw above the clouds and the sunset was so awesome. I thought the Taj Mahal kinda looked like a temple until I saw the radish shaped thing at the top. 

Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya's Trash to Flash Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna & Divya      Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: Term 4, Week 6-10

Learning Area: iExperience - Technology

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In the second half of Term 4, all of the OrmPS learners have been participating in Trash to Flash - turning old used items into something new and usable. All of the LH1 learners began this journey by spending time looking on the LH1 Pinterest account. Everyone selected a category that they were the most interested in. Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya all selected Girls Fashion. They were curious about making an infinity scarf out of old t-shirts. However, before they could make this, they had to go through a test run with the Design Thinking Process. As a group, all of the Girl’s Fashion and Pets & Animals learners made ladybug fridge magnets. The girls then took the template we used as a larger group and the personalised it to their infinity scarf creation, demonstrating their capability with understanding the design process. Collaboratively, they shared this template and filled it in on Google Slides.

Evidence of learning

Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya with Neha, Taanvi and Jahnavi with their prototype Ladybird Magnets. The infinity scarf Design Thinking Process presentation.

Next Learning Steps

Add some photos to your blog of your final creation in Week 10. Reflect on how successful your planning was, as well as how well you felt your final product turned out. Make another prototype showing changes and improvements to the design.

What's it like to be libary legend.

At the libary at first it's quite lonely until your buddy comes everything gets exciting first thing me and my BUDDY! Johanna do is our work 30-15 minutes of either capability, mathletics. After finishing our work when the time for iactive comes we clean up and push in the chairs and go. We set up the libary and return the books and put them away in their spots if someone wants to issue a book or return one we quickly do that but sadly some people mess around in the libary. When 5 quick minutes pass me and johanna head out for iactive on Mondays is high jump, Tuesday's chain tag, Wednesday's whole school jump, Thursday's 100m sprint and Friday's Crab tag.

Paris terrorist attacks

HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS?! It's so sad about Paris, did you know that know the government for all countries have set something that if you have a crinimal record you can't enter the country? I hope New Zealand is not the next target or Canada because I'm not sure if the Syrians have bombed Canada. This had a similar story to Hawaii and Japan, japan made an attack on Hawaii a very beautiful place, and the American government were so angry they bombed a place in Japan. I forgot what the day is called but it is very memorable. People say what world war 3 is coming I'm not sure and I hope I'm not alive when it happens. 

Divya's Indigenous People Learning Story

Learner: Divya    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 12.11.15

Learning Area: iExperience - Aboriginals of Australia

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In Week 5, the Year 6 learners participated in a week long iExperience series about Indigenous People, focusing particularly on the Aboriginal people of Australia and the Native Americans of Northern America. Divya participated showing curiosity by asking questions and engaging with the concepts shared. There were a selection of questions posed, of which the learners only needed to pick, research about and answer five of them. Divya chose to complete as many questions as she could in the given time. Afterwards, she was capable of articulating and elaborating on what she had learnt. Divya could also make connections between the two people groups that we looked at, showing that although they had many differences, the Aborigines and Native Americans had several similarities. Divya also used some of this new found knowledge to complete an example of Indigenous art using a template of her choice and thinking about using the correct colours that might be used by that people group.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Transfer the learning into her own words, as opposed to rewrite what was explicitly stated online. Use this learning to inspire curiosity about another indigenous people group for an iExplore inquiry.

Places I've been

Ive been to Australia and Fiji, I'm actually going to fiji these holidays, and very recently in the holidays  I have been in Gold Coast Australia, Gold Coast is just like New Zealand. The attractions I went to was Sea world, Movie world, and wet'n wild. I have also been to Sydney in 2013 just as my sister formed in my mums tummy. Sydney was quite hot we went to a marine aquarium, a parade, and the opera house. TIP: if your ever going to Sydney never go to the opera house in the afternoons TOO MANY FLYS!  Fiji I couldn't really remember but what I do remember is sitting in this tree well the base my dads family and made this wood bench thing to sit and stand on, and what I was doing is my mum was feeding me coconut I remember we fed my dads family dog I tried but I was also too scared if the dog would bite off my finger! I have been to Fiji 3 times I was born there, went to my dads house for a trip and my grandmas funeral. 

My birhday

Well it isn't excatly my birthday but it's coming up my birthday is at the 3rd of December I will turn 11 finally! I'm an adult yay well not really that is when I'm 16 not 11 by the time I'm in collage year 11 then my sister will be starting primary and then she should be 6. She will be in year 2 but what the real pain is that I will be her teacher for home learning most propbably I would finish her homework or mathletics. I actually got a early birthday present which is 3000 star coins in starstable. Yesterday was Diwalli I had got many sweets my neighbours had bought for my family butterfly Barfi which is a coloured milk powder sweet. My cousins birthday (Lily a.k.a Nivisha's birthday is coming up in November she is a similar age to my sister. She was born on the same year but a little bit later in November. Any ways I can't wait for my birthday and the holidays to come up because I will be probably playing games the whole time because it's my last time. 

Diwali

Happy Diwali! Today is Diwali, Diwali is a time of year to celebrate the Hindi gods Vishnu and Lakshmi. These are the Hindu supreme gods they are like Jesus Christ, and the Budha. Diwali is a time to share love and sweets, some Hindi sweets are Ladu, gulamjamun, and Barfi. All Hindi sweets are vegetarian no egg was added these sweets are made my hand. This year my mom bought Barfi and some Giant Ladus. But we still made crunchy Ladus which taste yummy. On Diwali we offer food to the god how that works is we put a type of fruit in front of the gods statue and the soul of the fruit goes to the god. Once Diwali is over we can eat the rest of the food we offered. My favourite Indian food is Giant Ladus because they taste like they have been covered in honey. Something also about Diwali that makes it special is the fireworks. Fireworks make Diwalli stand out a part of that is Rangoli patterns Rangoli is colourful circles that are layered in different colours. 

What it's like to have a anoying baby sister

Hi of course by looking by my blog you know who I am divya! Could I tell you a little bit about my sister yup that's right my sister devanshi. Some facts to get to know a baby is that if they don't like it if you keep squishing their cheeks. They will eventually get sad and try to scratch or hit you. Another fact to know is if they want something give it to them they are very whiny about little things so either hide items before they see it or give something else to them like a toy. How about food at 6 months old baby food is a big regret my sister did not accept normal food and milk bottles it was force that made her grow. Now what she drinks is up n go and eats currys and sometimes ice cream as a treat only little bits not too much. When a parent is working its up to the bigger child to look after the little one. Avoid little items that can get in her mouth for example, crumbs, small toys, plastic paper and cardboard. These items can cause serious choking and soon lead to death.

Starstable

                            Starstable 
Starstable is an online horse game finally during the holidays Johanna and Jessica got membership on it. Starstable is an online game you can play together with others the bad thing is if your freind is in a different country you cannot play with them because they are in a different country. Starstable has many quests and experiences you can have like training your horse and jumping. Jumping can only be unlocked at level 6 but you have to be star rider. Star rider means membership you can unlock more and all than you already had for free. Anyways back to the story, Johanna and Jessica both got lifetime star rider like me! But I got it 2 and a 1/2 years ago. So I'm more experienced. We played together at the beach and raced each other but Jessica is a n00b that means she's not experienced. So she easily lost. I do quests on their accounts because they don't really get some. They have both 3 horses I have 13 but I'm getting this Saturday 14! I have the Jorvik warmblood, (Jorvik is the island of the game), pony, north Swedish horse, Arabian, Morgan, fjord, fresian, fresian sport horse, Andalusian, Westphalian, Dutch warmblood, Danish warmblood, and the American quarter horse. The horses that both the twins have are the new Morgan horses , ponys and Jorvik warmbloods. 

Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Johanna, Jasonta & Aleena's Ko Te Pu Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Jasonta, Johanna & Aleena     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 14.10.15

Learning Area: The Arts - Music (Preparing for OrmPS Official Opening)

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

For the Ormiston Primary School official opening the learners in LH1 had to learn a waiata with actions. To prepare for this, some of the NZSL Club members and Deaf learners spent some of their iBreaks working on the signs so they would be able to teach it. Ashmira, Divya, Johanna, Jessica, Jasonta and Aleena all chose to lead LH1 in the song Ko Te Pu. The video below shows that they are developing their capabilities in both learning new signs, and communicating these to a wider range of people. All of these girls demonstrated curiosity regarding the fact that they chose to spend their iBreak time learning new signs and opting to have the extra time to prepare. They are also showing the at OrmPS we value the official languages of Aotearoa New Zealand, by honouring the connection to Te Reo Maori and NZSL in this song.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Lead the habitat regularly in our practices. Do an iExplore around other songs or poems that connect English and NZSL or Te Reo and NZSL.

Miko & Nummy iExplore Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Divya, Jessica & Johanna                                         Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Term 3-4                                                                       Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

Jessica, Johanna and Divya are certainly developing their animation capabilities in their current iExplore around creating a series of animated videos ‘Miko and Nummy’.  The three girls have been working together collaboratively- making substantive decisions together, negotiating their next steps, sharing tasks, taking turns and thinking forward. They have had ample opportunity to make connections to their prior knowledge, for example, the programme is based on one they have seen before, their previous experience with animating (including what they learned at the Google Learner Summit) and how to reflect.  They have watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme, self directing their learning. This iExplore is large in scope and it is interesting to observe how the girls are designing their series and mapping out their time.  They showed their curiosity, thinking and managing self skills by looking at what others had done and making connections to what they wanted to achieve. They have had voice over auditions, planned and pitched a club successfully to get a team together to assist them, investigated the setting up of a channel to house the completed episodes and learned new software.  They are inspirational and resilient!  This is a perfect example of what an iExplore learning adventure should be- something the girls are passionate about and invested in.  They are learning as part of their process and not for the sake of it.  Teaching and leading others in their club will help them make connections, teach others and foster curiosity in others.  I am so excited to see where this goes- well done girls!

Evidence of learning

See a short video of their animation here See their iExplore Learning Model Doc here

Next Learning Steps

keep updating your iExplore doc- this can’t be all Jessica all of the time and ensure sufficient detail and reflection (this includes what is going well and what the challenges have been) write a reflective blog post about your iExplore experience to date including your club set up and what you will do for the club make an iMovie of what you are doing like a lesson, to teach other learners how to animate the way you are set up a sub-channel on our LH1 Youtube account

Johanna and Divya's 3D Printing Learning Story

Learners: Divya & Johanna    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 21.9.15

Learning Area: Technology - 3D Printing

Learning Observed

Divya & Johanna chose to participate in 3D Printing during iExperience during Week 7-10 this term. We initially learnt about the Thinker’s Key called ‘BAR’. BAR stands for Bigger, Add, Replace. To practise, the learners had to pick either a pen, lunch box or tennis racquet to make a feature bigger, add to the item and replace something. The learners had as much creative license as they needed and then they reflected on how functional the item had become - could it still be used for its original purpose? The next stage was to come up with an item that we use at school and repeat the BAR process. Divya & Johanna decided to replace the cubbies the learners keep their bags in. They designed and created a locker large enough to sit in! Divya & Johanna had to use the website TinkerCad to design their new and improved locker. They had to use the pre-existing shapes to form their 3D model which was then printed out by our LH1 3D printer. After analysing their printed model, the girls were able to write a description about who would use it, why they designed it and what its features were. They also spent some time reflecting on improvements and redesigning it on TinkerCad to show these changes.

Evidence of learning

Divya and Johanna’s explanation of their 3D locker.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Divya & Johanna were collaborative during this process by sharing ideas and coming up with other ways to show creativity (Thinking, Participating & Contributing). They demonstrated curiosity by engaging with the entire technology process of designing, making, redesigning and evaluating. Divya & Johanna were connected as they were able to show their learning in three different mediums (paper, digital and printed model). The girls also showed capability at presenting their learning to other people in the 3D printing group (see photo above).

Next Learning Steps

Complete the second design on TinkerCad and print if time allows. Use the 3D printer as a component of an iExplore. Create a video/animation to teach other learners how to use TinkerCad.

My Iexplore August 2 (Finish off)

During the year Nummy got into computer physics, Miko got into style and fashion and Mika was just into music her favourite songs would be on her Ipod which is the latest in Ipod history. As the three grew up some things changed they forgot about their parents and what they looked like, but still knew they were their in heaven, and missed them very much. They grew up in a modern 2 story house, but as the years went by Miko and mostly Nummy built a treehouse. It was 50 feet high and 20 feet wide, a luxury treehouse 5 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, 5 masterbedrooms, 2 kitchens, 3 lounges and 4 spas. Each item was on different storys high. It was heaven and Miko + Nummy can't believe they pulled it off!

My Iexplore August blog post 1 (Finish off)

                        Miko n Nummy

For My Iexplore I am doing a toipic called Miko n Nummy, and I am here to tell you about it. Character 1, Miko! Miko is intelligent at birth her sister Mika was seperated and unusually Miko grew with REALLY long hair. Miko and mika was sent to an orphanage, thats where she ment Nummy another child who was seperated from her physco parents at birth. At the orphange Miko met her mom and dad. They were really good people until a accident came. Miko, Mika and Nummy were in the back seat and Mom and dad in front. It was heavily raining and very foggy they couldn't see anything in the car then with a blink of an eye the car slipped in the rain and it went right into a pole. The Granny who was living in the house infront of the pole saw the accident she immediaty called 111 during the hospital they found out Miko, Mika and Nummys parents didn't make it. 
To be countinued...

Week 8 Blog post Candy and Rubbish

                      Candy and Rubbish

Lately at Ormiston Primary School we haven't been having the healthiest of lunches. For example candy, wrappers, chip packets, crumbs being dropped I feel like their should be monitoring cameras what if... a bird flys in finds a gummy worm half eaten laying on the ground and the bird takes it to feed her young. Like what if? Thats not healthy for a bird even especially for baby birds sugar is not healthy for some animals, but unless its specially branded for that special animal like horses, sugar cubes are ment for horses, but gummy worms are not ment for birds. Monitoring cameras monitor people eating and when the teachers are eating they're lunch in the staff room they can also watch so when someone drops a crumb the teacher comes down and asks that person to pick it up!

Divya's Speech Learning Story

Learner: Divya     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 18.8.15

Learning Area: Literacy - Oral Language

Learning Observed

This term all learners in Learning Habitat 1 had to deliver a speech or a poem. As Divya is Year 6, she had to compose and present a speech. She chose to do her speech on the protection of dogs in countries like China as it was something she felt very strongly about. Divya shows compassion to animals all the time. It was evident that Divya had put effort into her research and was aware of how to best present her speech. It is a nerve wracking thing to stand and deliver a speech to an audience of peers, but Divya can be pleased with what she achieved.

Evidence of learning

Link to Divya’s Oral Language Assessment Rubric

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Divya was assessed against all four of our Ormiston Primary Vision Principles. She was able to best demonstrate being connected to the audience by changing her voice appropriately and curious by selecting a topic that reflected her passion. Her topic was also one that is not so common, which made it interesting for the audience.

Next Learning Steps

Reorganise the speech to ensure it is fully coherant. Practise in front of a mirror to work on eye contact and volume of voice. Video yourself and watch to self-assess. Seek feedback from others during planning and writing stages in order to increase collaboration.

It's spring!

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Today it's spring....
Woohoooo
But it means a lot of rain.
Sad... :(

Why I said spring has a lot of rain is because its wet gross yucky and soggy.

Week 6 blog post

Last week it was the speech finals, my favorite speech was Aleena's because I can imagine what it is like if Aleena was the schools principals. The speech I didn't like was Kevin's because I couldn't hear him properly. I like that Aleena used a lot of eye contact, expression and a loud and clear voice. The speech finals were fun except I had to sit on the ground for a Loooonggg time!

Week 7 Starstable + Minecraft + Animal jam

This maybe not be about learning, but is it possible if we could use gaming for school it's possible here are some examples, animal jam. Animal jam is all about animals there's facts about them everywhere so if you want to learn about animals play animal jam. Minecraft if you've heard about all those speeches and Iexplores about minecraft then minecraft would be educational. Starstable is a online horse game and it helps
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Google Summit Leaning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Aryan & Divya                                               Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Technology and KCs                            Date: Aug 12, 2015

Learning Observed

Aryan and Divya made us all proud when they represented us at the first ever Student Google Summit on Aug 12 at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  They were joined by hundreds of other learners from around Auckland and facilitated and participated in some exciting workshops about learning with digital technologies.  There was a lot of work leading up to this day.  First, they met with Ms Wilkes to express their interest, brainstorm what they could present and then write and submit their pitch to the GEGNZ.  They demonstrated passion, commitment and skills while meeting their deadline.  This was their pitch: Google Sites for Learning Our habitat website is great because it helps my confidence and if we need to find something we can access it from our school website- ormiston primary.school.nz. We use our website to share links to websites we use, modelling books from the learning coaches, presentations about interesting topics and much more! Come to this presentation so you too can learn how to use a google site with your class and community. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and including a fun kahoot game as well.  The learners decided it would be great if they could practice their workshops the day before to iron out any crinkles and so they were able to facilitate their workshops for the rest of the habitat. Aryan and Divya enjoyed the practice run with a group of 20 learners and responded to feedback,making some small changes to improve their presentation. Their scavenger hunt was modified for the summit.  On the big day they demonstrated confidence and resilience when many devices couldn’t access the internet.  We were very proud of the way they solved problems, remained calm, positive and supported the participants. Divya was very creative with a way to do the scavenger hunt with only one device- way to go!

Evidence of learning

Aryan and Divya practice their workshop in LH1      Divya and Aryan show real resilience in their presentation      The OrmPS Crew is full of google goodness!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Divya and Aryan showed they could relate well with others both in their collaborative effort in creating and facilitating their presentation and in responding to feedback.  They participated and contributed, managing themselves in 3 other sessions on the day and took their learning back to OrmPS to share with others.  They showed curiosity in the google cardboard session and made connections to prior knowledge.  They were capable at solving problems when there were technical difficulties and constantly collaborated to maximise their own learning and that of others.

Next Learning Steps

start thinking about their presentation for next year write a blog post about their experience teach family members some new skills/tricks they learned