Sadeen, Selestine & Louisa's Scratch+Makey Makey Learning Story - September 2015

Learner: Sadeen, Selestine & Louisa                      Learning Coach :DWilkes      Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology

Learning Observed

For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or designing a series of code using Scratch and Makey Makey each of which would develop their capabilities.  Sadeen, Selestine and Louisa enjoyed the first week of ‘discovery learning’ where they had some choices of tasks to complete to help them get familiar with the coding programme ‘Scratch’ and the extension kit ‘Makey Makey’ and make connections to their prior knowledge.  They watched tutorials, tried out their predictions and played around with the various affordances of the equipment and programme.  They used the Makey Makey and Scratch to create a piano.  Henry also supported these learners with using the Makey Makey- great collaboration.  For Week 9 and 10 the girls worked collaboratively to design and create a piano game using the Scratch programme and Makey Makey equipment.  In order to piece together the code successfully there was a lot of trialling and prototyping which showed the resilience of Selestine, Louisa and Sadeen.  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.  See some of their learning below!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

add more code to the game and share it on the LH1 website and/or teach another learner how to code using Scratch complete your design plan more neatly show the code to your family at home keep working on it until it is perfect- use an iBreak?!

Today is exiting

So today is the last day of school I am now happy because of Tango so it is nearly the holidays in a couple of hours my cousin vain and veeta are coming all the way from Christchurch they are 14 and 13 cool right today is also animal dress up day yesterday I seld my polar bear cupcakes and we made $ 124 dollars so that's pretty good we seld 32 cupcakes the learning coaches dresst up as a unicorn a graife panda and other graife and I dressed up as a polar bear I will keep bloging in the holidays 

Buy for now

This week is sad and happy

This week is going to be sad and then happy all tell you the goods well this week my polar bear 1Z it is pretty exiting that it is coming because it is my 1st 1Z ever and this week is also the last week of the term but that's when it gets tricky I won't see eany of my friends so it's sad I don't now what to feel I think happy but if my 1Z might not come in time for our animal drees up day.

Polar bears

1. The polar bear is a carnivorous bear whose native range lies largely within the Arctic Circle, encompassing the Arctic Ocean, its surrounding seas and surrounding land masses.

   Polar bears are mammals they spend most of there time on the Arctic ice 

   
   

Monkeys

1. Monkeys are haplorhine primates, a group generally possessing tails and consisting of approximately 260 known living species. Many monkey species are tree-dwelling, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons.

   
   

   
   

Cake

On Saturday it was my cousins 14 birthday it was so fun we had CAKE it was beautiful it had flowers on it and in red writing it said happy birthday halea then there was ice-cream there was strawberry vanilla and chocolate I used my bowl to make ice-cream soup and then we drop them of at the conference the next day we saw them of at the airport and we had suchi we then went home.😀

Sleepover

Tomorrow I'm having a sleepover with my cousin we are going to have pizza for dinner and we are then going to hand out presents and then we are going to eat cake then watch movies all night.

My family

Me its so cool 

I'm so excited for the afternoon only 16 more hours to go.

My family

Last night my Aunty came all the way from Crischurch for a conference and her daughter is coming to Auckland tomorrow. She's like a teenage version of me it's kind of creepy but I think it's cool I think the world is in for a surprise.

                                            

Selestine's Habitat Design Learning Story

Learner: Selestine    Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: Weeks 3-6 T3

Learning Area: Science

Learning Observed

In Term 3, LH1 spent a lot of learning time looking at the habitats of animals. They had to select an animal and think carefully about what that animal needed to survive. The learners then had to choose a method to recreate this habitat out of Make It, Localise It, Digitize It or Draw It. Selestine chose to Make It. She exercised her curiosity by researching Polar Bear information and drafting a sketch of what she imagined her habitat would look like. Following this Selestine began making her habitat from cardboard, paper, paint, clay and other craft items found at school and home. Selestine presented her learning very confidently, showing that she was capable of tranferring her research to a practical platform of creating and making the habitat. As well as this, all of the Learning Coaches were impressed to see Selestine connect this learning even further to develop an iExplore project about Polar Bear conservation! Go Selestine!!

Evidence of learning

Selestine’s Habitat Design Assessment Rubric

Next Learning Steps

Reflect on the feedback given on the Assessment Rubric. Challenge yourself to work collaboratively with another learner on an iExperience or  iExplore project.

Science and technology

On Thursday the the chosen year 3 to 6 s got to go to point view primary and we played top trumps and we played 30 schools it was so fun the year 5s and 6 s did a technology challenge they at to build a bridge as for the year 3's and 4' we played top trups it was so cool even though we did not win it was fun playing mishin hights got the trophy they came in 1 st place star of the sea came 2 and 3 rd was point veiw primary we came in 5th place