Toby Alone

So i am reading this book called Toby alone to i am just going to tell you what its about. 

Running from branch to branch exhausted , his feet bleeding Toby atones is being hunted down  by his people and his best friend 
will the one and a half millimeter Toby alone make it in this harsh Oak tree will he survive.

My I Explore

Wednesday 17th November 

The 1st OPS paddle boarding trip.

As part of my iExplore learning, I have planned a ‘Paddle boarding’ trip for 8 learners. Your child is invited to an afternoon of learning and fun!  We require 1 of the parents / guardians to help with transport and supervise our adventure. A learning coach will also be joining us.

What you need to know…

First in first served so get in quick!

We  will eat when we get there.

Cost:

$15 (to be paid to Mrs Doige in the school office ASAP.

What you get:

Fun, 1.5 hours of paddle boarding instruction and more fun! you need to bring snack hat, togs (life jacket if provided at home ) WATER BOTTLE

When:

Thursday 3 December

Where:

Mission Bay.

Why:

To teach learners a new water sport, to help with swimming capability...and have a good old swim!

Please sign below and return with payment to the school office ASAP. More information will then be given to those who are attending.

Kind Regards,

Selestine and Learning Coaches (LH1)

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Karis, Selestine, Kavisha & Jahnavi's Antarctica Learning Story

Learners: Kavisha, Karis, Jahnavi & Selestine     Learning Coach: T.Dillner            Date: 30.10.15

Learning Area: iExperience - Antarctica

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

The learners in LH1 were given the opportunity to opt into a Virtual Field Trip to Antarctica. Kavisha, Karis, Jahnavi and Selestine all chose to participate in this via the education providers LEARNZ. The sessions were run either once or twice daily for five consecutive school days and learners connected using audio conferences, chats, Twitter and video diaries. These four girls were highly engaged and demonstrated insatiable curiosity throughout. They took all opportunities to record their questions while listening to the audio conferences. As well as this, they questioned the questions that learners from other schools had provided! After the formal sections of the audio conferences, we were able to use an instant chat feature to ask our own questions. Each of these four girls chose thoughtful and sensible questions to communicate to the scientists and researchers who were speaking directly from Antarctica. One of their final tasks was to collaboratively create a Kahoot quiz to share with one of the LH1 Hapu Groups about their Antarctica learning.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Share their Kahoot quizzes with some buddies from their Hapu Groups. Listen to the final Audio Conference at their own convenience as we had a School Wide Assembly when it was held. See (or email) Mrs Dillner for the log in details.

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