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Goal: language features

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TEACHERS VOICE

Teachers voice

Creative writing... Goal: language features

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MOUSE!!

MOUSE!

Goal: generating ideas

Feedback & Feedforward: You have done a great job of using descriptive words. Also I love the use of onamatapaia. Maybe you could use some smilies and metaphors.

Athletics Goals

These are my athletics goals. :)

Radio Station Reflection

This is my reflection for the radio station. 8001/listen. Tune in to hear about this awesome radio station news, story's and comps

Math prove it!

My goal is to add up through ten.

I made a showme about one of my questions in R2. Please enjoy!

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=8kTq12G

WALT: Add up through ten to solve math problems.

Self feedback: I think that I did well on my speech in the showme.

Self feedforward: I think I can do better focus in the video because I was fighting and getting my words mixed up! 

Pangram

A Pangram is a sentence that has all the letters of the alpherbet.

WALT: Make a Pangram as short as we possibly can. ( still having All the letters of the alpherbet.

In our writing class with troy, we had to get in a pair or a group and make a Pangram. Me and Emma came first in the shortest Pangram coming in with a totel of 51 letters.

Here is our Pangram

LAZY FROGS JAM TO THE MUSIC OF QUICK RED PYTHON VIEWING BOXES.

Feedback/Feedforward: nice

Shrinkage

Shrinkage summary.

WALT: summarise a story. :)

Pippa is a nice girl. She was desperate to join in friendships with the " cool kids" . So she was presured to do a wrong thing. Shoplift. She didn't want to but Pippa did anyway. Kylie was the " head" of the cool girls so to speak. She was the one to force Pippa to do this awful thing.

Pippa went in to the shop and browsed the shelves for something small, something easy to stuff into her pocket or hold it in her hand.

But what she didn't know was the shopkeeper saw everything Pippa was doing. Pippa walked slowly to the door, hoping to get out. She looked around and Kylie and the gang had vanished.

She got a fright when a hand touched her shoulder. She heaved it away because she thought it was Kylie being nasty.

Then the hand grew tighter. Pippa found out it was the owner of the shop. She was in trouble!

The lady at the front desk said the girls outside have stollen before so she new something was up. Pippa was sad. Very sad. She stole, cherry lip gloss.

Choices: 

* Pippa could of refused.

* Pippa could of told the shopkeeper what was going on.

* Pippa could of secretly paid for it.

* Pippa could of walked away as soon as she heard what she was going to do.

* Pippa should of said " that's wrong!"

 

Two stars in a wish

End of term evaluation

Inquiry with nic :)

WALT Develop ideas, skills and concepts in drama

1. Focus - become the character, placement, patience. :)

2. Accept Ideas and build on them :)

3. Levels - make it interesting for the viewer :)

4. Space - balanced, using a mixture of all the space, don’t bunch up :)

5. Finish on time :)

6. Be Spontaneous :)

7. Centre stage - main idea is always in this position. :|

8. Contribute and participate. :|

:) - there

:| - almost there

:( - not there

ECG with Nic!

I thinked back over my learning. I used these mechanisms to reflect on my inquiry learning. 

Hope you enjoy our video.       

http://tinyurl.com/lk7or9e

Writing portfolio sample T3

WALT:  Entertain

My writing goal this term was to use precise and technical language.

SUCCESS CRITERIA:I have used a range of precise vocabulary to communicate meaning.

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

Eventually, we came to the top of the red spiral stairs. And there we were, squished into a small dark room. The slobber runs down from Crystal’s mouth to my cheek. The wind flowing through the cracks enough to push her bad breath up my nose. It was a rather unsavoury place to be.

At the end of the room, in a dome, was the dog stone. It's majestic faint blue glow made just an inch of the room light up. Suddenly the lights flicked on. And there, standing right in front of us, were Fang and Shard and Fluffy. Evil doctor fluffy. " well who do we have here" he said" we've been caught by a Pomeranian " I whispered to crystal. " Fang, Shard. GET THEM!!!!" He barked. The guards lunged towards us. We dodged them and sprinted for the dome. 

I broke the glass and snatched the dog stone. I shoved it into my pocket. 

"NO!" He shouted. " you'll pay for this!, all investigators will pay!!!" He howled. 

Evaluation

How has your writing has improved this term? It has I proved heaps because of my juicy words. My writing pops cause it is full with my beautiful descriptive language. My family in outages me to right more so I keep on trying and trying.

The part of my story I am most proud of is….because… when the detectives clime into the room and they are squished. Then it says ( the slobber runs down her mouth to my cheek.) then it says ( the wind flowing through the cracks enough to push her bad breath up my nose.)

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? My precise language. I'm getting better and it's my goal but I can still work on it in some of my sentences.

Feedback/Feedforward:great job, I loved your descriptive language it really pulled me in to the story,next time I think you could use less search in your writing. Niamh :) 

WRITING IS AWESOME!!!!

Writing edited

Eventually, we came to the top of the red spiral stairs. And there we were, squished into a small dark room. The slobber runs down from Crystal’s mouth to my cheek. The wind flowing through the cracks enough to push her bad breath up my nose. It was a rather unsavoury place to be.

At the end of the room, in a dome, was the dog stone. It's majestic faint blue glow made just an inch of the room light up. Suddenly the lights flicked on. And there, standing right in front of us, were fang and shard. And fluffy. Evil doctor fluffy. " well who do we have here" he said" we've been caught by a Pomeranian " I whispered to crystal. " fang, shard. GET THEM!!!!" He barked. The guards lunged towards us. We dodged them and sprinted for the dome. 

I broke the glass and snatched the dog stone. I shoved it into my pocket. 

"NO!" He shouted. " you'll pay for this!, all investigators will pay!!!" He howled. 

Algebra maths 2 prove it

This is a prove I have made with show me.

My goal is R2 which is extend a repeating picture pattern using number strategies.

 http://tinyurl.com/pazou7o

Please enjoy my showme about algebra and I hope you know where I am going with my maths learning.

Please leave a comment! :)

Maths sample, algebra

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.

http://tinyurl.com/qaa4wpv

Criteria:Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it

Clear message

Two questions to show your learning

Correct answer

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? The learning I have learnt really takes a tole on me and my math learning.

What challenged you the most and why?figuring out what to present for this sample but luckily I did a showme.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Putting more ideas into my learning and to focus on my learning goals. 

Reading sample, magnified objects

This is my movie about magnified objects.

http://tinyurl.com/ocpvrns

What are you most proud of and why? The way I did the research and how I found out the basic known facts.

What challenged you the most and why? Getting the post and video finished before deadline meets.y

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Next time I could focus more on how the audience see it rather then me. Like how the magnified objects work with the topic.

Feedback/feedforward: I think that you have done a great job explaining it. Next time you could work on maybe putting the video on your blog instead of just have a tiny URL.

Mana mortahake

What is a mana motahake: self-awareness

How do I show mana motahake: by helping people but still doing my own learning with accuracy. I go my own way in learning but I can still ask a teacher.  

Nics inquiry. Character

This is my character for inquiry. My story is how mawi slowed the sun. His feelings, our props and what he is and some things he wears and represents are on the sides. He is a fradey cat. 🐾 

Recrafted paragraph

We came to the top of the stairs. And there we were, standing in a small dark room. It was a rather unsavoury place to be. At the end of the room, in a dome, was the dog stone. It's beautiful faint blue glow made an inch of the room light up. It was such a majestic Jewel that we started to steer. Suddenly the lights flicked on. And there, standing right there in front were fang and shard. And fluffy. Evil doctor fluffy. " well who do we have here" he said" wow, he's one stubborn Pomeranian " I whispered to crystal. " fang, shard. GET THEM!!!!" He barked. The guards leaped towards us. We dodged them and broke the glass dome. I snatched the dog stone and shoved it into a pocket in my detective coat. " NO!" He yelled. " you'll pay for this!, all investigators will pay!!!" He howled. 

Reflection: I could of worked on my language features. To use presice words to make my story stand out in different parts.... First, middle, end

I enjoy writing with Suzanne.

I hope you enjoy my chosen paragraph

Inquiry reflection ;)

This is my inquiry reflection. I enjoy my drama inquiry! :)

Learning pit sample

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:

Draw the Learning Pit.

List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.

List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.

Label where good learning happens.

List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

How did I feel when I was in the pit?  Frustrated because it was hard to work under so much pressure but at the same time I felt that if I took little steps at a time that I can do a lot more things better, neater and faster.

What did I do to work out of the pit? I took a lot of determination and I made it show. I took little steps and I got myself out of the pit in no time.

Feedback/Feedforward:you really put a lot of effort into your drawing I like it.:-) and you really told me how you felt when you were in the pit. Next time I would like to see some colour in your post. Maias🐹

Te REO Maori poster

This poster is by Olivia, Rileigh-Kaye and Maia S

Our poster can teach you about some feelings and sentences in Maori. We used Maori colours and our favourite colours. We went to workshops with ebony, elly, troy. We decided to each go to a different group. I went to Elly, Maia went to Troy and Rileigh went to Ebony. We added different types of decoration. E.G. Korus. We added a picture of a waka to make it more.... Realistic. We used bright colour and enthusiasm. Hope you enjoy it as much as us!!

Ebony: fonts 

Troy: colour 

Elly: angles

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.

Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered and do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Complete the criteria with targets to show your reflection.   Reflect on the evaluation questions below.

Please use the below targets to complete this self assessment:

* * *

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message. 

Composition:  My poster is balanced. 

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I am most proud of the way we used colour and deco to make the poster POP! 

What challenged you the most and why? The thing that challenged me the most was the coping of the Maori words and feelings also the way the time wizzed past us like a spread train.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? To make teamwork into friendship and personality. The neatness we need to work on aswell.

Feedforward/feedback: I think it is good but you could improve by having how it is by

Inquiry with nic

In our inquiry class with nic we learned to use our body to act and for drama like dance and slow mo acting. We also did the acting about the commen wealth games.

My smart goals*

My writing goal is to apply the PEELS text structure ( point, evidence, explain, link and style ).

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because this goal is the main point I have been focusing on in writing time. Free writing and set task writing.

I will acheive my goal by working on my writing when ever I get the chance in my writing time so I can focus like an a effective learner.

 

My reading goal is to make connections between what I read and what I know about the world. 

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because my teacher and I agree on my goal. Also this is my goal I'm taking little steps at to achieve it. 

I will achieve my goal by rereading the text that I am reading and to think about what it means, and what I already know about it.

My maths goal is to is to focus on the doubling and halve strategy to solve multiplication  

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because I want to learn my fast times tables so I can learn off by heart very fast. I will try very hard 

I will acheive my goal by learning the problem off by heart so next time my maths teacher tells me the problem it will be at the top of my head ready to shout out.

Feedback & feedforward: I think you have given lots of time & effort into you smarts goal & think you have done a great job. Gemma :p

Hangi

This is a picture story of a hangi. It explains how to make a hangi and the purpose of it. 

A hangi is a Maori way to cook and eat food. It is also a good way to get fresh air and to make friendship bonds.

Feedback feed forward: I think you could add some more pictures,

Feedback: I like the way I expressed the hangi ways

My end of term reflection

WALT: evaluate our learning honestly

What is an effective learner?  An effective learner is a person with their heads down and they are always working and ready to work. Also an effective learner is a person that can help other people if their stuck because an effective learner is always prepared for learning.

What were the highlights for this term? Why? My biggest highlight for this term was petday because all the pets settled in and we made a lot of money to donate to the SPCA. 114.10 dollars is awesome. It was so fun to be with all the animals and my friends. We had a blast.

What were your greatest challenges this term?  Why? My greatest challenge was petday as well because the first few hours were critical. The cats were meowing, the budgies were tweeting and cheeping. But in the end me, maia and the crew sorted it out before brunch. 

How are you going towards acting with integrity? Why?  How could you improve? Me working towards integrity is getting better and better because I am getting my priorities done faster and tidier. I help my friends and siblings finish homework and just plane work! What I could work on is to work like an effective learner because I can get a bit sidetracked sometimes.  

What are your goals in our learner disposition wall?  Where to next? On the learner dispotision wall I am on self-managing and I am glad of my stage because I am up to standard of the goals I have to do on it. But I have some things to work on like finishing my work in the time provided. By the end of next term I should be able to put my face on self-directed. I am going to work really hard to get my goals done. 

Grasshopper tennis

WALT: improve out small balls skills like throwing, catching and hitting.

Big john is fun. He taught me a lot of techniques that have helped me to discover the fun of tennis.

Description: we all did really well at tennis and I did as well. We used different skills do these activities like: temple tap down, lobster glue, the lobster game ect. 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.

Why? To reflect on how we are going with the tennis skills we have learnt. We will share this during our Student Led Conference.

When? Week 8

Who? The World

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why: I am most proud of my race track because I got the balance of the ball to stay to the edge of the racquet. 

What challenged you the most and Why: in tennis the activitie that challenged me the most has to be the slice the cheese because it always slipped past the edge of the racquet and that made it hard to make it hit the slim bit of the racquet without it slipping away.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards: my goal is to work on the lobster glue because me and my partner for the lobster glue ( Emma D ) kept missing the ball because our feet didn't want to go the same way so we ended up tripping over eachothers legs.

Your post must have a:

Title (capital letters for beginning of each word)

WALT at the top 

Image - something visual for the reader 

Description:

Purpose - why we were doing this

Process - what we did & how we did it

Learning - what I learned

Evaluation - how well do I think I did

Feedback/feedforward from buddy/teacher/parent

Buddy feedback & feedforward: 

Wow Olivia. You have lots of greens and oranges but no reds! You are a much better tennis player than me. What I think you need to work on is trying to controll the ball a bit more. Aye 

My Comment: I like the way I persevered in tennis to get the goals I needed what I could work on is my balance with the ball on my racquet. 

Ki o Rahi

WALT Summarise (How will I know I am successful?)

• identify key words

• identify main ideas

Goals:

- Learn the legend

- Understand the legend

- Re-Tell

- Play the game

Resources:

Ki-O-Rahi

Follow-Up:

Create a pic summary of the story.

- daybook

- writer’s notebook

- 53 Pages App

- Educreations App

- Explain Everything

Re-Tell the story in a creative way:

- Written

- Picture Story

- Video

- Spoken Drama

- Dance

- Animation

Description: to make  something about the story of Ki o Rahi. A Maori legend. 

Integrity sample

WALT: Show Integrity

Why? To teach people to use integrity in school and at home. 

When? Week 7

Who? The World

Task: to make an iMovie about how we use and show integrity. 

Description: Integrity means we have to show kotahitanga, courage and kindness. EG:  Even if we were not using something we can still pick it up like Sofina and Amber-rose did. Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/M0XOHNmFsLc     

We added some special effects: school bell, kids cheering and applause. 

Feedforward: maybe you could describe the task a bit more.

Feedback: I think you have done a great job and you have told us what integrity means and and example.

What I could of worked on is the backround. It is likely to catch people's eye. 

Potential & Kinetic Writing Sample

 WALT: inform 

DESCRIPTION: Write an explanation about something you have learned about energy.

What? We are publishing a piece of writing.

Why? To share on our blog and during our Student Led Conference.

When? Week 6

Who? The World

Your post must have a:

Title (capital letters for beginning of each word)

WALT 

Image - something visual for the reader 

Description

Evaluation - how well do I think I did (target/criteria)

Feedback/feedforward from buddy/teacher/parent

Description: my writing is about kinetic and potential energy. It explains how newtons cradle works. Also it explains that kinetic and potential energy are not the same thing. Sir Isaac Newton created the newtons cradle.  

My writing 

What is kinetic energy? Is it a heat energy? Is it a light energy? It's neither! Kinetic energy is a moving type of energy.  

Kinetic energy can transfer from place to place. ( potential energy sits there because it is a still type of energy. ) Sir Isaac Newton is the creator of newtons cradle. If you take a newtons cradle for example hold one of the end balls of the newtons cradle and that represents potential energy because - ( the newtons cradle is always equal. The balls in the middle don't move because they are being supported by the end balls so the kinetic energy goes straight through them and into the end ball so that means the first ball starts with all the kinetic energy. But when the balls stop that's when they run out of kinetic energy.) Newton's three laws were about kinetic and potential energy- (and how that kinetic energy can move through different objects.)Kinetic energy has the ability to move from place to place. 

Sir Isaac Newton knew that the kinetic energy would go through the balls and hit the end ball with that energy.

In conclusion kinetic energy in moving and potential energy in still.

Anything that moves will have kinetic energy in it. 

By Olivia Bovey 

Peer comment: WOW Olivia what a great piece of writing, I like how you explained what newtons cradle is. I give you an 8/10. Lili 

Self comment: I think I did well because I really explained how kinetic energy worked through the balls. I give myself an 9/10 because I had to edit a lot but I got there in the end.

Teacher comment: You have started with a main point at the start of your  body paragraph. 

include evidence (facts, experiments etc) to support my main point

I really like how you have developed an example tha might be new to the reader

explain the evidence and how it proves my main point

You have persevered to try to explain how/why your example proves your point - this is really tricky, well done.

Practise writing a linkingsentence to my next paragraph

Your ideas link in your paragraphs. Have a look at how writers link between paragraphs.

infuse style: topic-specifc vocab, second/third person, present tense, transition words

Great style. You have used some transition words.

Science post

Me and Charlotte have created a 17 second movie about potential and kinetic energy.

WALT show our understanding of how energy works.

Description: we have been learning about energy. To share our learning we have made a video to explain how energy works.

Task: make a 30 second ( or under ) about our understanding of energy. 

This is a diagram ebony made with our maths groups for some tips of how to make a movie successful. Enjoy!

Feedforward: we were amazing! You were good in the movie and I was a good camera person. We worked together well! Charlotte 

My Mnemonic: aeroplane

This is my mnemonic I created.

Mnemonic! 

Purpose: the purpose of creating a mnemonic is it will help you remember a word in a funny way.

What: a spelling mnemonic

Why:to help you to remember tricky words

How: making random sentences that spell the word you are working on.

I learned: that it is a fun and brilliant  way to remember how to spell a particular word.

Next time: I could of added more detail to my master piece. My mnemonic. 

Feedback & feedforward: I think you did a great job but maybe next time make it more clear. Emma D

Olivia's Doubling Maths Strategy Work

WALT: to use double and half strategy's to solve multipacation problems.

In this video I found an easy way to solve our 5 times tables. You turn them into a 10 times table strategy that you know off by heart. 

I gave myself a nine pit of ten because this was my second draft on my maths sample but I really enjoy the maths work I am doing with ebony. Something I could work on is my clear speech. ( I got a bit scratchy at the end ) 

Why: because it s an easyer way to solve harder problems.

What: doubling and halving 5 times tables to make them easyer.

How: by halving the biggest number and halving the smaller number.

I learned: that it is easyer to make the times tables a much easyer.

Feedback: I like how you worked out the problem with ease you could tell you  understand  it.

😀maia s 

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=XKuqzpI

Tables challenge graph

This is my tables challenge graph. There are letters up the top of the dots to tell you what level I'm in. Up top is the date and the score. I'm getting pretty good at this tables challenge.

Hot and cold

This is my hot and cold page. We needed to draw drawings and write words about hot things and cold things. Temperature and heat. These are the things that I think are hot and can be hot and things that are cold and can be cold.    

States of matter fill ins

I had a phew mess ups but I did my very best! This test is about what we know about matter. 

My spelling words

This is a way to learn your words and to remember your words for different occasions like a spelling test. It's helping me so it will help you. Give it a try!

Spelling test

This is my spelling test. On the second page is the back of the page and the words I need to learn. I think I did well because I need a good challenge. And even if I didn't get some of them right I still can be proud that I tried it. Something not so negative is I got lots of them right!!!

Me and my learning partner Serena's poster

Learning partner

This is a learning partner cloud. My learning partner is Serena. A learning partner has to be

. Honest

. Kind

. Can work in a team

.Cooperates 

. Nice

Me and Serena think some of these reasons are important because if you do not follow most of these tips you will not really know what is important. Like if you needed some help you would probably run straight to the teacher instead of thinking about C3B4ME. By Olivia and Serena   

Word puzzle give it a go yourself

Can you change keep to peep to weep in 5 moves?

Keep

Peep

Weep

I did this by turning the k into the p then turning the p into the w

Rileigh-Kaye Lambie

My kotahitanga poster

My kotahitanga poster is about people/things that help other beings in need of help. Kotahitanga means: unity and togetherness. It also means you can help any one. Any where. Any time. As long as you do it respectfully it will count as something nice to that thing/person you helped.  

My kotahitanga poster

My kotahitanga poster is about people/things that help other beings in need of help. Kotahitanga means: unity and togetherness. It also means you can help any one. Any where. Any time. As long as you do it respectfully it will count as something nice to that thing/person you helped.  

Broken calculator

I used a broken calculator to make these number answers. I could only use 2 numbers I used 4 and 5. The last one I completed 18. Next time I can try to keep trying until I am finished. 

Team Tactics

Team Tactics is about putting the right words into place, so it makes sense. I used the words from the box of words in the top right corner. You cross them out after you have used them. This one is about a basket ball team that does not have a coach so they try to convince a Lynne's dad ( Lynne plays in the basket ball team). I also did a true or false activity below. Read the story and do the true and false your self.