Justin's Animal Habitat- Digitize it Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: Justin                                                     Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats.  They were fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where the animals captured the curiosity of Justin.  He has been building his language and developing his understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  Justin is very able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals like the chimpanzee. He not only recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive, he can identify and discuss these for a variety of animals. Justin used www.buildyourwildself.com to create an amazing and unusual animal.  The learners were instructed that they needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for their imaginary creature.  Justin opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the habitat in Tinkercad to demonstrate his capability at using it.  Justin went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the Scorcher, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool -which ended up being Tinkercad because Justin demonstrated perseverance and learned this new tool brilliantly. Justin collaborated very well- listening to others, supporting others with his knowledge and asking questions.  He assisted other learners who were using Tinkercad as he learned quickly.  When it was time to share his learning, he presented the ‘’scorcher’ habitat confidently to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about their learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. iMovie to show his Minecraft to others create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in their final product learn more about the chimpanzee by reading books and websites about it

The Speech Final

Who won the speech finals? Hi, Today I will be telling you about the speech finals in the multi space at ormiston. So after habitat hui on Monday, LH1, LH2 and went to the Multi Space for the speech finals. Some of the finalists were Kevin, Mohamed, Seth, Aleena and Jahnavi. Kevin's speech was about cooking and my favourite parts were when he used humour. Mohamed's speech was about the haka and what I liked was that he was signing and a learning coach was saying what he was signing. Seth was about skate boarding I think. Aleena's was about why she should be the principle of ormiston primary. It was interesting how she described what she would do if she was principle. Jahnavi was about why we should have school uniform. LH2 had to go early so they didn't get to hear all of them. While LH1 had to wait for the judges to decide the winner we were answering question. One of them were "What would you do if you were princible?" I was going to say "No School!" But they didn't pick me. Now the judges were ready. In third place came Mohamed, in second place came Aleena and finally in first place came... Drum roll please. Jahnavi!

My Speech

Hi, I will be showing you my speech and I hope you like it and please give me feedback.

What causes species to become endangered. If you don’t know yet, well im going to tell you. The 3 main reasons that endangered species are getting endangered is because of habitat loss, natural causes and illegal hunting.

Firstly, one of the most common ways of how endangered animals get endangered is habitat loss. For example, the mountain gorilla is having trouble because of habitat loss and there is less than 790 mountain gorillas in the world just because of habitat loss. People are rapidly destroying so that makes it harder for gorillas to sustain their lives. Did you also know that habitat loss poses the greatest threat to species.

Secondly, over the past 200 years, humans have made significant changes to natural environments all around the globe, and most of these changes have negatively affected the wildlife.That mean numbers of species are headed towards extinction.One example for natural causes is global warming.Some species didn’t just get endangered, they got extinct.

Thirdly, leopards and bears are being hunted illegally by poachers.The hunters ignore the government and go hunting for species that they're not supposed to hunt then the species they’re hunting get endangered.

 For these reasons, I hope you now understand how species are getting endangered.

Collaboration iActive Week

Hello, this week in my opinion is special because our iActive for only this week have changed. What have changed is that we are doing Shrinking Vessel, Cross the River, Human Knot, Mine Field and Water Bucket challenge. My favourite one would be shrinking vessel because it was easy to play, easy to setup and also fun to play. I'm pretty sure that everyone else loves this week's iActive the fact that it changed for for this week. The sad thing for me is that I wasn't able to play mine field because it was a rainy day. I wonder what mine field is like?

Zoo Learning Story - July 2015

Learner: Justin L, Henry, Willie, Rohullah and Nehaal                           Learning Coach: DWilkes                              Date: July 30, 2015

Learning Area: Science

Learning Observed

Our trip to the zoo was a learning adventure for Justin, Henry, Willie, Rohullah and Nehaal.  The boys were split into small groups while we toured the zoo visiting animals from around the world and observing their behaviour and habitats.  The boys loved seeing the red pandas, reptiles, primates and the African mammals.  While the observed the different enclosures they were prompted to ‘notice’ the animal habitats and discuss and describe the zoo habitat each animal lived in.  They all asked lots of questions and were eager to move from area to area.   Willie and Nehaal wanted to know why people poach animals? Justin and Henry were curious about the size, shape and colour of the elephant tooth and Rohullah and Peanut the Pukeko were fascinated by the colours of the flamingos.  They all thought is was very amusing that one of the elephants had the same name as their classmate “Anjli”.  The boys were attentive, collaborative and curious.and enjoyed the opportunity to talk about what they already knew about animals, their adaptations and what they need to survive.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During the animal encounters with the zoo keepers the boys demonstrated their curiosity when they got to touch the cheetah pelt and skull.  They wanted to know how the zoo keepers got them. All of the boys were managing self during the zoo visit by staying with their groups, buddies and listening to instructions.  They was collaborative and participated and contributed in all 3 animal encounters: flamingos, cheetahs and elephants.  Justin, Henry and Rohullah enjoyed watching Willie and Nehaal connect to their learning from school when they got to hold the elephant artefacts at the front of the encounter and because they could tell us which continent a lot of the animals came from.

Next Learning Steps

Visit the Auckland zoo website to learn more about the animals and their habitats. -share and contribute ideas and questions with the wider group -use zoo learning and wonderings in their Habitat Design learning adventure when we go back to school -make connections to their observations of the animals habitats at the zoo to their natural habitats

Zoo Trip

Guess what? I went to the Auckland Zoo! I was put in Ms Wilkes group. Me and my friend Henry get to hold the map so we were the navigators. My favourite animal would probably be the cheetah but we didn't get to see it. My favourite animal that I saw would probably be the two elephants. What I learnt was that flamingos also have black on their wings and they also stand on their tippy toes. Did you also know that cheetahs have long eyesights which means they can see far away. I hope that you have enjoyed my blog post and maybe even learnt something.

Maori Language Week

Kia ora, it's Maori language week and on Monday there was a special performance. Some student from manurewa school came to ormiston primary school and presented to us. They did the haka and they did a waiata. The boys learnt how to do the haka and the girls learnt to do a waiata to present to LH2 and LH4 in the MultiSpace. 
We also learnt how to say words in Maori like how to say 1 to 10 in Maori. I hope you liked my short passage about my Maori language week.