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.

Collaboration

Hello, in Ormiston Primary School we have something called the 4 C's and they are called Curious, Connected, Capable and Collaboration. This term our main C is Collaboration. Collaboration is working as a team. The first day of school we were doing challenges collaboratively in teams of five. For one of them, we had to direct a team mate from one side of the obstacle to the other while the team mate is blind folded. I hope you like my post about collaboration.

Justin's Maths Learning Story

Learner: Justin L     Learning Coach: T.Dillner          Date: 2.7.15

Learning Area: Mathematics - Probability

Learning Observed

Recently in Mrs Dillner’s Maths group, we have been learning about Probability and Chance. We were talking about the probability of random events like flipping a coin, rolling a dice or using a spinner. Justin chose to work with Henry and they used a spinner to find out how likely it was for the paper clip to land on different colours. There were two spinners and they had different sized sections which changed the probability of the colours being spun. The boys spun the paper clip 20 times per spinner and then discussed their results. Justin identified that red was more likely on the the second spinner as it had a larger ‘chunk’. He could also describe that the likelihood for green and blue was the same, but yellow would not be spun as much because it had a smaller area.

Evidence of learning

Justin discussed the similarities and differences of each spinner with Henry.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Justin completed the task and then compared the results collaboratively with Henry. They worked well together, staying on task and completing the work in the time frame (Managing Self). Justin could make sound comparisons between the two spinners and sets of data, making connections with justified evidence (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Develop capability by completing another Probability based learning activity. Use the language of Probability to make his justifications more formal.