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.
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  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.
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  Label where good learning happens.
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  List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit.

• How did you feel when you were in the pit?  nervosa because i want to get all of my work done. 
  mad because i am trying to get all of my work done in time.
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  What did you do to work out of the pit? to take little steps because you can start easy and work our way up to hard.

Feedback/Feedforward: I like the way you had great detail
next time work on the qualaty of your photo

homework story's

WALT:  Entertain

Description: We read the poem “My Remarkable Journey” which inspired us to write our own remarkable journeys about why our homework wasn’t at school today.

{here is my story}

I work up i got out of bed draged my feet on the ground I remebered that it is homework day, I HATE homework day but if i come up with a idea to say i forgot my homework I could get out of doing my homework ever again. I had the most awesome idea  that bubble bee stole my homework because he thought it was the matrix of leader ship so he could bring optmas prime back to live so they could beat meagtron and starsream but when he put it in optmas he did’t come back to live. But then he saw some writing that told him were the real matrix of leader ship. So I went with him bubble bee to steal my home work back but. there was one problem he could shot me when i run away with my homework. so i thought if i stay with him he would’t shot me and i could see were the real matrix of leader ship was it was deap down in the derst. i siad bubble bee i see some thing  glowing so we run over there. we found it now we can bring optmas back to live we run as fast as we could to optmas we found optmas bubble bee but it in optmas he got up he said to me how are you i said alex he said thank you for helping bubble bee bring my back to live so he toke me home and i run of to school with out my homework because it fellow out of my hands.

Criteria:

We decided that a quality piece of writing has the following things. 

Reflect on whether these things are in your story:

Introduction: It hooks the reader in the first few lines making them want to read more

Punctuation: Is your writing ready for a reader? Does your punctuation make

it easy for them to read?

Short sentences: Do you create suspense by using these in your writing?

Onomatopoeia: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Alliteration: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Similes/Metaphors: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Evaluation:

1. What do you think is the best part of your story?when bubble bee stole my homework

2. What was the hardest part about completing this portfolio sample? there is no hard parts to this sample

3.  Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?to get more green on the

Criteria

Feedback

i think you u did very good with your post and your story

Feedforward:

but you need to add more detail 

feedback and feedforward by kadince

TE REO MOARI

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.

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:

1. What are you most proud of and why? of learning most of the moari words and what they mean

2. What challenged you the most and why? learning the moari words and what they mean but i think i could learn more moari words
   

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? learn more moari words and what they mean

Feedback/Feedforward: i think that adam did really well at your spelling and speaking

hiwi the kiwi

on wensday kiwi the kiwi came to our school he gave as some fishing tips.
and i won a fishing book and a poster of kiwi the kiwi. here is my writing

reading goal

my reading goal is

Expand Vocabulary because it is most import to my reading 

I know, find, and use interesting words.

• Voracious reading
• Tune in to interesting words and use new vocabulary in speaking and writing
• Use prior knowledge and context to predict and confirm meaning
• Use word parts to determine meaning of words (prefixes, suffixes, origins, abbreviations)
• Ask someone to define the word for you
• Use dictionaries, thesauruses, and glossaries as tools
• Use Pictures, illustrations, and diagrams
  

grasshopper tenis

WALT: improve our small ball skills like catching, throwing, and hitting.

Description: 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

Task: complete the rubric with targets to show your reflection. Make a comment to the questions below?

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? pating the dog because i think it is really easy

2. What challenged you the most and Why? slice slice the cheese because you have to hit skiny part

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? is to work on slice the cheese

science writing

draf 

what is radiation what dose radiation do well let me tall you. Radiation is a x-ray and a heat wave. Do you know that heat waves come from something hot you can't see the heat waves. But on a really hot day you can sometimes see it. Now let me tell you about a x-ray has some radiation.But if you have to much x-rays you can get really sick or die so make sure you don't have to much x-rays

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WALT: inform

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



Evaluation I think i did a good job with my writing and at my post


 Feedback/feedforward adam i like you did to your post it was awesome.
from Ignacious

buddy time sample

WALT show Integrity

Task: We are making a short movie that shows what Integrity looks like with our little buddy.

Description: Troy and Chris shared with us some movies that demonstrate people showing Integrity when it looked like they were not going to show it. Our goal was to create our own movies that showed Integrity at school

Evaluation WALT: Show Integrity @ RSS

Task: Create a movie showing integrity at RSS

S.C 1: (What does integrity look like?)

yes-Integrity needs to be in the title or the ending

yes-Definition of Integrity

yes-Clear message, not a movie where people go huh?

yes-An ‘A ha’ moment.

S.C 2: (What does a good movie need?)

yes-Good acting (speak clearly, clear movements, confidence in themselves, not having back to camera, clear sound recording)

yes-Different angles shot from.

yes-Should be roughly a minute long

yes-Edited clips (no long periods of nothing)

SC 3: Planning

yes-Should have a storyboard and a script

yes-Practise run before you actually record

Feedback/feedforward i like how you put the movie together.next time don't say yes to everything.

Potential and kinetic energy

  

DESCRIPTION: Each week we have been learning about a different type of energy.    understanding of how energy works. For example, States of Matter, Kinetic and Potential, Radiation, Conduction and Convection.

SC:

Gathering Data

I can gather information using my 5 senses

I can gather information to make a prediction

I can use my information to draw conclusions

I can share my findings using evidence I have gathered

Task: Make a video (no longer than 30 seconds) about on example of   

energy. i.e. States of matter, Potential and Kinetic energy, Newtons Cradle or forms of energy like Radiation, Convection, Conduction.

What makes a good video:

- clear voices

- different camera angles

- Still camera skills

- mute background noise

- mixture of still and moving images

- background distractions

- music

What makes a good poster:

- clear writing

- detail

- images

- interactive

Evaluation I think I did a good job at setting it and fowling the guide lines for the science sample 

Feedback/Feed Forward you did very good at your movie and how you set our post out and you can work on clear voices 

Reading Sample

WALT: rote learn

Purpose: We are making mnemonics to help us learn our spelling words.

Process:  We made sentences out of our spelling words to help us remember how to spell each word.  We want to get 10/10.  If we make them funny it helps us to remember them.

Learning:  We learnt what mnemonics are and how they can help us.  

Evaluation: i think i did a great job on the mnemonics. but  i found it really hared because i had a really hard word it was aeroplane 

Feedback/Feedforward: well done you did a great  job with your mnemonics and take a photo with a ipad