week 6

when I walked in it was a brand new day and I finished my task this week and now I am typing my blog and this week the kites and the balloons merge together as one team and together we do everything together so I can also work with my friends and I can collaborate with different people.It was also the week of sharing our speech to our Hapu group when it was my turn i was nervous but  my friends cheered me up i just forgot a bit it gave me confidence. 

week 5

when I was doing my work  i was so nervous about Introducing my speech i finally got over all of that nonsense and kept on practicing and i made a few mistakes kept practicing until i got it right and i did not worry about anything. 

my week 4 blog post

when I was finishing my work it felt so tiering and exusting but i improved in a lot of things like my speech and my maths follow up finished it right on the dot and right on time just before school.I thought week 4 was awesome because i was on task and getting things done but the thing i have to work on is try to work in my subject books.

On Thursday habitat one went to the zoo we learnt about flamingos,Elephant and cheetah's,I learnt that elephant's stand on there tippie toe's it wouldn't be fear if you were to ride it, I also learnt something about  flamingo's they also walk on there tippie toes.

 When we were walking around the zoo we decided to name our group the cheetahs i came with name,Mr Dyer was my learning coach, first we went to the pride land's and  we saw a Big girrafe's and the Gizzeil and even the african Lion it was a great experience to see the wild life again,it was awesome.

Christian's Food Web Learning Story

Learners: Christian, Sadeen, Samantha, Richard, Divya, Shreya     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 22.7.15

Learning Area: iExperience - Science (Food Chain)

Learning Observed

At the moment, the learners in LH1 are looking at Animals and their various features. Today’s session was looking at the Food Chains that are formed by NZ plants and animals - both native and pests. The learners had to examine a set of animal pictures and come up with a system of organising them according to who would eat what. They had to transfer the name of the animal to a strip of paper and connect them to the animal/tree that would eat them, eventually forming a chain. Christian, Sadeen, Samantha, Richard, Divya and Shreya worked collaboratively to strategise a way of organisation. They assigned each animal a strip and laid the photo on the top. When they had established the bottom of the food chain (invertebrates), they matched up the rest. When a tree/animal had been incorporated, they removed the photo to eliminate it from those that remained. Their final food chain was showing the relationship between invertebrates at the bottom of the food chain to feral cats at the top.

Evidence of learning

Working together to create a method to classify the animals in the food chain.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Collaboration was the main focus of this task. The learners in this group worked well for a majority of the time they were given. They did work together to figure out how to group the animals, and mostly worked together to create the chain. There was some stress at the end to get it finished on time though. (Participating & Contributing and Managing Self). To complete the links in the chain, the group had to work out the connections between the animals by thinking about their needs, physical size/shape, and diets (Thinking).Their chain showed some of these connections as it was not completely straight, it had extra links added in on the sides.

Next Learning Steps

Continue to independently focus on collaborative behaviour: How do we speak to one another? How do we make sure everyone has a turn? How can we involve people who could contribute more? Find reading material/research that could inform them of different food chains e.g. marine food chains.

Maori language week

Maori language week was hard in a way but the good thing was that i learnt new maori words and new maori dance moves the new words were riringa wairua and tena somthing i forgot it was cool when the Manurewa Kapa Haka students came over from Manurewa Intermedite i thought it was cool for them to do that just for us;)

what I think collaboration Is?

Collaboration is about working together and working as a team,for e.g one person does what they are good at and the other person help's the person, the other person that's helping does the lighter job.
I think Collaboration is working as a team and giving people a chance to do what they want to do join in and have fun.