Nimisha's Writing Narrative

Learner: Nimisha             Learning Coach: Mr Dyer                        Date: Week 3 - Term 1

Learning Area: Writing

Learning Observed

We have hit the ground running and are already challenging ourselves to identify what makes writing effective and how we can capture this learning in our own writing. We have identified that our best writing comes from the heart and involves sharing our thoughts, wonderings and feelings about a particular subject. We have also begun exploring ‘Show’ not ‘Tell’ to develop imagery and depth in our writing, along with writing about our sensory responses to daily events. Finally, through selecting elements of Who, What, Why, When, Where and How, we can focus on different elements of our writing in more detail. Nimisha has begun to use some of the above writing techniques to make their writing #Oresome! She has the opportunity to write every day, and is involved in our author’s circles where they can seek advice and share their writing with myself and other learners. They are also invited to respond to areas for development at various stages of the writing process. It will be exciting to see how their writing develops over the course of the year starting from the example below which was one of their first pieces of independent writing.    On a Friday, Nimisha contributes to our group blog. We share our thoughts, wonderings and feelings about the previous week and collaborate with the other writing groups before posting on our habitat blog. Be sure to check out these blogs when you can.

Evidence of learning

This was Nimisha’s first effort at writing this year. It will be exciting to see how she progresses as the year goes on.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable Nimishay has begun to show her capabilities in writing even at this early stage of the year. We are connecting with events from our lives to make writing real to us. We are doing a range of independent writing and more collaborative pieces.

Next Learning Steps

Nimisha should continue to write from the heart and visit the Author’s circle for regular input into her writing. She is encouraged to share her writing with family members and also with other audiences at school and home.This will give her a chance to receive authentic feedback that can be used to make her next piece of writing even better.

Narrative Assessment - Term 4 - iExplore

Mathematics Narrative Assessment

Learner:                     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie             Date: 3 December 2015

Learning Area: Learning Habitat Two - Mathematics

Learning Observed

In today’s session we were practicing our basic fractions. We learnt about what a fraction is. Nimisha was organising pictures into the different categories of halves, thirds and quarters. This was a new topic that we have been learning this week. When we started it was very difficult as it was new, but once we understood what a fraction is then it got much easier. The activity that we were doing was the learners had the fractions written on the table and they had to draw the fraction. It was great to see the learner's understanding how to read the fraction and be able to connect that knowledge to a drawing. Nimisha seemed to have no problem with this activity, which was exciting as we were having trouble with this activity yesterday. This shows what repetition and time does to help develop new knowledge.

Evidence of learning

Nimisha’s fraction drawings

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The Key Competencies that are being shown in this activity is “understanding language, symbols and text” as they had to understand what the symbol means and what she needs to draw for it. The Vision Principle that was being shown in this activity is “Connect” as the learners were able to connect their knowledge that they had about fractions to drawing a visual representation for that fraction.

Next Learning Steps

Nimisha’s next learning steps are: read and identify fractions such as ⅕, ⅙, and  ⅛ instantly recall doubles and halves to 10

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Handwriting Narrative Assessment

Learner: Nimisha                     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie             Date: 12 October 2015

Learning Area: Learning Habitat 2 - Handwriting

Learning Observed

For literacy we have been focusing on handwriting every thursday. This was because we saw many learners struggling with writing or complaining about sore hands while writing. This can affect the amount of writing they are doing which could have an impact on their achievement in writing.  We were using the Casey the Caterpillar Handwriting Shapes to help the learner remember the correct formation. This has made some improvements to the amount the learners are writing as they are writing me fluidly. Nimisha has been focusing on the size of her writing and these handwriting sessions have been improving this. Nimish has notice the difference as well.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

A Key Competencies that is being shown in this lesson is “understand language, symbols and text” as the learners are learning the correct formation of the letters. The Vision Principles that are being used are “Capabilities” as the learners are improving their writing capabilities and “Connecting” as they are learning the link between handwriting and writing full sentences.

Next Learning Steps

Nimisha’s next learning steps are: writing all lowercase letters with correct formation. writing all capital letters with correct formation.

iExplore- Cubism

Learner:   Nimisha      Learning Coach:   Luisa Maloni            Date: 4th September, 2015

Learning Area: iExplore: Visual Art: Cubism

Learning Observed

We have been learning about the art movement Cubism. We have looked at many examples of cubism and have created our own studies using the cubist style. Nimisha used the elements of shape and fracture to create a study of a tree and a painting. She then looked at images on the internet to choose an artistic exemplar she was interested in trying. Nimisha chose an image of a heart and then created her own study using ideas from her artistic exemplar.

Evidence of learning

Nimisha uses an artistic exemplar to explore ideas about Cubism. She creates a number of studies to explore and refine her ideas. That’s what professional artists do! I can’t wait to see her final work!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Nimisha demonstrates the Vision principles of Curiosity in continually experimenting with and searching for new ideas in cubism, Capability in executing beautiful, bold and expressive artworks and Connected in connecting with what other artists are doing within the art style of Cubism. She uses the Key Competencies of Thinking as she develops her own creativity as well as follow an inquiry process.

Next Learning Steps

Use new language to describe her artworks e.g. shape, fracture, hues, shades Describe what she has learned and say what her next steps are

Math Narrative Assessment

Learner: Nimisha                  Learning Coach: Mr Hattie          Date: 9 September 2015

Learning Area: Mathematics

Learning Observed

For mathematics we are learning to subtract numbers to 5 using materials. This is the first step of subtracting. During the lesson we started with understanding what subtraction is and how we subtract. We went through a few problems together using our materials, our fingers. This allows us to manipulate the problem ourselves at our own pace. Nimisha was doing a good job. Our next step for this lesson was practicing using our capabilities that we learnt in a practical sense. We played our addition and subtraction board game, we only did the subtraction part. Nimisha succeeded at this game as she made sure that she used the strategy that she learnt during our lesson.

Evidence of learning

Nimisha had to solve the problem 5-3. She used her fingers, but she needed to start from her first finger not the middle fingers.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The Key Competencies that was being shown during this lesson is “thinking” as the learners are having to think about the skills that they have just learnt while applying them to a new game. “Relating to others” as the learners were put into pairs as we are wanting discussion around why they have gotten to the answer that they got. “Capable” is the key value that we were using as the learners had to use the capabilities that they had learnt in a practical sense.

Next Learning Steps

Nimisha’s next learning steps are: using imaging to solve subtraction problems to 5. instantly recognising basic facts to 5.