7 Continents and Habitats Learning Story

Learner: :   Evan & Taivero                                                                     Date: July 2015

Learning Area: Science                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Observed

The learners are beginning learning in the area of animal habitats, adaptations and survival needs in preparation for our trip to the zoo.  During the session the learners began to build their scientific language and develop their ability to communicate in science.  In matching the animals to different continents Evan & Taivero began to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat.  They can recognise that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive.  While learning the continent song, they actively participated and could sign and say the names of all of the continents.  They could also identify them on a world map.  Taivero and Evan can define what the word habitat means and they can state which continent certain animals are found eg. panda in Asia, giraffe in Africa

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The boys were enthusiastically engaged in all aspects of the lesson participating and contributing while demonstrating strong collaboration and teamwork.  They asked each other for help and didn’t hesitate to check for understanding with other learners or the learning coaches. During the matching activity I observed excellent questioning and problem solving strategies while they worked with Mrs Patrick.  Evan thought it would be a good idea to check some of their guesses on the internet.  While some of the animals were matched incorrectly to the continents, they persevered to get it correct.  They are able to make connections between what a habitat is to an animal and what a habitat is to humans drawing on new learning and prior knowledge.

Next Learning Steps

more practice matching animals to different continents review saying the names of the continents - use the continent song here reading about animals at home, visiting the zoo website or playing these games http://switchzoo.com/games/habitatgame.htm http://www.abpischools.org.uk/activescience/module2/home.html http://www.bgfl.org/bgfl/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ey/science/animal_h/index.htm http://interactivesites.weebly.com/habitats.html

Tile Art

Yesterday we went to MultiSpace. I painted a minion on my tile clay because I choose O In Collaboration. I have found clues i saw minion his one eye with O. I painted minion with yellow, teal, grey, and dark blue painted. It is too fun painted art tile clay. I enjoyed tile painted because it is too fun awesome. I'm painted on tile clay but I saw there have quick dry.

Learner: Evan Huang                  Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick     Date:23.07.2015

Learning Area: Collaboration  Narrative Story

Learning Observed

Evan  was a member of a group of 4 learners who were engaged in an activity where they had to reach consensus about placing statements about “promises” into categories under the title of agree, strongly agree, disagree and strongly disagree. An example of some of the promise statements were “ I promise to clean my teeth every night” or “I promise I will grow taller than my dad” or “I promise I will try had to learn” and “ I promise  to keep any promise”. This was a challenging activity as in the first round the learners were not allowed to sign/talk but shuffle the statements into the categories until they were all happy with the outcome. The second round the learners were able to sign/talk and had to justify why they moved and why they thought statements belonged or didn’t belong in the specified category selected. Evan  was quick to learn the signs for the 4 different categories. He was able to explain why he thought statements should be moved and why. When his group compared their results with another group they realised they had several statements that they all felt the same way about but there were a few which were quite different. He was able to listen/attend to their explanations and was accepting of people’s different opinions.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Evan is displaying an increasing level of participation  and was relating well with the other learners. He was contributing his ideas and showing he made connections with the other learners by showing respect for their different opinions. He remained focused throughout the activity self managing his impulsivity.

Next Learning Steps

use these skills in decision making situations during learning blocks, iBreaks and at  home. grow in confidence sharing his viewpoint knowing everyone’s ideas  are valuable when solving problems.

Zoo Trip

On Thursday 30th July I went to the Auckland Zoo to look at the animal habitats.

I liked spider monkey habitat because they are outside tree and water moat. Spider monkey don't like water so spider monkey like to climb trees and ropes and don't ran away. I also liked the baboon monkey. I learnt elephants back skin is thin so they cover their back with mud and straw to block sun.