William's Animal Habitat- Digitise It Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: William                                                                         Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats. William has been building his language and developing his understandings of the many ways the natural world can be represented.  William is able to recognise that living things are suited to their particular habitat and can discuss the adaptations of specific animals and used his curiosity to research the adaptations of the Cheetah.  William recognises that all living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive and could identify these for his creature.   William was fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where many animals captured his curiosity.  He used the learning from the zoo trip to create a creature using the www.buildyourwildself.com wesbite.  William needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for a cheetah.  He opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that he wanted to design the creature habitat in Minecraft and demonstrate his capability at using it.  He went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the cheetah, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of his choosing.   William couldn’t use Minecraft in the end and created his habitat using a tool called google draw.  Ask him to show it to you!  William collaborated well- listening to other learners and asking questions. When it was time to share their learning, he presented his habitat with some confidence to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see his assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about the learning and share with parents come prepared so you cna follow your original design create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in the final product practice presenting so you are prepared- why don’t you present to your family?!

Collaboration Leanring Story

Learner: William                                                           Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: Collaboration                                              Date: Term 3

Learning Observed

This term our overarching theme has been collaboration and Wiiliam has had plenty of opportunities to show how collaborative he is and to grow his collaboration capability.  To kick the term off William was on a team of learners who had to collaborate to complete various challenges.  On our first day back in Term 3 we had a super day of “Collaboration” immersion activities.  While the learners worked on the Collaboration Challenge in mixed ability, mixed year level groups they collaborated on a variety of tasks which encouraged discussion, problem solving, perseverance and teamwork.  It was great to observe William as he was very engaged in the tasks, demonstrating patience, sharing and teaching others.  I noticed that Harry took a lead during the collaboration rules on a hand challenge.  He also calmly demonstrated and explained the task to others. William said he really enjoyed doing the tasks and was happy to continue the activities in the afternoon.  He also also been collaborating brilliantly in iActive during our Collaboration Station activities.

Evidence of learning

William collaborates all over the place!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Right from the start William embraced the challenge demonstrating collaboration strategies such as asking questions and making decisions together.  These activities challenged William and his team to develop their problem solving skills (Thinking).  He definitely related well to others and managed himself to maximise their collective learning.

Next Learning Steps

grow his capacity for collaboration by working with learners and practicing reflective listening use a new digital tool like Storybird to write a collaborative story focusing on the learning of the activity write a blog post about his experience

Being a mathlete

Being a mathlete isn't hard

But neither easy

From raging rookie

To human calculator.

Raging rookie,junior giant,

Speed demon,almost Einstein

AND HUMAN CALCULATOR!!!

Which is the bested in the world of matheletics.

Blogs

Editing blogs are really easy.
You can make a blog post,two
Or even III,IIII,IIII

Zodiacs

these are the zodiacs

there are also chinese zodiacs
zodiacs
Enter this website in search:http://www.whats-your-sign.com/zodiac-sign-dates.html

The word Zodiac literally means animals and refers to the patterns or configurations of creatures as seen in the twinkling stars at night. The Zodiac belt is the great circle around  which our luminescent Sun apparently moves month by month throughout the year, transceiving the energy of those different constellational signs and thereby transmitting the celestial radiations to our Earth. As the planets revolve around the Sun in their respective cycles we can observe the influences associated with those celestial movements.

Broadly speaking, the 12 signs of the Zodiac can be divided into both masculine and feminine, positive and negative, or, active and passive. The masculine signs are Aries, Gemini, Leo, Libra, Sagittarius and Aquarius, whereas the feminine signs are Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn and Pisces. If you are unsure about your sign, click here to find out.

The word "zodiac" means animals and usually has reference to the twelve heavenly constellations through which the sun travels apparently at the rate of about one degree per day. To the Astrologer, however, the Zodiac is the Earth's orbit around the Sun. To make this plainer, the Earth makes one complete revolution around the Sun in a year, but since we look from the Earth, the Sun appears to move in a contrary direction just as do objects from a moving train.

my zodiac is Leo.
Harry Li's zodiac is Sagittarius.
Willie's zodiac is Leo as well.