Louisa's Literacy Learning Story - March 2015

Learner:  Louisa   Learning Coach:        Date: March 17, 2015

Learning Area: Literacy

Learning Observed

Louisa was keen to share her learning with me.  She had found some unfamiliar words in a story but could not remember which story they came from in Bug Club.  Louisa showed me her slice of life story.  It was one sentence.  She knew it wasn’t finished because it wasn’t long enough but happily read it to me. Then she showed me her other story and she could answer the 5 W questions about it: Who- many characters: a dog, a mum, 2 sisters, a fish and a dad What happened- Mom said it is time to wake up because it was morning. When- It was a pretend story.   Where- in New Zealand in a house. Why- Beach was dirty- people left rubbish there. Her ability to craft a narrative is clear.

Evidence of learning

I noticed that Louisa is a strong writer when given time to develop her ideas which is evident in her two stories.  See video.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Louisa knew she was developing her writing capability.  She has also demonstrated her curiosity in her creative story.  She scored 40/45 on her STAR reading test and is in the 7th stanine with her greatest area for development being around vocabulary. With growth of vocabulary, Luisa will be more confident at speaking, thus growing her ability to use language, symbols and texts.

Next Learning Steps

-Luisa is very shy and should practice speaking more, I suggest reading aloud and answering the 5 W questions at home, -finding out the meaning of new words that she can’t decode using clues in the sentence by using a dictionary or asking someone -recording herself speaking or reading and listening to herself

Louisa's Visual Arts Narrative Assessment-16.03.15

Learner: Louisa                Learning Coach:Margaret Patrick            Date:16.3.15

Learning Area Visual Arts-Developing Practical Skills

Learning Observed

Louisa was part of group who selected the  “Block or Blend” art activity.During the session she viewed pictures of objects that depicted block colours and blended colours. Using pastels she picked a colour and learnt how to make a tint, shade and tone. The next step was to google images of flowers heads and select one to copy. Using white pastel she had to fill a sheet of A3 black paper with the outline of the flower. Selecting one blue paint colour she was able to mix it with white to create a tint. black to create a shade and both black and white to create a tone. When she finished her flower, she used white pastel to go around the outline and around the centre of the flower. She cut it out and glued it onto the white background.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Louisa was exploring the art making technique of blending colours and applied it to the process of painting a flower. She has been developing her capability to paint objects in a more life like manner using this process. She was proud to sign her end product and sees herself as a capable learner and completing this artwork was a priority for her.She demonstrated effective self management skills.

Next Learning Steps

Use the process of blending colours when she is painting other objects. Experiment blending colours with other media.

A Website Review of Wonderopolis

Here is a link to a website I have found: http//wonderpolis.org

wonder

I found this website when my learning coach Mrs Dillner

showed it to me on Wednesday at iExperience time.

One thing I enjoyed about this website is watching videos.

You should visit this website and let me know what you think by commenting below!

by Louisa