Inquiry Sample

WALT:  gather information

Description: Each Wednesday we have been working through the Get it, Sort it, Use it model to inquire about different countries around the world and their languages/culture. We each brainstormed a potential list of subjects and chose what we wanted to find out more about and then started our research.

What are you most proud of and why? I am proud that I have learnt heaps of mandarin like how to count and how to say basic phrases.

What did you find challenging? I think that the hardest thing was keeping it in my head, but sometimes it slips my mind and I only remember a little bit.

My next ‘Get It’ goal is? My next goal it to try and make my poster more detailed in numbers maybe like 100 and so on, plus I would like to learn some more.

Math Sample

WALT: Continue a pattern and describe it using a rule

Description: For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems.

Task:  Make a short movie to prove that you have achieved your maths goal.

Criteria:

• Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it
• Clear message
• Two questions to show your learning
• Correct answer

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I am proud of the time that my video is in, it has so much detail of how I explained the question.

2. What challenged you the most and why? I think getting this done in the time given was hard because I could have had more spoken more about the problem and try to connect to the people watching.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Next Time if I had more time would go in more deeper detail in time to maybe ask myself questions and answer them.

Feedback/Feedforward: I like the way that you spoke clearly in your video. I don't think i have any feedforward it's really good.

Reading Sample

WALT:Read With accuracy 

Description: In Nic's Reading we have been working on a titanoboa poster.  We have read a book on it, then we had to study it, then we had to put our knowledge about it into a poster, on how to escape a titanoboa.

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? I am proud of my lettering and my fonts stand out and all the coulors work together.

What challenged you the most and why? I think finding the perfect colour to match the photo in the backround was the most hardest. 

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? I can work towards getting more ideas on the the page and I need to do it faster.

Feedback/Feedforward:Kaleb that is relly cool how you had a picture of it and thanks for the tips maybe next time you could have some more lettering.

The Learning Pit

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

• List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.
• List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.
• Label where good learning happens.
• List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit.

• How did you feel when you were in the pit?  I felt like I was never going to get any work done and it was very stressful but I just kept saying I can do this.
• What did you do to work out of the pit? I just kept on saying this is ok I can do this. But the main thing help me get out was putting my head down and doing my work.

Feedback/Feedforward you did good at explaining what the pit was like if I was a aline I won't know but you would of explained it to me and I think you need to get better at as much less words.

Reagan .

My Remarkable Adventure

WALT:  Entertain

Description: We read the poem “My Remarkable Journey” which inspired us to write our own remarkable journeys about why our homework wasn’t at school.
My Story 
                           I wake up in the morning only to remember my HOMEWORK!!!

 I go down stairs only to see, a big fat mountain troll, in my bath. I jump out of my window, find out that my backyard has turned into a jungle, I climb up a tree up a tree find myself back in my room. Go down stairs wondering what what I will see. It seem all ok but when I go around the corner I see, seven slimy slivering snakes coming all around. But they sound like seven bashing Building bull dosers. When I slipped and knocked my head. I wake see my body its ok but I'm in snake. Luckily the snake dose not like because I have not a shower in 4 days. Gross I go to have a nice hot shower. I turn on the shower thought oh this is a nice shower oh, this is thicker then normal thats. Wow that pongs wait I think that it sirige ōw, I run to a towel scrap it all off then I put some clothes on. Turn around find it has turned into a monster run  out the door grab my bag see it still chasing.
                                                                                 *
I am still running to scared to look back keep running I say. When I look back I see you it's gone Yes school. Then I see you Mr Bridge.

                                                         In all the mayhem I forgot my

                                                            homework and why I stink.

                                                                      The End 

                                                                    By Callum

Criteria:

We decided that a quality piece of writing has the following things. Reflect on whether these things are in your story:

Introduction: It hooks the reader in the first few lines making them want to read more

Punctuation: Is your writing ready for a reader? Does your punctuation make it easy for them to read?

Short sentences: Do you create suspense by using these in your writing?

Onomatopoeia: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Alliteration: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Similes/Metaphors: Are these in your writing to create impact?

Evaluation:

1. What do you think is the best part of your story?
I think that the first bit of my writing is the best because it really hooks me in and I want to read more. Because if your reader dose not want to read more there is not much point in me writing.

2. What was the hardest part about completing this portfolio sample?
I think that the hardest part was in the middle trying to keep up the same sort of excitement up at the same level also, the ending was hard to come of slowly not to be just like done when he gets to school.

3.  Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?
Next time I work on this I would try to make it much longer due to time I just have tryed to make it short and detailed.

Feedback/Feedforward You did good of adding detail and you made it funny you added. You might want to add more of the story And more onomatopoeia.

Te Reo Maori Poster

WALT: communicate a message.

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Why? We have noticed that our posters are too cluttered and do not communicate a  message well.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message.

Composition:  My poster is balanced.

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I proud of the originality of this idea as well as the good use of the workshops.

2. What challenged you the most and why?

I think that the time was a factor but it was hard picking an idea to go with because we had so many ideas.

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards?

Next time I would work on my coulor and I think our poster could of had a few more words but not so much that it was wordy.

Feedback/Feedforward: I really the different fonts you used. I see that you applied what you learnt at the workshops. Next time you can work on adding different colours. 
From Josiah

Integrity-Ngakar Tapatahi

Science Of Art Assessment

Numbers In Maori Assessment

Catch Me If You can Assessment

Haiku Poem

Poetry (When, Who, & Where) - Purpose: (Why are we writing?) to describe a part of nature. 

WALT: write a Haiku poem (favourite season, words, pictures related to that season). 

Success Criteria: (we will know we have achieved this when we have)

a title

focused on nature

5,7,5 each verse 17 syllables

3 lines

Yesterday I send everyone outside for 10 minutes to write or draw anything they could see about nature...Today I have given them 10 minutes to add any information they already know about nature...

Quick Sharing time...

Luke - Flowers / blossoms

Finn - Baby animals

JP - worms digging holes in the ground

Reuben - The grass is as blue as the sky

Tipene - Rocks

Adarsh - The white clouds

What do we know about writing a Haiku Poem

Kayleigh - sometimes they have similes

Tawhara - 17 syllables

JP - True facts

Reuben - Nature

Tomas - Japanese poetry

Class example

Spring

5 - Baby animals

7 - Struggling to get to their feet

5 - In the brisk, cool air...

Blossoms come in spring 5
spring is so awesome 5
honey bees love (the) spring 5

Feedback
Hunter - take the out
Jade - its avout spring - nature
Kayleigh - wonderful 6,


Finn- it all connects (he could actually change the order around so the honey bees relate to the blossoms)
Nathanael - Spring is very beautiful

Integrity-Ngakau Tapatahi

Integrity

Reading Task

Comic Strip 

Reading game  

Math Poster

Scratch Your Fleas Questions

Math Poster