Harman's Video on Thursday, 25 June 2015

Harman's Video on Thursday, 18 June 2015

iExperience- Harman's Trip to the Zoo

Learner: Harman  Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni    Date: 12th June, 2015

Learning Area: iExperience

Learning Observed

On Friday afternoons during iExperience we invite learners to choose from of a range of activities that develop language and imaginary play. Harman chose to write a booklet about her trip to the zoo with her family. She came to me to show me her work of which she was very proud. Harman explained she had gone to the zoo with her family and had seen some of her friends there.

Evidence of learning

Harman is choosing to express her ideas through written language in a format she has chosen herself. I wonder if Harman enjoys writing at home?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Harman demonstrates her Capabilities with written language (Using Language, Symbols and Text). She shows her independence (Managing Self) in choosing to write without an adult prompting her to do so, and her ability to spell and write high frequency words and people’s names. Harman is Connected with people and events that are important to her and uses these to motivate and build upon her learning at school.

Next Learning Steps

Use other forms of presentation to share experiences from home and school e.g. an e-book, poster, artwork Locate words she would like to use for writing from displays, word charts, the internet or simple dictionaries

Narrative Assessment - Math

Learner: Harman                    Learning Coach: Abby Morgan             Date: 3 June 2015

Learning Area: Math

Learning Observed

Our current math focus has been on developing learners ability to quickly solve addition problems using materials (counters) and imaging (solving it in their head). We began our math workshop by playing a new game. Each learner took a turn to roll the dice and we put the numbers into the first two hearts to create an equation. As I worked alongside Harman I noticed she was using her fingers to solve the math problems. I asked Harman to show me how she had solved 4+2. She told me that she used her fingers and counted from one. After completing 6 questions as a group the learners went away and continued to solve the questions themselves.

Evidence of learning

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Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During our math workshop Harman was demonstrating her ability to apply the Key Competencies of thinking and using language symbols and texts. She displayed thinking skills as she used materials to solve the math equations and used the correct math language and symbols to record her thinking. She was also showing the vision principle of capable.

Next Learning Steps

Provide lots of practice for Harman to learn the patterns for addition problems under 10 Begin to introduce solving addition problems to 5 by imaging