My maths learning evidence

Koka Ngaire posted this so that we could use it as a teaching/learning tool to:
- look at what our Prove It evidence should look like and sound like
- use our steps to success for writing a quality blog comment



Hi, I have been working on a  Prove It for Maths from my Level 3 workshop.

The WALT was: learning to solve multiplication questions in parts

Awesome Collaborative Art!

We thought that some of our parents may not have seen our Collaborative Art pieces from the start of the year that are displayed in our two spaces.  As a whole class, we are so proud of our art work.

Koka Ngaire posted our end results in the NZ Primary Teachers Facebook group and as you can see from the photo - we got over 800 likes from teachers from all around NZ!  Their comments were beyond what we hoped for - many teachers have taken the idea and used our work to show their classes so that they could do the same kind of activity.

We found this awesome artist Wahyu Romdhoni who creates these amazing animal portraits.

So, we printed the pictures out A4 and then divided the picture into a grid to match the number of students (these were both roughly 5x6 squares). We cut the picture up so that we had 30 small squares for each pic. Each learner got a little square and a square piece of cartridge (A4 size but squared off). Then we just went through skills for enlargement, then it was time to softly pencil then pastel. 

We all naturally copied the colours that were on our small piece and we just challenged ourselves to blend to get different colours/shades/hues. 

The most exciting part was when we put the big picture up was seeing how some squares matched/lined up perfectly (and we hadn't been working anywhere near each other).

We hope you find our end product as amazing as we do!

A great start to 2018!

Wow - our first week of using our new digital timetable in our Collaborative Space!
We have been leading up to this for the first 4 weeks of Term 1.  We have had to learn lots and acknowledge that we are all in charge of our learning.
We sign up for workshops with Koka Ngaire & Matua Fergus according to our goals and current gaps in our learning.  
We are so proud of our first couple of days of working this way - a big change for a lot of our learners!

We get to choose what we want to do and when to do it.  That makes us feel in charge of our learning.  We are getting more learning done because we don't have to always check in with the teacher as a class for everything.  Our timetables make it easier for us to remember what we should be doing and blogs make it easier for us to share our learning.

Our trickiest learning has been around signing up for workshops and remembering to fill  in our timetables correctly.

We enjoy using our devices, but we also use our books and are creating responses to text by way of drawing & constructing as well.
We have workshop activities and other Links to Learning activities that are our practice to prove our learning.
We are doing lots of reading, writing and maths every day - right across the curriculum.

We choose where we work and can move between our 2 class spaces - we work with a lot of different people every day.

When you visit our class, you will see that not everyone is doing the same activity at the same time and that is awesome!  We are being independent learners, in charge of our own learning.

Kids feedback on first week of timetables & workshops

Timetables & Workshops

We are into our second week of using our timetables.  Some of us are able to sign up to workshops and fill in the timetables without help and some of us are still in the Learning Pit when it comes to making sure we get the whole week filled in!

We have had great discussions this week in our Maths, Writing and Reading workshops - lots of talking, asking questions, giving examples and thinking!  We have also had fun PE sessions and practices for the Nui Duathlon happening next week.

Matua Fergus has started to teach us Te Reo - our first workshop was on colours.   With Koka Ngaire we are learning more about using Screencastify so we will be able to explain and show our learning on our blogs.
In writing we have been learning what makes a good blog post so that we can get started on our very own posts to share our learning!


We can't forget our weekly creations for our Chapter Chat Twitter session on Friday - we all love getting creative in a variety of ways.  We also love seeing other kids from other schools' work & comments on our own work!