Narrative Assessment - Literacy - 29 Oct 2015

Learner: Darren      Learning Coach: Miriam Kamsteeg             Date: 29 Oct 2015

Learning Area: Literacy - Reading Assessment

Learning Observed

Today Darren completed a Reading Assessment with me. He read a higher Blue level book called “Clever Little Dinosaur”. Darren read with 89% accuracy. This means he still needs to work at the same Yellow level for a bit longer to consolidate his word accuracy at this level. He was, however able to retell the story very well and answered most comprehension questions correctly.

Evidence of learning

Darren read and retold the story. I wonder if he is doing this at home each night?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Darren is developing his Capabilities in Reading. He is Reading many words with accuracy (Using Language, Symbols and Texts). Darren is making sense of what he reads (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Continue to learn more Basic sight words. Continue to explicitly teach sounding out tricky words. Share learning with home.

iExplore Group Narrative

Learner: Taj, Owen, Darren and Lucy                     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie          Date: 21 October 2015

Learning Area: Learning Habitat Two - iExplore

Learning Observed

For our iExplore we are looking at gardening. We have been preparing the garden beds so that we can start using them. For this we had to pull out all of the weeds. We used this to explain what a weed does and how it effects a garden. The learners had to use shovels and gardening gloves to pull out all of the weeds. At one point Owen and Taj were working together to get a big group of weeds out. Taj had the shovel and Owen was pulling on the weed. This was great to see and they had discussed how they were going to get this difficult weed out. Taj and Owen showed great resilience and problem solving when they worked together to get out a weed. Taj had the shovel and Owen pulled on the weed. This was exciting to hear how they were going to solve their problem. Lucy and Darren had seen the boys sorting out their problem and saw that they could use the same strategy to solve their problem. This was a great connection.

Evidence of learning

Taj and Owen problem solving Lucy and Darren making connections

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The Key Competencies that were being used in this iExplore was “participating and contributing” as the learners had to work together to pull out the weeds. “Managing self” as we had times where the learning coach was busy helping others so the learners had to sort out any issues that arose. The vision principles that were being used was “collaboration” as the learners had to work together.

Next Learning Steps

The learners next steps are: learning how and why we turn over the soil to prepare the garden for planting. to plant some seeds in the garden and take care of them.

Darren's Video on Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Narrative Assessment - 4 August 2015 - Literacy

Learner:  Darren       Learning Coach: Miriam Kamsteeg             Date: 4 August 2015

Learning Area: Literacy - Reading

Learning Observed

Today Darren read “The Dance” with me. He is pointing to the words and reading with fluency. Darren was able to read the basic sight words with ease. When he got to a “tricky” word he needed prompting to sound it out.

Evidence of learning

Darren read this book with fluency. I wonder if he is able to read without pointing to the words?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Darren is developing his Capabilities in Reading. He was able to choose a book and begin reading without prompting (Managing Self). Darren is using the pictures to help decode words (Thinking). He is reading many basic sight words (Using Language, Symbols and Texts).

Next Learning Steps

Make sure Darren is choosing the slightly harder Red 2 and Red 3 books Explicit teaching on the “h” digraphs. e.g. sh, ch, th etc Share learning with home.

Collaboration Tower Narrative Assessment

Learner: Darren                     Learning Coach:  Mr Hattie               Date: 28 July 2015

Learning Area: Developmental Collaboration

Learning Observed

This term at Ormiston Primary we are promoting Collaboration. We have been teaching the skills required to collaborate effectively. Today I was called over to see a group’s creation. To my surprise they had made a Tower the size of them. It had a repeating pattern the whole way up and was built collaboratively. Darren explained to me how they had made a tower and what it is going to be used for. He had created an imaginary use for the tower and who was working in the tower.  The language that had come out of the description of tower was very impressive The skills that were required for this project were teamwork, communication of who does what, discussion of the ongoing pattern and respect. It was impressive to see how they had come up with this tower. A totally self motivated project. Well done Darren!

Evidence of learning

The Groups end product. Very impressive.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The Key Competencies used for this project are “thinking” as the group had to think about what they were going to make with the materials that they had. Also Collaboration was used with this project. The learners had delegated jobs and what they were responsible for and there was discussion during this time. “Relating to others” was being used as they had to show respect for others and their ideas to achieve their task.

Next Learning Steps

Darren’s next learning steps are: more complex description of his project. writing about his project and how he created it.

iExperience: Collaboration in Music

Narrative Assessment - Numeracy

Learner: Darren                     Learning Coach: Mr Hattie                 Date: 2 July 2015

Learning Area: Learning Habitat 2 - Mathematics

Learning Observed

During our lesson Darren was learning how to instantly recall basic facts to 20. This is a skill that he has a lot of good strategies for, but it has not been cemented in. The aim is for these problems to knowledge and not having to think about how to solve them. Darren has been getting pretty good at solving them quickly. For practice Darren has been playing “Dice Wars”. This game needs two dice and the way you play is by rolling both dice and as quickly as you can add them together. An extension from this is subtraction them. This game has really improved the speed that Darren is answering them.

Evidence of learning

It’s now Darren’s turn to roll the dice.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During this game the Key Competency “thinking” is being used as they had to think about what the problem is that they are working out. “Managing self” is being used as this is an independent task. This game is a game where you have to collaborate with others, so “Relating to others” is being shown.

Next Learning Steps

Darren’s Next Learning Steps are: instantly recognising patterns to 100 e.g. 60 + 40 or 70 - 20 instantly recognising halves to 20.