Term 3 SMART goals

Learner: Anastasia, Angkor,  Rudi, Samantha, Melissa    Date: July T3, 2016 Learning Coach: Margaret Patrick                             Narrative Learning story

Learning Area: iExperience  Developing our capabilities

Learning Observed

During iExperience Week 1 Term 3 we were exploring what “being capable” means for us as learners and how we can develop our capabilities. The groups of learners experienced a range of fun tasks and their challenge was to participate and collaborate to improve their skills. This led to talking about setting goals to help us improve our capabilities. This group of learners set a goal to balance their spoons at the same time. After their rotation of different fun tasks the learners gathered together to think and discuss what being a capable learner would look like. They came up with these ideas: being independent; having an attitude of “I can do it”; being confident; being persistent and not giving up; trying things in different ways and self managing themselves. They also made the connections with ways they could develop your capabilities:  by training your brain by practicing and  remembering, trying your best, working hard, having an open mindset to try and learn new things and setting goals. They were  introduced to the SMART acronym to help with setting goals. The learners had time to think about the things they were capable at and then consider the areas they need to develop their capabilities in. The learners were then asked to think of 4 goals for themselves . An academic goal,a social goal, a physical goal and a #oresome goal.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

*complete writing an academic goal, social goal, physical goal and #oresome goal. *discuss these with their parents/whanau and caregivers. *publish them in their Learning Pathways. *present them on the art shapes they created.

New Sport iExperience Narrative

Learner: Gracy, Micah, Nima and Samantha                      Learning Coach: Mr Hattie          Date:1 August 2016

Learning Area: Learning Habitat 1 - iExperience

Learning Observed

With the Olympics looming we decided to explore and experience the Olympics. Gracy, Micah, Nima and Samantha were looking at discovering some sports that we have never heard of. The groups started with identifying all the sports that we do know and discussed some of our favourite sports Nima and Micah was excited about the soccer and Gracy and Samantha said swimming and gymnastics were their favourites. Our group started by showing our Capabilities with sports by naming all the Olympic sports that we know. Then we got time to look at all the sports that were in the Olympics. This brought up some interesting and Curious questions about some. The most Curious questions was how is handball an Olympic sport? The other learners agreed. I asked Micah what do you think handball is? He said the game with the tennis ball and the line on the ground. So we played a video that was linked out from the site we were looking at. All the learners were so excited to see what Handball really was. This led to us going to the Multispace and developing our Capabilities further by playing Handball. This was so much fun. The Key Competency that was being used were Participating and Contributing.

Evidence of learning

This was the reflection that we created about our learning.

Next Learning Steps

Gracy, Micah, Nima and Samantha’s next learning steps are: To explore further different sports in the Olympics. To discover the different countries that are participating in the Olympics. Explain who they are cheering for and who they represent with.