Narrative Assessment - 21 Oct 2015 - iExplore

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.

Narrative Assessment - 13 Oct 2015 - Literacy

Learner:  Lucy                   Learning Coach: Miriam Kamsteeg             Date: 13 Oct 2015

Learning Area: Literacy - Reading

Learning Observed

Today Lucy completed a Reading Assessment with me. She read Yellow Level 6 “Nick’s Snowman” to me. Lucy read with 96% accuracy. I then asked her to retell the story to me. She said, “two dogs want to play with. Nick and Sally want to play with snowman.” Next I asked her some questions about the text. She was able to answer two out of the five correctly.

Evidence of learning

Lucy was able to read her story fluently. I wonder if she has been practising reading at home?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Lucy is developing her Capabilities in Reading. She is reading many basic words fluently (Using Language, Symbols and Texts). Lucy is learning to make sense of the words she reads (Thinking).

Next Learning Steps

Practise retelling stories that she reads Listen to the context of the sentence and look at the beginning letters of the word when sounding one out