Sadeen's Sunday Garden Dig Narrative

Learner: Sadeen                                                             Date: October 2015

Learning Area: Community Garden Clearing Day             Learning Coach: John Dyer

Learning Observed

Our school and learners are on a mission to make our school a place to learn and grow. That’s both us and in the garden! This term, the Yoyo Learning Group have been researching, brainstorming and planning projects to carry out during Term 4. One of the projects is about preparing and planting one of the gardens. It has been decided that pumpkins will take pride of place in some of the bed and the rest will be voted on. To complete the preparation for the bed, learners were invited to come to school on Sunday morning to complete the digging and clearing. It was great to see Sadeen come and get involved, especially as she is in a different learning group. There was lots of collaboration going with tools and jobs. It was hard work clearing many of the well established weeds but Sadeen persisted and worked hard to ensure the soil was ready for action. It will be exciting to observe developments in the coming weeks and to see if we can end up with a harvest of fruit and vegetables in the Summer / Autumn. Hats off also to Sadeen’s sister, Wasaam, who all came to help did. You both did great!

Evidence of learning

Here are some of the Team clearing the bed. You can see how established the grass and weeds had become! After some stages of work and Sadeen’s hard grafting, the final result is a bed ready to produce next season’s harvest!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas. Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images. Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently. Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts. Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community Curious Collaborative Connected Capable

Next Learning Steps

Sadeen had demonstrated an interest in these projects and is happy to help in future. It would be good for her to identify where other help is needed and put together a project of her own that can run with some of the other learners.

Ashmira, Mina, Kimba-Jo, Sadeen : Rights and Responsibilities/ Citizenship

Learner: Ashmira, Mina, Kimba-Jo, Sadeen    Learning Coach:  N.Denuwara        Date: Term 4

Learning Area: Social Studies

Learning Observed, Key Competencies/ Vision Principles

Sadeen is participating in an iExperience session. In this session we are focusing on the topic Rights, Responsibilities and Citizenship. Her group collaborated to create their own country. Sadeen participated and contributed to the group in an effective way. She contributed ideas towards how her group could come up with the name for their country. Also she used her thinking skills to come up with reasons for why she felt that her country should have certain rights and responsibilities, such as “being kind to all living things”. By doing this she shows that she is very capable of sharing helpful ideas that contribute towards the progress of her own and others work. During this session she and her group have to manage themselves by deciding who will take responsibility for each of the different parts of the overall task: creating a country name, emblem, motto, flag, national anthem and laws. Sadeen and her group will have to connect each part of the task that they took responsibility for in order to present the country they created.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Put the different parts of the task together:  creating a country name, emblem, motto, flag, national anthem and laws Publish their draft copies onto a good copy.

Holadays

 Hya? It is holaday time. Mum mum what are we going to do in the holadays? I said I don't know my mum replayed. I wish dad doesn't work all day because I wan't to spend time with the hall family doing something nice.

All of the weeks my dad has been working I mean like that is the thing that I did not like because holadays are for spending time with your family. The only time we spend as a family together is on Sundays because my dad does not work on Sundays. So on Sunday it was a lovely sunny day and my mum wanted to go to the beach so we went on the beach we had BBQ we splashed in the water and had a wonderful day.

When it was not Sundays we went  to lots of party's happy birthday party's it was not that much fun but when we sing happy birthday it felt so nice.

2 weeks holadays is over and back to school time tomorrow and I am ready to learn.

Thank you for reading.