My favourite speech

On Monday 24 August there were speech competitions My friend Jaahnvi came first butt unfortunately she was my second favourite my favourite one was my friends speech it was about why she should be principal of Ormiston Primary. It was very persuasive I hope she would be principle for a day. My sister got into the speech finals her speech wasn't really persuasive but it was still good I'm kind of proud for her. Jaahnvi's speech was about why we should wear school uniform and why it's better than mufti, she used a lot of expression and she is new.

Johanna's Speech Learning Story - August 2015

Learner:  Johanna                                                                          Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area:  Literacy                                                                              Date: Aug 2015

Learning Observed

This term all Year 5-6 learners in LH1 wrote a speech on a topic of their choosing.  Oral language is an important skill and Johanna refined her knowledge of some language features to enhance both the speaking and writing of her oral presentation.  Johanna’s speech about ‘Minions’ demonstrated a growing ability to be persuasive both through the content and delivery. Johanna learned about emotive language features such as the use of adjectives; persuasive features such as rhetorical questions, repetition, quotations, statistics, contrasts and lists of three; and varied sentence structures like statements, questions, exclamations and commands.  She learned about the structure of a speech including introductions, endings, sequencing words and how to make his point clear. She also explored how to creatively add additional details to make the argument stronger. This was based around the ‘hamburger method’ of speech writing.  It was wonderful to see Johanna do her persuasive speech on a topic that she is passionate about.

Evidence of learning

Oral Language Rubric Here Some of the tools used to structure and develop the speech

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Johanna cultivated the curiosity of others with her speech on the minions- she made everyone wonder about these characters!  She connected with her audience using emotive language. She collaborated with other learners while practicing her speech and responded to feedback and lead the discussion, writing and providing of feedback and feed-forward to the other learners when they did their speech or poem.  Her public speaking capability has grown as a result of this experience. She was assessed against all four of our Ormiston Primary Vision Principles.

Next Learning Steps

Practise in front of a mirror to work on eye contact and volume of voice. Seek feedback from other learners during planning and writing stages in order to increase collaboration. write a reflective blog post embed the oral rubric into her learning pathway and a copy of you presenting the speech -Video yourself and watch to self-assess. practice reading aloud daily write what you think your next steps are in the comment section

My speech - Minionz

Minions

Today I'll be telling you why the school should let us watch the minions movie by telling you what minions are, what language they speak, why minions like serving evil, and what they want out of life and extra facts about them whilst answering the questions.

 1) What are Minions?

Minions are a species of tiny yellow henchmen; they look like unusually dressed Mike and ( i ) Ike candies. They're earnestly driven by the desire to serve an evil boss, though they often screw up because they're selfish, easily distracted, and generally inept. They vary in height, but it's safe to say they're between 2 and 3 feet tall. They communicate using a gibberish language that's understandable to them and a few people who have longstanding relationships with them. Minions in real life are tiny people who work for companies they're also known as midgets but in a kind way. Minions make fun of each other and lose focus easily they need to be yelled at to get back on track. They love fruit especially bananas and apples but... Mostly bananas, that's why they're yellow. They can still be changed that's why in despicable me 2 there were purple minions... You know the ones that have, the purple furry hair and stuff... You know what I mean. Minions also work for a jelly factory but.... They don't really work, they just taste it. You might know the minions from despicable me 1 and 2, that is when they decided to make the minions movie.

2) What language do Minions speak?

the Minions speak a kind of latin language, but more random and they call it a gibberish language and minions have a small tongue so they can't speak proper English even if they try to. Some of their language has English words but when you say the English word they will probably think you are speaking gibberish.

3) What do the minions want out of life?

The Minions become listless after too much time without a master to serve. Over time, their daily routine broke down without an outside force to control their chaos. Seeing Minions bored turns out to be just as funny as seeing them hyper it's like seeing the aftermath of a particularly long sugar rush, but when they met Gru everything changed. Minions are also very lazy they don't work they're best. Unless there's a reward to it. 

4) Why do minions like serving evil?

minions like serving evil because they think it's not boring because everyone does something kind but evil people don't, minions think evil is not boring but they do have a loving heart. Minions have a mind of evil and curiosity, like blowing stuff up and messing around, working for evil is their favorite job.

now you know what minions are, what language they speak, why minions like serving evil and what they want out of life, Now I hope the learning coaches will bring us to the cinemas to watch the minions movie.

Thank you for listening my speech and i hope you enjoyed.

Miko N' Nummy

Miko N' Nummy

Hi my I explore is Miko n Nummy and I play Miko. Miko n Nummy is about two girls that go on adventures and some of the adventures relate to something to me or my friend ( who plays Nummy ) have occurred in our life's. One of the videos is about my friend who found a bug in the shower and for me well I don't really have any but I'm sure I'll find some in my life. The main characters are Miko and Nummy but some of the co starring will be Mrs E, Mrs Em, Nina, Cupcake (which is a cat ) and Mika - Miko's sister. We will be using Gimp and movie maker to make our videos. I hope you liked this blog post about Miko N' Nummy.

Google Summit Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Ashmira & Johanna                                      Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Technology and KCs                            Date: Aug 12, 2015

Learning Observed

Ashmira & Johanna made us all proud when they represented us at the first ever Student Google Summit on Aug 12 at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  They were joined by hundreds of other learners from around Auckland and facilitated and participated in some exciting workshops about learning with digital technologies.  There was a lot of work leading up to this day.  First, Ash and Johanna met with Ms Wilkes to express their interest, brainstorm what they could present and then write and submit their pitch to the GEGNZ.  They demonstrated passion, commitment and skills while meeting their deadline.  This was their pitch which they decided to do on our Blogs: Blogger We are going to talk about our personal Google Blogs and how we use Blogger in Our School. We use Blogger to write posts about our learning and what we do at school that we think we should write about to share with the learners and learning coaches. We also get narrative assessments in our blogs. These are learning stories that our Learning Coaches write about our learning for us and our parents to read, comment on and learn about our day to day learning. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and included lots of interactives like writing a blog comment in their blogs.  The learners decided it would be great if they could practice their workshops the day before to iron out any crinkles and so they were able to facilitate their workshops for the rest of the habitat.  Ash and Johanna did their practice run with a group of 18 learners and responded to feedback,making some small changes to improve their presentation.  On the big day they both demonstrated capability and collaboration.  They also demonstrated confidence and resilience when many devices couldn’t access the internet.  We were very proud of the way they solved problems, remained calm, positive and supported the participants.  Way to go girls!

Evidence of learning

Ashmira and Johanna practice their workshop with Lh1 Johanna and Ash present confidently to an interested crew Ash and Cooper & Johanna join the OrmPS gang for a googliscious photo!

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

The girls showed they could relate well with others both in their collaborative effort in creating and facilitating their presentation and in responding to feedback.  They participated and contributed, managing themselves in 3 other sessions on the day and took their learning back to OrmPS to share with others.  They showed curiosity in the google cardboard session and made connections to prior knowledge.  They were capable at solving problems when there were technical difficulties and constantly collaborated to maximise their own learning and that of others.

Next Learning Steps

start thinking about their presentation for next year write a blog post about their experience teach family members some new skills/tricks they learned

The Zoo Trip

On Thursday last week our habitat went to the Zoo, it was so interesting. My favourite animal was the baboons because it had a pink butt and the baby baboon was on its mother's back it was so cute! The weirdest animal was the capybara because it was huge! Next time when I go to the zoo I want to see the Mere cat tunnel. I wonder why baboons butts are pink and why Capybara's are so big! The thing I thought was most human like were the seals because they were big show-offs!

Neha, Johanna & Divya present Riley & Steve's message from NYLD - August 2015

Learners:  Johanna, Divya & Neha                                             Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

Neha, Johanna and Divya collaborated together to provide a wonderful and inspiration component to the ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that all the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  The girls co-constructed a presentation and speech which included a video of Riley and Steve (which can be found in the Leadership Experience presentation).  They sparked the curiosity of the crowd with the strong message of conservation and ‘yes you can’.  The learners loved watching the video and most walked away thinking about how they can help wildlife.  Practicing their public speaking, writing, presenting and leadership was what they did while the audience was inspired by Riley’s commitment to conservation.

Evidence of learning

Neha, Johanna and Divya share Riley and Steve’s passion and message

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

While Divya, Neha and Johanna collaborated they made direct and indirect connections to their experience at NYLD.  The related to others, managed themselves responsibly and participated enthusiastically on the day.  They were enthusiastic and responded to changes with resilience.  The preparation for the presentation was great.  They made us curious and they inspired us!

Next Learning Steps

learn some editing so you can pull out the snippets of video that you really want to capture and then put into iMovie write a blog post about the afternoon including your reflections share your learning with family at home

Maori language week

Today is one of the days in maori language week and this all started in 1975, 30 years ago.
We use maori languge week to pass te reo on to our children. 

We also use it to promote the use of the maori language and to encourage and support the language development of parents who can then whāngai the language to their children.