Reading sample

WALT: Fluency - read accurately, with expression and understand what we read.

Fluency: Money truck crashes

An armoured truck overturned on a highway in Rhode Island, USA, causing bags of money to spill all over the road which quickly caught the attention of other drivers.
Police say the driver lost control and the truck swerved off the highway onto the grass and tipped onto its side. Both the driver and the other person in the truck received cuts and bruises and possibly neck and back injuries.
The money was in clear plastic bags and canvas duffel bags and the scene of the accident was soon swarming with passersby but police are unsure whether any money was taken.

A second truck was called and the money was transferred as police supervised and kept passersby away from the scene

Description: We have been reading articles from around the world about peculiar news
 1. Who is the main person or group of people in this news article?The truck the police and firetruck.
2. What was the key event from the news article?The key event was that a money truck crashed.

3. Where did this event take place? This event took place in Rhode island USA.

4. When did this event take place?This event took place on the 2 september 2014.
5. Why did this event happen? The event happened because the driver lost control.

Evaluation:
1. What do you think is the best part of the article? The best part of the article was that people tryed stealing the money but they showed integrity by not stealing it.
2. What was the hardest part about completing this portfolio sample? The hardist part was that it all deleted TWICE
3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Next time i can work towards getting it finished faster.
Feedback/Feedforward: nice one Lachlan. I like how you ansered the questions in full sentences. You should answer your questions with capital letters 

Maths Sample

WALT: Extend a repeating picture pattern using number strategies to think ahead.

Description: For maths this term we have been learning a range of strategies to help us solve algebra problems. 

Task:  Make a short movie to prove that you have achieved your maths goal.

http://youtu.be/yxN_MYhy2zI

Criteria:

Show, explain, prove your goal and how you did it

Clear message

Two questions to show your learning

Correct answer

Evaluation:

What are you most proud of and why? Getting it finished because I had heaps of struggles.

What challenged you the most and why? Making the movie because I passed it last Tuesday so. I forgot most of it.

Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Learn how to continue a number pattern and find the rule for finding the next number.

Feedback/Feedforward: well I like your movie it's really cool but I say you need to work on more discribing.

Dos and do not's

Dos                                                                                           Do not's

                                                              When your hunting

                        WALT:Entertain

pack warm cloths.                              

                           

  Do not go hunting naked.

 treat all gun as loaded even if they aren't

loaded.                                                                        

                                                          Do not point a gun at a person even if 

                                                                                                It's Not loaded unless your in an army                                                        Battle

 load only when you are ready to shoot              

               Do not walk with a loaded gun when 

                                                                                                 You aren't ready to shoot a pest not a                                                          cow

 take lunch.                                

                         Do not eat raw possums

Shoot a big fat stag                    

                               Not a tree

The Learning Pit

WALA: The Learning Pit

Description: We have been learning about when good learning happens.  

Task: Share what you know about the learning pit.

Criteria:

Draw the Learning Pit.

List at least 3 feelings that you might have when you are in the pit.

List at least 3 strategies that you could use to get out of the pit.

Label where good learning happens.

List 3 things you could say to yourself when you are in the pit.

Evaluation:

Reflect on a time when you have been in the pit. I was in the pit when I did adding decimals

How did you feel when you were in the pit?  Frustrated annoyed because I kept getting them wrong

What did you do to work out of the pit? I asked an expert pratisted it and proved it.

Feedback/Feedforward: I like how you used a variety of colours and you were creative. I think you could work on mixing dark colours with light colours. Josiah

Prove it's

Te Reo Moari

WALT: communicate a message 

Description: We have been participating in 3 different workshops around colour, compositions and fonts.  We put these skills to use in a poster sharing our knowledge about Te Reo Maori.

Task: Make a poster about Te Reo Maori.

Criteria:

Message: My message is clear and purposeful.  Everything that is on my poster relates to my message.

Composition:  My poster is balanced.

Font:  My font is clear, readable and suits the message.

Colour:  I have used 2-3 colours that are complementary.  My background choice makes the text pop!

 

Accuracy:  All of the words on my poster are spelt correctly.

Evaluation:

1. What are you most proud of and why? I'm most proud of the font because it suits the message.

2. What challenged you the most and why? getting the poster on my blog because Marakis in northern cluster

3. Next time, what is a goal you can work towards? Composition because my poster isn't really balanced. 

Feedback/Feedforward

You could of not of added heaps of colours but nice colour fonts because it suits the backgrounds

#Jaiden

Fluency

Things I can do to get better a fluency:

• Voracious reading ( read with excitement) 
• Read appropriate level texts that are a "good fit"( my level)
• Reread text
• Practice common sight words and high-frequency words
• Adjust and apply different reading rates to match text
• Use punctuation to enhance phrasing and prosody (end marks, commas, etc)
• Read text as the author would say it, conveying the meaning or feeling

Set smart goals

“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve. ”

Purpose: To set a learning goal for school, friendships, sports and personal.

WALT: Set Smart Goals

Task: 

S.M.A.R.T. means Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-sensitive.

Specific: Don’t be vague. What exactly do you want?

Measurable: Quantify your goal. How will you know if you’ve achieved it or not?

Attainable: Be honest with yourself about what you can reasonably accomplish at this point in your life, taking into consideration your current responsibilities.

Realistic: It’s got to be doable, real and practical.

Time: Associate a time frame with each goal. When should you complete the goal.

My writing goal is to organise and group my ideas into paragraphs using links within and between paragraphs.

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because I don't use paragraphing.

I will accomplish my goal by putting my ideas first into groups then into paragraphs to make it easier for the reader.

My reading goal is to identify an authors purposes and point of view when I am reading longer more complex texts.

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because I find it really really really hard to find the authors purpose.

I will accomplish my goal by the end of term 3. The steps I'm going to take are read then think at the end of each chapter for a while.

My maths goal is to find the answer to two digits multiplication equations.

The reason I have decided to focus on this goal is because I find it quite hard to find the answer to two digit multiplication.

I will accomplish my goal by solving one digit multiplication then moving 1 and 2 digit multiplication then onto two digit multiplication.

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