Totara 2 'Empowering our children to be experts in their own learning'

Our learning conferences

adrianne28 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:25:09 +0000

Welcome parents to Totara 2′s student led conferences for 2009. We really appreciate you taking this time to come and share in our learning. We hope you enjoy it because we enjoy sharing our learning with you. Please feel free to comment on our blog.

From Totara 2

Great Learning

adrianne28 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:26:54 +0000

We had a great time learning how to shoot an arrow. Archery was great fun. Mrs McAllister had alot of trouble finding the target.

Conferencing about learning

adrianne28 — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:10:04 +0000

We have completed our assessment and are now looking at our next learning steps. Reflection is an important part of our learning in Totara 2. We have begun using a specific reflecting code in our class, to discuss, celebrate and set goals in our learning. We have 1 on 1 conferences with Mrs McAllister and go through this reflection process.

We congradulate ourselves on strategies and skills we have consolidated by highlighting them GREEN.
We celebrate the strategies and skills we are using by highlighting them GOLD.
We think about our learning gaps and things that we need to work on by highlighting them PINK.
We reflect and decide what will be our next learning step by highlighting them RED.

Our next learning step will be to introduce this reflection coding within our peer feedback and feed forward.

Inquiry Learning School Hall

adrianne28 — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:38:31 +0000

We are at the creating stage of our inquiry learning about our school hall and here are some pictures of our model halls.

Novice & Experts

adrianne28 — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:35:49 +0000

In Totara 2 we are a talented bunch of learners. There are experts and novices in everything we do in our classroom, and we use this talent. Experts support the learning of others and novices are supported by everyone. We understand the importance of our learning and the culture of a caring and sharing learning environment.

Literacy

adrianne28 — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:06:17 +0000

We are learning how to publish a variety of writing at the moment for our portfolios. All chn need to recognise the importance of re crafting, and that is an opportunity for you to make your writing better. In Totara 2 we talk about the message the author wants in their piece of writing and how we can make our message clearer.

Using technology in the classroom

adrianne28 — Thu, 21 May 2009 00:33:05 +0000

Today we used audacity to record our reading. Stacey is one of our parents who has come in to help record us. We were learning that it is important to add expression when we read aloud.

We use our classroom computer for blogging on our school classroom blogs.

Our new Discovery Centre

adrianne28 — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:31:40 +0000

In Totara 2 we help each other learn. We have experts and novices. We are learning how to use publisher, to create a portfolio title page. Our success criteria was:

~ use publisher

~add a photo

~name, term. classroom, age, year level, date, interest and hobbies.

Jump Jam

adrianne28 — Mon, 18 May 2009 23:12:28 +0000

At Allandale School we start our morning jump jamming. Mrs Tutua teaches us new moves and we practise our old jump jams. We think moving helps us to be healthy.

NZ is an awesome place!

adrianne28 — Sun, 17 May 2009 23:46:32 +0000