Deesha 's Photo on Monday, 29 June 2015

Magical Math Moment!

This afternoon during developmental time Deesha was involved with a group playing with the social play items. They had set up a shop and a picnic. I went over to join them and asked if I could buy a basket of fruit. Deesha told me that the fruit cost $5. I told her that I had $6 and asked, "How much change will I get?" Deesha used her knowledge of numbers before and after to correctly tell me that I would get $1 back. It is great to see Deesha applying her math knowledge to a range of different experiences!

Deesha's Video on Wednesday, 24 June 2015

We Built This City!

Learner: Deesha      Learning Coach: Luisa Maloni    Date:26th May, 2015

Learning Area: iExplore: We Built This City

Learning Observed

Due to the high interest in building structures out of the magnetic shapes, we have been working on an iExplore learning adventure designing and constructing a city out of cardboard. Deesha has been working consistently on a number of different projects around the city. She designed and built a hotel and swimming pool along with a number of signs, trees and flowers for the parks. She was able to help with the layout of roads and placing buildings along these for our exhibition.  She was able to say that the hotel and welcome sign were the best part of the city but that she wished she could have built a primary school.

Evidence of learning

Deesha is able to think about and make comments on what works well about our project and what would make it even better. I wonder if she shows interest in construction at home?

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Deesha shows that she can use her design and construction Capabilities to create a number of different structures for our cardboard city. She makes connections about real cities and what they have or need to make decisions about our cardboard city (Thinking). She can answer reflective questions and statements about What Went Well and Even Better If... with regard to our city (Thinking; Using Language, Symbols and Text).

Next Learning Steps

Develop her construction skills to make her buildings stronger and pre-plan visual elements like Signs to make them bold and clear Develop her vocabulary in describing other 3-D shapes she uses in her construction e.g. cylinder, cube as well as architectural terms e.g. tower