Term1-Lesson3

Leading the learning

The learning intention for this lesson was learning to summarise information. This lesson acts as a follow up task to being on our Year 5&6 camp on the school field. Students spent 3 days (2 nights) camping in tents and doing awesome activities including kayaking, cooking, obstacle course, and a camp concert night.

Returning from camp I asked the learners to read the reflections of past campers and compare their experiences to their own. The idea was to get a feeling from reading the blogposts of students before them, how important it is to blog about special experiences in our lives such as camp.

Detailed Plan Here

Reflection/ Next steps

The learners enjoyed searching for past students, and students in the years above them on blogger, and interestingly did not pick their older siblings or friends. They seemed genuinely interested in how their own camp experiences had been similar or different to students in past years. When I met with the learners I believed they hadn't read the blog posts very thoroughly and because of this I expected that discussion would be fairly limited. Therefore I used our session to explain the task, and scaffold how they should interact with the text. However, after further informal discussions with the learners later, I now believe that I likely had restricted dialogic opportunities amongst the learners as they had in fact engaged with the readings really well. In future I will be more cautious when making assumptions about how much learners engaged with a text.

Things to note

This week we did not stick to our usual routines and reading and writing lessons were harder to distinguish as separate lessons. All of our literacy work flowed on naturally so this episode follows a slightly different format, encompassing both reading and writing lessons. Unfortunately during the filming of this session we had interruption after interruption, this was actually the second attempt at filming as the connection dropped twice during our lesson. You can see at one point when this happened and my profile picture comes up.

Camp movie

While on camp I made sure I filmed lots of footage for the learners to create their own movies about camp. This movie was made by the python group on their own. The voice over was recorded by three of the group members completely independently. This movie played later in the week on our school news, and was seen by the entire school.

Learning Site Content

Reading a Blog PostWalt: summarise information. 1. Read the instructions carefully. 2. Using google search for the Year 5/6 camp at Pt England School or by using the links from the Pt England School Website. - Find a blog post by an older student at Pt England School about the Year 5/6 camp. - Create a new blog post. - Summarise the authors thoughts about camp in their blog post in 1 paragraph. There is no doc or template for you to follow for this task so you will need to read the instructions on the right of the page. - Write a second paragraph explaining how your experiences were similar or different. 3. Link the authors blog post to your blog post. 4. Give a shout out to the author on your own blog. 5. Leave a comment on the authors blog. Writing a Blog PostWalt: organise our ideas into paragraphs 1. You are now going to be writing your own reflection of camp. 2. Follow this guide to help you write your reflection. Introduction - Introduce camp to your audience 1st body paragraph - Details - The who/ what/ when/ where/ why of camp 2nd & 3rd body paragaphs - Highlights - What two highlights stood out from the rest Conclusion - Your final thoughts on camp.

Text: Pt England Blogs