Week 4 Tuesday 27th October

This week Mrs.Mitchell asked us about how Solo Taxonomy helps us with our writing and other work. Solo Taxonomy helps me by showing me where to go next and what to do to get to the next stage of thinking or showing what I understand. The rubric also helps me to understand the details that I need to include in the topic I am working on. The parts to Solo Taxonomy are: Preconstructional, Unistructual, Multistructural, Relational, Extended Abstract and each part or level has its own sign or symbol. Rubric tables have all the signs from Solo Taxonomy and have rows where you write the success criteria or what Mrs. M is looking for at each level of thinking or working. When I wrote my Cinquain poem the first time I ended up on a lower level of the rubric that we created and then I used the rubric and wrote how I could fix up my poem and after that I ended up on Extended Abstract the highest level of thinking and working.
Mrs. M calls this WTN and we have to read our writing and decide on our level using the rubric and then we can check with a friend and then we talk to Mrs. M and then together we decide what I have to do to improve my writing. I like this because I feel that I am getting better at writing and I know what to do to get better.

Reflection on what we have learned today in 4m.

Today in class we learnt how to use Image Chef and copy and paste our poems onto our blogs. Image Chef is a web 2.0 tool. I learnt how to find the embed code and copy the
embed code and download it onto my blog. I like using different e-tools to show my work and what I have been doing in class.

Using Image Chef to create my poem

Using Image Chef to create my word

ImageChef.com Flower Text

Using Image Chef to create my poem

ImageChef.com Poetry Blender

Our learning Week 8 Term 3

We discussed what learning is and we all shared some ideas about what learning is. We came up with some ideas and then we put these together and made a definition of what we think learning is.
We said that anyone can learn something new and that there is an endless amount of resources that people can use to learn from. Overall we came up with that learning is taking in new knowledge and mixing it with what you already know and thinking about it t create new knowledge.
I used Image Chef, a new web 2.0 tool to make a poster for our class so that we can all talk about our learning each day.

Week 7 Term 3

What is learning?
I think learning is when a person or a group of people work together or alone to work something out or learn each others opinions.

How do I know that I am learning something during a task?
I know when I am learning during a task because I am taking new knowledge into my brain.

How do I know that I have learnt something after I have completed the task?
I know that I have learnt something after the task because I may have had a different opinion about the subject before and now have a new opinion.

What could my teacher do to help me decide what I need to do next in a task? Mrs.M could help me by looking at my work and tell me how I need to improve my work and what to do next with my learning.

These are the ways I like to learn the most...
acting
discussing
drawing
and dancing