Share and Shine

Here's some videos and photos to illustrate some of the amazing learning that took place during our Lockdown Learning at the beginning of Term 2.

Writing and Design Thinking

Writing is one of the many learning activities in our Distance Learning programme and One Odd Bunch each have several writing goals to master. After deciding on the genre for their writing, e.g. narrative, explanation, poetic etc., they then needed to come up with an idea. Sometimes coming up with an idea can be difficult, so we provide them with a variety of prompts and ideas to choose from in our 'Writing Zone'.

The art of writing - whether it be a story or explaining the why and how, involves a series of steps - planning, drafting, recrafting and editing. I feel that the steps in writing are very similar to the process in Design Thinking:

• Empathise - reason for writing: to entertain, inform, report, personal etc.
• Define - identify the audience and purpose for writing
• Ideate - plan for writing; generate ideas; what are the key points to include
• Prototype - draft up ideas and organise for paragraphing; consider language and                        structure; vocabulary, spelling and punctuation
• Test - get feedback and make changes to improve your writing

What do you think?

Here is a slice of the published writing that One Odd Bunch have 'designed and produced'. Enjoy!

Share and Shine

Here's some more fab learning experiences that One Odd Bunch have been up to...

Share & Shine

Lockdown Memes - Daily Challenge: 20.4.20

It looks like this challenge was extremely popular.  Memes are such a fun way to share our thinking :)

Morning Meeting - 20.4.20

Sharing Our Learning

Here are a few more examples of our learners 'Sharing and Shining'.

Camp Preparation

Learning in Week 2 of Term 1 was mainly focused around preparing for camp.  This afternoon we met up with our camp group buddies, then broke away into two groups to put up one of the camp tents. This is an important job, because we needed to check that all the gear was in the tent bag and that there were no breakages.

We were first shown how to put up a tent, then we worked collaboratively to put up our own group's tent. It was really tricky bending the pole into the metal piece in each corner and some of the tents were so high that we were challenged to get the tent fly over the tent, once it was up.  Well, we thought these were the difficult parts, but getting the tent, poles and fly back into the tent bag proved to be the most difficult of all!

Threading through the poles

Working collaboratively

Connecting the poles to the base

Will it fit back in the bag?

Happy campers!