T3+Inquiry-+The+Arts

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** Riverslea **** School **** Inquiry Plan The Arts T3 **

 * Riverslea **** School **** Inquiry Plan T3 Wks 4-11 2014 **
 * ** The Arts **
 * Visual, Music, Drama and Dance ** || ** Insights – What are the Arts? (Meaning) **
 * What can you do in the Arts? **
 * Who are experts that can help us learn about the Arts? **
 * What do we want to do in visual, music,dance and drama? **
 * How can we choose songs/ drama/dance / visual arts to do? **
 * What actions can we do to songs/drama/dance? **
 * Where can we do these and who for? **
 * What do I want to learn most? ** ||
 * ** Skills (LOs) developed during the inquiry process **
 * Key competencies-Participating and Contributing and **
 * Using language symbols and texts. **
 * At the end of this Inquiry: I will know what some Arts are and show my understanding and examples of them to others. ** || ** Concepts (AOs) **
 * Children will be able to: talk about and show examples of visual arts **
 * : recognise features about music / help choose **
 * songs **
 * : be able to help develop and perform actions to **
 * the songs we chose/ drama / dance **
 * : be involved in setting up and performing a **
 * dance/ drama/song to an audience. **
 * : set criteria to be able to assess how and if they **
 * have achieved their goals and understanding **
 * about The Arts. ** ||


 * ** Assessment Rubric focus area: Understanding **


 * Teacher conference and self/peer assessment ** || ** Goal achievement – **** Show/ demonstrate an art I have learnt **


 * Help plan, set up and perform a song and either dance or drama, that is successful, to others. **
 * ( Task based Inquiry) **
 * ** Choose, with teacher guidance, a song to perform **
 * ** Practise and learn songs **
 * ** Choose and develop a dance or drama **
 * ** Practise actions for a drama or dance **
 * ** Discuss what changes may need to be made and why **
 * ** Present examples of visual art for a school exhibition of work ** ||


 * ** Key Competencies **


 * Relating to others


 * Managing self


 * Participating and contributing


 * Thinking


 * Using languages, symbols and text || ** Visual Maps **


 * Te Ihi Wk 4**


 * He Patai Big question /wonderings Wks 4**


 * Whaka aroaro ( what can we do now) Wks 4-5**


 * Whakamarama (Enlightened/ research) Wks 4-7**


 * Whai koreo (communicate to peers)**
 * ( and audience)**
 * Wks 10/11**


 * Te Mahi ( action)**
 * Wks -5-11**


 * Aromatawai ( assessment)**


 * Whaiwhakaaro (reflection)** || ** Key Words and Concepts **


 * arts **
 * visual **
 * dance **
 * drama **
 * music **
 * performance **
 * action/ he ohomauri **
 * rhythm **
 * (Kiplings seven servants) **
 * what, how, when where ,which, why,who **
 * De Bonos hats **
 * inquiry **
 * connections-shared experiences **
 * persistence/commitment ** || ** Resources **

ICT cameras/ ipads/videos etc Computers ipads self whanau community Literacy
 * Arts/Music/Drama/Dance/ Visual **
 * youtube (R2) **
 * itube **
 * Song to sing eg House song **
 * Performance to school **
 * finger puppets ** ||
 * ** Motivating question/ scenario (Fertile question) – What will capture our kids? **


 * What new skill do I want to learn in the Arts? ** ||

** Plan of Action- The Arts **

 * As a class we looked at what the different types of Arts were and what we could learn about them.**
 * We talked about what Arts we could do. The children, as part of their plan of action from their Inquiry on**
 * The Arts, discovered that there were 4 Arts that we could do, those being Visual, Music, Drama and Dance.**
 * We then planned around these using Wonderings and an Inspiration map to help us formulate our Essential Question.**

** Our Planning **
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** What I did **

 * I guided the children in this plan of action. We looked on google to find what was in each of the Arts.**
 * We then made posters which showed examples of each of the 4 areas that we were looking at.**
 * We put those on the wall for reference along with our Wonderings poster and Inspiration map.**
 * We then developed our Essential Question which was-**
 * What new skills do I want to learn to do in the Arts ? **
 * I organised Art activities to cover the term based on the wonderings and suggestions of the tamariki.**
 * We then undertook them and displayed them on our classroom walls, in the cloak-bay and in Room 3.**
 * The students and I took lots of photos to record the Arts that happened throughout the term. **
 * (see below in Evidence and photos). **
 * Below our posters that showed examples of the Arts **



** Impact of that learning (Evaluation) **

 * The children learnt to reflect on their Inquiry and follow a plan of action. This showed them that learning has outcomes, **
 * not just learning for the sake of new knowledge. **
 * Also that plans of action from Inquiry can be followed through and have successful outcomes. **
 * They were proud of the posters that we all made. They were also proud of all the Art work that they produced visually **
 * and showed their whanau when they came to school. **
 * We learnt how to do Finger puppet shows in Drama eg Maui and the Sun, Goldilocks and the Three Bears and The Three Little Pigs. **
 * We performed The Three Little Pigs to the Preschool and whanau when they visited and Goldilocks and the Three Bears to **
 * whanau when they visited the classroom also. **
 * The children danced to Music and sang waiata and also learnt how to use different instruments, especially in time to Music. **
 * Below are examples of the Finger Puppet shows and the Visual art and some kani kani at lunchtime to Music. **
 * We had the Duffy theatre visit and we made our Dream playgrounds with Minecraft on the ipads. **
 * We made poi with Mayfair Kindergarten and learnt some Kapa Haka with the Senior students and the Mayfair Kindergarten too. **
 * The children enjoyed learning about and practising all the Arts **

** Where to next? **

 * Next we will extend our use of the Arts inside and outside the classroom.**
 * We will extend and develop upon our Arts,** **as well as use different examples to express our Arts.**
 * Many of these will be based upon further wonderings and suggestions/ ideas of the students.**
 * We also made connections with Mayfair Kindergarten and the Preschool so we will extend upon these also. **

** Evidence and Photos **




** Teacher Pedagogy. **
Students learn as they engage in shared activities and conversations with other people, including family members and people in the wider community. Teachers encourage this process by cultivating the class as a learning community. In such a community, everyone, including the teacher, is a learner; learning conversations and learning partnerships are encouraged; and challenge, support, and feedback are always available. As they engage in reflective discourse with others, students build the language that they need to take their learning further.
 * Facilitating shared learning**

Children were provided with sufficient opportunites to learn, reinforce and extend that learning as well as teach other peers what they had learnt and how. They were given time not only to practise new skills but to transfer new learning to other contexts.
 * Providing sufficient opportunities to learn**