Cousins

1. A cousin is a relative with whom a person shares one or more common ancestors. In the general sense, cousins are two or more generations away from any common ancestor, thus distinguishing acousin from an ancestor, descendant, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew.

LIONEL MESSI

Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (Spanish pronunciation: [ljoˈnel anˈdɾes ˈmesi] ( listen); born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish club Barcelona and the Argentina national team. Often considered the best player in the world and rated by many in the sport as the greatest of all time, Messi is the only football player in history to win four FIFA Ballons d'Or, all of which he won consecutively. As the all-time top goalscorer in La Liga and the UEFA Champions League, he is the first player to win three European Golden Shoes as the continent's league top scorer and the only player to be top scorer in five Champions League seasons. With Barcelona, he has won La Liga seven times and the Champions League four times, as well as three Copas del Rey, among other honours.

Born and raised in central Argentina, Messi was diagnosed with a growth hormone deficiency as a child. At age 13, he relocated to Spain to join Barcelona, who agreed to pay for his medical treatment. After a fast progression through Barcelona's youth academy, Messi made his competitive debut aged 17 in October 2004.

Collaboration and Maths - Learning Story -September 2015

Learner: Shaun                                                                  Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: Collaboration & Maths                           Date: Term 3

Learning Observed

This term our overarching theme has been collaboration and Shaun has had plenty of opportunities to show how collaborative he is and to grow his collaboration capability.  To kick the term off Shaun was on a team of learners who had to collaborate to complete various challenges.  Shaun demonstrated excellent listening and turn taking.  He is very calm and a real team player.  Recently, during a maths investigation where Shaun had to determine if he was a square, as Leonardo hypothesized many years ago, he worked collaboratively with Aaron.  They had to identify different strategies for checking their guess and make estimates of their height and arm span using correct units. They then had to measure their arm span and height to determine if they were a square.

Evidence of learning

Shaun’s collaboration in action in Term 3.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Shaun has shown a real tendency to collaborate with his classmates and listens actively.  He relates well with others and participates and contributes frequently.  His is growing his measuring capabilities using the correct units.  His curiosity feeds his investigation and need to collaborate.  He is adept at making connections to his prior learning as well.

Next Learning Steps

although a good listener Shaun needs to develop his confidence at speaking up to share his awesome ideas check on measuring tools that they are using the correct side eg. cm not inches and recognise when a measurement looks incorrect do his e-ako pathway at home continue to practice his measurement maths with Mathletics finish an investigation by writing the analysis and conclusion