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Session 2 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Health and Technologies

by Jodie Davidson,

Warm Up 

Finding a partner

  1. I need to to find a partner

  2. However, your partner must be the same height as you

  3. Find your partner and sit down opposite each other

 Main Activity 

Who are you?

  1. To get to know you, I need to recognise your faces. 

  2. You will each be given a piece of paper and a marker

  3. We are going to teach your hand and eye to talk to each other without your brain interfering (because sometimes our brain gives us the wrong information and tries to trick us).

  4. Pretend there is an invisible piece of string between your eye and your hand. Each time your eye moves in a direction, your hand needs to move the same way so that as your eyes look at your partner’s face, your pen follows.

  5. You must keep your pen on the page, like a magnet.

  6. Creative to demonstrate with the Teacher

  7. Pass your sheet to your partner for them to write their name on.


Groups

  1. Find a group who ate the same breakfast as you this morning.

  2. Find a group who has the same favourite food as you. Sit down as soon as you have found your group.

  3. Without any words, can you find a group who has the same pet as you?

  4. In your group, how can you use your bodies collaboratively to create an image of a car, book, table?


How would you like to learn?

  1. How many ideas can you come up with that make you feel calm?

  2. Double check, do they make you feel calm or energised?

  3. If you were in charge of a school and could decide how everyone was going to learn about Health, how would you do it?


 Reflection with the students 

Creative Habits

  1. Introduce each of the Creative Habits using the poster

  2. Can you give an example of how you used this habit today?


 After the session:

 Planning with the Teacher
 (refer back to your original Term Plan document, discuss successes, explore challenges and make changes.)

Successes

  • Participation in the activities

  • Creative thinking in using their bodies to create objects

  • Wanting to do the drawing activity twice

Challenges

  • Same students generating ideas

  • Keeping excitement contained when asking questions of giving instructions

  • Some really reserved students

  • Mixed capacity for processing instructions

  • Varied reading skills - pre-primary through to year 3 level


Working with students
 (what is emerging, what is engaging them/not, what’s making them curious.)

The quick movement between physical activities kept the class participation high and held their attention. Need to be mindful of ways in which students can get into their groups and settle quickly rather than get distracted. Getting them to sit or potentially using a creative skills pose will be worth trying. They are excited about having a new person in the classroom and are curious about what we could to do together as a health project this term.


Ideas moving forward
 (ideas for next session, future lessons, discussed with teacher, do you need the teacher to do anything before you return.)

What are student ideas for remembering the Creative Habits?

What are student ideas for ways that they would like to get better at the Creative Habits?

Use a timer when giving instructions to reduce distractions

Potential warm ups in the outside space where there is less acoustic noise than the transportable classroom

Reflection idea that has a repetitive nature and builds on creating a garden or nature space that continues to evolve within the classroom

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