Session 5 - Somerly Primary School Year 3 - Health and Technologies

Sourcing Materials - inquisitive, collaboration, persistence, discipline

1. Find a collection of five sticks

2. They must be shorter than your arm

3. They must be longer that your hand

4. You must stay within the grassed area

5. How quickly can you do it?

Jodie Says - Creative Habit Warm Up

1. Just like ‘Simon Says’, use your body actions to show the correct Creative Habit

2. You must only move when ‘Jodie says’

3. Once someone is out, they become a spotter.

Making 3D Creatures

1. What is the difference between 3 dimensional and 2 dimensional?

2. Create a 3 dimensional creature using your found objects and others that are in the boxes

3. You can gather extra materials if you need them

4. How can you do this without staples or glue?

5. What tools can you use?

6. What do you need to remember regarding your safety and that of those around you?

7. Go…

Which creative habit did you use today?

1. Which coloured paper corresponds to the creative habit you feel you used most today?

2. Discuss with a partner why you chose that colour

3. How can you attach this to your flower to begin your Creative Habits flower garden. Will you stick it flat, roll it up, overlap it or do you have another idea?

4. Attach your paper to your flower, cut it out and have it ready to add to the garden.

Successes

• Complete engagement with everything today by all students

• Higher number of green ‘happy’ zones today that prior to previous sessions

• Problem solving because adults were only able to answer a question with a question

• Imagination was awesome!

• Collaboration, particularly when students didn’t know how to do something. Other students would come and offer to show them and help

• Working independently 

• Remembering their creative habits and being able to reflect on which creative habit they were using and why or determining which creative habit they might need to use and how

• Ongoing reflection of Creative Habits throughout the session

Challenges

• We had to do a quick modification and move the activities which were initially planned for outside, inside due to complications with one of the students. This also meant that we changed the warm up so that it was suitable for inside but still contained body movement

• We weren’t able to do our Reflection at the end of the session because of National Simultaneous Storytime however, Katy will do it with them after recess. 

The working with tools today definitely engaged the entire class, even those who are usually more withdrawn. Unfortunately one student who would have enjoyed this activity, is having some difficulties with school so wasn’t in class today however the class decided that they needed additional time to work on their creatures so we are going to continue the activity next week. I’m hopeful she will see the creatures during the week and want to participate in the next session. They were curious about how to join pieces together without glue and were engaged in working out solutions. Even though they were working independently, they were also quick to help each other and share their projects. They also came up with great suggestions for which creative habit their creature had and why. 

‘My creature’s superpower habit is imaginative because it imagines what it can create in its head’ … student

One student also suggested that he wanted to draw his creature when it was finished but thought we could do it like we had in one of the earlier sessions so they could each draw their creature with a partner and then swap the drawings and add to them. We will incorporate this into their next session. They are curious about what we are doing each week but also able to come up with suggestions for driving the project forward.