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Subi Primary Year 4s Tanya and Jennie

by Tanya Rodin,

DATE 4th September

Warm Up

The Triangle Game.

Everyone walks through the space, you get everyone to freeze and then secretly pick two other classmates. Their task is to then always spatially be in an equilateral triangle with those they picked. As a result everyone is moving around, and you can see how with one move, others are impacted. Eventually there can be a point where everyone pauses and finds stillness, and the puzzle was worked out.

Main Activity

Today we had three stations;

Finishing doorstops- those that hadn’t done one or needed to do a second worked on completing more doorstops.
Appreciation cards- some focused on writing appreciation cards for those that helped on the sewing day.
And then some were cutting triangles for our habit snakes. Gemma had an amazing idea that instead of doing the bunting, we could combine our snake idea and the bunting into the one. Having our snakes be the visual representation of their creative learning journey. So we used the scraps of denim from the doorstop leftovers, and some coloured materials we had collected for the bunting, and slowly they began to cut triangles, and thread them on the snake. Having each weeks flag coloured the colour of their chosen habit, being separated by denim triangles.

Reflection with the students

Each reflected on the creative habit they felt they have had the most individual growth in. That will then be the colour of the snake's head, once we complete the snakes.

After the session:

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

The snakes we found were successfully a meditative exercise.

They loved the triangle game, and those who got to do more of the doorstops they were still very enthusiastic about making them.

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

Excited by the how, and learning these new skills. Excited by the sewing machine.

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

Next lesson is our last session in the classroom (market day is the last session with the kids officially). So we decided we are just going to have a bit of a party time fun lesson. Maybe designing fashion out of newspapers, and then some sort of movement task.

Resources
(do you need anything, who will source it?)

Tanya to source everything.

How can you share learning outcomes/stories of transformation with the wider school community (e.g. Connect newsletter, staff meeting, school newsletter, school social media platforms)

Everyone is excited for market day.