I'm slowly getting my classroom back into order after emptying it at the end of last year. Some work is stating to get put up and it's great seeing the students put so much effort into their work. Here's a sneak peek into some of the things around my classroom!
As you come to my door I have these attached. I saw it on Pinterest and was inspired to make my own! It's great and gives confidence to the students that they are ALL of these things and can BE all of these things!
One of the first activities we did on the first day of school was a standard 'Get to know you' activity. They had to write the letter of their first name and fill it with images of things they liked and needed to visually represent themselves. Here's two examples I have displayed in my class.
The first Technology and Enterprise activity we did last week was Paper Weaving. Sounds easy right? You would be surprised how little fine motor skills are practised as students move into the higher grades! But, I have to say, these guys did really well at this! Only a few struggled and they look fantastic hung up! Bright and colourful - just the way I like it!
By far the BIGGEST hit in my class is my Boggle Challenge. Students are given 16 random letters and have a week to come up with as many words as they can! There's a prize for the person/s that have the most words and one for the student that creates the longest word. As of this afternoon the longest word they had found was GATHERINGS and was 10 letters. They really are challenging themselves to come up with great words!
Today was Valentine's day and we learned about St Valentine, how the day came about, and it's link to Cupid. It's a great introduction to our theme unit on Greek/Roman Mythology starting soon! but I'll save that for my next post!
Until then - keep learning! :D
I wanna be in your class!!!
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