In Year 4’s PHSE lesson yesterday everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
The children then took part in Tell me or show me. The children worked through a picture resource sheet.
Once the children had enough time to answer the questions, the teacher then displayed a set of pictures. Whichever group had the same pictures, had to share their answers through a spokesperson.
Yesterday in our PHSE lesson everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
Then we shared the lyrics of the Jigsaw song ‘Choices’ with the children. All them to think about what sort of choices they may need to make while they are
Finally the children their idea of a dream school and a nightmare school. The children then considered where our school fits….. Is it the nightmare school or the dream school?
Yesterday we started our jigsaw lesson with the Calm Me exercise to prepare ourselves to learn.
In small groups the children were given a blank learning charter template and asked to teach a consensus on what should be on it. They filed in the rights, responsibilities, rewards, and consequences that would be most meaningful to them.
The children then returned to the circle and shared their ideas. The teacher then enabled the class to come up with one learning charter and they competed a template for this. This template will then be passed onto the school council as our class contribution towards the new learning charter.
Yesterday, everyone, including the adults took part the Calm me activity to help make sure we’re ready to learn.
The children were then put into groups of four. One child from each group then took an item from Jigsaw Jez’s bag (rugby ball, spoon, pebble, key, bag of coins, bell etc).
Their mission was to make up a new game using the item they picked. Every group then shared their games with other groups and received feedback on whether they were good or not. They then discussed whether rules are necessary to enjoy the games.
Y3 have been focusing their learning this week on water safety. Y3 started their week with a visit from Phil, a volunteer from the Canal & River Trust https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/
He taught us why it is important to keep safe when close to rivers and canals. We worked collaboratively to spot the hazards in and around a canal and then to find out how to keep safe:
Stay
Away
From the
Edge
This visit then informed Y3’s learning over the rest of the week. Y3 had lots of fun learning more about water safety and demonstrated our new learning by creating information posters and non-chronological reports,small group drama and learning a water safety song .
As part of Child Safety Week, the children learnt all about ‘Pantosaurus’ and the NSPCC campaign. Classes from Reception to Year 6 enjoyed singing along and learning how to stay safe. Links for more information regarding the campaign, ‘Lets Talk PANTS’ can be found on the school newsletter or on the NSPCC website.
Last Thursday at the start of the session the children were shown ‘The Jigsaw Charter’ to help reinforce how they work together as a team.
Everyone including the adults, then participated in the ‘Calm Me’ exercise. It was explained to the children that this was to help get their minds ready to learn. We discussed how staying calm and focusing our minds would help us to visualise and create pictures in our minds.
The ‘Open my mind’ activity involved role cards. Children were put into pairs and were given one role card and one blank description card. They then had to list the three most important jobs that the person on the card does in the school community and how they help them to learn.
Then without showing anybody the role card, pairs took turns to read out the job description card so the other children could try and guess who was on the role card.
Last Thursday we started the session by showing the children ‘The Jigsaw Charter’ to help reinforce how they work together as a team.
Everyone including the adults, then participated in the ‘Calm Me’ exercise. It was explained to the children that this was to help get their minds ready to learn.
We then moved onto the ‘Connect us’ section of the lesson. Sitting in a circle in pairs, the children passed around Jigsaw Jino’s feelings bag. One child from each pair then picked out a feeling and had to mime out the feeling to the rest of the circle.
At the start of the session everyone including the adults, participated in the ‘Calm Me’ exercise. It was explained to the children that this was to help get their minds ready to learn.
The children were then shown ‘The Jigsaw Charter’ to help reinforce how they work together as a team.
The children played a game called ‘Off to Market’. The tracker started a song saying: “Jigsaw Jem went to market and bought……” Teacher filled in the blank with bananas, then the next child on the left had to sing the same song remembering what was bought and then adding another item. Each child would have to try and remember all the items and add their own to the list.
The ‘Open my mind’ exercise involved the children to write a list of what they would get if they won the lottery. They would then have to cross out all the things that they don’t ‘need’ and then review the list is see what’s left.
Finally the children looked at Maslow’s triangle and tried to understand his theory of the hierarchy of human need.
We did the ‘Calm me’ exercise at the beginning and explained that the benefit of this was to help the to learn by calming down their minds.
We shared ‘The Jigsaw Charter’ with the children to help reinforce how we work together as a group.
The ‘Connect us’ section of the lesson involved playing a game called ‘I sit in the woods’. The children had to sit in a chair in a circle with one empty chair remaining. Everyone had to rotate so that everyone was in a different seat to when they started.
The aim of ‘Tell me or show me’ was to get the children to solve a picture without using any verbal communication.
Finally, for ‘Let me learn’ the children were put into groups. They were asked to list the top six things ALL children need in order to be able to learn. All groups then feed back their lists to the group and then they picked the top six from all the lists.
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