Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
Using the loss or change cards I asked the children to place their cards along a continuum from very difficult to cope with, to more easy to cope with.
Got the children to work together so they could learn to come to one decision as there is no right way of doing this.
Then invited the children to write a feeding on a post it to describe how the person might be feeling in that situation.
In class we shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
Showed a PowerPoint slides of boyfriends and girlfriends/couples
Created a space for a continuum across the classroom, with labels saying ‘Agree’ and ‘ disagree’ at either end. Told the children that I
Going to read out a number of statements and for each one they had to stand somewhere on an imaginary line between the two extremes, according to their personal opinion about the statement.
Once he children have placed themselves in response to each state I asked a few children to explain why they are standing where they are.
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
We sang the song : changing as I grow.
We looked at the PowerPoint pictures of a baby, toddler, teenager, adult to elderly person. In talking partners children had to describe two changes they can visibly see happen to an elderly person. We all shared ideas. Drawed out from the children how our bodies might change and asked them to think about what other changes might happen, e.g bodies become slower, old people run less but might get wiser and kinder.
Made a point that change is a natural process as we get older and we have no control over it.
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
In groups using the life circle cards children had to sequence from left to right to show the changes that happen as each living thing grows up. Reinforced the idea that every living thing has a life circle and grows from young/baby to fully grown/adult.
We talked about how the children have changed since they were babies (physical changes as well as developmental changes I.e what they can now do they couldn’t when they were a baby).
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
We played a game called ‘switch’ children sat in a circle and asked to switch places if : you’ve lost something that was important to you, you have helped somebody else find something they have lost, etc.
Read the story ‘Goodbye mousie’
Story was about a boy who lost his pet, and how he deals with this loss. Children were then asked what feeling did the boy feel in the story? Why do you think he felt these feelings ?
Shared ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me
At the beginning of every jigsaw lesson we help our minds calm down so that we are ready to learn.
Today in jigsaw lesson children had male/female/both cards and a set of ‘whose responsibility?’ Cards. We asked the children to read each statement, children decided if it is a job mainly for men women or both and places it beneath the coresponding sign. Children also wrote extra ideas of their own.
Children then had to draw each member of their family and identity two jobs that each person, including themselves does.
We started the session off by sharing ‘The jigsaw charter’ with the children to reinforce how we work together.
Calm me…
This week in Jigsaw we read the children ‘The sad book’ by Michael Rosen. The book expresses Michael’s experience of deep sadness, how it affects him and how he tries to cope with it. In groups children had time to discuss and explore what the book tells us about feelings of sadness and loss.
Allowed each child group to share their ideas and conclusions from their discussions with the rest of the class.
Last Thursday in Year 2 we started the session by sitting in a circle on chairs. We then called our minds so that we were ready to learn.
We then showed a BBC clip of an introduction to life cycles. This included images of eggs, bees, seedlings growing, eggs hatching etc. We then discussed what life cycles are and how things grow and change from a baby to an adult.
Last Thursday in Year 1 we began by calming our minds down and preparing our minds to begin learning.
In tell me or show me, the children were shown a clip of spawn growing to frogs, which showed frogspawn and later a frog that the children find. The children were asked how the frogspawn turned into battle frog? What happens and in what order?
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