Highlights of Week 3
We started the week with a visit from 'Football for children', learning a few new soccer skills.
Learning to Listen!
For some of us, listening can be a real challenge!
To help us learn how to listen (and give instructions), we used an old fashioned 'barrier game' to help us practise these important skills (as well as learning a little maths!).
How it works: without looking at each others board one person gives an instruction and the other follows this instruction: such as "put the yellow block in the top Left hand quarter". At the end of their turn both participants compare their boards to see if they match. There was some good listening going on!
Learning through our interests.
Toby researched, analysed, summarised, collated and created an information report about Pokemon. He presented his research project to the class, explaining how Pokemon were classified into different groups and how each Pokemon had different strengths.
He spoke clearly and knew his topic well, he was able to answer questions from his audience and later explained that there was a lot of tactical thinking involved when playing Pokemon battles.
