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start_to_finishFelt hugely better about the work we did with my class this week. In contrast to last week where I felt like the curriculum kind of pushed all the fun stuff off the timetable, we actually managed to have some really good lessons and get quite a lot done.
I'm really noticing that they're much more focused and able to contribute sensibly in the mornings than the afternoons, which I guess is another by-product of them being 5! It means that afternoon lessons need quite a lot of planning to get them to work well and it also means that our ICT suite slots (both afternoons) are definitely not ideal.
Had a particularly nice art lesson where we started on scuplture. They were fascinated by the different things you could make sculpture out of and then managed to produce something really quite good quality out of plasticine in most cases - I had to record it on my camera because I hadn't been expecting it to be particularly worth recording. I figured we'd be using them as kind of practice modelling and we'd do something more complete later in term but they actually did really well with it - I was dead chuffed.
The other interesting event of the week was sports day. I was really surprised that in the morning we run traditional running races! I thought that had gone out of fashion in most schools. We don't encourage the parents to join us for that bit though. The afternoon was much more what I was expecting - lots of stations with different activities, mixed year-group teams moving around earning points. The kids all seemed to really enjoy it and I had to demonstrate bunny jumps 15 times so I was knackered by the end! Note to self: next year try for something fairly quiet - quoits throwing or something.
I'm really noticing that they're much more focused and able to contribute sensibly in the mornings than the afternoons, which I guess is another by-product of them being 5! It means that afternoon lessons need quite a lot of planning to get them to work well and it also means that our ICT suite slots (both afternoons) are definitely not ideal.
Had a particularly nice art lesson where we started on scuplture. They were fascinated by the different things you could make sculpture out of and then managed to produce something really quite good quality out of plasticine in most cases - I had to record it on my camera because I hadn't been expecting it to be particularly worth recording. I figured we'd be using them as kind of practice modelling and we'd do something more complete later in term but they actually did really well with it - I was dead chuffed.
The other interesting event of the week was sports day. I was really surprised that in the morning we run traditional running races! I thought that had gone out of fashion in most schools. We don't encourage the parents to join us for that bit though. The afternoon was much more what I was expecting - lots of stations with different activities, mixed year-group teams moving around earning points. The kids all seemed to really enjoy it and I had to demonstrate bunny jumps 15 times so I was knackered by the end! Note to self: next year try for something fairly quiet - quoits throwing or something.