Miss T.

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Critical thinking and collaborative activity. Fun learning.

Did you know that today is International Peace Day? Well, I didn’t… Honestly, I thought it is sometime in January. Anyway, one of the kids came this morning asking if I planned something special to celebrate it. I haven’t… Luckily, I have planned to do a short (20 minutes) creative writing activity so I only had to change the theme. I gave them a starter and they finished it. “When I close my eyes and think of Peace…”

Team building activity in summer school.

For us teachers end of the year doesn’t have the same meaning as for any other people. It’s not the 31st December. It’s when school year ends. Some of us finish the year at the end of May, others at the end of June. Some still count the days… For me official school year has already ended. Although I still work in July. It’s not hard work. It’s summer school with a lot of entertainment. Honestly, I quite like it. I know more about the kids and we have a lot of fun.

And he truly did. Bless him. 😂😂

What really surprised me whilst reading their blog posts that even my naughtiest, laziest student who I never thought was listening or intentionally doing something study related and he’d rather be anywhere else, started his reflection with a sentence like this: “In this unit I had a lot of fun, I have done a lot of things like… ” and he wrote plenty examples where learning took place. Cherry on top he finished his posts hoping the next unit would be as entertaining as this one was. I guess learning continues for them and for me.

As a formative assessment on our unit “Who we are” kids have been making posters and writing poems about how they maintain their health. They enjoy working in little groups or in pairs. They laugh a lot together and come up with funny ideas as they are trying to find rhyming words to make their perfect poem.

I can’t imagine my life without… Lovely activity to do with the class to know kids better.