Summary - Inventions Term 3 Room Four

Summary:

Use of the Question map:
I have had trouble getting my head around this thinking map, so I joined with a colleague and observed how it was done with older children. Once I had visually seen the map evolving over several modelling sessions I felt more competent in trying the map with my own class and it worked!!!!. Observing the older children in group situations, I realised that 3 or 4 heads of differing levels, enables them to bounce ideas off each other and that the young kids are learning from this “watching and listening”.
The young children are thinking about using the key word before asking a question and most of them are remembering the 7 servants to begin with.

Key Competency: Participation and Contributing:

Observations of mixed groups, differing levels of abilities and ages, to me was a valuable time in which to see how these groups of children could / couldn’t work together. That gave me the opportunity to encourage and teach those children who hadn’t developed the skills as yet to “get a turn” to share their own ideas, regardless of what it might be, and further extend their ideas with my help.

Stages of Sharing and Action:

This stage was highly successful with the “hands on activities”
Those children who have some difficulty with abstract oral explanations blossomed in the “making side” of the activities, where it’s actually the “doing and seeing” that they can talk about.

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