What a fantastic couple of days - we have thoroughly enjoyed meeting you all!
Yesterday, we began by sharing our very exciting holiday news. More importantly, however, we then met our buddies!!!! This was very successful and Year 4 were super kind and caring taking to it like ducks to water!!!!!! They can be very proud of themselves and the fact they had such an important part to play in their buddies very first day at school!!!!! Special memories were created!
We explored the class room and questions were answered all about year 4, the systems and set up as well as expectations of learning, behaviour and the teachers!!!!!!!!!
The next most important thing to do was to discuss and agree on our class charter based upon UNICEF's rights of a child - the children voted on 5/6 rights and the responsibilities that go with those. I will blog them in a couple of days so that you can discuss them at home. In order to maintain a happy, fun and safe learning environment we will be referring to these regularly.
Finally, yesterday, we reflected on our goals for the year and what we would like to get better at by the end of Year 4.
Today, we continued with the theme of being successful, trying our best and learning how we have strengths and weaknesses but by recognising these we can improve in areas that we are not so confident in. We learned all about the brain, multiple intelligences and learning styles.............tell your mum or dad which "smart" you are, tell them about the interesting things we learned about the brain and also what kind of learner you are - visual, auditory or kinaesthetic!
Phew, no wonder we are all so tired after 2 days!!!!!!! These are all essential topics to discuss in our first couple of days so that everyone feels comfortable with the learning environment and feels confident and valued!
We are looking forward to swimming tomorrow!
Sleep well!
Mrs. J and The Year 4 Team!
Yesterday, we began by sharing our very exciting holiday news. More importantly, however, we then met our buddies!!!! This was very successful and Year 4 were super kind and caring taking to it like ducks to water!!!!!! They can be very proud of themselves and the fact they had such an important part to play in their buddies very first day at school!!!!! Special memories were created!
We explored the class room and questions were answered all about year 4, the systems and set up as well as expectations of learning, behaviour and the teachers!!!!!!!!!
The next most important thing to do was to discuss and agree on our class charter based upon UNICEF's rights of a child - the children voted on 5/6 rights and the responsibilities that go with those. I will blog them in a couple of days so that you can discuss them at home. In order to maintain a happy, fun and safe learning environment we will be referring to these regularly.
Finally, yesterday, we reflected on our goals for the year and what we would like to get better at by the end of Year 4.
Today, we continued with the theme of being successful, trying our best and learning how we have strengths and weaknesses but by recognising these we can improve in areas that we are not so confident in. We learned all about the brain, multiple intelligences and learning styles.............tell your mum or dad which "smart" you are, tell them about the interesting things we learned about the brain and also what kind of learner you are - visual, auditory or kinaesthetic!
Phew, no wonder we are all so tired after 2 days!!!!!!! These are all essential topics to discuss in our first couple of days so that everyone feels comfortable with the learning environment and feels confident and valued!
We are looking forward to swimming tomorrow!
Sleep well!
Mrs. J and The Year 4 Team!
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