Growth Mindset

We are using the our Growth Mindset and developing “Muscle Memory” (it’s not really from the muscles – it’s neurons making new connections)

The more we practice, the stronger and quicker these connections will grow.

This is the progression we are using:

• One scarf arcing from hand to hand.
• Two scarves swapping in the air – throw, throw, catch, catch.
• One tied scarf arcing from hand to hand.
• Two tied scarves swapping the air – throw, throw, catch, catch.
• One weighted scarf arcing in the air.
• Two weighted scarves swapping in the air – throw, throw, catch, catch.
• One ball arcing from hand to hand.
• Two balls swapping in the air – throw, throw, catch, catch.
• Three tied scarfs
• Three balls!
• Three hoops!!
• Three flaming torches!!!
• Three chainsaws!!!! 😂

(We will stop at 3 juggling balls – the rest of the journey is up to you!)

Gymnastics

We have been practising forward rolls and backwards rolls on mats and higher platforms. We also took some amazing photos of people making tuck, star (we love the star shape!) and pike shapes in the air when using the high boxes.

Games Design

We were working in small teams to make sustainable board games with fair rules that would encourage people to play well together.

Snap a Story

For World Book Day we recreated scenes from books using our Teamwork Makes the Dream Work and Lego building skills.

Can you guess which stories these scenes are from?

Gymnastics

We are using the gymnastics equipment to perform and practise sequences of rolls, balances and shapes. More action shots to follow next week!

We play a game called “Blast” in class. It’s one of the games we play with our spelling words.

“You set a timer for one minute on the class iPad. And you write the word as many times as you can. You play the best of 5. I won.”

Growth Mindset

We are going to be learning about using a growth mindset to achieve things. What better way to do this practically, than to improve our juggling skills? We had great fun watching our first attempts and thought you would enjoy it too!

Climates

We took notes from a BBC documentary about penguins in a polar climate and used another source (a really good book about penguins) to add even more details. Then we turned our notes into a new page in our Animal Adaptations websites.

Music/Kodaly

We were learning about time signatures this week. We used them to play games and we learned a new song too. We practised reading music and drumming along with it.

Taekwondo

We had a taster session from a professional Taekwondo coach. We learned new flexibility drills and how to hold a pad safely so that we could practise kicking with each other!