Last week we had lots of opportunities for active learning in Room 6. We used this learning to help us with our spelling, non-number and mindfulness.
On Thursday, we work on practising our common words. To help us remember these, we spelled them using playdoh. Some of us used the playdoh to form separate letters, while others had the idea to carve the words into the playdoh.
On Friday afternoon, we had fun learning about position and movement. We practised using the ‘L’ sign on each hand to identify what was left and what was right before playing a ‘Left and Right’ game. We then discussed the vocabulary ‘backwards’ and ‘forwards’ to recognise what movements these words meant. Following this, we continued to explore this learning by going outside in the sunshine to create our own mazes. We partnered up with Room 5 and used blocks, chalk, coloured dots and cones to build our own mazes then guided our partners through the maze using your directional words. We had so much fun and even made the mazes into different difficulty levels.
Yesterday, to mark the start of Health Week, we spoke about the importance of having a healthy brain as well as a healthy body. We went outside in the sunshine and practised some mindfulness using our senses. We took part in some meditation and thought about what we saw, heard, tasted, smelled, and touched before writing down our ideas on a big sheet of paper. We then went for a mindfulness walk around the playground. We felt nice and refreshed afterwards.
Have a fantastic Health Week!
Room 6 and Mrs Rae 😊
