On Tuesday the 26th of June we will be presenting our Genius Hour projects to the class, sharing our learning and our inspiration to take on new challenges.

Our presentations will be evaluated by our peers using our Success Criteria. We discussed our criteria as a class so that we could all put forth our ideas.

S.C

1. I can give a talk using a clear voice, expression and gesture.
2. I can share information, personal experiences and opinions and explain processes and ideas when listening and talking.
3. I have asked and answered questions about something I am interested in.
4. I have been involved in self and peer evaluation and use this to develop my talking and listening skills.
5. I can use effective questioning to elicit information and clarify understanding.
6. I have the courage to stand up in front of a room full of my peers and share my learning.
7.  I have presented a talk which uses language and vocabulary, expression, emphasis, props and resources appropriate to the subject and the audience.
8. I can lead my own learning by choosing my own area of interest to study and guiding my own learning.
9. I have shared some of my knowledge and my process in a blog.
10. I can share my learning with the class in a variety of ways, and make my talk entertaining for the listener.

P5/6 have been writing hilarious limericks this morning as part of their Genius Hour projects. Using their Genius Hour topic theme, the pupils formed small discussion groups and helped each other think up rhyming words or short stories which could be incorporated into a poem. As a result we have poems about everything from hoovers and space travel to recorders squished under bums.

Each student has uploaded their limerick to their personal blog (all the links are to the left of this blog), so pop over and leave them a comment.

This week our task is to prepare our posters to make a pitch of what we are learning about to our whole class. We have some time in class to complete this as well as working on it at home.

Our pitch poster needs to include:

1. The question we are asking i.e How do you play ‘hot cross buns’ on the recorder?
2. How we are going to learn. (books, internet research etc)
3. The web address of our blog so that we can share our learning every step of the way.
4. Images and drawings to make our work eye catching and draw attention to our information.

In addition to working on our pitch poster this week (for Monday 28th May) we will update our blogs at least twice with information about our studies and continue to challenge ourselves by learning at least 2 things which we can add to our study.