Year 2 WHO WE ARE
Central idea-
Awareness of unique characteristics enhances life
An inquiry into:
- Everyone is unique (Form)
- Strategies to enhance personal and community growth and health (Change)
- Recognising and celebrating the importance of diversity (Perspective)
Provocation
All three classes joined together in the hall and completed a scavenger hunt looking for classmates who had similar characteristics to them.
Students enjoyed interacting with students from other classes.
We discussed what we have learnt about a classmate that we may not have known before? How we are different from one another? And how does an awareness of difference help us?
I am.......
The students in Yr 2 reflected on their individual traits and characteristics.
We discussed how everyone is different and this difference makes our school community and classroom a better place to be.
Water Colour Splatter Art
Learning Pit
The Learning Pit is a powerful analogy for learning. The Learning Pit represents a challenge that the students are currently facing. Taking on a challenge is like getting into a pit. We may feel uncertain and it takes effort to climb out. We discussed strategies we can say and think to ourselves to help us along the journey. As a class we discussed the challenge of tying our shoe laces, and worked through strategies to help us be successful. Students then created their own term goal for the classroom and wrote statements they could think to themselves, say to themselves and actions they can do to achieve the goal.
Growth Mindset and the Brain – The Power of Yet
The Learning Pit was a great facilitator of Growth Mindset. When we are in the bottom of the pit we need to think I don’t understand this ….yet but if I try different strategies, keep persisting, make mistakes, learn from others I will climb out and have made new connections that increase my knowledge. This led us into an inquiry of how the brain works. Neuroplasticity was a great word to inquire into neuro (prefix meaning brain) + plastic (base meaning malleable) + ity (suffix meaning state or condition) à neuroplasticity. We learnt that the brain never stops changing and adapting, and if we have a Growth Mindset the thoughts we create inspire a love of life.
