This week, we have focused on collaboration with team ant as our learning behaviour as we continue to build and develop relationships with others. Many of us are enjoying spending time in the construction area, creating fantastic collaborative creations with lego and wooden blocks as our ideas and interests come to life! We extended this by inviting the children to join in with different collaborative learning experiences throughout the week. Here are some examples of RDT have worked together as team ant!
Lego Masters!
We worked together to build different collaborative lego models this week, using our communication skills to make suggestions, share ideas and negotiate as we played. We showed high levels of engagement as we concentrated carefully on what we were doing, persevering until our ideas came to life and our fantastically-detailed models were finished! We reflected on how we had worked with others to create something wonderful in response to one of our key questions.
Building Knaresborough
We are really enjoying representing our experiences of going to Knaresborough within our play. This, week we have been busy creating structures with wooden blocks to represent the castle and viaduct. Building these models involved us focusing carefully on what we were doing and showing a good awareness of one another to ensure each block balanced as we constructed. We applied our focused maths learning, as this learning experience required us to communicate effectively about the position and placement of the blocks we were using. We collaborated well to create some incredible masterpieces!
Collaborative Games
As we continued to focus on team ant and collaboration, we developed our understanding of this by playing some class games which involved teamwork and co-operation. We really enjoyed playing ‘bug in a rug’, where one of us hides under the rug and the rest work together to identify who it is. As we practised, we became quicker at spotting who was missing from the circle and showed great excitement when we got it right! We also played a pass the message game, where we had to listen carefully as we sent different messages around the circle. We are yet to get the correct message around the circle, so we will continue to play this game to practise. However, we had lots of fun laughing together at what the messages turned into!
Many of us showed an interest in playing group games and we developed this further by inviting the children to choose board games to play. We showed fantastic negotiation and turn-taking as we played, remembering the rules of the game and applying our maths skills to count our steps and points within the games. Snakes and ladders was the firm favourite!
Making a Rainbow!
On Friday, our school council planned a ‘one colour’ day to raise funds for our four house charities. Thank you for your voluntary donations towards this. They challenged us to collaborate and create a rainbow, which we did!
