Monday

Session 1:

Play an energiser.

Go around the group and ask a funny question eg if you could be an animal what would you be?

Partner reading - knee to knee reading

Session 2:

Writer’s Notebook - setting up front cover and seeds (love heart, alphabet list of characters, favourites list)

Session 3:

SWPBS - Playground (Link with Peer Mediators)

Taking turns and sharing equipment with others.docx

Session 4:

Maths Games (Choose a couple each day)

Friends of 10 memory
Friends of 10 snap
Addition Games
Knock Out 9
Mastermind
Greedy Pig
I have, who has
Build a wall (Make 10)

Session 5:

Read one of the picture story books from the list below or choose any that are relevant. Many of these books can be found as read alouds on YouTube.

Discuss how the theme of the book relates to our brains, making mistakes, solving problems etc.

Beautiful Oops
The Dot
The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes
The Most Magnificent Thing
What do you do with an Idea?
What do you do with a Problem?

Discuss ‘instead of’ statements. Eg instead of saying ‘this is too hard’ we could say. ‘this is really stretching my brain’

I can’t do this
This is too hard
I’m not good at this
I give up
It didn’t work

Ask students to come up with their own ‘instead of’ statement. Make these into posters and put around the room.

Session 6:

Tower Building– This is one option you may like to try.

Students work in small groups. Each group is given about 15-20 pieces of paper and one roll of masking tape. They must NON– VERBALLY construct a tower or castle using only the given supplies, within a ten minute time frame.

Discuss and Reflect:

· What was the purpose of building this tower?

· Why might non-verbal communication be as important as verbal?

· What social skills did you need to successfully build your tower?

· How did leadership develop in your group while you were building?

· Did all students participate?

· What were the feelings among your group?

· What did you learn about yourself?

Page updated

Report abuse