This week we continued our inquiry into our relationships. We spent the early part of the week finishing up projects about friendships from last week. Then we learnt a valuable lesson about how we can hurt someone very quickly, but it takes much longer to heal a crumpled and ripped up heart. Using a paper heart, each student took a turn to crumple or rip part of it, just like how each mean thing someone says or does hurts us a little bit. Then the students were tasked with repairing the heart, to try to put it back to how it was! Although it only took about 3 minutes for everyone to damage the heart, it took everyone working together nearly 15 minutes to put it back together and even then it was far from healed as pieces of it were still missing, and it still showed signs of damage. Just like a real heart that still shows signs of damage after being hurt, therefore we must be mindful of our thoughts and actions because it is much more difficult to make things better.
In discussing our thoughts and feelings with others, we looked at how we use non-verbal communication to show others how we are feeling. In a special ICT lesson with Mr. Huber, we were introduced to video editing on the school’s iPads using and app called “InShot.” For their videos, the students were tasked with acting out an emotion or feeling and then having others guess what feeling or emotion they were trying to show. The students really caught on quickly and had a great time working with their table partner to film each other and to use special effects and music to make their videos look professional! They also learnt how to import them into Seesaw, so please check your child’s Seesaw to see their fantastic videos!
In language, we have been working on story writing, and focused on coming up with descriptions of settings and characters.
Our new PE unit is also about communicating our feelings via dance! This week we explored different ways to move and had fun pretending to be fireworks!
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