See the good - Minna
Working with Kate and her class at Visit to Dunkirk Primary School in October 2017
My first activity was about finding your own strengths. This activity is based on “See the good” project, that I have going on in my own classroom. I had written down different strengths on some notecards. First, I read each notecard and together with pupils we tried to figure out what that strength meant. After that pupils got a chance to choose a strength that descripted each one’s strength the best. We also discussed about where they can use their strengths.
Working with my class at Kate’s Visit to Rastaala Primary School in November 2017
Kate brought a book called “The Giving Tree” and her activity was based on that book. Kate and her class had been working around the books story and they had been focusing mainly on kindness and compassion. They had made their own giving tree and the idea was that she would do the same with my class. Kate read the story to my pupils and discussed about the books theme. Then my pupils wrote different act of kindnesses that they could implement at school. My classroom has a tree on the wall, that use to have birthday cards on the branches. We decided to make that tree to a giving tree. With Kate, my pupils made the same kind of leafs to the giving tree that she had made with her pupils. To the back of the leaves, pupils clued the act of kindness note that they had wrote earlier.
My activities were a continuum for the fall activities that I had done both in my own and in Kate's class. First activity is based on “See the good” project and now my pupils were able to choose the strength they wanted to practice and to achieve through practice. These strengths were added to our giving tree and the goal was, that after each pupil achieves his or her goal, they will choose a new one. By doing this, they will learn to achieve new strengths and use them for themselves, for each other and for the school community.
My first activity was about finding your own strengths. This activity is based on “See the good” project, that I have going on in my own classroom. I had written down different strengths on some notecards. First, I read each notecard and together with pupils we tried to figure out what that strength meant. After that pupils got a chance to choose a strength that descripted each one’s strength the best. We also discussed about where they can use their strengths.
Working with my class at Kate’s Visit to Rastaala Primary School in November 2017
Kate brought a book called “The Giving Tree” and her activity was based on that book. Kate and her class had been working around the books story and they had been focusing mainly on kindness and compassion. They had made their own giving tree and the idea was that she would do the same with my class. Kate read the story to my pupils and discussed about the books theme. Then my pupils wrote different act of kindnesses that they could implement at school. My classroom has a tree on the wall, that use to have birthday cards on the branches. We decided to make that tree to a giving tree. With Kate, my pupils made the same kind of leafs to the giving tree that she had made with her pupils. To the back of the leaves, pupils clued the act of kindness note that they had wrote earlier.
My activities were a continuum for the fall activities that I had done both in my own and in Kate's class. First activity is based on “See the good” project and now my pupils were able to choose the strength they wanted to practice and to achieve through practice. These strengths were added to our giving tree and the goal was, that after each pupil achieves his or her goal, they will choose a new one. By doing this, they will learn to achieve new strengths and use them for themselves, for each other and for the school community.
Sisukkuus = persistence, rehellisyys = honesty, anteeksiantavuus = forgiveness, myötätunto = compassion, rohkeus = courage