Tutpup

Just a quick post today to share this cool website i found for children to practise maths, reading and spelling called tutpup!  Free to sign up and works kind of like study ladder.  All students have their own log in and play the challenges to practise various learning goals.  Totally awesome!  Give it a wirl!

Restorative Community Circle

Got a whole bunch of warm fuzzies today!  We had a community circle today, to discuss an issue between two students, which fitting in perfectly with

With our current focus in community circle about how two people can feel two completely different emotions towards something that has happened.  We had two year6 students in our class who went for production parts and only one of them was successful in getting a part.  Of course the other students was extremely disappointed, and then during a learning task the two girls came out had a disagreement, which led to unfriendly words being spoken and both girls becoming upset.  The girls had some time apart during lunchtime and then fixed the relationship independently, but were very happy to discuss the situation during our circle time and explain that one student was jealous of the other for getting a part and the other was just so excited about getting the part that they didn’t consider the other student’s feelings.

It was great because the girls were so articulate about how they felt, it really highlighted the message that during situations people can feel very different emotions and we need to consider and be considerate of other people’s feelings.  We also discussed how even though harm has been done, we are able to fix this harm and move on from it.  Was so proud of the girls for leading the circle and this discussion and also the rest of the class as they were so patient while they listen and learnt from the girls discussion.