What’s Gone Well Today ® at School
What’s Gone Well Today at School is a question, in fact a movement designed to shift our thinking, to bring out the best in our own experiences at school, with the friends and new faces in our classes . We’re encouraging students and teachers to share experiences that have gone well. We hope that people will find more highlights in their day, and share what they are enjoying in their learning and playing at school.
What a room! Today we got to make our rooms for our characters. My character has a 42′ LCD TV, a bathroom, a king sized bed, and a guitar. As well we got to use oil pastels in making a Emily Carr picture. It took a while to do the drawing but it was worth it. We also got to go for a nice run out in the sun! our track is 1/2 a kmh. some people ran 3 and some 4. In gym we got to play hockey because the entire class is reading a novel called Mice At Center Ice. So in the gym the teams were the Rink Rats V.S. the MHL Hockey players.
I Had A Fantastic Week!!
What an outstanding house! We got to draw and paint our character’s house using water colour pencil crayons. this week was great!!!
I won my hockey game! We got to play with oil pastels, we learned about Emily Carr and we drew a picture just like hers.
I was at a function last night and I shared with a number of people that my students have been invited to participate in a web-based program that encourages them to focus on what went well this week
Some things stood out:
* the positive energy around brainstorming what went well
* the fun of posting those thoughts for others to see * the power of the internet; acknowledging that kids are so capable and intuitive when using it and that this medium is changing the way we present information
* they love teaching me about it, maybe we could create a class website?
* I am excited about learning something new
* the number of times this week I said “this is fun! are we allowed to have fun at school??!!” the kids all said YES!!
After class yesterday ( my challenging Bi 11 group last block Friday:) one of my (male) Brazilian exchange students said,” I really love your class! You are so dynamic…going outdoors last week for the (natural selection simulation) lab was so interesting! Classes I am used to are so focused on the teacher talking…I really like the way you do it…” Needless to say, made my day:)
What an amazing day! The students brainstormed What Went Well this Week and the energy was so positive. Then they wrote their thoughts in their journals. Two students were chosen to write their entries on the website and they were thrilled to be the leaders. I brought my laptop in to school for them to use and one of the kids taught me how to tune my guitar on Garage Band! He was so excited to be teaching me! Then we went for a run and we played the guitars. In the afternoon we played at lego, puzzles, books and chalk pastels. I was amazed how much energy I had and how much fun the day was!