Building Our Growth Mindsets

Our 2018 school year is underway!

During the first week back we used videos and activities from 
Jo Boaler's Week of Inspirational Maths
to get our brains thinking again.

Over the past couple of years we've been working on maths in different ways, working in mixed groups to figure out rich tasks that develop our math thinking. 
We've been learning to talk about our learning and to challenge others to explain their thinking. 
We've also been learning that mistakes make our brains grow! Our new saying is 'a mistake is a first attempt in learning'.

The 'Building Shapes' activity got us working as a team to try the challenges. Each team had to convince the 'skeptics' that we'd created the shapes.

Did you notice some groups who kept trying until they found success?

Don't be Afraid to Fail - Just Give It a Go!

Mrs McK and the students have had a first try at making a green-screen movie, using the Doink app for the ipad.

We filmed the dances that we've been developing using ideas from the story 'Hemi Dances'.

Each group had to make a dance to tell a story about our environment. 

Each group had to include:

  locomotor and non-locomotor movements

high, medium or low levels

and

connections.
Each group member made up a move and taught it to the other group members.
The dances worked out very well.

Our first attempt at using green-screen hasn't worked out quite as well as we hoped, but that's okay!

We will learn from our mistakes, and next time we expect we will be more successful.

If you are new to using the Doink green-screen app, 

here is a very helpful tutorial.

What will we do differently next time?

• a much bigger background green-screen to dance in front of.
• green-screen colour on the floor 

What new skill are you learning to master?