Going for Goals!
2010 is here! A new decade!
This next half of term we will be working on the SEAL theme - "Going for Goals!"
The New Year is always a good time to set yourself 'GOALS' and targets.... but then you need to plan the steps to help you succeed in your GOAL!
We are all going to help each other reach our targets, we will make sure that we encourage each other and remember to celebrate each step we make towards our GOAL!
One of Mrs Fisher's GOALs is to help everyone at Hovingham enjoy Maths and become better at it too!
So I am setting a challenge, for all the children from Year 2 to Year 6......
March 3rd, is World Maths Day.... it is only just after Half Term.
Our Goal is to achieve 10 Gold Certificates and 100 Certificates in a week by then, and we will hold a very special Together Time to present the Gold certificates!
I know that if we all do our best we can achieve this GOAL!
Here is our Long Term planner for this half term.
It is similar to the planner we had for this term last year, but I have added the logo for World Maths Day into our School 'We can make a difference' picture, as remembering to follow our school rules will really help us to achieve our GOALS!
This year for 'Going for Goals' everyone will put their 'Goals' onto a cutout of a football, and we will make a big display with everyones 'GOALS' in the entrance hall.
Going for Goals display.
Every child in school wrote their 'goals' on a football shape cut out and then decorated it. We have strung them all up together and they have created a wonderful display in the school entrance hall which will remind us all to keep 'going for our goals.' Behind the footballs there is a new banner with the school logo picture which reminds us of the 5 school rules and that 'we can make a difference.'
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Dream catchers.
In teams we have made Dream Catchers together. We enjoyed doing it so much that everyone then wanted to have a go at making their own dream catchers - so now we have both large dream catchers and smaller individual dream catchers all hung up in the class room to keep us going for our goals. We have all talked together about what our dreams and goals are and we are working hard to try and help each one of us to achieve our very best. We want to do lots of different and exciting jobs when we grow up and we would all like to make our families proud of us.
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Going for Goals!
2009 is here!
This half of term all our learning will be centred around the SEAL theme -
"Going for Goals."
We will all be thinking about our goals, what we would like to achieve and how we would feel when we achieved our goals. We will be setting targets to help us reach those goals, and then thinking about the tasks we need to do to achieve our targets. We will encourage and help each other, and we will have fun together on our exciting learning journeys..
Here is the Long Term planning sheet for this half of term.
Telling the Time
We made analogue and digital clocks to help us learn to tell the time. We had counted in 5's round the clock face, and we had a strip of numbers up to 60 to use for the digital clock's minutes - but we remembered that on the hour the digital clock said :00 , so we all had to change the 60 to 00!
We all learned to tell the time for o'clock, half past and some of us also worked on quarter past and quarter to.
Dream Catchers.
We have all talked about what we would like to be when we grow up. We have looked at the lives of people like Lewis Hamilton and Alexandra Burke and we have been impressed by how they set goals for themselves when they were only our age. We know that they have worked really hard to achieve their goals and that their family and friends have supported them and encouraged them all the way. We talked about how Alexandra Burke must have felt when she got sent home from Boot Camp on the X Factor three years ago, but that she never gave up and kept on trying, so that in the end she achieved her dream.
We have put our goals on to leaves that are going to go on the Hovingham Wishing Tree. Now we are all working hard to achieve our targets, because these will help us on our way to reaching our goals.
Together we worked in teams to make these wonderful Dream Catchers, which will hang in our classroom and remind us all to keep being the best we can be, and help each other, so that we can make our dreams come true.
Planting seeds.
We have been reading some fantastic books about a cat called Oscar, who meets lots of different animals. He asks them lots of questions about the world around him, and the animals answer his questions and explain things to him. We have our own Oscar in class, and now his sister, Kitty, has come to join him. She brought her gardening things with her, so when we had read "Oscar and the Frog", a book about growing, we planted cress and lettuce seeds. We planted the cress in our empty milk cartons on kitchen paper and then we planted the lettuce seeds in plant pots in soil. We wrote some explanations about what was in the boxes and glued them round the cress box before we took them home. The cress grew quickly and we could take it home at the end of the week, but the lettuce will take longer to grow. We have lots of other packets of seeds and we will be planting more things when the weather gets a bit warmer.
