Focus

As a class we talked about the word, 'focus' and how it helps our learning. Using giant letters, we imagined images to reflect our understanding of the word. Students created their own images to show what focus means to them. They are now on display in our classroom and we often refer to them to stay focused and to help each other respect the learning in our classroom.

Cups and choices

Durign readers' choices we realised that when we write our choices beforehand, it helps us focus on the task. It becomes learning intentions and makes us mindful of our goals. Following that practice, this time around we ended our lesson by assessing our understanding of what it means to focus and successfully make choices to become better readers. Armed with our formative assessment cups, now bearing our blazing orange level, we reflected and shared how successful we think we were during this time. We looked around and found that all of us had different levels of understanding and once again, we spoke about the importance of assessments and how it helps us know our next steps.

Focus

Focus helps us learn. This week we used the whole body listening guide to reflect about how we are listening. We agreed that improving our listening skills also helps us focus. Ms Ce also visited us to talk about mindfulness. We found out how our brains and bodies are connected. We are constantly learning about ourselves and our bodies.

FOCUS

Today we spoke about the role of focus in our learning. We thought about what the word means to us and tried to share images that came to mind. We used the letters that make up the word to create those images. Mr Campbell joined us and he made binoculars out of the "O" and "U". We all had a go at it and shared our thinking about the connections we make to "Focus". One student created a three-dimensional model of a soldier ready for combat and wrote, "Focus means aiming at a target."