Charlotte's reflections on week 4

Charlotte uses her black and yellow hat to reflect on the week

Piper's Reflections on week 4

Jack's Week 4 Reflections

Jack uses his yellow and black hat to reflect on the week

Home Goal Reflection - Emma

Home goal in term 2. To make my bed in the morning. I will make my self remindernote so I will do it every morning. I did it in week 10. Because I will make it every morning.

By Emma

Home Goal Reflection - Liam

My home goal for term two was to make my bed and turn on the heaters every morning. I keep forgetting to do this most of the time.

This goal is important because I get paid when I do this, plus it is part of being in the family.

I need to work on this goal and try harder to not forget next term.

Charlie smart goals

I will make more friends by playing with people I will do it 1 week.
homegoal to read a chapter book by in 2 weeks

Jamie school goal reflection

My school goal is to not let others distract me on the mat. I do not think I have done it because people are still dastracting me.

This goal is important to meet because I want to learn better. Next time I will work harder to pay better attention to the teacher.

School Goal Reflection - Daniella

My term 2 goal was to get better at using full stops and capital letters. I am not better at this yet because I'm not yet using them in my writing. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't and I want to use them properly all the time.

This goal is still important to me because it will help me become a better writer.

Friendship Goal Reflection - Kendra

My friendship goal in term 2 was to be fun and make good friends.

I think I'm half way through this goal because I only got a couple of friends.

To meet this goal I need to play with other people more.

Home Goal Reflection - Kendra

My term two home goal was to improve how I tidy up my own messes. I will know I have achieved this when my room is tidy more often.

I think that I haven't achieved this goal because my room is still messy. I am going to try to continue to meet this goal in term 3.

School Goal Reflection - Aron

My school goal are to read carefully and think what the big idea is. I completed my goal because it is easy to know the Big idea is and reading carefully.

Harrison smart goals reflection

One of my smart goals was to learn my times tables by week 9.

I know lots of my times tables that's one of my goals for next term.

My next goal is to make my bed every day and tidy my room. I've done that a lot and that's my second goal.

My third smart goal was to make a friend and I've sort of done that I've made a friend George and Charile and Harry and that's it, thats my third goal and all my smart goals.

School Goal Reflection - Spelling - Emma

My school goal for term 2 was to sound out words when I'm trying to spell them correctly. I do this by sounding out the beginning, middle and end of words by week 8.

I think that I am better at sounding out words that I am not sure of now because I did it with the word 'because'! I am using more interesting words in my writing!

School Goal Reflection - Charlotte

My school goal in tearm 2 was to learn my times tables by practising. This goal will take 10 weeks and when I have a test and pass that is how I know I've met it!

I haven't met this goal yet because it was too big. Next time I will set a goal that is smaller, for example to know my 7 and 8 times tables.

School Goal Reflection - Kendra

My school goal was to use no fingers in maths when adding up sums. I think I've achieved this goal because I haven't used my fingers as much as I used to.

I feel great about this!

School Goal Reflection - Jamie

My school goal for term 2 was to not talk on the mat as much. I do not think I met it because I still talk too much on the mat.

This is a problem because it means that sometimes I don't know what to do!

Next term I will try to sit away from the people that I talk to at the wrong time.

What we did today

Today we did some normal stuff. We did thinking hats and we did black hat, yellow hat and red hat. We worked as a team. Black hat means judgement. Red hat means feelings and yellow hat means benefits. We were using the hats to think about whether the blog was useful or not.

Also, Beth came in. She's learning to be a teacher. She wanted to know a bit more about blogs. We all said things that helped how to blog and why we blog. We chose Lucy, George and Logan to talk to Beth. Unfortunately the internet wasn't working very well.

Today we also wrote something about what we could do for our assembly. Our assembly is next week. Hope to see you there.

What makes good feedback?

Lately we've been talking about what feedback is and how it helps our learning. Today we had a practice at giving each other quality feedback as comments on posts on this blog. Here are some of our ideas:

What is Feedback?

• It is kind of like if I clicked on someone's ideas and wrote a comment, it is feeding back what they need to work on (Gracie).
• You are giving a letter to someone (Na-myung).
• Sort of like a goal (Ella).
• What a person says about you (Emma).
• Someone does something new, and you tell them how good it was (Logan).
• If you forget something, it is alright to keep going (Na-myung).
• If you write something and you want to change it then you can (Kendra).

How does feedback help our learning?

• It helps your brain to think of things (Liam).
• It helps our learning by helping us with what we need to do next (Ella).
• It helps your learning when you do lots of writing (Lois).
• It's when you tell someone what they need to work on (Gracie).
• If someone doesn't know something, you can help them with an example (Tom).

Great feedback has...

1. A positive statement at the beginning that highlights something they did well.
2. Ideas for what they could do next time to improve or get better. For example:

• Something you could improve on for next time is...
• A next step is...
• Next time, you could...
  

Team 17 are going to practice giving each other great feedback by using this blog. Check the comments on posts for examples of this.