Reflecting ready for term 2

Today is the last week day of my school holidays. I'm taking today to relax, watch some tv and collect my thoughts before term 2 starts. I've also been reflecting on the things I've learned about my students in term 1 that will influence how I tackle term 2. My students:

- Love a challenge, and rise to it with persistence and determination

- Are very competitive, and love getting outside to play a competitive sport, or do a competitive warm-up before a lesson

- Are still only 7, 8 and 9 years old so they love novelty, and colour, and fun, and silliness

- Love to share their knowledge and skills with their peers by helping others or showing what they can do

- Are very creative and love to construct and make things

So, what I will be doing for my students this term is:

- Giving them challenges to stretch their brains

- Using all of my early years knowledge to make our learning fun, exciting and a bit silly sometimes!

- Channelling their competitive side into great teamwork, collaborative activities and awesome poison ball games 

- Sharing their skills far and wide and with each other (one new activity we're having in term 2 is "Guest Reader", where students will be able to sign up to read a book to the class during our inside eating time, we started it last term and they adored it!!)

- Incorporating construction and craft into our curriculum wherever I can

I'm sure both of these lists will continue to grow as I learn more about my students and think of more ways to develop my teaching to suit their needs, but I really wanted to get this bit of reflection written down. I'm so excited to make this an awesome term!!