Tuesday 17 September 2019

Resilience

We are beginning to learn about Challenges for the remainder of this term. 

Challenges... we manage themWe take them on and tackle them.

Our energiser was All in Tag. Some of the challenges we faced were:
- people being over-exuberant in their tagging
- goose guarding
- timing for rock scissors paper
- getting tagged as soon as you are free.
We needed to deal with those challenges and move in. This is the same in real life and at school. Sometimes we say we'll do something to help, but we don't realise how difficult it was going to be. 
In the playground, we might be nervous on a new playground because everything's bigger. It can be challenging when everyone wants to use the same equipment. 

Challenges with our friends.
Making decisions about what we want to play. We don't want to upset them by not doing what they want to do.

We role-played some scenarios. We thought about what the long term effects of the choices made might be.

1. Everyone had different ideas about what they wanted to do. They started arguing and then came up with quick ideas to solve the problem, but then cheated. Long term, they might not want to be friends anymore. These problems get taken back into the classroom and it affects your learning. Others choose to get involved.

2. Two people wanted to stay inside and get their work done at morning tea, but their friend wanted to go outside and play. She was impatient and trying to get them to go out too. The teacher wanted them to solve the problem themselves. We need to go to the teacher with solutions rather than problems all the time. 

3. Two people wanted to play fight but the other two weren't interested. They tried to physically force them to go. When that didn't work, they called them jerks. They were trying to peer pressure them into doing what they wanted to.