Monday mornings look quite differently for us this year. In the past, we've treated Monday like every other day of the week; the kids come in and do a warm-up. However, since reading The Leader In Me book, we are being more deliberate in setting a time to build relationships.
This past Monday we decided to put our students into groups of four and have them engage in a Lego challenge. Their task was to work together to build a robot. While this was fun, it was not as easy as they thought it would be.
We ended this activity by completing a Plus/Delta chart so our students could reflect on the positive elements of this activity and what they found to be a struggle. Their reflections were very insightful.
On the Plus side they felt their groups persevered through the difficulties of robots falling apart or ideas not working. They were all happy with their end product and that everybody had a hand in making the robot.
The Delta side had comments such as it was hard to not have their ideas chosen or to include everybody's ideas. They also felt there was some arguing happening in the group.
This Monday we are going to do another Lego challenge--they will make a class pet. But, before we begin the challenge, as a class we will reflect on last week's Deltas. We will come up with a plan on how to improve them.
Happy Monday to you all.
Kim and Anne
This is so awesome!
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