This video shows that even though we all have our own special SMARTS, we can learn Anything if we are willing to put in the effort.
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Growth Mindset Series #1
Now that we have explored the different SMARTS, we are going to learn about how our brains work and what we can do to help grow our brains. Here is our first video, which helps to explain how this works.
Why don’t you ask Mum and Dad to watch this video too, so that they will understand how special your brains are?
Here is the worksheet where you think about what you learned in the video.
LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
This story is about all the terrible, horrible, no good things that happen to this boy. As you listen (sorry about the American accent), think about what kind of problems he is having. How could we categorise them (put them into groups of similar kinds of problems) from Alexander’s point of view.
After listening and thinking about the kinds of problems he has, let’s try to work out what Alexander COULD HAVE DONE or how he COULD HAVE ACTED in each situation if he had looked for the good bit each time something bad happened. For example: When he didn’t get a toy in his cereal pack, he could have said, “Maybe I’ll get one next time.” When he mucked up his father’s office he could have said, “I’ll remember next time to be more careful”.
Being a POSITIVE TRACKER or LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE helps us to remember that bad times don’t last. Things can change and eventually will get better.
REMEMBER,
even if you can’t change what has happened, you CAN change how you feel about it.
The Kitchen Garden
Sasha wrote about our visit down to the kitchen garden. Great job, Sasha!
On Thursday 24th May 2012 Room 6 went down to the kitchen garden and the kitchen. We are the first Year 3 class to be able to visit the garden and will be able to use the new kitchen later in the year.
On our visit we learnt some amazing facts about the kitchen garden.
These are the facts that Room 6 learnt:
1. The kitchen garden grows winter, summer autumn and spring produce.
2. You can make new strawberry plants out of the bottom of a strawberry plant.
3. Worms turn scraps of food into good nutrients for the garden.
4. A compost lasagna is called a compost lasagna because it has lots and lots of layers like a lasagna.
