Completing the Drama

Yesterday the children and I were keen to complete the lesson. I am really impressed with how well it all went. We got back into the drama by using freeze frames of events leading up to the end of the story, and finished up by following the plan. I have to read up about hot seating, it seemed successful, but I am not sure that we did it quite right!
The final part involved present day tourists, and creating freeze frames of a statue with an inscription explaining why the lake rises and falls. Some of the inscriptions were amazing! My class are great at summarising! The statues were definitely original though, some groups chose to depict Matau, dead, which was ... interesting.
I found this resource super helpful and I am ready to attempt something else now.
Today we tried the Trading Game. The children had to choose a Habit of Mind for me to work on as my goal for the term. I decided on this as they have their own Habits of Mind goals and it was good to go over what they all mean. Anyway, the game went very well, only 3 out of the 22 children stuck with the same idea throughout the game, and it was really funny watching them trade ideas really quietly because they didn't want me to hear their reasons for setting their chosen goals for me. In the end they had narrowed it right down to 2 main goals. One was Finding Humour, and the reason was because I need to take them out for more games! And the other was Thinking About Thinking, but they couldn't explain their reasoning. Oh yeah, and 1 child wanted me to manage my impulsivity because I always swing on my chair and I never keep still. I guess I'd best get onto a little reminder about what each Habit of Mind means and what it might look like. Perhaps I can incorporate a bit of drama into that learning :)