Webster Primary School

Lesson plan...

 

 

We met early on the morning of the workshop to to have one last run through of the plan and to discuss roles/ any issues. We also used this time to sort collected materials into separate bags for easier table distribution. Upon arrival at the school we were asked to wait a short while as lunch time was not quite over.. this unsettled us at first as we had a time plan to follow, but once we had set up and got going we soon caught up and managed to keep to our designated time frames.

To start our workshop we sat the children down and gave them a brief introduction of ourselves and told them what we were going to do. We then randomly gave the children a number from 1-3 and asked them to go to the table corresponding to their number. 3 of us monitored each table alongside a school teaching assistant.

The children's first task was creating their own bugs....

The next task was to create a flower, we asked the children to move to the next table in the same way that there bug would move (jumping hopping, wriggling etc.)....

Once the children had finished their flowers, they were set aside to dry and we asked them to decorate their window boxes (2 per table)....

Once the bugs and the flowers were all dry they were put together in the final decorated window boxes and the children filled in a sheet to tell us about their bugs....

Before we allowed the children to take their creations home we had a picture of the team with the finished window boxes....

I think that although we lost a bit of time at the start of the workshop, we managed our time really well. I feel that the children all enjoyed themselves and were very pleased with their individual outcomes. By allowing them to fill in an information sheet about their bugs it helped bring their creations to life and gave the children a huge sense of achievement. I personally feel that as I was absent for the initial planning of the workshop my role wasn't really thought about, I would have liked to have more time to talk to the children about their ideas and give some ideas or help to those who needed it. This aside the rest of the group did a great job doing that and the workshop was definitely a success.