Being resilient will help us to be successful and enjoy ourselves.
Mr Forman started off by doing a leaning sit against the wall. He went for quite a while but then started going red and screwing up his nose. We encouraged him to keep going, and this inspired him to continue, even though he really wanted to stop.
We then had our own go at it. When we finished we talked about how we felt when we were struggling and wanted to give up.
We then watched a short video called 'Ormie the Pig'. It is about this pig who wants to get the cookies from on top of the fridge but had to try time after time in order to finally achieve his goal. In other words, Ormie showed RESILIENCE and never gave up.
We discussed how Ormie must have felt (frustrated, angry, annoyed, worried, sad, confused, like giving up) and we looked at how he overcome his problem. We noticed that he tried many different strategies, until he finally achieved his goal.
Card castle
Mr Forman then set a the challenge of creating a 2 level card castle. Even Mr Forman couldn't do it when he tried to show us how to do it.
So off we went, in pairs or threes.
We worked together, talked together, tried different strategies, got frustrated, looked at other students' castles to see if we could 'piggyback' their ideas, and gave it a good try.
It was frustrating; Mr Forman said it was a 'fail' situation. He wanted us to fail, he said, to see the different ways we cope and the strategies we use.
Here we are building our card castles.
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