Hands-on Fridays

Hands-on Fridays are fun because we can look forward to not doing bookwork on Friday mornings. We can pick things to do that are appropriate to be done at school. Today we’re doing painting and some weeks before we have done origami, rock carving, cooking, like Anzac biscuits and pizzas, and sometimes we just play learning games that we choose. Some people in the olden days think that we should just sit at our desk and do the usual topics – maths, etc, but some teachers now think that we should some have some freedom from the desk. We asked other kids in the class what they thought:

It is fun and we will focus better when it is time to do bookwork so we can look forward to next Friday when we can do more hands-on activities.

There is actually hidden learning in hands-on activities too, like in cooking there is maths, like measuring and fractions. In origami we had to be patient and follow instructions.

It’s fun because it’s different from other days.

It’s a different style of working; we get to use the computers. We get to do art activities, and most of all we get to chose what we do within reason.

It doesn’t feel like work but we learn different things like getting on with each other and making new friends.

You learn better when you are moving around and doing things.

You’re learning and it’s fun, like when you are cutting wood you are learning measurement and angles, and with the painting you are learning rotations and reflections.

Bri-ana and Melissa