Alien Visit

The visit to the school was very successful, all 29 pupils present created AMAZING aliens in the workshop. They were all very excited to be working with us and enthusiastic to stay on task. We split the class into smaller groups and we all took our own table, or on bigger tables there were two of us working with smaller groups. I had a lovely group of three girls, these were their aliens:

Something intersting to keep note of that was unexpected:

I didnt think about students working at different paces, which now seems really silly to me since working with the children. One of the girls worked very fast, so instead of her staying quiet and sitting doing nothing, I decided to ask the girl to give her alien a name, think about the kinds of things her aliens likes to do, if her alien was friends or enemies with the other aliens on the table, and to make up a short story for her alien.

After doing this, I could hear other children in the class saying similar things with their aliens.

This has taught me to have something prepared for the people who may work faster than others so that they still have something to do once completing the task.