Reciprocal Learning

We have been learning about being reciprocal when we learn. We watched this clip to help us to understand what reciprocal means. 

How to work as a team

We discussed what helped the penguins, ants and crabs to work well together and came up with these ideas.

Penguins	Ants	Crabs
they listened to each other they worked together they didn’t argue they were organised they were thinking about how to be safe	they listened when they were asked to help they all worked together they were thinking about a plan it didn’t matter that some were smaller than the others they didn’t argue	they moved straight away when the one crab called them over they were thinking about what they had to do they all did what they needed to do they were organised

We then tried to be like these animals and work together as a group to keep a ruler up. We were allowed to use one or two fingers on one hand but we couldn't hold it. We also had to ensure that everyone could touch the ruler.

We used reflection to help us understand why it wasn't easy to work together:

• we argued
• we didn't listen carefully to each other
• we had to try more than once
• we had to change our plans

Next time we will:

• listen more carefully to each other
• take turns to speak