Tweak of the week 1 - Is she right?

I started getting under way after my tweak of the week inspiration course.  I started with number 1 on my list that we had been told quite early on in the day and was the first one to grab me.  So at the Living Rainforest the following day I gave it a go.  I asked my group what they thought they might see in the rainforest and followed each person's suggestion with 'are they right?'  surprisingly it kinda worked as it got them all interested and discussing although it wasn't the ideal situation as they were speculative answers in the first place.  I tried it later in the day with a more sensible question (can't remember what it was now) but was again impressed with how well it worked. 

On Thursday we were playing round the world in maths and I realised I was telling the children when they got a question right.  I had been proud at getting the other children to ask the questions rather than me, but realised I was missing an 'is she right?' opportunity.  It was funny how hard I found it not to answer and I ended up making a joke of it with the children where I had to cover my mouth.  Didn't quite get it slick yet, the question setters were still looking to me generally for confirmation before giving the thumbs up, but was good to be thinking of in the first place and will get better with practice I think.

Also in thursdays maths lesson, I put 12 questions on the board and asked the children to do the 3 hardest - a way of reducing information, number 18.  Moderate success though some children said there weren't any hard ones! 

It's half-term now, but I am going to leave this as my tweak of the week for the first full week back.