Reindeer Reflections: A Year of Growth

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Create a legacy of positivity and inspiration in your classroom with Reindeer Reflections: A Year of Growth. Celebrate the end of the school year by showcasing your students’ achievements and encouraging them to leave their mark for the next class to admire.
The Reindeer Reflections: A Year of Growth activity is a meaningful end-of-year resource that encourages students to reflect on their personal and academic achievements throughout the school year. This engaging exercise helps students articulate their growth, memorable experiences, and lessons learned, contributing to a sense of accomplishment and closure for the year. The completed reflections can be displayed in the classroom, leaving a warm, welcoming message for the incoming class to read on their first day.

Educational Benefits:
•    Promotes self-reflection and personal growth.
•    Enhances social-emotional learning by recognising achievements and lessons.
•    Fosters a positive classroom culture that celebrates student progress.

How to Use:
•    Hand out the Reindeer Reflection sheets to each student.
•    Guide students through reflecting on key moments, accomplishments, and growth during the year.
•    Have students write their reflections on the template and decorate them.
•    Display the completed reflections on the classroom wall as a motivational message for next year’s class.

Lesson Structure

Individual Activity
Rotations / Group Work
Class Activity

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Curriculum Codes

Australian Curriculum
(QLD/SA/WA/NT/TAS/ACT)

AC9AVAFC01 9

Create arts works that communicate ideas

AC9AVA2C01 9

Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks

AC9EFLY01 9

Identify some familiar texts, such as stories and informative texts, and their purpose

AC9HSFK01 9

The people in their family, where they were born and raised, and how they are related to each other

AC9HPFP01 9

Investigate who they are and the people in their world

AC9E1LY01 9

Discuss different texts and identify some features that indicate their purposes

AC9HS1K01 9

Differences in family structures and roles today, and how these have changed or remained the same over time

AC9E2LY01 9

Identify how similar topics and information are presented in different types of texts

AC9HS2K01 9

A local individual, group, place or building and the reasons for their importance, including social, cultural or spiritual significance

AC9HP2P01 9

Describe their personal qualities and those of others, and explain how they contribute to developing identities

AC9E3LY01 9

Recognise how texts can be created for similar purposes but different audiences

AC9HS3K02 9

Significant events, symbols and emblems that are important to Australia’s identity and diversity, and how they are celebrated, commemorated or recognised in Australia, including Australia Day, Anzac Day, NAIDOC Week, National Sorry Day, Easter, Christmas, and other religious and cultural festivals

AC9E4LY01 9

Compare texts from different times with similar purposes and audiences to identify similarities and differences in their depictions of events

AC9HS4K04 9

The effects of contact with other people on First Nations Australians and their Countries/Places following the arrival of the First Fleet and how this was viewed by First Nations Australians as an invasion

AC9HP4P01 9

Investigate how success, challenge, setbacks and failure strengthen resilience and identities in a range of contexts

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