Year 6 after SATs.....
The whirlwind of preparation for SATs has passed and there are about eight or nine teaching weeks with Year 6.Here are some of the blog posts and lessons that i have shared over the last couple of years that you may find useful with Year 6 as you manage language learning in the last half term or so with the classes.
- Crafty cartoon conversations
- Tour de France sequence of lessons - can be used in any language
- "Who lives here?" - using picture stimulus for simple creative speaking and writing
- Happy meals- speaking and creating own happy meals,target language fastfood style
- Fantasy football team - numbers, colours, names and designing strips and introducing own fantatsy football team to class
- Sentence and calligram suitcases for Summer holidays- writing activity
- Summer celebration message making - based on Belgian tradition "Bloemenwinkel"
- Superlative Tshirts and whole class making activity to award tshirt cards to children in class for their particular good qualities as members of the class
- People pillar portrait poems
- Six characters in search of an author - creating characters for a photo stimulus of people.
- Freeze framed artefacts- linking language learning to a topic focus and creating descriptions
- Sunshine silent sparklers - dictionary and display work
- Artists studios - sequence of lessons looking at target language artists and designing their studios in the style of their art with simple sentence descriptionn too.
- Paul Klee masks - to describe emotions
- Where's Wally? 0-31 and prepositions. A fun lesson to get children learning and moving at the same time.
- City photo booths - creating a cultural 3D depiction of target language cities.