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.