I’m going to spend the next few weeks working with my Year 6s on designing a theme park in maths.
It’s based on an idea found on Teaching Ideas. The Primary Teacher Resource Centre have added new sections, smartboard files and an advert activity.
The idea is quite similar to the Theme Park sim games available.
I used [...]
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I’m finding my class really difficult to manage in the afternoons – they have poor listening skills and often don’t co-operate well with each other. But yesterday afternoon I managed to find a lesson that kept them engaged all afternoon.
Earlier in the week, I had asked them to arrange themselves in groups of 3. I [...]
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I’ve set up another blog for my class:
http://class5k.edublogs.org/
This one will be used to set tasks for them as part of their independent research. They’ve each chosen a country to research and are going to do a short presentation at the end of term. I’m hoping that the blog will encourage them to continue with their [...]
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To link with our topic on weather this term, I’ve given each child a passport / travel journal booklet to collect information about different countries. Initially, I’m going to model how I want these to be filled in and I will choose the countries we visit on our virtual tour of the world. Later on, [...]
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