Posted on May 30th, 2009 by misskprimary
I’m going to add my planning and resources for this unit as I do them.
So here’s Week 1 (Chapters 1-3):
kensukes-kingdom-week-1
You’ll need a copy of the book (ideally enough for the children to have copies to refer to during their work). I managed to persuade the school to buy 30 copies of the book last year:
http://shop.scholastic.co.uk/products/1529
Some [...]
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Posted on February 16th, 2009 by misskprimary
I’ve written before about how I used the short animation ‘Bert‘. There’s also an interesting post in the ‘ICT Inspirations’ blog about how he used this with his class to develop talk into writing. And another one about using it to develop a digital story book.
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Posted on May 24th, 2008 by misskprimary
I haven’t posted for ages – my SATs revision was not exciting enough to be worth writing about! But with SATs now over (for a while, anyway!), I can get back to more interesting teaching.
Last week I did a great project with my class based on the idea of being stranded on a desert [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by misskprimary
SAT Attack has been recommended by my head teacher as a useful revision scheme. I’ve started creating Smart Notebook files to accompany each lesson, with all the key questions and answers for children to mark their work. At the moment, I’m uploading these to the Year 6 Wikispaces site.
http://yr6teachers.wikispaces.com/SAT+Attack+resources+-+Maths
http://yr6teachers.wikispaces.com/SAT+Attack+resources+-+English
I’m also going to make [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2008 by misskprimary
http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/
This is an online bookshop, but you can download extracts (usually the opening chapter) of many books. Very useful for descriptions of settings, different ways to start stories, etc.
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Posted on January 19th, 2008 by misskprimary
I found a copy of this book in the sale in Asda the other day and am now planning to use it to inspire an art project as part of our topic on Water and Rivers. The book tells the story of a crate of rubber ducks who are lost overboard a ship [...]
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Posted on December 4th, 2007 by misskprimary
I’m planning to use ‘winter’ as the theme for my poetry unit, which I’ve deliberately left until the last week of term, before Christmas!
These websites have poems on the theme of winter. I haven’t had a close look at them yet to check how useful they will be:
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems7.html
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/poems-rhymes/index.html
http://www.dltk-holidays.com/winter/winter_quotes_and_poems.htm
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/holidays/winter/index.html
http://www.show.me.uk/site/show/STO957.html
http://www.whiteheadm.co.uk/html/winter_picnic_lesson_plan.htm
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Posted on December 1st, 2007 by misskprimary
West Sussex Grid for Learning has two detailed units of work for Year 6 Term 2, covering persuasion and argument and science fiction.
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Posted on November 17th, 2007 by misskprimary
The IESB website has clips from films, for example on this page there are seven clips from Spiderman:
http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2319&Itemid=99
They could be useful for all sorts of literacy activities, for example writing a news report.
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Posted on October 27th, 2007 by misskprimary
Coloured presents sparkle dreamily,
Bright stockings shimmer enticingly,
Beautiful baubles hang brightly,
Tinselled trees gleam peacefully.
http://www.ictopus.org.uk/index.php?sec=1&sub=3
This poem was very quickly written using this online poem maker. You can create a wordlist and it automatically generates poems, following the format you specify. I’m planning to cover one of the poetry units with my Year 6 class in [...]
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