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 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 July 6th, 2007 by misskprimary
I came across the BookTrust website today, and thought it might be useful to others. I was particularly inspired by the myths section and ideas for using The Fire Thief by Terry Deary.
http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/education/education_docs.php4?sectname=Genres%20in%20children’s%20books&topicname=Myths%20and%20Legends&topicid=26
It will link in perfectly with my topic next term on Ancient Greece and also link back to the work I did at [...]
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