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 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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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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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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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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Here’s the biography part of my first term’s literacy planning. Click on the link below to download the zip file, which includes my planning and all resources referred to.
Lit_T1-2_Biography.zip
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I’ve managed to plan for the first two weeks of the new term, using the new framework. I’ve based the autobiography unit on Roald Dahl’s Boy. I’m going to follow this up with a unit on biography, using biographies of Dahl’s life.
The zip file below contains my planning and some of the resources. I’ve referred [...]
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