Which planet do you come from?

Which planet do you come from? is a lesson plan of 6 units which aims to extend the knowledge of Year 6 children about the Universe. This teaching unit has been based on CLIL methodology, focusing on Arts and PE as the main subjects to develop the chosen content.

Reading Film: The Monk and the Fish

DEVELOPING LITERACY SKILLS IN THE PRIMARY CLASS. SAMPLE LESSON

START BY LISTENING

They start the class with a listening activity before see the film. She asked questions to make predictions on what the story is about only listening to the music. What the sounds can mean, if the music remind them a particular part of the day, and clues in the film soundtrack about the setting and the period. Is remarkable how much children can learn about the film with the soundtrack, without see any music.

Music definitely supports in terms of didactic the work about a new story. They can develop literacy skills as deduction. Also this creates interest in the children to check if their predictions are correct when they see the film. This kind of activities is more and easier for the children when they pass to the next years

SCULPTOR AND SCULPTED

The class is developing ideas about the monk character using this drama technique. They can understand better how he is feeling and why he is acting the way he is was. That gives them a practical experience before star the writing activities and the reading task.

After that they produce some sentences about what they are seeing and they can focus in some individual targets as capital letters.

SPOT THE SOTS

They teacher support the children with the specific vocabulary that they need for this activity. A kid is going to film the other doing a shot. They make them active.

They see the film again with a more critical point of view. (How is the camera now?)That can give them an idea of think about why they are using a long shot, or different shots types...

SHOT BY SHOT

In groups the children analyze shots of the Monk and the fish, describing the shot and thinking about how dialogue can be in that specific shot.

Is a story, a poem?

MAKING PREDICTIONS ABOUT THE END OF THE STORY

This story is perfect to make the children think what they think that happens in the end. They can imagine a lot of stories and make them creative. 

Kensuke's Kingdom Book Year 6 Activities III

10 THINGS TO SURVIVE A DESERTED ISLAND

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Kensuke's Kingdom Book Year 6 Activities II

Chapter 8: The Night of the Turtles

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Kensuke's Kingdom Book Year 6 Activities

Based on the book Kensuke we can immerse our students in motivating them with lots of activities:

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Michael Morpurgo often writes about animals in his books. In Kensuke’s Kingdom, Kensuke has made friends with the orang-utans. Read the following extract again:

“A shadow under the trees moved and came lumbering out into the sunlight towards us. A monkey, a giant monkey. Not a gibbon at all. It moved slowly on all fours, and was brown, ginger-brown. An orang-utan, I was sure of it. He sat down just a few feet from me and considered me. I dared not move. When he’d seen enough, he scratched his neck casually, turned and made his way on all fours slowly back into the forest. (p.66)”

 Re-write the story of Kensuke’s Kingdom from Tomodachi’s point of view.

This is your chance to use as many adjectives as possible.

Here are some things to think about including in your writing:

• Describe their initial reaction to having a stranger and a dog on the island

• Describe what Michael and Stella looked like

• Describe how Stella and Michael arrived

• Describe how this would have made you feel. Did it remind you of anything?

• Describe how the relationship between Michael and Kensuke changes over time.

• Describe Michael and Stella’s departure and the effect it had on Kensuke.

Michael's journey to the Kensuke's Kingdom

http://www.webquest.es/wq/educacion-primaria/michaels-journey-kensukes-kingdom

DATOS DE LA WEBQUEST

During this webquest children investigate a variety of people, places and environments at different scales both in the UK and abroad, and start to make links between different places in the world. They find out how people affect the environment and how they in turn are affected by it. They carry out geographical enquiry inside and outside the classroom and to help them do this they ask geographical questions, and use geographical skills and resources such as maps, atlases, aerial photographs and ICT.

The webquest is based on the book Kensuke's Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo. Below is the link that takes you to the TripLine with the webquest activities simplified.

http://www.tripline.net/trip/Kensure%27s_Kingdom._Michael_Trip-7031021367251006BAA0A83EF18AAB3B

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