Well, a classic situation for all you combined grades teachers out there.
This week the grade six class is heading off to a week-long fieldtrip and so I've got FOUR students for an hour and a half each morning. What do you do with FOUR kids? I can't work on the things we started with the sixes... So I did what any teacher would do, I asked them what they wanted to do! Their response, of coruse, "watch a movie!" So I thought, okay we can make that work.
We've decided on a mini-fairy tale unit. We're starting with the movie, Hoodwinked, and picking out all the fairy tales they talk about in the movie. Any time a character appears or an idea pops up, they're making note of it. This week our goal is to research all the stories and see how the creators of the movie used them to create a fractured fairy tale.
The best part: We're going to make our own fractured tale! They'll write it, draw pictures and we'll publish them into little books! They're so excited and I am too!!!
This week the grade six class is heading off to a week-long fieldtrip and so I've got FOUR students for an hour and a half each morning. What do you do with FOUR kids? I can't work on the things we started with the sixes... So I did what any teacher would do, I asked them what they wanted to do! Their response, of coruse, "watch a movie!" So I thought, okay we can make that work.
We've decided on a mini-fairy tale unit. We're starting with the movie, Hoodwinked, and picking out all the fairy tales they talk about in the movie. Any time a character appears or an idea pops up, they're making note of it. This week our goal is to research all the stories and see how the creators of the movie used them to create a fractured fairy tale.
The best part: We're going to make our own fractured tale! They'll write it, draw pictures and we'll publish them into little books! They're so excited and I am too!!!
