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Based on the 6th Grade Coursebook, Lesson 3, Page10

PROJECT

My Geography project

Educational scenario

Students work in groups and find information about a country of their choice in order to upload it on the school blog and inform younger students. They also need to find photos, maps or whatever they like to attach. They may bring pictures from magazines, prior to the activity or find them in the internet.

Once the students are done with their research and the collection of their material, they need to present their work and include it in their portfolio. Then, they are encouraged to stick their collective project on the school board where other pupils or parents can see. If students have friends in other countries, they are encouraged to e-mail their work.

Educational purpose:

Students are encouraged to practice their research, creative and communicative skills by finding relevant info and sort it out, by creating drawings or maps and by collecting material.

Project Plan

Step 1

Students are grouped in 4 teams, discuss and decide which country they are going to work on. For this year, my students decided to work on:

Group 1: FRANCE

Group 2: SWITZERLAND

Group 3: CHINA

Group 4: JAPAN

Step 2

Students gather information and material to bring in class which falls into the following categories:

• Name of the country and borders
• Landscape
• The Weather
• The People
• Writers’ opinion

Step 3

Students collaborate in class by discussing their material and decide which of it is going to be included in each category. They write 4 paragraphs entitled with the above mentioned categories. They stick their text and the creative and/or printed material on a poster. They can also include the text into their personal portfolios.

Step 4

The teacher collects their work and creates a Sway which presents students’ collective work and educational product and post it on the school blog.

 

Quizlet is the platform we use in class so that we can learn and revise New Unit Vocabulary and you can also use it for practice at home. Press on the picture to enter our Quizlet class 6th Grade.

 

My day started with good news! I was accepted in the MIEE program again this year! I’m so happy and wanted to share the news with you. Soon, I will post an article about it.

Enjoy your day!

Hello everybody and welcome to my blog!

The month of the school year start is finally here. I would like to thank you all for the lovely comments that you have been writing to me throughout summer I have tried to answer them all except for those which were written in Arabic and Russian and for that I have a request. Please when you write a comment, write it in English otherwise I will not be able to answer it.

I wish a nice and creative school year to you all!

At the end of every school year I always assay and reappraise my educational targets and my teaching strategy.

Questions like

• “Did I achieve my educational goal in relation to the curriculum?”
• “Was a specific project successful as to its original purpose?”
• “Were all language skills covered equally?”
• “Did this or that work for my students?”
• “Did this or that work for me?”

keep turning in my mind and I feel like a farmer who is harvesting her crops. And if there aren’t adequate answers to the above questions I am searching for new “fertilizers” or “seeding” techniques. How? Trying to rethink and reorganize my projects and their target, getting trained in new apps, strategize a more effective connection between the curriculum and the syllabus.

In the field, there are a lot of elements I need to handle and some factors work against me: time, boredom, lack of technological resources, unexpected factors.

First and foremost, because I’m interested in the social emotional development of my students, I contemplate if my students felt accepted, secure and comfortable enough to express themselves in my classes. What skills do I need to improve to foster their expressiveness? Had I created the fertile conditions for a rapport to bloom? Am I emotionally available and approachable? What kind of assessment could measure the rapport I’m building with my students?

Given the hugs, the drawings, the little gifts, the parent-teacher conferences, the looks and the delight tone they pronounced my name I could easily answer yes. But I know that I missed some. Not every student comes ready to be taught a foreign language. Different social backgrounds, lack of stimuli. Not every student comes open to be taught. Private foreign language schools have robbed us of the thrill and the purpose of foreign language learning. And to this battle, I’m all alone. I need to fight an obsolete mindset which relates foreign language teaching only to certificates.

But learning a foreign language means a lot more. A foreign language offers you a different point of view in life and therefore a different perspective. It broadens the spectrum and the horizon of our thought, makes us realize that difference is all that we come to this world for and learning communication codes is the only way to bridge the gaps.

As a teacher I am the cultural focal point and the representative of the foreign language I teach. I need to feel that my mission has got the time, the space and the respect of the state, of students, of parents, of society to be flourished and accomplished. But I will keep fighting my battles until something shifts.

So this school year, numerically speaking, I have managed to complete 5-7 units out of the 10 suggested ones for the four grades I teach. I created the related revision material and tests for all of them.  8 projects have been developed and only celebrations crafts have been confected. I am not satisfied with what my recap looks like. I need to be more inventive and resourceful. I need to be more supported in my educational work. Then my recap would look like a cup of joy!

And from that cup cheers for a nice summer!

What does YOUR recap-cup look like?

 

 

 

https://read.bookcreator.com/tBpCXAdrwG10_Ivny_y1Ihsa91AQaFWLy1X1WurLKDY/_Z9rY5W6Tu6GMrmM4-Exhw

1. Choose a personality from your History book and say what makes them unique.
   1. Use other sources to find out more about them.
   2. Work in groups and present the information on a cardboard using pictures and short texts giving an outline of his/her life and deeds.
   3. You may use the above text for guidance.

Music works its magic whenever we let ourselves embrace the moment and stop what we’re doing and give some time to melody and/or lyrics to unwind our soul and thought. Here’s the feelings and thoughts of 6th Graders as they were hearing three songs I played for them in class.

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Based on a project of Unit 4, Coursebook of 6th Grade Primary Schoolbook, my two classes of 6th Graders created poems and paintings inspired by the story of Icarus. Following, you can find the sways presenting their amazing work.

CLASS 1

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CLASS 2

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This week my 4th Graders and I decided to create Easter bunny cups to fill with love and candies for an Easter gift to welcome spring and enjoy the spring break. We used an idea from the internet, yet we added our personal element on the creation. It’s always better to enrich, improve, adjust an idea to your personal tastes.

Enjoy!

This is a project based on the task of Unit 4, 4th Grade Coursebook. It was about writing a poem and/or creating a picture inspired by seasons which was the topic and its related vocabulary we covered in Unit 4.

Following, you can find the sway in which their work is presented:

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