Sharing my new BULLETIN BOARD /BACK TO SCHOOL

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Sharing my new BULLETIN BOARD /BACK TO SCHOOL

Victoria-Ladybug

Sharing my new BULLETIN BOARD /BACK TO SCHOOL

What do you hope to BE this year?

I saw this idea on Pinterest and thought it would work well for me, so I went for it.

It was a good idea to ask the students in the beginning of the year:

What do you hope to BE this year?

I have been thinking about the beginning of the year all the last month looking for some new ideas to do something different in my first lessons of school.

I was inspired by two boards from Pinterest site ( board 1/ board 2 ) and decided to use this idea in my class.

After discussing and translating the adjectives,( they knew the most of them)

the most challenging words were ( punctual, tolerant,calm, original, confident, unique and grateful).

Then they wrote sentences about themselves like:

I hope to be more patient this year.

I am going to be....

I will try to be hardworking and responsible for my homework this year.

I think I am.......

I want to be........ this year.

It is good/important to be........

The next step- the students described their friends using the verb to Be in Present Simple.

I think, Yasmin ,is creative and smart.

My friend Noa is always helpful.

In my opinion, Kfir is an amazing friend.

The homework task was to create a word cloud using the Wordle site:

www.wordle.net

And the last step- I created a wall with www.padlet.com tool and my pupils wrote about themselves on it. Have a look at their first examples:

http://padlet.com/wall/w5f0u35pcm Heart

Internet is is the most important invention ever! It provides enormous amount of information.
And Pinterest is a great place to find inspiration! I love it!

Edit:

Dear Peter,

thank you for your great suggesttions: Thumbs Up

Today I am (going to be ) ..........................

Today I want to be .......................................

2 Sep 2013

cunliffe

Fantastic, thank you. I яПНm definitely going to do this and I яПНm also sending the links to my colleagues.

2 Sep 2013

alespagna

This is such an AMAZING JOB!!! well done!

2 Sep 2013

ueslteacher

Awesome! Your students are really computer smart! Great ideas Victoria:)

Sophia

2 Sep 2013

alexziaa

really impressive ideas :)

2 Sep 2013

Peter Hardy

Great work indeed. Love the яПНword-wall яПН. But if you like to improve on it, change the words яПНhopeяПН with яПНwant to beяПН and яПНtrying to beяПН with яПНI яПНm going to beяПН. This changes expectations into goals! IяПНve always taught my kids positive thinking, and stimulated them to include the four PяПНs in their writings: Present time, Personal (I instead of he or she), Positive (no negatives)and Powerful (believe it with all your heart). I.e. Today I am (going to be) more patient. Today I work harder and I take responsibility for my work. Add the power of repetition, as a daily activity aka a step at the time, and both you and your kids achieve more than you can dream off. Well, that was the case in my experience. Keep up the good work, and thanks for rekindling some great memories.

2 Sep 2013

Gapusja