My first real project with my kids

I absolutely love teaching my kids but there are only so many textbook and workbook pages you can do before you want to set the books on fire and cry.  So, in order to stop this from happening, I decided to do a bit of a sneaky project with one of my advanced grade 6 groups.  

This particular group is a group of girls who have fairly advanced English skills and are super pumped to play games / have a chat.

The project I came up with (with a little assistance from my housemates) was "Dream Vacation".

We started out by all choosing a country that would be our dream vacation.  I choose Japan because it's the bomb and the girls chose Italy, Spain, France, Australia (yay!), the USA and London.  After this, we answered the following questions:

• Why do you want to go to this place?
• Who will you go with?
• How long will you stay?
• How will you get there?
• What will you see, do, buy and learn?

The girls absolutely blew me away! Each knew a lot about the country they wanted to visit, especially the girl wanting to visit Spain.  She told me she wanted to see all of the Gaudi architecture in Spain.  I was gobsmacked because I barely know what Gaudi architecture is!

After discussing the different dream vacations, we set about making posters which is crafty aka the best ever.  That's one thing I've learnt about myself while being here - I absolutely love craft.  I don't care that it's lame.

I made an example with Japan for the girls to take some inspiration from.

I honestly couldn't be prouder of the girls.  The final products were amazing!

MM x