Lesson Plan: Friday, June 1st

Samuel Ntsiko Primary School Class 6A
Teachers: Ms. Victoria and Ms. Julie

Environment: 

• 36 Students
• Native Language = Xhosa
• well behaved, extremely respectful and responsive to authority figures
• not used to being asked questions and their opinions, shy when volunteering answers and speaking aloud
  

Language Arts
Objective: Students will work in pairs to write their own short fiction stories using the WWW What=2 How=2 and POW Methods

Materials:

• student folders with loose leaf paper 
• pencils/erasers
• colored pencils, markers
• WWW W=2 H=2 Chart
• POW Chart
• Big Poster Paper

Activities:

• Brain Dance (energy up)
• Review WWW W=2 H=2 (with dance)
• Review POW (POW gives you power for writing)

Procedure: 

• Make sure students have the rules of WWW W=2 H=2 and POW written in their folders.
• Establish partners
• Have students work in pairs to write their own stories using WWW W=2 H=2
• Have partnerships trade stories and record WWW W=2 H=2 chart; make sure students recognize missing parts.
• Have students share parts with one another.
• Write and act out a story as a class (Our class wrote a story called "Monkey and his Friends on his Birthday").

Assessment/Evaluation:

• Ask students to put a thumbs up/thumbs down if they understand - do this throughout the lesson.
• Collect student stories - see if they have all parts of a story included. 

Maths
Objectives: Students will demonstrate an understanding between Maths and English through an exploration of word problems. Students will also underestand the importance of the reciprocal relationship between addition and subtraction.

Materials:

• Maths packet
• Pencils/erasers
• Pre-written word problems

Procedure:

• Go over homework from the night before. Students had three addition problems and had to write their own word problem. Problems are solved on the board by calling students to the front and word problems read aloud to the class.
• Word on multi-digit addition and subtraction problems as a class, modeling the first few and then calling students to the front to solve problems. Use addition to check subtraction and visa versa - reinforce the relationship between the two.
• Assign problems for students to do in notebooks. When they are done, we will come together as a class and students will solve problems on the board.