Help Literacy activity for Y1/2

danfur · #1 (**permalink**) 17-03-2008, 07:00 PM

Hi everyone, really looking for some help. Have got a Y1/2 class from hell tomorrow (had them today and they were a real handful). There's no planning either, have found some easter related maths for tomorrow but could do with an
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for literacy. I've no IWB as the teacher is off sick seemingly with the laptop, any
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s. I need something that will keep their attention, and keep them sitting down without tying them to the seats. The maths activity is a
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ing one with number bonds and addition and subtractions. Help!!

danfur · #2 (**permalink**) 17-03-2008, 07:02 PM

Speaking of Easter activities came across this website which seemed to have some nice seasonal activities.

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NuttySupplier · #3 (**permalink**) 17-03-2008, 09:31 PM

As you know, don't do KS1, but was just thinking, use their getupandgoness to maybe do some drama/hotseating?

Small groups, act out a scene from a well known story / real life /
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ship sinking /
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s chasing indiands etc. (Lay out rules on no running round etc.!)
Make sure they know beforehand that when you tap on the tamourine / blow your nose / clap your hands (won't work, too familiar!) they have to freeze like musical statues.
If you then tap on their shoulder, they have to tell the rest of the class what they were doing, and what each of their friends was doing in their group.
Last time you blow your nose, instead of talking, they have to draw/write about what they did.

Good luck! Just got in so sorry didn't see this earlier!

NuttySupplier · #4 (**permalink**) 17-03-2008, 09:38 PM

And thank you, just sent myself a load of pdfs from that link!

danfur · #5 (**permalink**) 18-03-2008, 09:31 AM

Hi Nutty, thanks very much, had already gone to bed but just picked this up now. I actually settled for telling the easter story and sequencing the pictures. RE/Lit combined. I honestly don't think they would have managed a drama type lesson, I think they would have gone
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!!! Scratch that I know they would!!!! Ah well, 4 and a half hours to go!

NuttySupplier · #6 (**permalink**) 18-03-2008, 03:53 PM

How did it go?

Two more days 'til Easter hols!

ruby_tuesday · #7 (**permalink**) 18-03-2008, 05:44 PM

Sorry, only just read your post so too late to help, but like Nutty, not really much help with KS1 anyway!

Thanks for the link to the website, looks good.

danfur · #8 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 08:34 AM

Hi everyone. Well maybe the fact that I'm not replying til this morning might show how it went yesterday. Actually they really enjoyed the easter story and sequencing the pictures went really well. Pity I couldn't say that about the afternoon. I don't think I've ever been in such a badly behaved class. I couldn't believe that these children were 5,6 and 7 and were physically kicking the crap out of each other in the classroom. There was no calming them down yesterday and the head was no help. The times me or the TA removed the children from the class she brought them straight back in, sat them down on a chair and told them not to move, the second she was gone they were running around again.

I actually feel really down today, when I got in yesterday I felt so awful I went straight to bed, I had lost my voice my head was banging and I just wanted to have a good
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. I couldn't believe how out of control the class were yesterday afternoon and I kept wanting to blame myself. Although everyone in the school had said that their behaviour was terrible I imagined that there would be some way of cont
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ing them. I tried everything yesterday, shouting, time out chair, stickers, prizes, girls v boys competition, praising the best, keeping hold of the hands of the ones who were hitting but nothing worked. The thing that upset me the most was that if I was full time and that was my class, how would I
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e.

Sorry for the long rant, still feeling crappy today so am having a day off!

NuttySupplier · #9 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 04:45 PM

Sorry you feel like crap!
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That honestly sounds like 90% of days I have in KS1, hence why I don't do it anymore! If you were full time, you wouldn't have the problems for very long, they are kids, and they learn to like you, not like to let you down and yesterday they were pushing you. I've had a class that were like that, Y3, but there were only familiar rumblings after Christmas.

danfur · #10 (**permalink**) 19-03-2008, 06:40 PM

Thanks Nutty, I'm feeling a little better now I have managed to block it out. It probably didn't help that I still have the cough that caused me to lose my voice a
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of weeks ago so have been to the docs today and have got antibiotics so should hopefully feel better soon. Everything always seems 10x worse when you are not at your best I suppose.

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