"Valentine's day" with year 6 14.02.13

On Thursday we celebrated Valentine's day. I think that culture is an important theme to work with kids so I decided to prepare a special activity for that day. I found nice to write some love cards using different positive adjectives so I planned a cross-curricular activity which involved art and English. On Tuesday I made a heart card with different coloured cardboard and then, I wrote some good adjectives on it (nice, handsome, clever, imaginative, etc.). I showed the card to year 6 students and then, they created their own ones at art time. Here you can see the fantastic results.

On Thursday, at English class, we started the lesson reading the Valentine's day origin so kids could practise their written comprehension and know more culture aspects. Then, I prepared an activity in order to learn positive adjectives. The exercise consisted in drawing arrows between some words and the corresponding image. For example, I wrote "clever" and I put a brain in the same page. I could print one activity for each pupil, but I decided that they had to move so they came to the board and wrote on it with the digital pen. I was so surprised because although children know a lot of vocabulary and they can recognize lots of words, they hardly use them when they talk or write in English.

Right after, I gave the heart cards to students and they chose the adjectives they wanted to write them on it. I think that it's a good activity to learn positive words and write them to friends, family, etc. Children should learn to be kind to other people because it will satisfy them in their lives. Finally, I hung all the cards at the English class so all the pupils of the school could observe them.