After School Class Lessons/Resources Grade 3, 4, 5, 6

[crjordaan]

Afterschool body powerpoint.

[Jemery]

I have to give three 40 minute advanced lessons a week (grades 5-6). It's by far the part of my job for which I have to do the most work. Anyway, after a couple of months of scrounging off the Elementary Level Master Index (http://waygook.org/index.php?topic=7649.0 - thank you!), I'd like to contribute.

Here's a variation of a battleships game I tried out yesterday and which was very successful, so I tweaked it a little to allow the kids to play in pairs.

Yesterday I gave each of the kids one of the sheets, and they had to pick 10 boxes and mark them with an 'X'. I would then read off 15 sentences (pre-written, to avoid accusations of favouritism) and if they'd predicted any of my chosen sentences correctly, they circle that box, with the idea being to get the most answers in sync with mine. Basically, a larger version of bingo, with candies as incentives. It's good listening practice, as I would occasionally complicate the sentences and hide the answers within what I was saying.

So tomorrow I'm going to do a similar thing but in pairs, and more closely resembling battleships, to get them speaking as well. They each get a sheet and fold the top half up to hide their grid, then mark 10 boxes. They take turns to ask questions, hoping to find their partner's 10 answers first. There are three rounds (body parts w/ descriptions, weather, and dates / ordinal numbers) and you can just edit the grids to relate to other topics. If it's successful, I'll try it out with 5th grade lesson 7 too.

[dian1118]

Everything here is amazing!! Just saved my life!!
Thank you everyone!

[jgroh]

For Intermediate level (elementary 3-4):

This is a section on consonant digraphs and the blending of sounds. CH / SH / TH, etc.
I used a bunch of the worksheets from Bogglesworld found here: http://bogglesworldesl.com/initial_sounds.htm
I also used the worksheets below. With the crossword puzzle, the idea is for them to try first, but if they struggle, they can use the dictionaries in their cell phones. I split this up into three 40 minute classes with the first two days as teaching about how different sounds blend plus vocab. The Doraemon bomb game was used on the third day. The students were so surprised I knew Doraemon! They all started singing the song in unison. All of the vocab from the Doraemon bomb game is from the crossword puzzle and the wordsearch, so make sure they save those sheets.
 
And to Gabrielle, the chopsticks game in Lesson 10 - Verbs was the most fun I've ever seen my advanced class have. Thanks!

[Gabrielle]

After school lessons. Lessons 1-13 are in the previous pages.

Lesson 14: How was your weekend?

Worksheets and communicative task in the lesson plan.

[Gabrielle]

After school lessons. Lessons 1-14 are in the previous pages.

Lesson 15: What’s wrong?

Worksheets and communicative task in the lesson plan.

[YongHee]

picture cards for apprearance

[marelize87]

Im doing afterschool classes without any resources so it helps having basic powerpoints for every theme.

Animals [1] is about farm animals.

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[a6201520]

Mr, bean daily routines lesson. PPT, video link and worksheet.

[a6201520]

Bugs race - decribing animals, ppt, video link and worksheet.

[hankmcmasters]

try a game of cranium, i think you can find a PPT for it here on wayook.

its kind of amazing to be put in a room full of children without a real purpose for being there.  it would be nice if we could skip the charade of teaching said classes english and just get on with the babysitting.

[KKelley]

Have you tried any simple children's games? 
You might want to try Simon Says, sharks and minnows, red rover, duck duck goose, or stuff like that.  and you can always add rules that say you must speak when you get out.
If you can move the desks out of the way.

[matthews_world]

I'm doing the roleplay "Hansel & Gretel" with my 5th graders for part of the class.  At the end of the semester, I'll film each group performing their version of the play.  Doesn't have to be too fancy or elaborate.

The other part of the time, they do some creative writing they do with topics taken from whatever chapter they are studying that week.  For example, I had them draw a poster of a famous celebrity and they had to describe their appreanance.  Next, they'll write the daily schedule for who they chose.

[complex303]

There's a whole thread on this topic here:

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,1653.0.html

[erinrae]

hey y'all. 

i do an after school class for elementary kids that are pretty advanced.  for last class we went through the power point about bugs then ended the class by making dirt pudding cups together. 

we went step by step through the directions and built the pudding cups together, being sure to do comprehension check along the way.  it was a nice break for the kids and i.

it does require some prep for the teacher.  you have to make pudding in advance and buy the supplies but it was well worth it in my opinion. 

have a look.

cheers,
erin

[Gabrielle]

After school lessons. Lessons 1-15 are in the previous pages.

Lesson 16: At the doctors.

Worksheets and communicative task in the lesson plan.

The conversation game is a great way to get students enthusiastic and competitive about reading. I use this game every now and then for the text book reading lessons for grade 6. You can search stop watch in google and find a good timer.

[thankQ]

assaahhh!!!!!!! love the ghostbusters!

[thankQ]

I used this for my after school class

[thankQ]

use this with my after school class

[thankQ]

very simple, easy PPT on music I used in my extra class. For the document, I had them color the words the rhyme the same color. Then they used those words to complete the poems