Hey, it's me again.
My new principal, who is a former English teacher, wants to make a 1-day program event thing for winter vacation. This will mix elementary students with our current middle school students.
My co-teacher said, we could be getting students as young as grade 4 or 5 in elementary, and they want to mix them with all 3 of our grades, to spend the day showing off English related things (to try attract more students to our school for future years).
My co-teacher has already chosen things for writing, listening, and reading, but wants ideas for speaking. There is already a big gap between our grade 1 and 2 students this year (The grade 1s still struggle with grade 3, first year elementary, levels of English; with grade 2, I'd personally recommend around half the class to try go for the scholarship to study abroad in an English for a month). And we have no way of knowing the levels of the elementary school students.
I personally recommended getting some low level board/card games that use English a lot, or could be played with a lower level of English, as it would likely be fun for all the students.
I think she is looking for something different, she suggested a play using props, or dubbing, where the students record themselves listening to something in English and then having to repeat it (maybe with a worksheet that has some fill in the blanks). My concerns was maybe they'd be too difficult for the elementary / grade 1 students. So, after my long winded set up.
Does anyone have some ideas for some activities or something that focus on speaking, that would be suited for elementary school students, to middle schoolers that still struggle with how are you, to middle schoolers that have a pretty good level of English - the students will be mixed together (not sorted by grade or ability), so the games/activities would need to reflect that.
The principal also wants it to be fun, so I'm not sure if they will be in a classroom or in the gym.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
(I seem to be getting hit with difficult things this semester >.<)