Firstly, I would like to request to the moderators to make some kind of area to put advanced class or after school materials into for elementary. I've been noticing a lot of threads on this, and I feel it would make a lot of our lives easier if we made a collected area to share such materials. Granted, for when we are dry on inspiration, we can still look around at middle school materials, or other materials people post, but it might be nice to start organizing something like this. Again, though, thanks for your hard work.

Now, besides that, I've decided that I'm going to simply make this into a 5th and 6th grade Advanced Class materials thread. I'll post my materials as I make them here, and if anyone else would like to post their materials on here as well, that would be great! The more, the merrier.

The first thing I've been working on with my advanced class has been the past tense. It's not necessarily the "most important" or "most interesting" thing to study, but it's important in many ways, and often hard to teach. My way has been mostly through worksheets and some games.

The "L1 Irregular Past" worksheet simply has 16 verbs with irregular simple past tense forms, and has sentences that the students should work together on, figuring out where the words go. I realize that some of the sentences can have multiple answers--if you want to correct that on your own, please do.

The "Past tense bomb game" is simply a companion bomb game to the L1 worksheet. I never actually used it though--I did other activities with them instead.

I made most of a lesson out of the one called "Silly Stories" though. In my classroom, we have many large, stuffed, soft dice. I use these every once in a while for games such as this. The idea here is that a student rolls 2 dice, and then makes a couple of selections based upon the numbers. (The students don't know it, but the first selection chooses a verb, and the second selection chooses a noun. There are a TON of combinations for this.) From that, another screen is shown with that verb and noun, and that person then has a story made about them according to it. The students loved it when one of the boys happened to get "marry" and "teacher". I, a male, gave him a big hug and said that "We'll be happy forever!" It was great.

Lastly, I intend to make a lesson out of the worksheet called "L2 Before After While". It is meant to teach a few basic adverbs of order: before, after, while, first, last, and the ordinal numbers used in that context. The main draw, though, is that it's connected to 2 videos involving Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner. Video 1 here:



and video 2 here:



These should be fairly straightforward with that context. Like the L1 worksheet, though, you'll have to actually teach a few things--not all of the material is on the sheet, so the students have to pay attention to fill it in. For showing the videos, I'm going to show the video in full 1 time, and then a second time, show it in parts, to let the students fill it in, helping them along the way.

Now that I think about it, I should make "answer sheets" along with these, because there are a ton of blanks here and not every teacher thinks the same way I do. I'll do that tomorrow.

I wanted to share some ideas for an advanced class, for elementary school Last year we mostly did a lot of projects together. I did this so they can show creativity. They always did this in groups and I made sure to give them a lot of time to do their projects. Some of the projects I did with the advanced class are:
- Invent something ( they had to draw their invention on a poster board) as a group. They presented their invention. They told us what it was, what it does, and why people would want to buy it.
- Make up a brand. They had to draw their logo, and make up a slogan as well.
- Make up a country: They had to draw their country, make up a flag ( and why the flag looks the way it looks)
-We also wrote poems and short stories!
 If you have any questions, you can message me! :)

I found an amazing website and am using it for my advanced reading and writing class (link is in the lesson plan). I am also planning on using Curious George videos (i downoaded an entire season) and asking the kids to verbally summarize them, then write summaries.

Here's what I have.

So here is something i threw together for my after school class, the co teacher doesnt translate so overall the kids dont learn anything which sucks, but it is a basic tutorial on how to use the word cool as slang.  I kinda dated myself as an 80's child but what the hell these people were and are cool.  Feel free to manip it as you like and tweek whatevs so that the kids can understand better.  I didnt care much cause i get no help so "it's my choice" as i was told from the beginning of this 50 minutes of baby sitting.

Used this as an after school class withmy grade 6's last week. It was a bit too advanced for some of them but maybe for higher level students or to be played throughout the year as they improve.

Used this as an after school class withmy grade 6's last week. It was a bit too advanced for some of them but maybe for higher level students or to be played throughout the year as they improve.

This looks like a lot of work went into this game, but how do you play it?