WILD ANIMALS COLLABORATION
Patricia Calmels D’Artensac, Primary World Languages teacher and Marie-Claire Redman, Secondary Art teacher
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n our ‘Wild Animals’ unit of learning, Year 5 French students have been developing their language abilities by describing an animal using words including fur, stripes, scales, feathers, beak and trunk, as well as explaining where the animal lives and how it moves.
focused on the animals living in the National Park of Khao Yai to prepare the Residential Visit in January.
The aim of this collaborative learning project was to link an art technique with a word. By doing so, the Year 5 children associate a gesture with the word and then Learning new language and structures is always assimilate more easily. It is also a way to realise that challenging, especially when you don’t use the language collaboration is efficient and useful in their learning as regularly, that’s why it is crucial to implement a meaningful, well as in their future life. For the Year 8 students, it was an engaging context to embed the language. This unit of opportunity to increase confidence in their communication learning was the perfect occasion to link the students new skills when describing best practice of familiar Art knowledge some practical art techniques. We had the techniques. Describing the techniques to a new audience chance to collaborate with Secondary Art teacher Ms proved to them how much they know themselves! Redman and her Year 8 class. For this special session, we
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Bangkok Patana School News
07/12/2018