Everyone knows Winnie the Pooh, and this month he turns 85! What a perfect focus for a lesson and an opportunity for some fun arts and crafts for my 7th graders.
In class, we read an article about Winnie the Pooh and A.A. Milne. I taught the kids the vocabulary the lesson centered around, we played games, and then I had them sing Happy Birthday to Winnie the Pooh, which was quite entertaining! Since they have exams this coming week, I thought I would give them homework that was a little more "fun" than usual. Their assignment was to make birthday cards for Winnie the Pooh in English. Inside they had to use some of our vocabulary words.
I figured since I am was having so much luck with the stickers as motivation, that I would make this into a contest. At first, they weren't sure about the word conTEST because all they heard was TEST. Realizing this as soon as I heard their groans and saw their faces, I quickly picked up a piece of chalk and wrote on the board: Contest = Game. Cheers erupted!
I explained to them how it would work. Of course I had the help of a class translator (there is usually at least one student in each class that is able to translate for me!). They would each make a card, and I would select 10 cards for them to vote on. Then, they would choose which one would receive 1st place; one would receive 2nd place; and one would receive 3rd place.
The prizes were as follows:
1st place: a homework pass and three stickers
2nd place: two stickers
3rd place: one sticker
I am happy to share some of the cards...along with one that just really impressed me. One girl created a pop-up card, and it was pretty amazing! Although it didn't win 1st prize, I thought it was the best!
Here are some more of the cards!
And finally, some of the winners!!
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