Class records activity

I did this activity with my TT1 advanced group as an extra activity at the start of the class. The idea was to do something that showed what all of the students had done together and it was taken from Jill Hadfield’s Classroom Dynamics book. I love this book and recommend it highly  You will need a copy of the question sheet I added to this post and a large sheet of card to write up the results on. My TT1 group has only six students and so they asked two questions each but it can be easily altered for larger or smaller groups. The idea is as follows:

1. Prepare the poster card by writing at the top ‘AS A GROUP WE HAVE:’

2. Print off the questions sheet, cut them up and give out one question/or questions to the students.

3. Ask everyone to go around the class and find out how many times everyone in the class has done these things. The students need to keep a running total.

4. When everyone has finished, collate the information and fill it in on the poster. Then put the poster up on the wall. I asked my students to sign it just to personalize it a little more

In the book, they give an example of how to write the poster and I added it here. I pretty much used this model apart from altering a question.

AS A GROUP WE HAVE:

flown on a plane 25 times

broken our bones 3 times

drunk 18 glasses of champagne

been to 32 pop concerts

been in hospital 10 times

visited 27 countries

traveled by sea 21 times

won a competition 7 times

passed 49 exams

owned 16 cats 8 dogs 2 hamsters 9 goldfish

fallen in love 21 times

and changed jobs 11 times

After my students had finished creating the poster, we took a photo of them grouped around it as a kind of fun souvenir of the activity

The link for the cards is class records cards

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