Challenging Summer Group - Advice?

[earlessoswick]

Hallo! I'm teaching four classes at a summer camp for the next five weeks, and to date my most challenging group has been the 10-12 year olds. They are so widely varied (from none-at-all to near-fluent) that I have had to throw out all of the planning I had already done, as it didn't really serve any of them very well. Now I'm struggling to come up

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[joyeuse13]

I'm thinking some kind of team activity, so the more experienced kids can help the less experienced kids--and assign team roles so no one gets to slack off.

This may sound corny, but square dancing works really well, esp the kind with a complicated figure that all four couples have to work through--the other couples encourage and help, and it's very team-building.

[southeastwest]

Try http://english-lesson-plan.com

[pussykaty]

I've been working on a camp in similar circumstances and the main things that get them going is competitiıons. We've done quizzes, stop the bus, plus we worked together to create a puppet show which they performed for all the campers. I kind of gave up on actually teaching them anything and just made the sessions fun and in English. Good luck.