Let's play darts!

 

This morning I took part in #ShareStuffSunday on Twitter, offering minibooks, making a flag and the LiPS Listening Project.

I had a look through the other tweets, and was very interested in this one from the multi-talented Jasmine Kay (have a look at her Etsy shop!)

Hopefully saving an UKS2 teacher’s Sunday with this one. Maths challenge which will help you to identify gaps too #ShareStuffSunday pic.twitter.com/4rzyTq53ab

— Jasmine (@MissKay_MissKay) April 25, 2021

I could see straightaway that this was something that could be easily adapted to use in the Languages classroom.  Indeed, Jasmine says that she has used this activity in her French teaching.  I can see it being used for things that need drilling, in other words for phrases or sentences which are repetitive in structure.  It could be another activity to do using sentence builders.

I like how the completed dartboard will provide quick feedback to the teacher as to how many questions each child has got right, and children will like it as it involves colouring in!

For differentiation purposes, children could try to complete the questions without support, and could look at their books, wall displays or knowledge organisers for support.

Thinking about what my classes are doing at the moment, I've made a example of the dartboard activity for my Year 4 unit ¿Tienes hambre?

For further feedback for the teacher, I've used four different levels for the questions, and use a quarter of the dartboard for each level:

Level 1: 1, 18, 4, 13, 6

Level 2: 10, 15, 2, 17, 3

Level 3: 19, 7, 16, 8, 11

Level 4: 14, 9, 12, 5, 20

It should be easy to see at a glance which quarter and therefore which levels children have coped well with.