Is my final task good enough?
I’m thinking about this final task for a 4th grade English unit (8–9 year olds) about school subjects and I’d like your opinion 😊
The final task would be called:
“Welcome to our school!”
The context is that new foreign students are coming to the school, so students must create and present their own school to help them.
Students work in groups. An architect has designed four different school plans with empty classrooms and playgrounds. Each group chooses one template.
Then, they must:
\- choose a school subject for each classroom,
\- and add a day of the week to each lesson.
For example:
\- PE → Thursday
\- Art → Monday
After that, each student chooses one classroom and draws themselves inside the lesson with their classmates and teacher to make the task more personal and motivating.
Then, they complete a scaffolded worksheet with sentences:
\- Our school is called…
\- Our school is… (big, small, modern, old…)
\- Our school has got…
\- Our school hasn’t got…
Finally, I would ask each student one oral question individually:
“What have you got?” and they would say “ On Friday I have have got Science”
And they answer:
“I have got Science on Monday.”
or
“I haven’t got PE on Friday.”
I thought this could work well because:
\- it combines visual, written and oral production,
\- it’s cooperative,
\- grammar-focused but still communicative,
\- scaffolded for young learners,
\- and creative without being too cognitively demanding.
Do you think this sounds coherent and achievable as a final task for 8–9 year olds?