Jigsaw success!

I tried out the jigsaws mentioned in a previous post (The blank ones from Wilko).  For those of you who haven't read it, I put 2 'messages' on it in German about 2 songs (opinions and reasons why) and gave it to my set 3 entirely male Year 9 class to work out in pairs.  There was some differentiation in that 2 sets had single words on each piece, whilst the rest had words written across the pieces, thus making it easier to put together.  It was a race to complete them and tell me the 'message'.

At the end of the lesson I casually asked if they liked it and out of 18 boys, 14 of them said they did - success!

Watch out Wilko; stock up on your blank jigsaws, I'm coming for them!

Jigsaw heaven!

Thank you to @JaneJaneheg for this - Jigsaw Planet - http://www.jigsawplanet.com/.  You can make interactive jigsaws to put onto your website!  Direct response to my last post and a really nice alternative.  Tricky putting text on though.  Might have to save as a picture and then you can upload it.  Will have a go and report back!

Jigsaws

I found some 2 pack blank jigsaw puzzles in Wilko for £1 (http://www.wilko.com/creative-play/wilko-craftime-jigsaw-draw-your-own-x-2/invt/0279053?VBMST=jigsaw - 3 for 2 at the moment!)  ...

...and finally found a use for them!  At the moment, with my quite large, entirely male bottom set Year 9 German class, we are discussing music - giving our preferences and opinions etc.  Quite tricky in German, as we have some lovely opinion phrases and connectives which play merry hell on word order!  So I thought a nice way of putting it all together would be to write a couple of good examples on these jigsaws so they can piece them back together, thus learning about word order.  So I started with 2, like this:

I thought this would probably be quite hard, as there are not many clues to link the pieces, so I made these into ** jigsaws and made the rest like this, as * jigsaws:

I was planning on doing them in today's lesson, but had planned too much into it already, so I will probably put them into next lesson.  Hope they work!

NB:  A tip - write each one in a different colour so you don't mix the sets up!

Update on the pouches!

OK, so maybe some really strong glue might be good to stick down the 'flap tuck in strip'!  My tape just peels off when you open the pouch!  As a respected colleague said to me 'If something's worth doing, it's worth doing badly!"; can't fault my enthusiasm though!