Endless Ocean with Year 6

My colleague has thought about borrowing the Wii for a while now, and this week she did,  to help chidlren write an encylopedic page about coral reef, for a part of their Oceans topic.

First in a Geography lesson the children wrote notes about the different plants and fish (you press A when pointing to a feature and you are given facts). My colleague said this was so successful they continued longer than she planned.
This Year 6 is the class I had in Year 4, so they were used to the Wii, but she commented on how well they shared the console, and supported those not used to using it.
In their English lesson that followed the children wrote up their notes, having to think about features of the genre and sentence structure.
These are photos of their work they acheived in the two lessons.

 

My colleague was impressed with the motivation of the children and how much work was achieved in the 2 lessons. Everyone was writing all the time, she said.