Hello, teachers! 👋💗

We're back with Week 2 of our Project-Based Learning (PBL): How to Be a Good Friend in School!

This week, our little learners become Friendship Detectives! 🕵️‍♀️🕵️‍♂️

Their mission? To investigate three school situations, discover acts of friendship and learn how to find clues in a reading text.

Our big question this week is:

💭 How do we recognise a good friend?

🔍 What's happening in Week 2?

Pupils will explore three mini-stories featuring our favourite little turtle, Perky Piung! 🐢

📖 Case A: The Empty Seat – Welcoming a new friend.

📚 Case B: The Dropped Books – Helping a friend in need.

✏️ Case C: The Red Pencil – Sharing with a friend.

Through these stories, pupils will practise identifying the main idea, finding important details and using picture and story clues to understand unfamiliar words.

🕵️ Our Friendship Detective Mission

The lesson follows a cooperative Jigsaw Reading approach.

1. Case File: Recall what we discovered in Week 1.

2. Detective Training: Learn to use picture, word and story clues.

3. Meet Your Case: Each pupil receives one story.

4. Expert Investigation: Pupils work with friends reading the same story.

5. Report Back: Detectives return to their home teams and share their findings.

6. Friendship Discovery Wall: Discover three important friendship actions.

7. Final Report: Complete an individual reading challenge.

Everyone has a role, and everyone has a story to share! 🤝

🎒 Week 2 Teaching Resources

I've prepared a collection of resources to support the lesson. Feel free to download, print and adapt them for your own classroom!

🐢 1. Week 2 Lesson Notes Poster

A visual overview of the lesson objectives, detective tools and seven activities.

📖 2. Friendship Detective Story Posters

Three colourful reading posters featuring Perky Piung and the three friendship stories.

✂️ 3. Black-and-White Story Cards

All three cases in one printable A4 landscape sheet. Pupils can colour, cut and use their assigned story cards during the Jigsaw Reading activity.

📝 4. Friendship Detective Worksheet

A black-and-white multiple-choice worksheet with five clues. All pupils use the same questions, but the answer choices are shuffled so each story has its own correct answers.

🔎 5. Detective Tools

Picture clues, word clues and story clues to help pupils become more confident readers.

💚 What's the bigger picture?

Beyond reading comprehension, we want our pupils to recognise that friendship is built through small everyday actions.

A welcoming smile, a helping hand and a willingness to share can make a big difference.

And that's what our little detectives will discover this week! 🌈

Let's make learning meaningful, active and FUN!

Be kind. Be helpful. Be a good friend! 💗

🐢 Perky Piung: Pop into Learning Fun!

📌 Teacher's Note: I'll continue sharing the lesson notes, teaching materials and classroom experiences as we progress through this PBL journey. Stay tuned for Week 3!

Happy teaching, everyone! 🍎✨