Building blocks of learning

After tweets from @dominic_mcg and @bellaale I have been inspired to create these blocks for my Challenge Corner in my classroom for pupils who finish before the rest. They join an array of extension activities which include Challenge Cards, cartoons and books including a One Direction album in Spanish.
The idea is that pupils can build sentences with the words on the blocks. Let's see how it goes..

TRIPTICO TIPS

Today I used Triptico with Forms 2 and 3 (Year 8 and 9 in England) to spice up our verb work after several weeks of working through the basics and doing a lot of written practice.
Initially I used the class sorter to put pupils into groups, then the spinner to choose verbs and the scoreboards to keep track of points. When the spinner stopped on a verb, one pupil in each group had to conjugate the 6 parts in the present tense using a digital voice recorder. The first two groups to successfully replay their recording to me with correct pronunciation won the points. They had to switch the person conjugating each time which meant that all were involved, and the shyer pupils felt more confident without the spotlight shining directly on them. The kids loved it and I felt they made real progress both in terms of knowledge and pronunciation.