LSA interview help please🙏🙏🙏

[Cathy1984]

Hi all, I have been invited to an interview next Tuesday. I have been asked to do a game or activity with a group of year 2 pupils that has either a maths or spelling focus. I am very experienced LSA but have always worked with secondary age students so a bit clueless about curriculum expectations etc. Any ideas of what I could do? What the focus should be? I also have to do a written task! Any idea what I may need to do? Thanks in advance x

my dd's teachers play the caterpillar game, which contains both spelling and numbers?
before the interview:
-get 2 bags
-think of 2 words (such as 'everybody' and 'children')
-get 2 different colours of plastic bottle tops. write each teams word on separate bottle tops, like this image, and draw a caterpillar for each team as the image has done (but don't write the letters in its body aside from the first letter)
-put the red bottle tops in one bag, and the white bottle tops in the other. arranged in the correct order, the white bottle tops should spell out a word and ditto with the left

to play the game:
-split the children into 2 teams
-give each team a caterpillar
-ask each team an adding question (eg: Red team, what is 2+2?), if they get it right they can pick a bottle top at random out of the bag
-as they get through more maths questions, they will get all the bottle tops out of the bag. they need to arrange these in the correct order on the caterpillar to win

hopefully I explained that clearly enough! please ask if anything needs clarifying :)

Thank you so much. That's a lovely idea x

Hi @sleepismysuperpower1,

Just wanted to say thank you. I used your idea and got offered the job 😊

oh that's fantastic, congratulations! pleased I could help x