Last week I tried this for the first time and the kids asked me every single day if they were doing to get the chance to ask me more questions so I told them they could! If you want to see the questions I asked the first week see Ask Miss Elliott. It's certainly a whole … Continue reading #AskMissElliott 2
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Drawing on interests?
When I found these pictures whilst browsing Pinterest I knew instantly that I needed to use them to inspire my Year 4 class to do some drawing! Throughout the year we have been doing a variety of different portraits (we did selfies, then used Picasso as inspiration) displaying them on the window facing out for … Continue reading Drawing on interests?
Ask Miss Elliott
I really enjoy taking you guys inside my classroom and sharing my ideas in the classroom. I love it even more when I'm taken into someone else's classroom and I see their ideas that I know that I need to magpie and try myself! Enter Mr N. He wrote a blog post titled #AskMrN in which he … Continue reading Ask Miss Elliott
The great display debate…
Displays in the classroom... what's the point of them? An interesting questions... a very interesting question. It's one which is debated heavily on teaching forums and twitter and is often something of a dividing topic between teachers. I still am not sure entirely WHERE I stand on the whole "display debate" but I would like … Continue reading The great display debate…
Kindness?
Is kindness something we teach? Is it something we hone in our children? Is it something which children have to come to themselves? Whatever you believe, you need to foster a kind school, a kind classroom and kind children as best you can. Children learn from those around them. Children learn from us. If we … Continue reading Kindness?
Book tasting…
Book tasting? What? Eating books? How can you be suggesting something so ridiculous? NO. Not that kind of tasting. A bit like wine tasting... you get a taste of new wine (or books in this case) before you commit to them. You get a whole host of wines (or books) to look at and you … Continue reading Book tasting…
What We’re Reading…
My first 'What We're Reading' post went down a storm so I figured I would make it a fortnightly thing after all! As per the last blog post which you'll find here (What We’re Reading!) these books are the books that Year 4 are currently reading. I need to work on showing you how many … Continue reading What We’re Reading…
#whatItaughttoday
I just recently started using this hashtag on twitter and it's been SUPER useful to me as a review tool to see all of the different lessons I teach and seeing the year groups I interact with. Here is my review of the week using #whatItaughttoday (sorry they're not in order! Silly twitter) Just looking at … Continue reading #whatItaughttoday
This week…
Was the longest week in the world. It's been a lovely week however. We started the week with my birthday on Monday. I get the joy of teaching a challenging Year 6 class on Mondays and it wasn't a great start to the week, or a great way to spen my birthday but it was … Continue reading This week…
Back to school!
So here we are, back to January, back to work and back to the usual week review! I am going to try a new format for the next few weeks to see how I prefer it! Let me know if you have anything to add/want to ask because I'm happy to asnwer questions and add … Continue reading Back to school!
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