The Tindims and the Ten Green Bottles: a whole load of fun with a brilliant message!! "In their third adventure Ethel B Dina, who looks after the fish hospital and loves to sing, needs ten green, glass bottles to complete her musical Bottleramma. But she is surrounded by too many plastic bottles which do not … Continue reading BLOG TOUR: Sally Gardner
Recently, I've received a few brilliant non-fiction titles in the post and I thought I would share them with you! I am LOVING how gorgeous and well-thought out non fiction books are becoming. For so long they weren't very appealing to look at, but with so many of the new titles out now, that is … Continue reading Fabulous non-fiction
WELCOME TO WORLD SPACE WEEK. Settle in for a review of a book filled with stars, surprises and SUNthing wonderful! Sorry for the cheesy opening! Today I'm here with a review of an absolutely beautiful non-fiction book I was sent! I'm honoured to be part of the blog tour to share this book because it … Continue reading BLOG TOUR: Dr Maggie’s Grand Tour of the Solar System
Are you looking for an interactive book about the human body? Look no further than Scratch and Learn: Human Body! You can't beat a good bit of non-fiction... but WHERE do you start? And how do you make it accessible to kids? How do you make it appealing? And how do you make it fun, … Continue reading BOOK BLOG: Ana Seixas
My Colourful Chameleon: fun and perfect for little people! " A funny, rhyming story about a girl who keeps losing her beloved yet troublesome pet chameleon. It's not her fault though, changing colour is what chameleons do best! Mum is angry at the disappearing critter, and the girl must convince her that the pet can stay. … Continue reading BLOG TOUR: My Colourful Chameleon
Year 6 this year have brought on new challenges (I knew my last class very well!) so I have had to keep things fresh. Last year the children loved looking at the adaptations of the animals we have in the world today, whereas I know this new class can cope with something which is more … Continue reading Freeday: Y6 Science
Welcome to week 3! Really? Is that it? Is that how long ago the summer holidays were? MY word. They feel so much longer away! This week was MANIC. OF the 5 days in school, I taught for 4! 3 full days and then 2 half days... my usual timetable calls for me only doing … Continue reading Three weeks down…
In teaching lots of science last year I noticed that children had little knowledge of defining scientific words. I used a science dictionary as one of my assessment tasks at the end of a Year 5 topic and the kids thought it was great. During a book scrutiny the SLT also thought it was a great … Continue reading Free-day: Science dictionaries
The thought of teaching adaptation to my Year 6 class was a bit of a struggle initially. But after a bit of thought I came up with some lessons on camouflage and the importance of it to animals. And I have to say that the sequence of lessons is easily my favourite. I can not … Continue reading Favourite lessons: Science edition
Whilst teaching Year 6 Science I wanted to get some extended writing out of them and decided that the digestive system was quite a good topic. I didn't want them to just write a report about the digestive system or something dull like that so I decided a diary entry was a great idea. We … Continue reading Lesson idea: Science
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