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
As you've probably guessed by now... I love me some picture books! This is one half of my recent acquisitions of picture books. Some absolute gems. Some suitable for KS2 too! KS2 teachers need to be happy to use picture books. Kids get so much from it! Some just for fun. Some for working from. … Continue reading Picture book haul
I love a display! My displays never quite look how I want (I mean look how skew that title is... I did correct it after the photo was taken mind!). We use the SWGfL e-safety resources to assist us in our e-safety week teaching. The resources are great! They have resources from EYFS all the way to … Continue reading Display ideas: esafety!
Recently a conversation has emerged on Twitter about reading. It has been a MASSIVE thing. Questions have been thrown up such as is it important to teach reading? how do you teach reading? why do we need to teach reading? do you need to enjoy reading to be a good teacher of reading? There has been … Continue reading Reading: it’s good for the soul!
In my job I'm quite lucky that I'm often called to cover for all classes! I created this resource for Year 1 to revise number bonds to 20. As you'll see there's a butterfly with a number on one wing, and then an empty wing. I explained what the children needed to do and they … Continue reading Lesson ideas: Number bonds to 20
To try and encourage my rather reluctant Year 6's this past year I decided to make a Magic Maths display with challenges on. There were 2 challenges per colour, and 4 colours. The children had to pick to do all set 1 challenges or all set 2 challenges. The challenges explored the 4 different operations … Continue reading Display: Magic Maths
As a follow up to my Dream Jars idea, I thought I would share another BFG themed resource. This time it's a resource linked to the emphasis the new curriculum puts on being able to edit and check sentences. I used this sheet with Year 1, but there is no reason why it couldn't be … Continue reading Lesson ideas: The BFG #2
I've been following Bloomsbury Ed on Twitter for a while and they do an awesome thing on a Friday... they give away a prize. Good old #freebiefriday. I'm one of these people who'll RT something, because hell I'm not losing out on anything but I generally NEVER win. So I RT'd their tweet and thought … Continue reading I won a prize?
I am a HUGE fan of picture books. I think children get so much from picture books - not just the younger children but the older children too. I think a lot of KS2 teachers are afraid of picture books, but there really is nothing to be afraid of. My Year 6 children the past … Continue reading BOOKBLOG: Picture books
In my school we are extremely lucky that we have two class sets of iPads which are used regularly. I thought it would be a good idea to share some apps that we like to use with the children and find out which apps you guys all love! I'll probably make a few of these posts … Continue reading Apps we love!
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