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?
As you all know, I am a huge fan of Twinkl and when I heard they were starting to come out with their own stories I knew I had to give them a look! Man do I wish they had more coming out because this first one is WONDERFUL. I came across the blog post … Continue reading Ronald the Rhino!
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…
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
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!
Last year we started to introduce Talk4Writing into the classes... and I have to say on the whole I love it! Initially it was brought in as part of one of our deputy's leadership projects to help improve boys attainment, but it helps everyone! I'm going to be very specific in this blog post about … Continue reading Talk4Writing
During a Maths learning walk last year I was in the Year 5 classroom and we were thinking about algebraic problems involving shapes, patterns and missing lengths. I produced the sheet attached which has 2 differentiated versions of the problems. We had spent the previous week looking at a few different variations on the same … Continue reading Free-day: Maths challenge!
Teaching speech marks can't always be the most interesting thing. But when you start to think outside of the box there are some absolutely amazing things you can come up with! Last year, whilst thinking of interesting ways in which we have conversations it dawned on me that the most prominent way I have conversations … Continue reading Free-day: Speech marks ideas!
So it seems I'm going to have to be more organised when writing my review of the week because all of my days just merge together these days! The stand out moments (good and bad) from last week are: (let's start with the good) Visit to Build a Bear with Reception. I was invited on … Continue reading The weeks just merge…
Recently Twinkl have introduced a new feature: Twinkl Imagine. "Twinkl Imagine is a creative resource with a new image every day. From quick discussion to indepth learning, use it as a stimulus for a range of exciting topics" So far there have been images based on Oceans and Sculpture, with this week's theme being Harvest. Along … Continue reading Twinkl Imagine
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