Having read a few of these posts on other sites I read regularly (and discovering posts I had missed the first time around) I thought I’d write one myself. So below I have collated a list of the 5 most viewed posts on this blog, maybe you too will discover …
A while ago now, 4 years to be precise, I wrote a short post on Google Timeline Search and how it could be used in the classroom along with my thoughts. I was excited about the ability to see key/interesting events of a given period on a timeline and could …
After looking at the current Teaching Standards as Wordles in a previous post I was keen to look at the document for the new standards, which will be in force by Septemeber 2012. Changes in the Standards There has been a few changes to how the document is to be …
Inspired by Tom Barrett’s post commenting on Steve Phillip‘s wordle showing the content of the proposed text in the forthcoming EYFS document, I was intrigued to see what the outcome would be if I turned the Teaching Standards into wordles for each level. I’ve been working with the standards a …
Last term our Year 1 classes have been looking after eggs, which hatched into chicks in our care. This was done to add the “awe and wonder / wow factor” to our lessons. It tied very well into our chosen Literacy text – Egg Drop by Mini Grey, and gave …
