tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-158849022012-02-06T22:13:22.169ZLittle Miss Teacher is a place where those of us in the classroom can share our ideas, resources and experiences. We can also have a good old moan and share some of those funny little things our children say!Debshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594847110659056112noreply@blogger.comBlogger1401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15884902.post-74199496497519428152009-02-28T05:11:00.002Z2009-02-28T05:13:34.462Z

I am sorry the downloads have stopped working. I forgot to log into the account with Ripway where they are stored and they have deleted it. I will set it all up again soon. In the meantime, please email me if you would like any of the materials mentioned.Deb

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I have just completed this week's English plan for Year 1 Term 1 Unit 1a and have chosen Whatever Next by Jill Murphy as the main text. I have put six of the resources together in a pdf file if you would like to download it.Deb

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I have received an email from Mr Educator (whom I have nicknamed Mr. Ed!), author of a new blog who, like myself, believes in teachers sharing in order to make all our lives easier.He has created a blog called I'm a Busy Teacher on which he hopes to share some of the resources he has made and the ideas he has to save us all time and allow us to have a personal life! The idea sounded so fantastic,

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I have had an email from David, a KS1 teacher, who has set up a blog of his own on which he is posting the worksheets he makes. Like myself, he seems keen to share resources for free! There are only a few things on there at present but he will be adding more as he makes them. I think this could prove useful for anyone using Oxford Reading Tree in their school. Worth adding to your favourites and

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For anyone looking for independent spelling work to use in Guided Reading or Writing, I have put together a few suggestions made by our team in a PowerPoint.I have printed out the slides and put them in a packet with the magnetic letters, making a little spelling centre.The activities are suitable for most Key Stage 1 children and the children love them! Sometimes I tell them which activity to do

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In case you have not clicked on the links yet, there are a couple of really nice links, also designed by Jenny, at the bottom of the Maths Dictionary page.The first is to a site called Writing Fun, where you can get simple writing frames (or text organisers) for persuasion, narrative, poetry etc. What I really like about this site is that there are examples of each text type, ranging from simple

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A colleague at school sent around a link to an amazing online Maths Dictionary for the children to use which I just have to pass on. I think it is fantastic!It has been created by an Australian primary school teacher called Jenny Eather, who made it some years back for use in her own school. It now contains over 600 words and is extremely popular, having had over 8 million visitors!The alphabet

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I know, I know, it has been far too long since I last posted! I am sorry, but had good reason - first I moved house and then, well, I went on holiday for two weeks! Thanks to everyone who has been emailing. I have a bit of a back log of links to post about and I will get to them soon.In no particular order then, thanks to Lynn who loved Topic Box. She has recommended a site she has been using

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I saw a link to Topic Box on Andrew's Primary Teacher UK site and went for a mooch around. I am really impressed with it. As well as being refreshing on the eyes being bright yellow, it is simple to navigate and very well organised. Click on a subject, on a topic and there is a page of online resources all ready for you. Very simple and very fast!The authors of the site state that they made

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Sorry for taking so long to post yet again! School has been extremely busy and I have just spent half term in Egypt, three days of which were spent in a school delivering some Jolly Phonics INSET. (An amazing experience!) Thanks to everyone who has been e-mailing and keeping in touch.I have recently read an article in Child Education Magazine about a teacher who set up a 'Thinking Chair' in her

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Teaching Expertise is a fantastic new website containing loads of articles on the latest educational research. Having been launched in November, it already contains over 500 articles and it seems very likely that the site will grow rapidly.Their mission is: To provide teachers with the best place to learn from each other and develop professionally and personally.Currently, the site has three main

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I never in a million years thought I would ever be in a magazine with the likes of Naomi, Paris and co. It just goes to show, never say never! Little Miss Teacher has made it into the December issue of Cosmo! (Page 132 I think!) I received an email a few weeks ago from Nicole, a senior writer at the magazine. She was writing an article about people who blog about work and asked if I would answer

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I am currently setting up a display about 'What do good readers do?' in my Year 1 classroom. I have so far created two posters, one for visualisation and the other for activating prior knowledge. My intention is to cut the posters up and place them on a 'ladder' made out of card. I will place the caption on one rung of the ladder and the picture on the other. Each time we learn a new strategy,

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I am uncertain of the full name of thisRead ON site, but there are loads of good posters and prompt cards which you can download for free.Some are in the Apple Works format, which I have no idea about, but there are lots on PDF and Word too. I think they are good starting points for displays or easily adaptable to your own class.Deb

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This week I received a lovely email from Dylan at the Nicola Flanagan website. The site has free resources for download, mainly maths for Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1 at the moment. There are some lovely designs for numbers and counting which will look great once colour printed and laminated.They promise to add new things for download regularly, so it is worth adding to your favourites and

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I have debated with myself all day about whether I should add this entry to my blog. I have decided to go ahead because bereavement in school is one of those tragedies which some of us will have to cope with at some point in our teaching careers. What do we do?Probably one of the most difficult weeks I have ever experienced, last week my school suffered a tragic bereavement. I do not want to

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Thank you those who emailed to alert me you were having trouble downloading. Try later and all should work. Ripway, the great free site I use, only allows 25MB of downloads in a 24 hour period. There has been a lot of downloads occuring over the last few days and so I have gone over that limit. They calculate downloads hourly, so all should be working again soon.If the downloads continue to be

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I have made this little WILF (What I'm Looking For) and WALT (We Are Learning To) PowerPoint to use with my Year 1 class.I think the animation is quite cute, but the background is a bit dull. The reason for this is that I wanted something which would lend itself to being printed out, producing clear and not too busy prints. It is easy the change the background in PowerPoint anyway, by clicking on

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Rather than doing anything constructive this afternoon such as planning, I have spent the last twenty minutes making labels for the children's exercise books.This download contains labels for the following books: writing, handwriting, maths, science, guided reading, topic (humanities stuff) and a spelling log. There are between 6-9 labels on a page, so you may need to print multiple copies.

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I recently received an email from Ben at Teachade asking me to take a look at their website and maybe make a few suggestions as to how they can improve it. As I'm always keen to find new places which may make my life in the classroom easier, I went for a mooch around!Upon arrival, it looks a bit basic, the sort of site you would probably think didn't have a lot on it. If I am honest, had I not

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Hooray! I have solved the download problem to some extent. Files now can be downloaded from the "Download My Files" links at the side. Unfortunately, any downloads from within the actual previous posts will no longer work. However, I think they are all at the side as well. Should you spot any files in old posts which are not listed, please email me and I will add them.Thanks again for your

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My sincerest apologies to anyone who has been trying to download my files recently.I use Ripway, a superb free web hosting service to upload to. They give you 30MB of space for free. However, the condition of this is that you must log in every 30 days to keep the account active. Obviously, having had such a long holiday, my account has expired.I am awaiting a reply from them to see if I can

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I hope you have all had a wonderful holiday! I certainly did! It is hard trying to get my brain back into gear now after 6 weeks of not having to use it!School officially starts on Monday, but I have been popping in this week to try and ease myself back into the swing of things and help with the new staff who are in the middle of a hectic induction programme.There may be a slight change of

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Well, it is finally here....the Summer Holiday! 6 weeks of R and R!!!I am off to Birmingham for 3 weeks (exotic hey?) then Bali (That's more like it!) and possibly Burma to finish. I know I should say Myanmar these days...but I felt like keeping the B theme going!Have a great break everyone. See you in about 6 weeks!Deb

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The Food a Fact of Life website from the British Nutrition Foundation has some super resources for anyone doing this topic with Year 3 at the moment or those looking at healthy eating. The Teacher Area has some great activity sheets and a super PowerPoint on food from around the world as well as ideas for cross-curricular links.There is an 8-11 year old section with ineractive games showing a

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The National Literacy Trust website has links to Reading The Game, a project using footballers to promote literacy amongst adults and children alike. With the World Cup just around the corner, we may as well use it in the classroom however we can!I found the site a bit awkward to navigate, but if you look, there are some nice ideas. I particularly liked reading about Premier League footballers'

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Multiplication.com has links to some great interactive games for learning times tables. The first game, Timez Attack, has to be paid for; but the rest, further down the page, are all free.Many of the games are quite simple in design but you can select the difficulty of the questions. My children had great fun playing these and have copied the link so they can play at home!Have fun!Deb

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One of my colleagues told me a very amusing story today which I thought I would share with you.She usually puts the schedule for the day up on the board. Earlier this week, she wrote 'Thinking' next to lesson 1 as opposed to the usual subject names. One of her darling year 5's raised their hand and asked "Miss, what is thinking?"I know the child didn't mean it like that, but it does sum up some

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I have recently come across some useful online resources on Digital Brain for our 'Helping Plants Grow' unit in science. There are lots of links to online quizzes and other useful websites.There are also resources available for other KS2 Science topics and several other curriculum areas, but I have yet to explore these.Deb

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Our focus in guided reading for this half term is inference.I have just been given a link to some great websites all about teaching the children how to infer meaning when reading. The links are on the eMINTS website. I haven't had much of a chance to explore the rest of the site yet, but their homepage states that they provide professional develop for educators by educators.If the rest of their

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Hello All,Have you missed me? I am back from Bali all brown and relaxed. It is such a gorgeous island. I picked up quite a bit of the language whilst I was there, it is much easier then Thai! So my mission for the next few months is to try to learn Bahasa Indonsesian. Wish me luck!I am currently in the middle of the KS2 production. We have 400 children to organise for the performance on

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It's the holiday...hoooray!!!!!!!!!!I have 2 weeks off school and I am heading back to Bali tomorrow for two glorious weeks of well earned relaxation!Happy Easter and Songkran to all of you. See you in a couple of weeks!Deb

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This collage (Thanks Picassa) is actually of one very long wall. It shows five different panels of work produced by Year 3 during our recent Maths Investigation Week. The title is Marvellous, Mysterious, Magical Mathematics! Hmmm, it is marvellous that we managed to fill such a huge wall!The week was great fun and the children's problem solving skills are improving as a result.The panels include

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I have thrown together this little Reading Journal to use with my class in Term 3. It is by no means perfect, but I think it will do for their first one.I plan to model making responses to texts with the class by keeping my own log. Then I will get them to make a few entries in class before sending it home. I have made a list of ideas of ways in which they can respond to a text, but hope they

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I am going to be running a playground game after school club next term and I have found this lovely little website to help me! Playground Fun is child-friendly and full of ideas. The instructions for the games are in simple language and can be printed out on one page. I also think they may lend themseleves nicely to work on writing instructions.Deb

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Another of Linda's suggestions, this classroom display site loads a lot faster and has lots of images!Deb

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Many thanks to Linda, one of our readers, for this lovely little link!The Classroom Displays Blog has some superb ideas covering both KS1 and KS2 topics. As well as lovely photographs of the finished displays, there is also a detailed explanation of how it was made and how it supports the children's learning.The page takes a while to load due to all the lovely pictures, but it is worth the wait.I

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Andrew has set up a competition on his Primary Teacher UK blog. The first prize is a one year subscription to WebWrite.The question is very easy...so give it a whirl!Deb

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Whether you are a teacher or a teaching assistant, have a whiz over to the TA Chat Forum. It is a well organised set of message boards with loads of useful stuff and friendly people!There are boards on how to use the forum, curriculum areas, SEN, resources, TA Professional Development and a topic of the week.It is great to see everyone so willing to help one another and ease the load a bit. I

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Starfall is a lovely website to help with reading. It has 4 main categories for reading, from simple initial sounds at level 1, blends and diagraphs at level 2, sentences through riddles, rhymes and tongue twisters at level 3 and a range of different genres at level 4.In addition to all these lovely animated activities for the children, there are links for teachers and parents and downloadable

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I have just come across the PBS Kids site and it is great fun. As well as characters such as Barney, Clifford and Telletubbies (heavens forbid!) there are some lovely online stories. Some of the words are highlighted and a new window appears on click which gives the definition. Great for vocabulary work. When you get to the end, there are games to play too.There is a games link as well. I only

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One of our readers, John Duffy from Chester University's Faculty of Education, has set up Teachers Home Page. Still in the early stages of development, it looks like it is going to be a useful site.The site has 3 main aims:1. To help teachers locate resources2. To help educators with blogs and websites publicise resources3. To raise funds for Cancer ResearchThe THEMES link takes you to a menu of

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Apologies for not posting in such a long time. Firstly, I had my Mum here visiting and we were seeing the sights of Bangkok for the umpteenth time! Then I went on holiday to Bali, one of my favourite places in the world!I am back all tanned and relaxed, although one mad day at school is starting to make it all seem like it was a lifetime ago! Bali is really struggling right now. Because of the

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World Book Day is on 2nd March and this year's theme is celebrations. The official site has lots of useful resources and is split into pre-school, primary and secondary resources. You might need to pick and choose a bit as some are a bit bland, but if you choose to read one of the chosen titles in class, you will have heaps of activities to follow up with. There is also quite a lot of Sudoku if

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For some reason, Blogger doesn;t seem to like the last post! I have edited it several times now, and every time I publish, it cuts some chunks out! So annoying!Anyway, there were supposed to be 4 downloads mentioned in it:Fluency ChartAccuracy ChartPunctuation ChartPowerPoint of all 3Hope this works!Deb

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Paired Reading is just one part of my reading lessons. A group sometimes uses this as an independent activity whilst I am teaching another group. Moving away from my main comprehension strategy, paired reading is used to develop fluency and accuracy.I am sure we have all had children reading in pairs before, but these charts help them to focus. Each pair has a reader and a listener and they both

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In addtion to the other online fables resources mentioned in a previous post, I have found an Aesop's ABC, containing 26 fables. They are very short and simple, but quite useful.It is from the Story Arts website, which has some useful links and lesson ideas for storytelling.I'm working on an assessment rubric for fables at the moment and will post it later in the week. There are also several

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The main comprehension strategy we are focusing on for the next few weeks in guided reading is prediction. As it is Year 3, we are expecting the children to re-predict as they read on through the text and explain their reasons for doing so.I have told them they are to be detectives, looking for clues and evidence in the text which they need to share with the rest of the group to justify changing

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I have been contacted by John Carnell of Bullying Online and asked to give a mention to the National Survey they are performing.They would like children, teachers, parents and adults to complete the survey. John explains:Bullying Online has launched the biggest ever survey into the effects of bullying in UK schools. We are asking Pupils, Parents, Adults and Teachers what their experience of

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I came across InfoVisual today and although I havent spent too long exploring it, I think it could come in quite handy, particularly for science topics and MFL.There are currently only five topics available and you click on the images rather than words. The picture then turns into a more detailed, labelled diagram of that image. There are sound effects and animations available on some of the

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The holidays are over and it is all systems go. I just wish my brain would engage! I actually went back to school last Wednesday, but the children start on Monday! As always happens before the children return, tonight will be a sleepless one! Does that ever change??I hope you all have a great first day back and keep up the great work both in school and with the blogging! It does make life

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Happy New Year to everyone out there. I hope all your dreams and wishes come true.Deb

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I know that many people who were present during the tsunami would probably rather forget the ordeal. But a year on, my thoughts are with everyone who has been effected by the tragedy, wherever you are. To the brave people attending memorial services today, my heart goes out to you and I hope it helps you in some way.For the friends, colleagues and pupils who survived the ordeal, I am thankful.

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Whoooppsssss!I don't know how many of you noticed, as I certainly hadn't, but I accidently changed the design of my blog yesterday! I was playing with the new buttons available in Blogger, tried a new design template, but noticed it meant I had lost all my customised links and things. I thought by not pressing publish that nothing would happen! Apparently I was wrong!Fortunately, I had made a

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The Wirral Learning Grid have produced a set of maths plans for Year 3. I haven't used them myself as yet, but they come highly recommended!For anyone teaching other year groups, their Mathematics Resource page has loads of stuff on assessment, homework, using Teaching Assistants and ICT opportunities. Worth bookmarking as it is updated fairly regularly.Deb

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Many teachers will be covering Aesop's Fables soon and here are a couple of really useful resources.There are two PowerPoints which can be found at the Teacher Resource Exchange. The catalogue is really useful for using with a projector and my class loved it last year. Click on any of the titles on the contents page to go to that fable, which usually only take up 2 slides. Be sure to download the

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The Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC) is a useful site for anyone in charge of a school library. They have produced a very useful Animated Tour of the Dewey Decimal Classification System which you can view using Flash. I am going to try it with my Year 3's, although I may skip a few of the pages. It can be used with much older children too. They also have a short biography of Melville Dewey

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I came across The BA website today (British Association for the Advancement of Science) and as well as some good ideas for science week and other resources, they have a link on How To Run A Science Club. It gives some sound advice with some useful downloads available for anyone interested in starting such a club. It also provides useful organisations which you can contact for assistance if you

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Ho Chi Minh's simple stilt house. 

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Thanks to everyone who mailed and posted messages in my absence. It is nice to know my little blog remains popular even when I am not around to update it! Hanoi was wonderful. It is a lovely city with so much history and architecture. I feel guilty for learning about it all retrospectively - I had no idea before I went but I'm reading up now! The Old Quarter is marvellous maze of little streets

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Well, the next five good mornings actually! I am off to Hanoi for 5 days so please excuse me going quiet!Back on Monday evening.Deb

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Work-related Blogs and News Give James a hand by completing his questionaire to aid his research into blogging about work! His posts are useful, sometimes amusing and very readable! Deb

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Here is a set of four sheets I used in Year 1 when writing recipes. There are two very simple templates on which to write a recipe for a fruit salad and a pizza and two sheets for work on verbs. I used them in Y1 but Y2 may be able to make use of them too.I introduced the imperative verbs as 'Bossy Words' and we had great fun being bossy, giving instructions to each other before we started. the

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I have just laughed my socks off at the BBC's report about the 'Terrfiying Santa' warning on Teachernet!Apparently, someone had posted some advice about the dangers of pantomimes and the scary aspects of Christmas entertainment. Whilst I understand that seeing Cannon and Ball in drag in a pantomime is enough to terrify anyone, I agree that this advice was being just a bit too PC!The DFE have

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I am quite shocked to read about all the tummy bugs hitting schools at the moment. Andrew mentioned his school had been hit quite badly last week on his PrimaryTeacher UK blog.After a busy weekend, I have just been catching up on the education news and saw Friday's BBC report about a school in Wales which has been forced to close due to illness too!My own school differs slightly! We are already

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Jim Rose's interim report was published last week. It seems to suggest a move towards the use of synthetic phonics as oppopsed to the NLS analytical approach.To me this is good news. I have been using a synthetic phonics approach for several years now and with great success.I have read Friday's BBC report, by their education correspondent, Mike Baker. Like many, he is dubious, which is fair

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One of my previous displays was a Writing Target Tree. I wrote the children's targets onto apple shapes - which we blue-tacked onto the tree. The children would 'pick' their apple before each writing lesson to have it as a prompt on their desk. It was a useful, interactive display.I moved on from writing out the targets myself, to having them pre-printed. I would just print off the relevant

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Here is a list of some websites I occasionally visit for inspiration:Gigglepotz - boards from around the worldDisplay Index - lots of linksNorth Yorkshire Display Materials - posters and wordbanks etcMy Classroom Displays - an Early Years teacher sharing ideasMore Teaching Ideas - about displaysAnd then of course there are my own display photos from this blog...Magnets DisplayThinking About

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I have made this Australia pdf file from a PowerPoint. I can't upload the PowerPoint itself as it is a huge file because of all the pictures in it. Therefore, I have changed it to an Adobe pdf file and you can always copy and paste each page into a PowerPoint yourself.It was made as part of our Passport to the World topic, summarising some of our main findings. I hope you find it useful.Deb

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There are some great blogs on TEsall.com's bloglist. They are blogs from ESL/EFL teachers all over the world. Content ranges from really useful research and resources to having a good old moan about the management to discussing living in a fantastic part of the world.You can submit your own blog to them, but it can take a while for them to crawl it and they like to ensure the content is related

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The Poetry Zone website is currently showing some lovely Christmas Poems written by children. They are extremely good and even have poems written in the shape of Christmas trees. Ideal of you are searching for inspiration.The site actually sets 'challenges' every few weeks, asking you or your class to send in poems on a theme. Recent ones include Scary Halloween Poems, Food Poems and Famous

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Anti-Bullying Week 2005 runs from November 21st-25th. Here are a few links to help plan some activities for the week.The children's commissioner, Professor Al Aynsley-Green, stated in Sunday's BBC report:"Despite good work in schools, there is still denialabout the "existence, severity and effect" of bullying."He has suggested schools ask children to complete a bullying questionnaire each term,

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As I have mentioned, I am a Jolly Phonics Trainer in my 'spare' time. I spent yesterday working with the teachers from two international schools here in Bangkok. They were very appreciative of the part of the presentation which gave practical activity ideas for introducing the letter sounds, which my colleague Laura and I came up with.I decided to put the ideas into a Word document which you can

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I came up with this idea for displaying the vocabulary needed for our science topic on Magnets and Springs. The children love it! 

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The same display up close! 

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This is my interpretation of the Multiple Intelligences display suggested by Andrew on Primary Teacher UK. You can take the online test and print out the results at the BGFL. 

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Education expert Ted Wragg sadly died on Thursday morning of a heart attack. He was 67. Many of us will have read some of his books on our teacher training courses. They were full of practical advice. The BBC news report about Ted has a comment box where you can leave your thoughts and condolences. This is a very sad loss to the teaching profession. He had made a difference to so many of us

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The Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) is asking for teachers to complete an online survey to help them shape standards for different teaching roles.The survey asks questions about the standards in 5 areas:QTSInductionSenior TeacherAdvanced Skills Teacher Excellent TeacherThis is our chance to give our opinion about what the standards should be for each of these roles. The would

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I have been thinking ahead today, and have started to plan activities for Advent and Christmas. As this will be my first Christmas with my LCD projector, I thought that an online Advent Calendar would be a nice idea! Below are links to some of the ones I have found. Some are from previous years, but are still very nice. The downside is, of course, that there are no chocolates behind the

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The Mind Friendly Learning website, part of Cheshire LEA's site is fantastic for anyone interested in developing their use of thinking skills in the classroom.It has a wealth of information on why and how we should use processes such as mind-mapping, De Bono's Thinking Hats and Brain Gym, as well as a lot of the theory behind metacognition.The Mind Friendly Toolkit link is where you will find the

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We all do projects on different countries, and for anyone wanting some resources on Asian countries, the Asia Education Foundation is very useful.It has been set up by the Australian Governemnt to help link Australian children to Asia. The Curriculum Resources Link is probably the most useful. It has an online resource section, which links to resources on China, Indonesia and art from Asian

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I have just found the Abiator Interactive Maths Activity website and think it will be quite useful. It has lots of various quizzes, including problem solving, maths crosswords and multiple choice questions.It is the type of site which the children open and answer the questions themselves. It will take a few minutes of researching by you, to make sure you are directing them to a page at the

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You may have noticed, I have removed Haloscan Commenting and Trackbacks. In the same way as I have ended many relationships in the past... "It is me, not you!"I am sure it is all good, but I just didn't get on with it. I missed not having comments landing in my inbox (A feature Blogger uses can only get after making a donation to Haloscan). I was only linking to one blog (Primary Teacher UK); and

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I was so upset today when one of my colleagues asked if I could swap my impending assembly with her!! (Can you hear the sarcasm?) I was due to put on a class assembly in three weeks time and hadn't really given too much thought to it. When she asked if I would be willing to swap becuase her class has written plays which they would like to perform, I almost bit her hand off! So, I get to wait

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For anyone teaching The Roman's as their History topic this term, here is a link to a simple online book about Boudicca's Revolt. The book contains character profiles, a click-on glossary and questions and activities providing good cross-curricular links.This is part of the Leicester Education Online site, which has several useful resources for a range of KS2 subjects, including maths, science

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In addition to Teacher's TV, there is another on-line teachers video channel on the Teachernet website.Presently, there isn't very much available but I am sure it will grow. For now, it has some hot-seat interviews with education ministers and experts, advice on behaviour for parents and a programme on Black History Month.To watch the shows online, you need the Media Player 9 series and a

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I have come across a useful webpage which we can direct parents to or print out for them. It is on the TopMarks site and lists 10 tips on hearing your child read.I know we all tell parents about this regularly, but it never hurts to remind them.I have posted a link to another useful resource for parents, Help Your Child Discover, on the Primary Teacher UK blog.Deb

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I have come across a nice online science investigation page at The Science Explorer. It has links to may fun science activities like Bubbularium and Secret Bells.The pages list the materials needed, instructions and a 'what's going on' part, explaining the science behind the results in language simple enough for KS2 children. The investigations are simple, quick and fun.What I really like about

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In a recent thread on the TES Boards, I have had many requests from people for a copy of my Reading Comprehension Strategy Checklist. I thought I would post it here for you all to download if you want to.It is by no means complete. It simply lists the main strategies on which we are focusing this year in guided reading and reciprocal reading.Download and alter it to suit your own needs. I will be

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Haloscan commenting and trackback have been added to this blog.

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I am just about to plan for a block of poetry and thought I would share two very useful websites with you.Poetry Class is an excellent site formed by the Poetry Society and DFES. They have guidance on how to assess poetry, a Poem a Term link with a poetry related to the poetry objectives for each term in Years 1 - 6 and loads to links to kid's poetry on the internet.The other useful site is the

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Regular visitors will have noticed that I have removed the Brain Breaks post. The reason for this is that I have found out that the resource I had mentioned was not the work of a fellow teacher wishing to share their resources, but actually taken from a commercially published scheme by Chris Henshaw called 'Thinking out of the Box'. Thus, emailing it to people would be breaking copyright laws.My

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Gareth Pitchford, the owner of the amazing Primary Resources website, is launching his brand new site, PRIMARY EXTRA, on Friday.The first resource to be available on Primary Extra is an entire teaching pack, Greg Arious and the Lexicons, which you can purchase as an online download or CD. The pack contains a lovely Flash presentation of the story, colour and black and white PDF files so you can

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We have just finished our QCA topic, 'Passport to the World', and I thought I would mention a few websites which we found really helpful.The first is Fact Monster, which has useful information on lots of subjects actually, but the Atlas section is excellent. As well as giving country facts, you can zoom in on the maps and save and print them. We found this useful for finding easy maps to use in

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In one of my September posts, I gave links to some children's author websites. I have since found two more sites to help me add to that list.The first is Author Yellow Pages which, as the names suggests, allows you to serach for author websites! It has lots of links and is not just for children's authors (but you can get to those using the 'genre' drop down menu). However, it only contains the

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We all like playing music in the classroom. The Songs For Teaching website has collated a load of ideas for us! It lists songs to use for each subject and has the lyrics to them. It even has some free sound-clips which you can download.The Teaching Tips section also has lots of useful advice on how to use music effectively in the classroom and how to teach song words.Teacher Sol's blog also has a

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With Bonfire Night fast approaching, here is a list of websites you may want to use with your class, taken from The Guardian's Resource Page:A BBC News Report of the eventGuy Fawkes and Bonfire NightGunpowder Plot Society - more for teachers and background infoGunpowder, Treason and PlotFletching Bonfire SocietyThe National Archives - Learning CurveRosie Briar - poetry and backgroundWoodland's

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After reading a post about PDA's on the Primary Teacher UK Blog, I have gone out and bought one!It's gorgeous, but of course, I haven't got a clue how to use it yet! I have been busy taking the tutorials for it and learning to write in the Grafitti 2 software. I even sat watching it charge up for 3 hours! How sad is that????If anyone has any tips, advice or suggestions for software good for

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I am sure we all ask our children to write recounts quite regularly. I discuss the features of recounts with my Y3 class and use them as success criteria. Features such as:Writing in the first personMainly writing in the past tenseThe need for an introductionChronologically ordering eventsUsing connectives and other time related vocabularyAs we write recounts fairly often, I have put all this

Debshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08594847110659056112noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15884902.post-1129441675862247982005-10-16T06:38:00.000+01:002005-10-16T06:49:46.750+01:00

na na na nado doooo da do doHappy Birthday to Kermit, who is now an amzing 50 years old!Yahoo News tell of his birthday celebrations in the town of Kermit, Texas. He is also going on tour. Not bad at his age - Mick Jagger had better watch out!This has brought back fond memories to me. Kermit was one of my first crushes, along with Dougal from The Magic Roundabout and Rupert Bear. My taste in men

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