I’ve just found a website with links to various webquests. These may come in useful when I am thinking about independent research tasks for next year (more on that later!). The website includes information on how webquests link to the TASC wheel (Thinking Actively in a Social Context).
It includes a webquest about countries, in which [...]
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I’m going to try to teach my class a few words in the language of each country we travel to. I’m starting next week with France, then Germany I think. Enchanted Learning has resources for French, Chinese, Dutch, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. There’s also lots of general geography and map [...]
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On Thursday night, I used this site to contact a few tourist information boards, saying in the comments section that I was a teacher working on a geography project with my class. This morning (only two days later!) I received information from Sri Lanka and Korea. They’ve sent me loads of useful stuff, including maps [...]
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To link with our topic on weather this term, I’ve given each child a passport / travel journal booklet to collect information about different countries. Initially, I’m going to model how I want these to be filled in and I will choose the countries we visit on our virtual tour of the world. Later on, [...]
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Over the last week, my display shelf has been used for resources related to our maths topic – time. At various points during the week, it contained:
teaching clocks
sand timers
stopwatches
tockers
books about the invention of the clock
sheets with blank clock faces
clock face stamps and templates
It was great to see children using the resources independently during maths lessons, [...]
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I’m not sure my class really ‘get it’ when I’ve tried role play with them. One of the other teachers reported back to me a comment that one of the boys in my class made. She’d asked him what they were doing that afternoon. He’d replied, “We made passports. We’re going on a trip round [...]
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Here is a photo of my literacy display last term (click on the photo for a larger version – you can also then click on it again to see it even larger!). The VCOP part and the text types on the left hand side are more or less permanent, though I will sometimes add different [...]
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One really successful series of lessons this term has been the literacy work on Cinderella. I started by telling them the fairy tale of Cinderella, using objects to represent key events (as shown in the picture, plus an invitation which seems to have got lost before I could take a photo of the display!). They [...]
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