Here’s some labels I made last year for my classroom. Each label has a photo / icon. When cut up and laminated, they’re just about the right size for standard trays.
Tray labels
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Team points have proved to be a great motivator for my class, with the members of the winning team receiving a small prize at the end of the week.
This term, with our focus being on geography, I named each table after a continent. The tables are roughly positioned where that continent is shown on a [...]
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The timetable has become one of the first things my class look at when they arrive in the morning. The subject cards are adapted from a Widget resource (available on the TES resource bank). The clock faces were adapted from another website and added when we were studying time in maths. I try to write learning [...]
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This is my latest use of my display shelf (click on the thumbnail for a larger view). The resources included:
card circles divided into fractions
wooden fraction blocks
fact card (from this set)
magnetic fraction blocks
fraction cubes
fraction circles
dominoes game (similar to this one)
I also used one of my windows to display fraction cards, which I muddled up each [...]
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TES Magazine 27.04.07 has an interesting article about music being used in classroom corridors and dining halls “to induce calm and enhance the school environment”. Some of the recommended songs include:
Air from Handel’s Water Music
Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly
The Swan by Saint-Saens
Nocturne in C sharp minor by Chopin
Annie’s Song by John Denver
Imagine by John Lennon
Fields [...]
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I’ve just found a great website for resources:
http://www.teachingandlearningtameside.net/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=31
The primary literacy section, for example, has resources for working wall displays and Smart Notebook files with skeleton frameworks for non-fiction writing. There’s also a seperate section with Smart Notebook resources such as place value cards.
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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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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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