This week students went back to the classroom after 5 weeks home learning with their parents. It was a challenging time with different families reporting different experiences. In our household, Ava had the pleasure...
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Book List for Ten Year Olds
Teachers around the globe are going to love this reading list for 10-year-olds that we found on Instagram at @happily.ever.elephants. Lauren has picked a fabulous collection from contemporary fiction to fantasy stories...
Poetry in the Classroom
Their unfamiliarity and the dryness with which poetry is often taught turns them off immediately and they shut themselves off to an entire art form. Poetry is an excellent teaching tool for demonstrating the use of...
Introducing New Vocabulary
Giving them a boring old list of words and telling them to learn them all before the test at the end of the week isn’t exciting or particularly helpful. When students feel more comfortable with new vocabulary, they...
Irregular and Past Tense Verbs
IRREGULAR AND PAST TENSE VERBS Irregular verbs are the bane of your existence when you are first learning to spell. Sometimes it’s instinctual, but if the past tense of ‘know’ is ‘knew’ then why isn’t ‘shew’ the past...
Literacy Games
We’ve broken them into three categories based on the resources you need to play them: No Resources Necessary, Paper Games, and Board Games. NO RESOURCES NECESSARY Spelling Bee Spelling bees are a fun way to consolidate...