Cressida Cowell's Free Writing Friday Cressida Cowell invites you to take part in Free Writing Friday. Cressida’s aim with Free Writing Friday is to inspire children, once a week, to write whatever they feel like in a designated book and explore creativity. Here you will find all the resources to support Free Writing Friday including writing tips from Cressida, a letter, FAQs and more! A letter from Cressida Cowell Hi, My name is Cressida Cowell, and I’m the author and illustrator of the How to Train Your Dragon, and The Wizards of Once series, as well as the Emily Brown picture book series. KinderLab Robotics What is KIBO? KIBO is a robot kit specifically designed for young children aged 4-7 years old. With KIBO, children build, program, decorate and bring their own robot to life!
Activities ← Computer Science Unplugged Activities Each Unplugged activity is available to download in PDF format, with full instructions and worksheets. Background sections explain the significance of each activity to computer science, and answers are provided for all problems. All you need for most of these activities are curiosity and enthusiasm. There are photos and videos showing some of the activities in action, and we’ve collected links to other useful resources. Don’t Bloody Bore Them: A guide to picking books for your class – Bog Standard Teacher In a bog standard town there was a bog standard street and in the bog standard street there was a bog standard house. Inside the house lived a bog standard teacher who needed some bog standard bread. Off he went to the bog standard shops and met another teacher. As is the standard life for a teacher in the holidays (yes, it is the best part of teaching and those who say otherwise are fibbing), I bumped into a fellow teacher. My heart swelled when I cast my eyes over his trolley which was basically alcoholic beverages and some crisps.
#BestBookOpenings-downloadable – Being Brave! a first time headteachers blog. Last week inspired by @mazst who had enthused about The Nowhere Emporium and how great the start was. I posted my favourite book opening along with the hashtag #bestbookopening. It was fab that so many shared their favourite opening and really lit up quite a dull Tuesday. (It was raining and cold where I live). There are now a load more books I want to go and explore. Cool Tools to Help Kids Learn to Code When your kid starts talking about loops, go-to commands, and branches, it probably means she's learning to code, and that's a very good thing. In a technology-fueled world, coding is quickly becoming a prized, 21st-century skill. Plus, it encourages kids to become creators, not just consumers, of the technology they use. Coding apps come in a range of formats designed for different ages and abilities. They often incorporate bright colors, cute characters, and elements of game design to appeal to kids.
Choosing and using Picture Books, Teaching Approaches With an increasing wealth of picturebooks in production and being published, it is important that teachers across the age ranges have a good knowledge of the range of appropriate authors, illustrators and books available and understand how best to use these with children. As Dr Sue Horner and Janet White noted in the Power of Pictures Evaluation, "Picture books should be part of reading for pleasure by all ages of children." Lingering over pictures early in the text invites prediction about plot, character, theme and structure, and these possibilities can soon be modified and re-assessed as the reading continues. When discussing pictures, children can point to evidence for their ideas and interpretations.
Story: The sheep and the goat – Talk for Writing Project Description © Pie Corbett 2018: This resource may be used in your classroom but should not be posted elsewhere on the internet or used for commercial gain. Once upon a time,there was a sheep and a goatwho lived on the side of a hill. In the winter, it was too chilly.In the summer, it was too hot. So, one day the sheep said,“Let us go and build a housein the deep, dark forest.” So, they walked and they walked and they walkeduntil they met a hare. Dyslexia: 10 Classroom Indicators - Nessy US Signs of dyslexia usually become more obvious when children start school and begin to focus on reading and writing. Here are ten of the most common warning signs! This is the ability to recognise individual sounds (phonemes) and work with them to create new words. Spelling words as they sound e.g. wont instead of want Mixing up the sequence of letters
Teaching Calendar » Early Years Topic Books Thanksgiving (Canada) Thanksgiving (Canada) Oct 8 all-day Whole Class Reading Lesson using RIC – Giraffes Can’t Dance – Father Reading Every Day Giraffes Can’t Dance, by Giles Andreae, is one of our favourite stories and a really good book to use in the classroom. I read the book with my Year 6 class and we enjoyed loads of discussion on all sorts of things, sharing the fantastic illustrations under our visualiser. Reading with RIC has recently been introduced at our school so, as a class, we then completed a comprehension on Giraffes Can’t Dance using RIC. If you would like to use the book in class (which I strongly advise for lots of reasons), you can download the questions I wrote for my class below; Giraffes Can’t Dance RIC Reading Lesson If you use the questions, or have any other ideas for using this book in the classroom, share them in the comments below.
How To Train Your Dragon Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was an awesome sword-fighter, a dragon-whisperer and the greatest Viking Hero who ever lived. But it wasn't always like that. In fact, in the beginning, Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III was the most put upon Viking you'd ever seen. Not loud enough to make himself heard at dinner with his father, Stoick the Vast; not hard enough to beat his chief rival, Snotlout, at Bashyball, the number one school sport and CERTAINLY not stupid enough to go into a cave full of dragons to find a pet- It's time for Hiccup to learn how to be a Hero. Book Author: Cressida Cowell Fairies re-fashioned in A Midsummer Night’s Dream Farah Karim-Cooper shows how Shakespeare combined classical and courtly traditions with medieval folk lore to create the benevolent fairies and changeling child of A Midsummer Night's Dream. In 1584, some 11 or 12 years before Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the engineer and polymath Reginald Scot published his Discoverie of Witchcraft. Scot’s treatise, which made an important contribution to the wave of post-Reformation, anti-superstitious literature, attempted to dispel any popular beliefs that deflected from the true nature of the supernatural, which he maintained was exclusively divine. Scot dismissed belief in fairies as absurd and relegated it to the trivial domain of domesticity and lower-class rurality. He argued that such figures only resided in people’s imaginations and were used by nurses and old wives to ‘frighten children into obedience’.