Noggle in Class

During the recent spell of 'Remote Learning', we were copied into a Tweet about "Noggle". Now we'd used 'Boggle' many-a-time, but not 'Noggle'. 

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At 9am, we started our Teams meet with #Noggle , to warm up our brains, get us to talk maths but also just...TALK! (Also 👍🏼 for those early birds)

👉🏼Follow the link for @curious_maths great ideas. Our Y5s ❤️ them! https://t.co/4rstLa7Wrn pic.twitter.com/NIzZTYgAyi

— Lydia Davison (@DavisonMiss) January 27, 2021

So, we looked at the information and gave it a go in one of our Google Meet sessions. We used the same layout as Lydia shared as the grid must be formed in a way that has mathematically correct calculations within it. 

We shared the above example with our class; showing a correct calculation and one that is incorrect. 

Our template can be found here.

Feedback from the children was positive and it lead to some great discussions. Going forward, we'll use it again. We may also get children to form their own grids too.

When the yelling from the math classroom across the hall turns out to be a self created competition to find more #noggle combinations than any other class and the phrases heard are things like “come on guys, just 1 more, we’ve got this!” ❤️ #teachershoutout #mathrules pic.twitter.com/OS2Bwn4JBT

— Kati Cahill (@KatiCahill) September 12, 2018

But, not this... 

A reminder that ‘noggle’ is a very old dialect verb for just about managing something, but with difficulty. As in ‘I could barely wake up this morning but I noggled it somehow’.

— Susie Dent 💙 (@susie_dent) October 19, 2018

We hope that's useful.

 

Bitmoji to Personalise Homophones

Yeah, yeah, we know! It's 2021 and Bitmojis for teachers appear to be everywhere! We quite like the little cartoon version of ourself that we can use to add to our lesson resources, particularly at this time of remote learning. We have seen this you're/your use of Bitmoji several times and have made our own. We've also begun looking at which other homophones and near homophones could be explained using a bit of Bitmoji. 

There are some examples below. 

We've placed our editable PowerPoint original here too if it's useful to anyone. 

Of course, we'd love to hear ideas for adding to our collection. 

If you want to make these your own, download the editable PowerPoint, the relevant Bitmoji images of yourself and edit the PowerPoint. 

 

Bridge Behaviours

In September, we used this video with our Year Six class to discuss the behaviours of the characters and relate them to class. How could this have been better resolved? Does any character come out of it well? What can we learn from them?

https://vimeo.com/27299211  

Bridge from Ting on Vimeo.