tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47992391986723426492024-03-13T16:38:13.902+00:00Primary IdeasA blog about our innovations and ideas we've made use of in our Key Stage Two classrooms.Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-87506154849453235982022-03-16T21:05:00.005+00:002022-03-16T21:05:53.034+00:00Calculators in our classroom<p> Back in the vanishing past, the calculator was a staple in the Year Six classroom as it was a required piece of equipment on one of the maths papers. Now, of course, they are expressly forbidden and, as such, they can be persona non grata in many classrooms. </p><p>However, we still jealously protect our class supply of calculators. For us, even with tests looming, we try hard to keep to our principle that we are merely one step on our children's educational journey, so we endeavour to send our children to secondary with the skill of being able to use a calculator.</p><p>The reasons for this are two-fold. Firstly, the use of a calculator is an important life skill. As we battle our children on developing their understanding of methods such as long division, we hear, echoing at the back of our heads, the message from a secondary colleague, "Nah - we use calculators for that." Therefore, we want the children to be ready for that step as they get into Year Seven. </p><p>What happens when we get the calculators out for the first time? Distraction - pure and simple. To paraphrase an old song, "Those buttons are meant for pressing". The children start trying to find ridiculously hard calculations to 'beat' the calculator at. "Ha, look, I made mine get an E on it". Then one child remembers their older sibling showing them how to spell words on it. It is easy to see how this spreads round the classroom as suddenly the calculators start getting turned upside down:710, 0.7734 (if you are lucky). It is important to give them some time on this as it is only once you get through this phase, that it is time to teach the children how to use them. </p><p>For us, the mantra we teach the children is, "You put rubbish in, you get rubbish out". We teach them the locations of the important buttons and what happens if you press they '=' button more than once. Then how important it is to do calculations more than once to check they get the same answers to identify 'user-error' and then we teach them that we are going to be using these tools for checking our work. </p><p>Because this is what we use them for the majority of the time. When we are working on those fluency lessons in maths, it lets the children do their own live marking. They do a calculation using a written method and then they check the answer using a calculator. By doing this, the child knows immediately whether they need to look back at their work. This is far more efficient than waiting for an adult or peer to check. It is easy for the teacher to see if they are still doing their written methods as, if it is all done on a calculator, there is no regrouping or other notations. </p><p>We make sure that we model this in our lessons too. There are calculators available in interactive whiteboard software or online. It also lets us identify some of our 'deliberate' mistakes and model checking our work - honest. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWFYG86EPksANYqNYpvzGp_GR7Wg3nZ1cArTr3aRyZ03HfBpa8n-1KbyXzUkq6VUwqTaBUv_fevgXW_U7FVy3G-EemLXTFAj0DN9rCul-dGMjKn6Lig-PKC8wyuNHFCms3P_K7Hdfouf8EO_v5_s1RsHnnD_rGhc8byC8fpppyMezRgQR4fn3Fw87LQg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjWFYG86EPksANYqNYpvzGp_GR7Wg3nZ1cArTr3aRyZ03HfBpa8n-1KbyXzUkq6VUwqTaBUv_fevgXW_U7FVy3G-EemLXTFAj0DN9rCul-dGMjKn6Lig-PKC8wyuNHFCms3P_K7Hdfouf8EO_v5_s1RsHnnD_rGhc8byC8fpppyMezRgQR4fn3Fw87LQg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-align: start;">"Calculator"</span><span style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> by jakeandlindsay</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> is marked with CC BY 2.0</span><span style="--tw-blur: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-brightness: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-contrast: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-drop-shadow: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-filter: var(--tw-blur) var(--tw-brightness) var(--tw-contrast) var(--tw-grayscale) var(--tw-hue-rotate) var(--tw-invert) var(--tw-saturate) var(--tw-sepia) var(--tw-drop-shadow); --tw-grayscale: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-hue-rotate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-invert: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-color: rgb(59 130 246 / 0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-saturate: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-sepia: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-transform: translateX(var(--tw-translate-x)) translateY(var(--tw-translate-y)) rotate(var(--tw-rotate)) skewX(var(--tw-skew-x)) skewY(var(--tw-skew-y)) scaleX(var(--tw-scale-x)) scaleY(var(--tw-scale-y)); --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; background-color: white; border-color: currentcolor; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #30272e; font-family: Inter, sans-serif; text-align: start;">.</span></span></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-33795958912105081272021-03-29T23:04:00.001+01:002021-03-29T23:04:17.936+01:00Noggle in Class<p>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'. </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">🚨Quick & easy virtual learning games🚨 <br /><br />At 9am, we started our Teams meet with <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Noggle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Noggle</a> , to warm up our brains, get us to talk maths but also just...TALK! (Also 👍🏼 for those early birds)<br /><br />👉🏼Follow the link for <a href="https://twitter.com/curious_maths?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@curious_maths</a> great ideas. Our Y5s ❤️ them! <a href="https://t.co/4rstLa7Wrn">https://t.co/4rstLa7Wrn</a> <a href="https://t.co/NIzZTYgAyi">pic.twitter.com/NIzZTYgAyi</a></p>— Lydia Davison (@DavisonMiss) <a href="https://twitter.com/DavisonMiss/status/1354524102174928898?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 27, 2021</a></blockquote><p>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. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C9GA9nU-sLI/YGJLajSRNkI/AAAAAAAABe8/0OKWQN7sTnUt--N3LkBnAAfJFPeVMWzIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/Example.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C9GA9nU-sLI/YGJLajSRNkI/AAAAAAAABe8/0OKWQN7sTnUt--N3LkBnAAfJFPeVMWzIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Example.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p>We shared the above example with our class; showing a correct calculation and one that is incorrect. </p><p>Our <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8k83d0iy1fyl51/Noggle.pptx" target="_blank">template can be found here</a>.</p><p>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.</p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">When the yelling from the math classroom across the hall turns out to be a self created competition to find more <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/noggle?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#noggle</a> combinations than any other class and the phrases heard are things like “come on guys, just 1 more, we’ve got this!” ❤️ <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/teachershoutout?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#teachershoutout</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/mathrules?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#mathrules</a> <a href="https://t.co/OS2Bwn4JBT">pic.twitter.com/OS2Bwn4JBT</a></p>— Kati Cahill (@KatiCahill) <a href="https://twitter.com/KatiCahill/status/1039699850906882048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2018</a></blockquote><p>But, not this... </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">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’.</p>— Susie Dent 💙 (@susie_dent) <a href="https://twitter.com/susie_dent/status/1053174345131012096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 19, 2018</a></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>We hope that's useful.</p><p> </p> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-86613942334035634692021-02-20T21:42:00.001+00:002021-02-20T21:42:58.510+00:00Bitmoji to Personalise Homophones<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Yeah, yeah, we know! It's 2021 and <a href="https://www.bitmoji.com/" target="_blank">Bitmojis</a> 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, <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/guidance-for-schools-coronavirus-covid-19" target="_blank">particularly at this time of remote learning</a>. We have <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Grammar-YOURE-and-YOUR-posters-Bitmojis-4042668" target="_blank">seen this you're/your use of Bitmoji several times</a> 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. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There are some examples below. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/drs9afbvl5d7p1x/Bitmoji%20to%20Personalise%20Homophones.pptx" target="_blank">We've placed our editable PowerPoint original here too if it's useful to anyone</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Of course, we'd love to hear ideas for adding to our collection. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">If you want to make these your own, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/drs9afbvl5d7p1x/Bitmoji%20to%20Personalise%20Homophones.pptx?dl=0" target="_blank">download the editable PowerPoint</a>, <a href="https://www.bitmoji.com/" target="_blank">the relevant Bitmoji images of yourself</a> and edit the PowerPoint. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSphPeMjALM/YAyhwsbHm_I/AAAAAAAABdI/N9PR0wISyeYAdteNrrasGaG8XchEoTq0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s598/Slide1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSphPeMjALM/YAyhwsbHm_I/AAAAAAAABdI/N9PR0wISyeYAdteNrrasGaG8XchEoTq0gCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide1.jpeg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojEOcPAFSK0/YAyhwgsv4EI/AAAAAAAABdE/I1AwIhW51gMQMK5J9-Rsgyn-ZC5dDi9oQCLcBGAsYHQ/s598/Slide2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="598" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ojEOcPAFSK0/YAyhwgsv4EI/AAAAAAAABdE/I1AwIhW51gMQMK5J9-Rsgyn-ZC5dDi9oQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide2.jpeg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Yh42Lcpv7k/YDGBoCPoZcI/AAAAAAAABeQ/XUuYX7OC-lskebMN96qH10h3CxTajO4iACLcBGAsYHQ/s720/Slide3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0Yh42Lcpv7k/YDGBoCPoZcI/AAAAAAAABeQ/XUuYX7OC-lskebMN96qH10h3CxTajO4iACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide3.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c5fcXt08IB8/YDGBoP2yivI/AAAAAAAABeU/rC8URYDvs3srTfr0Mqyj7jV6FWM5We_bQCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/Slide5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c5fcXt08IB8/YDGBoP2yivI/AAAAAAAABeU/rC8URYDvs3srTfr0Mqyj7jV6FWM5We_bQCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Slide5.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-46952767185403499132021-01-16T22:08:00.003+00:002021-01-16T22:09:31.576+00:00Bridge Behaviours<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">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?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><iframe allow="autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="180" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/27299211" width="320"></iframe><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">h<a href="ttps://vimeo.com/27299211">ttps://vimeo.com/27299211</a> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://vimeo.com/27299211">Bridge</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/tingtey">Ting</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</span></p><p><br /></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-68767667576390110592020-12-30T11:22:00.001+00:002021-01-02T19:57:19.708+00:00Connect 4 with Multiples <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Earlier this year, we came across a blog post by <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchwartz10a" target="_blank">Joe Schwartz</a> entitled, '<a href="http://exit10a.blogspot.com/2016/01/i-like-this-game-because-you-have-to.html" target="_blank">I Like This Game Because You Have to Think Hard</a>.'</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">In his blog post, he gave students a blank 100/120 grid for them to fill in trying to get 4 in a row. We saw the benefits of this activity, but currently working in Upper Key Stage Two, our pupils are pretty proficient with numbers between 0 and 100. So, we adapted the idea to make it about times table facts. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">1. Give the children a blank 12 x 12 grid of squares between two.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">2. Ensure each child has a different coloured pen/pencil.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">3. Children fill in facts on the grid, taking it in turns and trying to get four in a row horizontally or vertically. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">4. Depending on competence, children could have a times table grid on hand to enable them to check each others facts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amweNG4KaTg/X2-xdo5wmFI/AAAAAAAABaY/Q_c7gd7RVT0FAsVtwCmsc2B4SQVC5HRyACLcBGAsYHQ/s1832/20200925_170441.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1832" data-original-width="1830" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-amweNG4KaTg/X2-xdo5wmFI/AAAAAAAABaY/Q_c7gd7RVT0FAsVtwCmsc2B4SQVC5HRyACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200925_170441.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1x_p1zpWQws/X2-xdqNBW7I/AAAAAAAABaU/XpUmeWUF0S0sQR8Xj1O80iWW7u2yorqmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1835/20200925_170442.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1833" data-original-width="1835" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1x_p1zpWQws/X2-xdqNBW7I/AAAAAAAABaU/XpUmeWUF0S0sQR8Xj1O80iWW7u2yorqmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/20200925_170442.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br />Enjoy!</span><div><br /></div>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-78915235333507439512020-11-28T21:55:00.001+00:002020-12-29T22:26:59.956+00:00'How To' Diagrams and Dual Coding<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-five-uses-of-comma-dual-coding.html" target="_blank">As we've previously written, we are trying to implement some of what we learned when reading about Dual Coding</a>. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Here are some of the posters/guides we've made and used in our Year Six classroom as visual guides for our children to use to support/scaffold their learning.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Days in Months of the Year</u> (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/tusa4zxvz78hcec/MONTHS.pptx" target="_blank">editable copy</a>)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvTTnbEhW8o/X-unjEUGQuI/AAAAAAAABb0/J6IW0BKtNCoOgmteh-ztuVZb121vc_ReACLcBGAsYHQ/s598/MONTHS%2BNumb.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="598" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvTTnbEhW8o/X-unjEUGQuI/AAAAAAAABb0/J6IW0BKtNCoOgmteh-ztuVZb121vc_ReACLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/MONTHS%2BNumb.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Long Division</u> (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/z371h8e8yext79c/Long%20Div.pptx" target="_blank">editable copy</a>)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ECjHORJ3kY/X-uoCxf6tDI/AAAAAAAABb8/Vw_rbhuLAOoAvK9ULQDtIcYCh-Pc5TgPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Long%2BDiv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8ECjHORJ3kY/X-uoCxf6tDI/AAAAAAAABb8/Vw_rbhuLAOoAvK9ULQDtIcYCh-Pc5TgPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Long%2BDiv.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Mixed Number & Improper Fraction Conversions</u> (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jfycakja9k3f3n/Mixed%20and%20Improper.pptx" target="_blank">editable copy</a>)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gkRXyb0S2Ak/X-uoqk11ACI/AAAAAAAABcM/N0QhbSFfWe8QZnUFIpGrGNHwz5t4gkmLwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Improper%2Band%2BMixed.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gkRXyb0S2Ak/X-uoqk11ACI/AAAAAAAABcM/N0QhbSFfWe8QZnUFIpGrGNHwz5t4gkmLwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Improper%2Band%2BMixed.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OEYAoFZuP6Y/X-uoqrKogOI/AAAAAAAABcI/71Ve3PwgdWYzIMgVzUf-UFw2STkqdboTwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Mixed%2Band%2BImproper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OEYAoFZuP6Y/X-uoqrKogOI/AAAAAAAABcI/71Ve3PwgdWYzIMgVzUf-UFw2STkqdboTwCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/Mixed%2Band%2BImproper.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Co-ordinates</u> (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/79s9b0uye1quzkw/CoOrdinates.pptx" target="_blank">editable copy</a>)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KkwFKnmbXbI/X-uq7Z_TdWI/AAAAAAAABcc/SaxH_JmUNl4J98Z4BBchYhxt-pJcOx1agCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/CoOrdinates.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KkwFKnmbXbI/X-uq7Z_TdWI/AAAAAAAABcc/SaxH_JmUNl4J98Z4BBchYhxt-pJcOx1agCLcBGAsYHQ/w200-h200/CoOrdinates.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><u>Ascending/Descending</u> (<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ygc98r30vgsoeqr/ascending%20descending.pdf" target="_blank">pdf copy</a>)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kk8V6qriD4U/X-urp70wEmI/AAAAAAAABck/AT-6NcWuLlUmsZiPefV3sAG2GinRFvhkACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/ascending%2Bdescending.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1418" height="200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Kk8V6qriD4U/X-urp70wEmI/AAAAAAAABck/AT-6NcWuLlUmsZiPefV3sAG2GinRFvhkACLcBGAsYHQ/w139-h200/ascending%2Bdescending.jpg" width="139" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">They've worked for us. They may be useful to you. See links for editable copies. </span></p><p><br /></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-75966992284030136752020-10-31T14:24:00.001+00:002020-10-31T22:51:42.285+00:00Pupil Stationery Toolkits<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">At the start of this school year, there was much discussion on social media and forums about methods of providing pupils with their own individual resources (for COVID19 reasons). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">A little later than we hoped to publish this post (we've been a little busy!), but we hope it's useful to someone...</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">So, here's what we do at our school, how long we've been doing it and why.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">Back in 2017, we visited <a href="https://www.woodsideprimaryacademy.com/" target="_blank">Woodside Primary Academy</a>. As part of our visit, we picked up a number of best practice ideas. One of which was introducing Toolkits. There are a number of reasons we took these on:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- making children accountable for looking after the stationary the school has paid for</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- giving them somewhere to store the equipment</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- if they move in the classroom or go to work elsewhere, they just pick up the Toolkit and off they go</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- we use everything in there quite regularly.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_KM6HYGi9M/X1_UP_30GgI/AAAAAAAABZo/amk3F95Ji90h5mccVI4P266N2tRfCWRlACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200914_145406.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1503" data-original-width="2048" height="294" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_KM6HYGi9M/X1_UP_30GgI/AAAAAAAABZo/amk3F95Ji90h5mccVI4P266N2tRfCWRlACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h294/20200914_145406.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEbYSJVwQVA/X1_UPwclZVI/AAAAAAAABZs/H9sBQk19JTgbJ2mzBiBT7DaBzFNJSylmgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/20200914_145353.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1524" data-original-width="2048" height="298" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VEbYSJVwQVA/X1_UPwclZVI/AAAAAAAABZs/H9sBQk19JTgbJ2mzBiBT7DaBzFNJSylmgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h298/20200914_145353.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">So, what's in there?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- whiteboard & whiteboard pen</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- handwriting pen, green biro & HB pencil</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- ruler, protractor and scissors</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- sky, grass, mud letters and punctuation</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- times table grid / 150 'square'</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- A B C D voting card</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- red, orange, green discs</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- spelling cards for high frequency words</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- sentence and vocabulary booklet</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">- grammar knowledge organiser</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">And, as you may be able to see, each Toolkit and each item in it is numbered according to the child's register number. When found, lost items can be returned to pupils. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-7814050658540153522020-09-05T21:25:00.000+01:002020-09-05T21:25:11.598+01:00Me, Me, Me<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;">There are wide and ranging ways to 'get to know your new class'. This year, 2020, we wanted to find out about how the children had been since March, were feeling now, what home is like and added in a couple of 'silly' questions too. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAmZJjQeuGo/X1PzroiHnDI/AAAAAAAABZQ/auiiS0o8aBorpD6ziNdpp5rL3cER_6tRQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Me%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1418" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RAmZJjQeuGo/X1PzroiHnDI/AAAAAAAABZQ/auiiS0o8aBorpD6ziNdpp5rL3cER_6tRQCLcBGAsYHQ/w348-h500/Me%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe.jpg" width="348" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qMmJw5pmkW8/X1PzrxNyOrI/AAAAAAAABZU/l6YELiXIoxsGsidLNAov2jXiYT9lKUEtACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Me%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1418" height="500" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qMmJw5pmkW8/X1PzrxNyOrI/AAAAAAAABZU/l6YELiXIoxsGsidLNAov2jXiYT9lKUEtACLcBGAsYHQ/w348-h500/Me%252C%2BMe%252C%2BMe.jpg" width="348" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rn5vfudaahfeg81/Me%2C%20Me%2C%20Me.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">If it's useful, download a copy here</a>.</span><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"></span>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-35311068752901351752020-08-26T21:52:00.001+01:002020-09-02T20:14:15.876+01:00The Five Uses of a Comma & Dual Coding<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"> Well, hello again! Our first post since February - it's been an interesting time (COVID19)!</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">Over August, <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisIsLiamM/status/1297629446808186880/photo/1" target="_blank">we've been doing some reading</a>. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">Most recently, we have read '<a href="https://www.johncattbookshop.com/dual-coding-with-teachers" target="_blank">Dual Coding With Teachers</a>' and have used some of what we learned from that reading to adapt a resource we made earlier in 2020.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">At a <a href="https://www.pixl.org.uk/primary" target="_blank">PiXL Event towards the end of 2019</a>, we came across the revelation that 'commas have five uses in written English'. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">So, combining both the information from <a href="https://www.pixl.org.uk/primary" target="_blank">PiXL</a> and <a href="https://www.olicav.com/" target="_blank">Oliver Caviglioli</a>, we created this: </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p_PXf87u0LY/X0bI_2WzRBI/AAAAAAAABYk/BbNd3sQqGd4RExxxOw5MS3mBmlKgf049gCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1418" height="262" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-p_PXf87u0LY/X0bI_2WzRBI/AAAAAAAABYk/BbNd3sQqGd4RExxxOw5MS3mBmlKgf049gCLcBGAsYHQ/w181-h262/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma.jpg" width="181" /></a></span></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">We're going to give it a go in our Year Six classrooms this coming year. We hope it'll improve the accuracy with which our children use commas when writing. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">Firstly, they need to know the 'five uses' and then link them to the images.<br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kkXC7M19tPo/X0bJgAOwDaI/AAAAAAAABYs/PlTlFyS2Hx8Fw7bfoLtdik-gc7n222ssgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1522/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma%2BCode.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1522" data-original-width="1440" height="210" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kkXC7M19tPo/X0bJgAOwDaI/AAAAAAAABYs/PlTlFyS2Hx8Fw7bfoLtdik-gc7n222ssgCLcBGAsYHQ/w198-h210/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma%2BCode.jpg" width="198" /></a></span></span></span></p></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">Next, we hope the codes can then be used to jog memories and used as teaching points. </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">We would be the last to claim to be English specialists, so if you have any feedback on our understanding of this element of English, please let us know.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><span style="font-size: small;">An <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/vfplnmjlgy63xxu/The%20Five%20Uses%20of%20a%20Comma.pdf" target="_blank">up-to-date copy of this resource, if it is changed, will always be here</a>. (Typo corrected). <br /></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ej5Re1N_NFo/X0bKuHAI63I/AAAAAAAABY4/QwBLT5QzVl0quut5llfVRPDoJZKGgvMsQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1502/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma%2BTitle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1492" data-original-width="1502" height="261" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ej5Re1N_NFo/X0bKuHAI63I/AAAAAAAABY4/QwBLT5QzVl0quut5llfVRPDoJZKGgvMsQCLcBGAsYHQ/w262-h261/The%2BFive%2BUses%2Bof%2Ba%2BComma%2BTitle.jpg" width="262" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><p></p>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-22416190443076982152020-02-15T22:06:00.000+00:002020-02-15T22:06:07.987+00:00Children Write the Knowledge Organiser <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, you're likely familiar with <a href="https://impact.chartered.college/article/organising-knowledge-purpose-pedagogy-knowledge-organisers/" target="_blank">knowledge organisers</a> and have written your own or <a href="http://www.thatboycanteach.co.uk/2017/06/using-100-sheets-aka-knowledge.html" target="_blank">downloaded some from online</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Recently, we've undertaken a Canada study with our Year Six pupils that culminates in the writing of travel brochures. At the start of the work, we were looking for ways to make the children familiar with different parts of the country. In our Year Six, we have four classes; so each class took on the job of researching a different city and producing a knowledge organiser about it that the other classes could then use throughout the term. We linked the sections of the knowledge organiser to end of year geography knowledge expectations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In the past year, the good chaps at '<a href="https://www.mracdpresent.com/more-free-stuff" target="_blank">Mr A, Mr C and Mr D Present!</a>' have given us access to their site*. (We'll have another post about them coming soon...) We used <a href="https://www.mracdpresent.com/history-geography-resources" target="_blank">knowledge organisers off their site</a> as the basis for this work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Firstly, their '<a href="https://www.mracdpresent.com/history-geography-resources" target="_blank">North America' knowledge organiser</a> provided an example text:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Next, on the site there are <a href="https://www.mracdpresent.com/history-geography-resources" target="_blank">editable knowledge organisers</a>, so we downloaded one and edited it slightly:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">And, the outcome for the city of St.John's, NL came out like this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">At the end, we have knowledge organisers about four Canadian cities, researched and produced by the children themselves. They can now be used by all the children to aid their work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Studying a new topic? Get the class or classes in your year group to research and present their findings, as a knowledge organiser, for the children all to use at a later date...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">*<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Our access to the 'Mr A, Mr C and Mr D Present PRIMARY SCHOOL · KS2 EDUCATION WEBSITE' was provided free of charge by </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Mr A, Mr C and Mr D Present. </span>This was not with the purpose or expectation of this blog post being
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-83034820132273860582020-01-04T22:25:00.000+00:002020-01-04T22:25:53.119+00:00Calendar for Child's Stickers <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Not one for the teachers this time. This one's for the parents...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, my eldest started Reception in September 2019. Since, she's brought home various stickers (due to her hard work, obviously). We've been looking for somewhere to keep them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Going forward, I have purchased a 2020 calendar and put it in my daughter's room. If she comes home with a sticker, we'll add it to that date on the calendar. Come 2021, we can reflect on her year... Hopefully, a calendar full of stickers! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In about October time, someone twigged on that the decade was coming to an end. All we've heard since is 'decade', 'decade', decade'...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2017/01/orlaghs-birthday-riddle.html" target="_blank">As it's my daughter's birthday</a>, my mind shifted to a possible maths problem... (<a href="https://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2017/01/orlaghs-birthday-riddle.html" target="_blank">in a similar fashion to the Birthday Riddle</a>): </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, I'm 36 and I'm entering my 5th decade. 36 and 50 (ie 5 decades) are a fair distance apart. The children currently in Years Four, Three, Two... are only just entering their second decade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Or, any other similar questions that may come to mind... </span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-50871350742378962132019-11-29T23:34:00.000+00:002019-11-29T23:34:09.779+00:00English Figurative Language Crossed the Road <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Recently, I came across this wonderful article pictured below:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unfortunately, I've lost the source (if found, this will be updated).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We shared it with our Year Six children...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">We shared it as part of our current poetry work. We asked the children to write sentences in the style of 'Why did the chicken cross the road?", but replace the chicken with a poetic device and then make the rest of the sentence an example of that figurative language. <a href="http://cjsy6.blogspot.com/2019/11/figurative-language-crossed-road.html" target="_blank">Here's some of what they came up with</a>...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">As a 16 year old, I heard the "The Sunscreen Song" on the radio. It struck me as being slightly odd, different and a bit amusing. A week later, my mother purchased a copy on CD. Me mam, buying a song in the charts. I know! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Since, 20 years have passed. It's popped up now and again on the radio and I've also stuck it on myself. As I've aged, the song has meant more and more to me. It is a beautiful series of words and sentences. And, why my mother purchased a copy now makes more sense! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen" target="_blank">The words were originally an essay written as a hypothetical commencement speech by columnist Mary Schmich, originally published in June 1997 in the Chicago Tribune</a>. Around the 20th anniversary, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008b4w" target="_blank">BBC Radio 2 aired a documentary about the original writing, how it became a song, myths linked to it, the voice over artist and more</a>...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In my classroom, <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7ly0413ldpfobb/Sunscreen%20Thought.pdf" target="_blank">I have created a 'This Week's Thought' display and I have split the song into some of it's lines of 'advice'</a>. Each week, I put up a different quote from the song. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have not told my class where they are coming from, nor have I pointed out the display. I'm going to keep putting them up and then, towards the end of the year, review what's been up there, play them the song and get them to read the lyrics. We can then discuss.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Also, we will try to write some lines of our own in a similar style. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/d7ly0413ldpfobb/Sunscreen%20Thought.pdf" target="_blank">Resources here</a>.</span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-26750417513886708682019-09-30T21:42:00.000+01:002019-10-01T21:44:01.052+01:00Cutting, Sticking and Straight Lines<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">To get those cutting, sticking and using a ruler skills up to speed, we use the following two tasks:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We found a <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/12zrad26opu8eyj/AFTBDiamondSword.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">Mincraft sword for the children to cut out and stick together</a>. The more accurately they cut and stick, the better the outcome. <a href="https://allfortheboys.com/digital-to-real-life-diy-minecraft-sword/" target="_blank">The source of this resource can be found here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">For the ruler skills, we discovered <a href="https://archive.org/details/whattodrawhowtod00lutz/page/50" target="_blank">'What to draw and how to draw it', Lutz (c1913)</a>. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/f2lt2ahvb4wdvcd/Line%20Drawing%20Practice.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">We used the book to create a resource for class</a>. The outcomes were great, and a skill practised. </span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-31189130858670740842019-08-14T21:27:00.000+01:002019-08-14T21:46:21.675+01:00Taskmaster - What did you see?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In the most recent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taskmaster_(TV_series)" target="_blank">series of Taskmaster</a>, the following task was given to the contestants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Then, and only then, they were asked to recreate what they had seen using the resources in front of them. These images show what they came up with.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So, in class, set up a scene. Allow the children to walk past it. Ask them to draw what they had seen. Get them to do it with resources. Get them to describe it to someone else for them to draw.</span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-83013183548679487042019-07-02T23:00:00.000+01:002019-07-28T23:54:20.069+01:00Short Stories with Oliver Jeffers<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On a recent visit to the local library, I picked up <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alphabet-Stories-Oliver-Jeffers/dp/0007514298/ref=sr_1_1?adgrpid=54027035515&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0OOaqdHY4wIVhLHtCh3WdATeEAAYASAAEgKDkfD_BwE&hvadid=259057906028&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=1006506&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=e&hvrand=1772364870631999653&hvtargid=kwd-442117548609&hydadcr=24405_1748889&keywords=alphabet+of+stories" target="_blank">'An Alphabet of Stories' by Oliver Jeffers</a>. I picked it up because I'm a bit of a fan of <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Oliver-Jeffers/e/B001ILOBQE/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1" target="_blank">Jeffers' work</a> and had not see this book before. As can be seen in some of our previous posts, I quite like a short story too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In this book, Jeffers creates a short story linked to each letter of the alphabet. Some stories even cross-reference each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The stories are fantastic: build up, dilemma and conclusion all in a few sentences. Like the 'A' example above, all the stories begin on one page and have the punchline or resolution on the next page. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">In my current Year Six class, we have 28 pupils. With 26 letters of the alphabet, I decided we'd all write a story (with some letters being repeated if no one was absent). Two pupils were absent. Result! </span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-8359564924715806272019-06-14T19:00:00.000+01:002019-07-27T15:02:34.527+01:00Desk Calendar Problem<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">So, I saw this on a colleague's desk. It got me thinking: "These are six-sided cubes. So, how can twelve digits split as a six and a six represent all thirty-one days of a month?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">It's a problem that makes use of trial and error, make a model and test and thinking logically. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/3cbcbr288l0whk0/Desk%20Calendar%20Problem%20.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">I made a sheet to introduce the problem</a>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br /></span>Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-8709538898015751222019-05-30T22:00:00.000+01:002019-07-26T23:19:17.889+01:00Beach Ball Throw - Taskmaster<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">For the past four years, we've used the '<a href="http://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-backwards-video-task.html" target="_blank">Backwards Video Task</a>' as a team building task at the start of each year. It gets children working together and produces some <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQuLUyRtv-Y" target="_blank">imaginative</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsz8yQuFrt4" target="_blank">impressive</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0omBnq9L7wM" target="_blank">outcomes</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the most recent series of Taskmaster, the contestants were given another video task I can see working well in the classroom. The contestants were given a beach ball and asked to film themselves in one location throwing the ball out of shot and then later film them self catching the ball in a new location. The winner of the task was the person who 'threw' the ball over the largest total distance. In school, I'd be looking for the group to ensure consistency by linking the throws and filming to make each throw and catch look authentic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Going to give it a go in September. We'll see what the children come up with! <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/bco9fggx5gtfwbc/Ball%20Throw%20Planning%20Sheet.pdf" target="_blank">There's a planning sheet here that may be useful</a>. </span></span></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-60006573609379359412019-04-30T20:00:00.000+01:002019-05-01T20:46:47.005+01:00Disney in French<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I have two toddler daughters. In recent years, I've become very familiar with the plots, characters and songs of 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Frozen' in particular. One day last week, one daughter wanted to dance to 'Build a Snowman'. So, I searched for it on my phone. For some reason, the French version came up. It struck me that this could be another way to access a language in a classroom. A hook, a stater, game or just for a bit of fun...</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">La Reine des Neiges - Je voudrais un bonhomme de neige</span></u></div>
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Primary Ideashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12408223042916639356noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4799239198672342649.post-55676544526992702372019-03-15T20:48:00.004+00:002019-03-15T20:50:24.424+00:00Bonza Vocabulary<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">A
few weeks ago, I came across an app. Bonza is its name. <a href="https://twitter.com/alexbellars/status/1094358256221343744" target="_blank">Cheers Alex for the Tweet about it</a>. So, it's a word game. The parts of the puzzle need
to be put back together to form a crossword. Before the puzzle
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investigating the app a little, found it is rated 12+ due to some of the
vocabulary and subject content within the app. However, here are some
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1. <a href="http://primary-ideas.blogspot.com/2015/05/one-app-whole-class.html" target="_blank">Create a puzzle and then project to a screen from your own device. Complete the puzzle together. We've blogged about this approach in the past.</a><br />
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What could the puzzles be about? A spelling rule, verb tenses,
topic-based vocabulary, revision and, well anything that involves words
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Another tool to add a bit of variety to a classroom and learning. Age
rating of the app just a tad irritating. NB, puzzles can only be
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">We've created 40 of them. The idea being that we dip into the pot of badges each day between now and the second week in May and wear the badges for the pupils to see. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">There are four Sundays in Advent. The four Sundays leading up to Christmas Day.</span></div>
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