Year 3/4/5

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“This has been the most useful corner of my room! The kids use it ALL the time”

Busy, busy, busy! It is hard to believe it is already October and our first week is of the month is finished! Students are having fun and learning lots each and everyday. 1. Pen Pals We are so excited to be buddied up with Tamra and Sarah from First Grade Buddies! This is the first ... Read more

Ancient Egypt STEM Ideas!

Math sorts - really like this idea! can even use the same orange cards over and over, just change the blue headers by Phyllis Paterson on Indulgy.com

All Things Beautiful- Egyptian Pringle cans

Teaches students why a square number is called a square number.

Cooperative work in math is so important as it gets students using accountable math talk, problem solving, and more. This post shows a great cooperative math task to work on area and perimeter concepts. Common Core area and perimeter, grade 3 Common Core, grade 4 Common Core

“The #writing process as I understand it. Writers do this again & again & again, day in, day out, year in, year out. Even Snoopy! #ukmgchat”

Having previously blogged about how I organised teaching time in my classroom, fellow edu-blogger, Jo, inspired me through her response to my post, to try her Time Teller of the Day idea. She explained how she had bought a simple watch which children wear to be the Time Teller of the Day. I thought this was a really easy thing to introduce to encourage children to interact with each other about the time. Full of inspiration, I set to starting this up in my classroom. I searched for the…

Louise Racher is a primary mathematics adviser for HfL The humble tens frame paired with double sided counters. Cheap, effective and perhaps a resource underused by schools in the UK. However, once…