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My final theme in Year 4 was based on exploring the Far East, under the title of the fantastic Chinese story, Fa Mulan. The bulk of the theme was based on the book by Robert San Souci and the folding poem, The Legend of Mulan….
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Division 1 – Picturesbrought to you by Livescribe Division 2 – Sharing and groupingbrought to you by Livescribe Division 3 – Numberline repeated subtractionbrought to you by Livescribe Division 4 – Missing Numbersbrought to you by Livescribe Division 5 – Blank numberline repeated subtractionbrought to…
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A progression through multiplication strategies and methods from Foundation to Year 6. Multiplication 1 – Picturesbrought to you by Livescribe Multiplication 2 – Repeated additionbrought to you by Livescribe Multiplication 3 – Commutativitybrought to you by Livescribe Multiplication 4 – Arraysbrought to you by Livescribe…
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A progression through subtraction strategies and methods from Foundation to Year 6. Subtraction 1 – Picturesbrought to you by Livescribe Subtraction 2 – Using a numberlinebrought to you by Livescribe Subtraction 3 – Using a blank numberlinebrought to you by Livescribe Subtraction 4 – Bridging…
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A progression through addition strategies and methods from Foundation to Year 6. Addition 1 – Picturesbrought to you by Livescribe Addition 2 – Using a numberlinebrought to you by Livescribe Addition 3 – Using a blank numberlinebrought to you by Livescribe Addition 4 – Blank…
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Below are links to posts containing sets of tutorials created using an interactive pen. Their primary audience are parents although they have been created so that pupils can watch them to refresh a previously modelled process. Calculation – Addition Calculation – Subtraction Calculation – Multiplication…
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At the start of our Wild Earth theme I tried to decorate our classroom to represent the Savannah (too many trees I know). It had the desired ‘wow’ effect when the children walked into the classroom for the first time and set the scene really…
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As part of our Wild Earth theme, we used Lego Mindstorms NXT to create prototype Zambezi Flood Barriers. The children started off by organising their own roles within their group, created drawn ideas and decided on a final idea together. Once a design had been…
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When tackling Explanation Texts as part of our Wild Earth theme, with direction from the children we moved away from finding out about real creatures and moved towards the imaginary variety. The children were pushing this way and it made sense that they would be…
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Storybird is a website that allows you to write a story using fantastic artwork by illustrators. You can collaborate with other writers on the same story or write it yourself. There are lots of possibilities for using Storybird in the classroom which have been magnified…
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I’m really excited about the theme we are starting next week, ‘Wild Earth’. It’s our year group’s contribution to our whole school ‘Great Outdoors’ focus. The starting point for the theme was taking what worked well during last year’s units of work on rivers and…
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Voicethread is a website that allows you to comment on images, pdfs, word or excel documents and videos. You can comment through a written message, an audio recording or several other methods. Whilst you are recording you can also annotate whatever you are commenting on…
