I feel there's not much I can add to the avalanche of deserving praise rained down on the Harry Potter series, but I do know there's a good proportion of my students every year who only developed reading habits thanks to the lure of the wizarding world.
The moon: full of romance and wonder, symbolic of adventure, hope, sadness and love! This week's CrossNumber puzzle might be one giant leap for some students but I hope it will leave others over the moon!
I love facts about the moon:
Did you know that the moon smells like spent gunpowder and no one really ...
Easter! Egg hunts, spring lamb, family, bunnies, hot cross buns, chocolate! You'll find all these and more in this week's seasonal CrossNumber puzzle.
If you're stuck for anything to do over the long bank holiday weekend, maybe a few maths questions over a cup of tea and a lie down will be just the thing you need!
Cats are not trying to be your best friend, they don’t care where your stick went, and they’re certainly not going to fetch anything for you.
Don't even talk to them about this (click link if you dare) abomination.
Holes is a great book for a reluctant reader, in fact it may be THE great book for a reluctant reader. In a situation not unlike The Shawshank Redemption but with kids, we find our hero Stanley Yelnats interred in a children’s hard labour camp for a crime ...
"You don't make friends with salad," as Bart, Homer and Marge sing to Lisa. This week's puzzle is about all things fatty and shameful in the world of takeaway food and there's guaranteed not to be a hispi cabbage or a watercress leaf in sight.
I don't know about you but I ...
When I'm teaching, making resources or preparing for this blog, I'm always picking up and reading children's books. The books I enjoy (and there are plenty I don't) tend to divide up into four main groups:
- Books I love due to pure nostaligia: toasty warm blankets of childhood memories, ...
This week our CrossNumber puzzle has legendary artist Pablo Picasso as its subject. As well as being one of the greatest artistic innovators of the 20th century, Picasso was a true eccentric, notorious for his many relationships, and a genuine global icon in a world that had embraced visual media in ways unimaginable when Picasso ...
The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my all-time favorite books. What makes this gem even more special is that it is a gift to the tutor. This book manages to make all learning both ridiculous and relevant in a way that the classroom is seldom able to achieve. Learning, at its worst, is abstract and boring but in these ...