Our Classroom Zoo

There have been plenty of occasions when my classroom has resembled a zoo!But today, through Augmented Reality, we actually turned our EYFS classroom into a real zoo!I've blogged about different ways you can use Augmented Reality (you can read them here) and it never ceases...

Enhancing our Mini Beast topic with technology

Over the past few weeks, I have had the pleasure of working in Year 1. Their topic for this half term has been mini beasts and so I wanted to share with you some of the work we have been doing through technology.First, you may have seen the Hungry Caterpillar video we made,...

Creatively Retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar

Who doesn't love this book?An absolute classic! With Year 1 doing their Minibeast topic, I had to make a link and explore the book. We had read it through and used some of the brilliant Talk4Writing techniques to help us retell the story. To engage the children...

Improving Oral Speaking in EYFS/KS1 through Digital Storytelling

One of the best ways in which I use iPad in the classroom is to encourage and improve student's speaking and listening. In a culture of teaching, where we are so accountable to prove what we have done in books, I fear we do not develop young children's oral speaking skills....