In my classroom one of my favourite projects is to combine art and literacy through the exploration of idioms. Here are some weather idioms produced by an old class of mine.
See if you can spot a storm in a teacup, a fair weather friend and a few people with a face like thunder!
A great lesson which is lots of fun with words and pictures and can be made accessible for all!
Putting things in Perspective – Learning to See
http://www.childrensvision.com/development.htm
Thank you to Sticky Fingers for the inspiration for this blog from her The Gallery archives.
The challenge set by Sticky Fingers for The Gallery this week is to find shapes all around us and snap them up. As soon as I read the brief I knew the photos that I wanted to share. They are from 2005 and my final teaching practice in Cumbria. I was working with a mixed Reception, Year 1/2 class for 6 weeks. It was wonderful. I learned so much and it gave the foundations of my own classroom that I had in the September of the same year. These picture show the celebration of a 2 week topic on Shape and Space in Numeracy. We had explored 2D, 3D, tessellation, pattern and symmetry. We brought all our new knowledge and understanding together to create a whole class display.
Ladies and Gentleman, I give you – Shape Street in Tessellation Town, in The Land of Polygon. (I wish I had taken more photos of it now!)
Tonight I have decided to share the original Personal Statement that I wrote during my final year of University when applying to be a primary school teacher. I think it says a lot about me and the teacher I wanted … Continue reading