Category Archives: Cross-Curricula
Why are boys often competitive?
The simple answer? Hormones.
Free creative teaching resource – brain ‘warm-up’ activities
Bring an elephant into your room. It will make people think, or, more accurately, it will make people want to think.
Free creative teaching resource – Personal Rain Catcher
Was your sports day disrupted by rain? Get children to write and illustrate an advert that will persuade people to buy a ‘Personal Rain Catcher’. They will need to exaggerate any positive features they can think of for this invention.
Free French teaching resource – formal and informal language
Comparing the structure of two different languages will help children develop the use of both.
Filed under 100+ Fun Ideas for Teaching French across the Curriculum, Authors, Books, Collections, Cross-Curricula, Free French teaching resource, Key Stage, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Michelle Williams, National Curriculum, Nicolette Hannam, School Year, Teaching Ideas, Year 1, Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9
How much homework is too much?
The NY Times ‘Quotation of the day’ is from a parent who asks this question, and that has got me thinking about how much homework children should be getting, and what it should be like.
Filed under Books, Creative Homework Tasks, Key Stage, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3
