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Today you can read all about how I love using Marcia Williams books in my classroom for teaching classic texts, supporting struggling readers, engaging reluctant ones and challenging the high flyers over on the <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/2016/04/graphic-novels.html" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land blog</a>!</div>
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Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-73920220320604033202016-01-03T13:37:00.004-08:002016-01-03T13:37:50.686-08:00Currently January 2016<div style="text-align: center;">
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I really hope you all had a Happy Christmas and a relaxing break and are looking forward to 2016!</div>
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It's January 3rd - I'm worried I'm a bit late to join the Currently party this month but I'm going for it anyway. I love reading about what everyone else it up to and am determined to link up every month this year! </div>
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My Currently is short and pretty self explanatory this month. I don't feel as bad as I should about the time I took for myself and all the time I haven't spent on school work this break - I'm sure that will change once I start chasing my tail on Tuesday when we're back!</div>
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Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-7537991035546825742015-09-27T13:43:00.001-07:002015-09-27T13:43:58.333-07:00Sunday Scoop <div style="text-align: center;">
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It has been a long long time since I last linked up with The <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teaching Trio</a> for The Sunday Scoop (or with anyone for anything for that matter...) but I am here today! Hopefully this great little linky will inspire me to be a better all round blogger from now on...</div>
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I'm delighted to be linking up with the <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teaching Trio</a> today to share a few of my favourite things!</div>
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Do unto Otters is great for any age group in my opinion. As it happened, my class was called Otters last year so this book was perfect but I think I would share it with any new class in the future! Hunter's Best Friend at school is great for sharing with younger children to teach them about being god role models for each other and The Angel of Nitshill Road used to be a favourite for sharing with the older children. It's easily read aloud during the first week back at school and has some great messages.</div>
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These make a quick and easy display and keep the kids busy while you try to do all those 101 things that need doing on the first few days back! You can grab my All About me book for free <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Beginning-of-the-year-All-About-Me-Booklet-1298522" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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This was a <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/344103227749353158/" target="_blank">pinterest</a> find and I loved making these and displaying in the window for the parents to see last year. Bright and fun to make!</div>
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If you saw my post a few months back on <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land</a>, you will know that I LOVE learning grids and use them in all subjects whenever I can! </div>
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I saw <a href="http://www.stevebowkett.co.uk/" target="_blank">Steve Bowkett</a> speak about using learning grids in the classroom and have been making them ever since. He was so inspiring and realistic about the challenges teachers face in the classroom when it comes to engaging children and getting reluctant writers writing!</div>
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I loved the idea of using learning grids full of images to create zig zag stories with the children. My freebie for you includes: a zig zag story grid for older children based around a fantasy theme; a writing frame for recording stories created; a list of sentence openers and connectives that could be used as a prompt and a blank grid which could keep children busy for hours as they draw and create their own story boards to play with!</div>
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1. You start in the top left box and roll a dice (or twirl a spinner!)</div>
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2. Move that number of spaces and use the image you land on to start your super story</div>
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5. Encourage the use of lots of different time connectives (then, after a while, an hour later, that night...) or sentence openers (As quick as a flash... Jumping back in surprise....Terrified beyond belief....Luckily....)</div>
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6. Carry on rolling and zigzagging across the grid until you get to the end!</div>
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There is so much potential in using these to develop fantastic story vocabulary and ideas, stimulate imagination, inspire great writing and improve speaking and listening skills.</div>
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Children could use them independently but I always think they are better when used in pairs - it's more challenging to pick up where someone else leaves off and way more funny!</div>
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I hope that using these over the break helps prevent the summer slide and keeps those little minds active!</div>
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Listening: I have seen the first season but now have the box set of seasons 1-4 so wanted to refresh my memory before binging on the rest. Throughly enjoying it all over again!</div>
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Loving: That I can be a little lazy today because tomorrow is a bank holiday! </div>
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Needing: So much to do. And we still have until July 21st until we break up for our summer break. It seems so far away!</div>
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Summer: I AM going to get into good exercise habits this summer (and hopefully before). I think I have decided on Montenegro for a summer holiday this year and am now busy researching! It is just a dream but I would love my house to magically redecorate itself (including new furniture) this summer!</div>
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That led me to finding this beautiful animation created by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://letchildrenplay.com/playful-expressions/stream-school/#.VSZbzSggE0s" target="_blank">P</a><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black;"><a href="http://letchildrenplay.com/playful-expressions/stream-school/#.VSZbzSggE0s" target="_blank">éter Vácz</a> which was inspired by a </span></span>Hungarian poem by Zsolt Miklya.</div>
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It is called Stream School and it follows the journey of a young girl (Dora) from a little stream to the vast sea. It is all about growing up and is told through some lovely imagery which is made all the better by the clever animation.</div>
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There is some great personification of the mountain, valley, sky and stream at the start of the poem and then other beautiful imagery throughout which makes the poem a perfect starting point for a unit of work or a one off lesson on personification or figurative language more generally.</div>
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I plan to use this poem to create a cross curricular unit of work based on objectives I need to cover in computing (animation - we'll attempt to create our own stop motion animations in this style!), DT (using textiles to create pictures) and literacy (poetic style and language).</div>
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This may well be slightly too ambitious for my little learners (6-7 years) but even if we don't get close to the end goal I have in my head, I'm sure we will have fun trying! Make sure you are following my blog to get some updates on our progress and success!</div>
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I have created a little <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Personification-Poetry-Mini-Pack-1802237" target="_blank">freebie</a> for you inspired by the idea of personification in nature which would work <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;">well alongside a study of this poem. </span>Use the flaps of the interactive
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I have just been shamed by looking back to when I posted last... I have not posted anything this month! I didn't even manage to link up with Farley for Currently! And the last time I shared my Sunday Scoop was the 15th February! </div>
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I'd make a promise to be better this week but I know I have no hope of that as this week is going to be a tricky one! I have so much going on at school - an observation, an interview, carrying out LSA appraisals, delivering staff training, a student teacher starting, writing moderation session AND data due in on Friday! Wish me luck!</div>
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Today you can check out my blog post all about using learning grids in literacy to make lessons a little more fun and engaging if you head over to <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/2015/02/using-learning-grids-to-engage.html" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land</a>! There is a freebie on comparative and superlative adjectives to pick up too so make sure you check it out!</div>
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Wow - it's been a really long time since I've managed to link up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for Five for Friday! </div>
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Loving: I use phonics play all the time in my classroom but it is seriously lacking when it comes to games teaching the spelling rules. So I've decided to make my own based on the ones my kids love from the site and am very impressed with myself! As soon as I posted this picture to IG last night I spotted the mistake - don't worry - it's not finished yet!</div>
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It was a long and tiring first week back at school last week - so why has the weekend flown by so quickly!?</div>
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A week of being on edge waiting for a drop in observations is not a fun week! I need to make sure I am extra prepared to minimise the stress in the week but can't get motivated at the moment... No doubt I will leave it till tonight then be rushing to get everything sorted!</div>
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I must also work harder to get to 10,000 steps each day. I managed it once last week and then failed at even coming close for the rest of it! I'll aim for at least 6000 each day and 10,000 on at least 3 days before Friday. I'll let you know how I get on back here next week!</div>
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One good thing is that I saw someone on IG mention their favourite book was a Veronica Mars one by Rob Thomas and was so excited! How had I missed that he had written books following on from where the film left off?! I ordered it immediately and it should be coming tomorrow - I can't wait to read it!</div>
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Don't forget to link up your scoop with the lovely <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teaching Trio</a> and to check out what everyone else has planned for the week ahead!</div>
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<br />Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-28299646011083177532015-01-07T12:34:00.001-08:002015-01-07T12:34:32.821-08:00Favourite Things - January<div style="text-align: center;">
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The <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teaching Trio</a> have come up with another great and easy linky - A Few of My Favourite Things! A chance to share a few of your favourite things (any category) that you're loving this month!</div>
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As we have just had Christmas I thought I would share 3 of my favourite little teaching/school/stationary related gifts that I was most excited by!</div>
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1. My sister got me that amazing bag with an image of me and 2 piles of books each topped with one of my gorgeous cats! I love it and it will be perfect for ferrying marking back and forth to school (that part is not so exciting I suppose...).</div>
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2. I hope to spend more time on my blog this year and have joined the team at <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land</a> so have a new diary (Where's Wally because he is amazing!) to keep me organized!</div>
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3. Such cute winter animal page markers along with a whole host of other sticky notes came my way this year - I have a great collection now and really must start using some instead of just saving them!</div>
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Welcome to one of the stops on the <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land</a> Winter Wonders Blog Hop!</div>
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This time last year a group of amazing bloggers launched Adventures in Literacy Land as a way to share great tips and advice for teaching all things literacy! I am delighted to be joining them as they start their second year and look forward to being part of the team and sharing more of what I am up to in my classroom with you!</div>
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My school is in an area where our youngest children often join us with lower than average language development and it is one of out biggest challenges to build their vocabulary and continue that development throughout their years with us. </div>
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Every classroom (and I'm sure yours too!) has a huge focus on vocabulary displays to support the children. I became bored with one of mine recently and have decided to change it with each season as a way of introducing more ambitious and relevant vocabulary that is likely to support a lot of the writing we will be doing in class.</div>
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Here is my Wintery Words display (minus any actual wintery words!):</div>
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It already has a lot more on it than this - words I have added (a few at a time), words my class and I have collected together (though class discussions and shared books) and words they have found in reading books or heard at home and have decided to add themselves (I leave post it notes out below the display). Currently there are just nouns and adjectives on display but I plan to do some work on similes and other figurative language soon. </div>
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I encourage them to refer to this display during writing sessions but do have to swap out some of the words every now and then as too many things seem to become 'blustery' or 'glittering' - that's the sign it is time to introduce some new vocabulary! I never discourage the overuse of ambitious vocabulary at this stage in their writing development - even when it is not always used correctly (this does depend on the child and their maturity to some degree) as making and refining choices when it comes to vocabulary comes a little later. I do make sure they have plenty of words to choose from though so I don't go crazy! </div>
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When I taught further up the school I loved exploring idioms with my class - it was always a lot of fun to teach and really improved their writing by making it more interesting for the reader. We don't explicitly teach idioms in the year group I'm in now but I thought I would make a mini wintery idioms pack <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Idioms-Pack-Winter-Edition-1626711" target="_blank">freebie</a> for you to use in your classroom to help children build their vocabulary in a fun way - click on the picture below to download. I hope you find it useful!</div>
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I plan to share some more on activities to build vocabulary in the classroom soon so watch this space! In the meantime, I would love to hear from you about displays or activities you find really effective in supporting vocabulary development in your classroom - I'm always looking for new ideas so please comment below!</div>
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Your next stop is the lovely <a href="http://looneyslitblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/winter-wonders-blog-hop-from-adventures.html" target="_blank">Tara over at Looney's Literacy</a> - go pick up your next freebie (and don't forget to enter the giveaway at the end of the hop on Adventures in Literacy Land)!</div>
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Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-43524073772333955132015-01-04T03:43:00.001-08:002015-01-04T03:43:02.240-08:00First Sunday Scoop of January!<div style="text-align: center;">
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While I'm glad to be linking up with <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Teaching Trio</a> for The Sunday Scoop, I feel sad that it means it's back to school tomorrow and that my lazy(ish) days of holiday are over...<br />
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2 weeks for Christmas are just not enough and I am not ready to go back! I was on a lesson planning mission yesterday and managed to get a lot done - including 6 weeks worth of guided reading planning. Hooray! I HATE guided reading planning so felt incredibly pleased with myself that I persevered and finished it. I know it's going to make my half term a lot easier having it all done!</div>
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It's not a day of relaxation and celebration of my guided reading planning achievements though! There is still so much to do... How about you? Have you managed to get all the work you needed to done this holiday? Are you ready for school tomorrow?</div>
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<br />Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-37685596199218141762015-01-01T04:34:00.002-08:002015-01-01T04:34:24.944-08:00January Currently<div style="text-align: center;">
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Currently with Farley over at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Oh Boy Fourth Grade</a> is a great way to start this new year - thank you Farley!</div>
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Christmas is finally over and I have found the time to pay some attention to my poor neglected blog. I was so excited when I saw this great linky hosted by <a href="http://teacherytidbits.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Teachery Tidbits</a>:</div>
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I set up my blog in May this year and an IG account in the summer when I joined in with the Bloghopin' Scavenger Hunt and I haven't looked back since! It has been such a great way to connect with some amazing teachers and learn so many new things!</div>
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Over the summer I enjoyed linking up for Monday Made It each Monday (thank you <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">4th Grade Frolics</a>!). I made lots of pretty things when I had the time over the break and here are a couple of my favourites (you can find more of my favourite made its for the classroom <a href="http://growinglittlelearners.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/monday-made-it-spray-paint-freebies-and.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://growinglittlelearners.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/monday-made-it-quilts-vodka-and.html" target="_blank">here</a> and by clicking on the pictures below - birthday balloons, baby quilts, vodka gummy bears and more!).</div>
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Make sure you're following my <a href="http://instagram.com/growinglittlelearners/" target="_blank">IG account </a>to check out more of the great crafts we produced and <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pixieanne28/" target="_blank">pinterest</a> for the original links!</div>
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<br />Pixie Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10138327214815622157noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6979389076110697293.post-74752247376029715162014-12-07T02:48:00.003-08:002014-12-07T02:48:30.634-08:00Sunday Scoop and Working Walls!<div style="text-align: center;">
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I am super excited to be both linking up for The Sunday Scoop with <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">The Teaching Trio</a> AND to tell you that I am a guest blogger over on <a href="http://www.adventuresinliteracyland.com/" target="_blank">Adventures in Literacy Land</a> today! I have written a post all about how I use Working Walls in Literacy with a step-by-step explanation! </div>
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