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45 Sustainable Practices for the Environmentally Friendly Classroom
Get sustainable practices buzzing at your school with our 45 tips and tricks for an environmentally friendly classroom!
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Monster Corner Bookmark Craft Activity
Are you looking for a quick, engaging and easy craft activity to do with your students?
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How to Make a Sundial
Luckily for our students, we don't need to charter a space shuttle to experience some real-world learning about how parts of our solar system work. The simple act of making a sundial provides us with the means to examine the Earth's rotation on its axis!
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10 Brilliant Ways to Improve Narrative Writing in the Classroom
10 brilliant ways to improve narrative writing by using our Narrative Sentence Starter Cards in your classroom.
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16 Hands On Phonics Games for the Classroom
This blog outlines some fantastic phonics resources and activity ideas that can be used in the classroom environment.
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The Power of Questioning in the Classroom
Did you know that teachers are asking up to 400 questions a day?
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Capital Letter Activities for Kids (NEW Resource!)
Are you looking for quick, easy and fun capital letter activities? Make teaching punctuation simple and check out this amazingly cute resource.
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Does Flipped Learning in a Primary Classroom Really Work?
What is flipped learning? How does it work in primary classrooms? Does it actually benefit students or just create extra work for teachers? Here's what we've discovered...
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13 Current Coding Apps for Kids (2019)
This collection of coding apps for kids in primary school is the ultimate collection, approved by tech teachers.
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How to Easily Display and Track Student Goals in the Classroom
Here is a list of some awesome hints and tips for setting up and monitoring student goals in the classroom.
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Remembrance Day Classroom Activities
Remembrance Day is an important commemorative event. Browse our collection of teaching resources focusing on this significant occasion.
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Teaching Friendship | Banishing Bullying in the Classroom
Teach lessons of friendship and acceptance to help banish bullying in your classroom and create a safer school for your students!
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Guided Meditation Scripts for the Classroom
Are you curious about how to run guided meditations for children? Check out these resources and tips!
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Exploring Book Characters in the Classroom
Exploring book characters with your students is a crucial element of understanding the narrative text type! Here are some of our favourite stories, activities and teaching resources about book characters.
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5 Positive Reinforcement Ideas (Quality Time)
Are you looking for effective positive reinforcement strategies for your classroom! You can transform the culture of your classroom by trying one of these brilliant ideas!
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10 Tried and Tested Fine Motor Activities
Before children head to formal education, parents will often spend hours focusing on developing their child's gross motor skills, such as, catching a ball, swinging on a swing by themselves and climbing playground equipment. However, fine motor skills, and developing the muscles in a child's fingers and hands, is just as important.
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Why Graduate Teachers Need a Supportive Mentor
My teaching mentor was my backbone in my first year of teaching! Someone I could rely on... she was honest, yet supportive and someone I could share my love of stationery with!
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Maths Planning in the Classroom | An Easy to Follow Planning Strategy
Are you struggling to work out how to teach all the numeracy topics to your students? This blog outlines an easy and effective way to plan for numeracy in your classroom.
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Clever Tip for Keeping Track of Student Observations
A clever way to keep track of little observations throughout a busy school day!
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Tutorial: Creating Custom Desk Plates on Teach Starter
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8 Angles Games & Activities to Make Maths Class More Fun
Explore angles activities and games for kids to make teaching geometry more engaging.
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Teaching Measurement | The Best Informal Measurement Activities
A guide to teaching measurement and a reveal of our Measuring Length with Informal Units unit plan and some of our best measurement activities.
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We've Sponsored a Story Dog Team!
We've sponsored a Story Dog team! Meet Eva and her beautiful Black Labrador, Cheya.
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An Exploding Gift Box: The Ultimate Mother's Day Craft Idea
THIS is the Mother's Day craft activity you've been looking for... Using simple materials, follow this step-by-step process to create an exploding gift box!
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What's the Goss on WALT and WILF (Examples Included)
Are you stuck with how to implement WALT and WILF in your classroom? This blog highlights all of the different visible learning acronyms plus examples!
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7 Benefits to Blogging in the Classroom
Blogging with your students in the classroom can be a fun and positive way to connect and share with parents on a regular basis.
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Reggio Emilia Approach in the Classroom
The Reggio Emilia approach is starting to filter through primary schools, especially in the early years, and I can see why! But, how is it possible to incorporate elements of this learning philosophy into a classroom with a strict curriculum to adhere to?
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Podcast News from Teach Starter HQ (June 2019)
Catch up on all the latest podnews from Teach Starter. Don't forget to subscribe to For the Love of Teaching wherever you get your podcasts!
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7 Classroom Hacks and Activities Using Magnets
Some fantastic magnet classroom hacks and activities that I would have used in the classroom...
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How to Print On Sticky Notes
Miss Thomas from @_littlemissthomas runs us through how she was able to print checklists on sticky notes!
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5 Fun Ways to Use Number Facts Board Games
Find out how to use these 9 printable number fact games in your classroom. This post will show you how to take this hands-on numeracy fun to the next level!
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Scarily Awesome Halloween Art for Kids
With this super fun occasion creeping up soon, we’ve got some awesome Halloween art for kids and Halloween classroom games to share with you today!