Like many people I find Google edging its way into my life more every day.  And it doesn’t take a huge imagination to understand why.  Its application is endless!  Google docs is something I have recently been experimenting with more and more in the classroom. At present we do not have a Google Education Account [...]

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§299 · August 1, 2011 · Uncategorized · (2 comments) · Tags: , , ,


I am always on the look out for different strategies to teach spelling and I thought I would share a few that I use in my classroom. Wordle is a wonderful tool for spelling.  It is a particularly good way of having children practise new spelling patterns.  Wordle works by inserting a number of words [...]

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§86 · October 22, 2010 · Uncategorized, Writing · (2 comments) · Tags: ,