Pouring our hearts out!

As a teacher, I've always enjoyed connecting with my students beyond English, maths, science and humanities. Valentine's day was one such opportunity; I got to read their views on the following:

1. Would you like to get married as an adult? why?

2. What do you mean by these phrases: 'A heart of gold'; 'Putting your heart into something'

3. What would the world be like if people couldn't feel love?

4. Why is it that it's only the heart which represents love, why not any other organ?

Ha'pp'y Potter

            How to welcome your students to Year 6: work  your magic with  poems

EYFS, you were a bud

Year one, ready to learn

Year two, school was no longer new

Year three, you were on a learning spree

Year four, you were independent enough to do chores

Year five, you strived to achieve your full potential

Now you are in Year 6

the uppermost class in primary

with that comes great responsibility

You will continue to learn and grow

hopefully learn things you were keen to know

You'll take independent steps to success

You'll shine like a diamond, nothing less

We'll work with you, to bring out the best

come on wizards, there's no time to rest

Let's respect, reflect and inspire

Learn like your hair is on fire..

Setting up my new classroom

New school year, sleepless nights, a mind full of thoughts and ideas and an excited teacher. Excitement, not just limited to setting up the classroom, but to plan lessons, and to make sure that the journey is worthwhile.

So here's how I plan to go about it, after reading a few inspirational books like 'Teach like your hair is on fire'

Displays: The theme for my new class is inspired by my own experience of spending too much time on technology, and is called 'Connecting without technology'. The classroom will have different apps 

• Instagram for displaying students' work- the good work instantly goes up
• Pinterest for students to pin, anything that they like or find interesting - a newspaper article, a poem, a picture
• Twitter will be used as an exit slip where students will be asked to summarize their learning
• Kindle for the reading corner 
• Google for the teacher to post information related to the topics being studied in class
• Oxword- This will be used as the word wall, a place to post the new vocabulary, also a place to find interesting words while writing
• Facebook - This is going to be the teacher's board - 'Ms. Vrinda's Facebook wall' which will feature reminders, students' birthdays, thought for the day in the form of a status and word of the day

I plan to use the small canvas boards to paint the app symbols. Pictures coming soon:)