Smart Bored?

I've been working on my Smart board  (sorry Interactive Whiteboard) presentation. (Other IWB's are available!) I found it really useful that I could try it out on my Year 2's in a reading group that I do after school. 

As I said in the last post, the group are doing 'The Hodgeheg' by Dick King-Smith and my IWB presentation relates mostly to this.

It's really been fun thinking of different ways to take my 'hodgeheg' on journeys through the whiteboard. There are lots of kid-friendly activities using the 'rub and reveal' and 'drag and drop' functions.  I also found out how to use the 'activity builder' key.  When the IWB presentation is done, I'll post a copy on here so you can have a play!


Dick King-Smith is a very popular children's author who writes mostly about animals. Here is a you-tube video of another of his stories - Lady Lollipop.

The SATs tests for our Year 6's are over with now, phew! I'm glad that I work with the younger children, (Years 2 & 3) where there is not so much test-related stress. (although, our poor Year 1 and  2's have their phonics test next month!)

 http://www.education.gov.uk/sta/keystage1/a00198702/ks1assessment

Oooh la, la!
On a personal note, my latest stimulus of the grey matter (apart from this course, of course!) has been to take up not one, but two French language courses.  The first, on a Monday evening, is a small conversation group with 3 other people in a front room in Heptonstall. The second, on a Wednesday evening, is a much more formal affair with 10 others in a swish office in Manchester with L' Institut Francais.  The latter deals mostly with conjugation of French verbs, and as I cannot even conjugate an English verb, I am finding this tres difficile!