26 Interesting Facts About Our Alphabet
Here is a bunch of fascinating facts about the alphabet for you to share with your class. How many did you or they already know? My favourite is the letter ‘B’ being a nuisance letter!
10 Great Ideas for Using Rhyming With Younger Children
Rhyming teaches children how language works. It helps them notice and work with the sounds within words. In this post we will show you 10 ways you can explore rhyming with your children.
How To Write Messages In Semaphore
What Is Semaphore? This is a way of sending messages using flags. These flags are usually square, each one divided diagonally, with each half in two contrasting colours, normally red and yellow. The name comes from two Greek words: sema, meaning ‘sign’ and phero, meaning ‘to bear’ or […]
What Happened to Peter Piper’s Pickled Peppers?
We all know about Peter Piper and the pickled peppers he picked but have you ever wondered what happened to those pickled peppers? Read on to find out and then get your class to create some alliterating tongue twister stories of their own.
Anagram-azing Spelling Task Cards
Anagrams can be fun to decipher. In this post we give you a set of Task Cards that use anagrams to help your children learn their spellings.
How To Write An Acrostic Autobiography
Here is a fun activity and a great way to get your class to tell you something about themselves.
What Do You Know About Halloween?
Did you know that in Germany, people hide their knives to make sure none of the returning spirits are harmed – or seek to harm them! Or that originally people carved turnips not pumpkins. Read on to find out more.
Five Reasons Why You Should Be Using Poetry In Your Classroom
How often go you use poetry in your classroom? Here ae five excellent reasons why you might consider using it more often.
Can You Create Some Awesome New Superstitions?
In this post we look at some traditional superstitions and then explore what they might look like if we made them sensible!
Three Spine-Chilling Halloween Writing Ideas
We have some spooktacular writing resources available in the Goodeyedeers Shop. Each one packed with ideas to help you have a great lesson with your children.
How To Get New Writing Ideas From Old Poems
In this post we give you some ideas to try out with your children based on the poem, ‘The Land of Counterpane’ by Robet Louis Stevenson.
Teach Your Class How To Write Lantern Poetry
Are you looking for a great writing idea to try out with your class? This idea has lots of potential and your children will love it. We will start by explaining just what a lantern poem is and then look at some ideas you might want to try […]
