Use Webdings font to create a code and get pupils to decode key vocab! Easy, fun, little prep 👍🏻 #teacherchat #education #lessonideas #teacherhack #mflinsta #mflchat #mfltwitterati #funlesson #keystage3 #makelearningfun

I'm going to give this a go.

Donna Stonecipher

Sharing an old memory!!

Up for a small challenge with a word game? Read the how to play instructions.

GIVEAWAY! In celebration of the upcoming release of The Magic Words, I'm giving away 2 signed copies! To enter the drawing, just ❤️ and share this post. Your name will be entered 2x if you @ someone who might enjoy these poetry prompts & creativity tools. I hope this book helps!

Daily poetry prompt: Where would you like to be? I want to be..... with somersaulting angels in the park, with a bottle of ink flying free, with soldiers marching in the skies.... More examples here: brian-moses.blogspot.com/2018/07/i-want… Pie Corbett

“Until I thought of myself as the sea I used to separate good days from bad until I thought of myself as an ocean. I used to slice times I felt strong from when I felt weak until I imagined myself as the sea. Calm and rocky, wild and soft, still and powerful and vast and more

To students: if your teacher/professor is making your learning "fun" and "easy", 9 times out of 10, your teacher is not teaching at all.

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we've all been there 🌱

I borrowed #PoetryPrompts All Sorts of Ways to Start a Poem by Joseph Coelho. I know it is a gem I can return to again & again when writing. It is a perfect resource for children & writers of all ages, & it is ideal for when the poetry submission windows are open. #TuesReviews

One of my favourite things I did with my class was 30-45 minutes a week of Current Affairs. No plan, no agenda, just ask children what they’d seen in the news. As time went on, they shared things they’d seen, or fun facts. Hard in a packed timetable, but it was very valuable.

South Park creators gave the greatest lesson on storytelling ever:

Absolutely. And it means that children who didn't have very exciting summer holidays won't be struggling to find the things they did do. I put it up here as a blog post a while back based on an idea from Pie Corbett brian-moses.blogspot.com/2021/09/this-s…

Find 500! Have a load of numbers, cover them and conjugate verbs to reveal the number under the coordinate. Whole class or pairs with an empty grid and students write their own numbers! mfltwitterati #mflinsta #mflteacher #french #spanish #verbs #conjugaison #grammar

When you see 2019 on #granddesigns

I keep returning to this gem: Poet Ross Gay on the discipline of delight themarginalian.org/2019/12/01/ros…

"Anyone with any degree of mental toughness ought to be able to exist without the things they like most for a few months at least." On Georgia O'Keeffe's birthday, her hard-earned wisdom on art, life, and setting priorities, written in a letter to her best friend while living