Mr. Anderson 🏳️‍🌈

@OnjaliRauf appreciation post! I have never been so attached to a group of characters and kept stories so close to my heart. Having just finished The Night Bus Hero, it amazes how Raúf can manage to inspire readers of all ages to make a difference in the world 🌍 Thank you ☺️

@MrBoothY6 As someone who has worked supply for years, I hadn’t taught reading in a while. Then I was lucky enough to be given my own class this year and I have been struggling with the best way to tackle it. This had some amazing ideas that I would love to try! Thank you ☺️

Hello - I wrote a new blog about the teaching of whole class reading, which I haven't in a while. It's over 9000 words so quite a read, but I hope the comprehensive nature of it comes across as helpful, rather than patronising. Anyway - hope it's useful! mrboothy6.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/who…

@craigbankpepas @CraigbankPS @ActiveClacks Ahh! I’m so proud K! Can’t wait to see you at the Olympics one day! 🏅

@redwell_ps @scottishbktrust @BookWeekScot I must add it to the library! ☺️ Thanks J!

If teaching doesn’t work out, I have planned out three full seasons of Drag Race, All Stars and Vs The World in case World of Wonder are looking for ideas for a season that’s actually halfway decent. #RuPaulsDragRace

@MrDanielBuck Smaller classes, hands down! No amount of extra planning time will give you the golden opportunity to spend more 1:1 time with your little learners ☺️

Teachers, would you prefer smaller classes or more planning time?

@mrcalder_ I did see a Lenovo that looked good! Thanks for the tip!

@MrAnderson000 Chromebooks are useless. Especially for a lot of things! I have a Lenovo - and it's been great. It's now only 2yrs old.

Could anyone in this beautiful land of teacher Twitter recommend a personal laptop that works well for you in work too? Thinking of retiring my 12 year old MacBook and thinking of a Chromebook instead? Any thoughts or links would be appreciated! ☺️

This is simply amazing!

📚 BOOK FIND 📚 Aldi had a range of these wonderful, inclusive books for £2.50. They included books on diversity, families, different bodies etc. This one includes almost all of the categories and is so bright and colourful! Ideal for the classroom ☺️ #teachertwitter

@MrLavin_ The classroom looks wonderful with the different types of seating and floor areas! 😍

This afternoon, P6 started using the Basic Maths Facts games to improve the speed of our recall in numeracy - lots of teamwork and concentration on display! 🎲

@Mr_Trower What a fantastic idea! What artefacts did you have?

Is there anything more heartbreaking than falling in love with the characters and inclusive stories of a particular author, being inspired to create IDL lessons and activities for class novel studies… …then finding out that author is a hypocritical transphobic? ☹️💔🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

@ECTdiary @MrTs_NQTs You can then roll the top and bottom so it looks like a scroll. Looks great on a display ☺️

@ECTdiary @MrTs_NQTs I’ve taught a Romans topic with a P5 (year 4) and we tea-stained paper, used handwriting pens, marker pens or black paint to write Roman numerals up to 10, then 20, 50 & 100. You could then also answer q’s in Roman numerals (your age, birthday, number of pupils in the class…)

Does anyone have any fun ideas for teaching Roman numerals in y4. They've never learn it before and my mind is stumped @MrTs_NQTs

@TissierPt Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll check it out ☺️

PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS 🎧 Can anyone recommend some good podcasts to use as brain breaks. Ideally, mindfulness themed, short stories or something that encourages them to use their imaginations 🤷🏼‍♂️ #teachertwitter

@chloecole It’s literally none of your business

Reality check: Nothing is okay about this.

@jjjummer Absolutely!

@Mr_Kilpatrick87 I’m currently going through this so it’s reassuring that you got through it! I’m on day 15 👀

this was a tough time

@MissJudge4 Can we just take a moment to marvel at the handwriting 😍