From speaking to many of you on social media, it comes as no shock that many of us teachers are feeling burnt out, over worked and a sense of being under-supported. Supporting teachers has always been the main motivation of my website and I have some similar posts here if you’d like to take a… Read More Establishing Professional Boundaries and Connections with Parents
Activities and Worksheets to use during your lessons around the FIFA World Cup 2022. From design, creativity, Maths, Music, Literacy and Irish. There’s something for all.… Read More FIFA World Cup 2022 Activities and Worksheets
First timer in Junior Infants After years of contemplating, I finally moved to teach Junior Infants this year. The majority of my teaching experience lies in 2nd-4th Class, so moving to Junior Infants this year was a great shock to the system. It was challenging and fast-paced, but I loved every minute of it. In… Read More Moving to Junior Infants
Like many teachers, I have been blessed with gaining two Ukarainian children in my class of infants. With an overwhelming desire to support their wellbeing and happiness, came a genuine lack of understanding of how to support these children to learn. In this post, I’ll share some strategies, tips and resources that we have used… Read More Supporting Ukarainian children in Infants
In this post, I’ll run through some tips for finding and running primary school grinds. It can be a great passive income and experience to work with different children too. To be honest, I didn’t think that Primary School grinds were as common in Ireland as they are. But perhaps with the impact of Covid-19,… Read More Organising Primary School Grinds
For the last two weeks, we have engaged with the genre of persuasive writing. Personally, I find that since returning to school after distance learning, the children are not as enthusiastic about writing. With that in mind, I wanted to motivate them to write, while covering persuasive writing at the same time. I decided to… Read More Ideas for Persuasive Writing
For the the month of March, we focused on poetry in class. Poetry is one of those genres that can be difficult to teach/resource in my opinion. This post will go through the different activities we did, in hope to give you some ideas or inspiration. Links to The Book Depository are affiliate links! Week… Read More Simple Poetry Lesson Ideas
How to Differentiate Effectively- 10 top tips for teachers. This post was written by the fabulous Ciara (team leader of Rahoo). Launched in 2017, Rahoo are a Department of Education Approved Provider of Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for Teachers. We have a team of passionate and dedicated Professional Tutors nationwide from a variety of specialisms… Read More How to differentiate effectively- A guest post
We’ve read loved and voted! Below I will list our book recommendations, based on the books we have adored so far this year, with a small blurb on each. This way you can decide if you think your class would be interested in them too. I’ve linked some activities that I used to accompany these… Read More Book Recommendations for 2nd and 3rd Class
As you may know, if you are completing the Irish Language requirement, you will have to attend the Gaeltacht for 3 weeks. If you are just beginning your Irish Language Requirement journey then be sure to check out this post for more information: How to complete your Irish Language Requirement Before you book and pay… Read More A week in the Gaeltacht as part of the OCG.
