by Valerie King | Oct 5, 2016 | Book Reviews
This series has been written by Prim Ed to support the teaching and learning of mathematical skills and concepts. Each box covers the strands of Number, Algebra, Shape and Space, Measures, and Data. Some of the larger strands (for example, Number and Measures) are...
by Valerie King | Feb 15, 2016 | Book Reviews, Educational Advice
Hello everyone! It is hard to believe midterm is this week- time is flying by as usual. My themes since returning to school on the sixth of January have been Chinese New Year, The Famine, and The EU-Exploring Italy. We are exploring the theme of friendship too in the...
by Valerie King | Dec 2, 2015 | Book Reviews, Educational Advice
http://premier-stationery.com/ Premier Stationery very generously sent a large box of Christmas art supplies to my classroom last week! There was tremendous excitement as my class and I rummaged through the merchandise! Premier Stationery are the leading art and...
by Valerie King | Nov 14, 2015 | Book Reviews
Hello everyone, Scholastic Publishers very kindly sent me this wonderful collection of books to add to my school library. We all know that children nowadays do not read enough. Sometimes, the only time they read, may be in school. Shocking I know! I have been trying...
by Valerie King | Oct 3, 2015 | Book Reviews, Educational Advice
Abair Liom and Bua na Cainte Hello everyone, A lot of you had asked my opinions on these two resources. I am not an infant teacher at the moment, so I do not use either of them. I did however ask the respective book companies, Folens and Edco for a trial of these...
by Valerie King | Aug 28, 2015 | Book Reviews
Hi everyone, As promised, here is a blog post on my art supplies for the first term! There will be more in the school, and I have my recyclables of course, but these are just the bits I bought myself. I got these borders from Scholastic online. Here is the link:...
