Baker Ross Review

Oh my gosh has this poor blog been neglected. I have been very busy graduating from my Master's (woohoo!)

 Decorating my hall....

                                ... and getting far too swept up in the Christmas madness ...

 I have been meaning to post a review for a very very long time - so I will do that now and then do a blog update a little later on!

A few months ago the FABULOUS Baker Ross sent this parcel of goodie to me...

      ...  I was like a kid in a candy shop when I opened it up and insider there were these goodies...

 So me and the kiddies set to work right away to make use of all of the lovely stuff we had been sent! As it was Christmas we had lots of opportunities do use all of the lovely creative things they sent to us -

 We used the card to make these lovely Christmas cards...

The card is really lovely quality - nice and thick and it doesn't tear easily too, even when the kiddies used a ridiculous amount of glue!! 

Then we used the lovely stars (which are sticky, you just peel the back off and they're good to go!), glitter glues and gems to decorate our Diwa lamps that we had made for Diwali...

These photographs don't do them justice - they were so pretty up close and the children absolutely adored using the glitter glue and gems - they are somewhat a rarity in our school!!

I have used Baker Ross products several times before - they do fantastic activity packs that I have used in the classroom ...

The children made these stunning Sand Art Mosques in RE - you have seriously never heard silence like it before. They spent the whole afternoon making these beauties - the best thing was each child had their own little bags of sand and the mosques are self adhesive so there was no need for glue either - they just peeled off a little strip at a time, shook on a bit of sand and they were good. If you buy one thing from Baker Ross, seriously, buy these!!! 

You can check out all of the goodies Baker Ross have here and I recommend signing up to their newsletter as they frequently have fantastic offers and sales on! Let me know if you buy anything! 

Dani x

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New School Year - New Blog Post

Phew!! It has been a summer and a half, which is why more poor poor blog has been so neglected!!

Let me fill you in before I give you a room tour!

I went away to Italy, Germany and Austria.. which was an absolutely beautiful holiday (where I consumed far too much pizza, pasta, ice cream and prosecco!!)

Then I eventually completed (and passed, hurrah!!) my Master's Degree!!

...THEN I went to Hong Kong for a couple of weeks, where I spent far too much money on stationery!!!

We even went to HK Disneyland and met a few characters!

Right - now for my room tour for my 2013/14 room.....

This is my door, with my cute little sign that a kiddo gave me as a leaving present;

Our topic this half term is 'Into the Woods' which is why you may notice lots of forest themes!

This is the view as you walk in to my room....

My role play area - with a small world table, complete with gorgeous smelling coloured/scented rice - my room smells of cinnamon and nutmeg, it is to die for!!

                         Complete with a Gruffalo Café ... I even got to meet The Gruffalo himself!!!

 On each table I have a cute little photo frame with the table name (sight words to help kids with their recognition) and a writing checklist so the kiddies can use this during literacy;

This is my reading area, which I added this year;
You can now purchase the check list from here

These are my beanie baby reading strategy posters which I am going to use this year in Guided Reading, I'll add them to my store this weekend;

I also made a cute bunting using the children's favourite book covers!! I plan to add to this throughout the year as we read more books together!

This is my art area, with a little Art Gallery for the kiddies work;

 

And finally, my displays!! I've been doing a lot of reading about maths and this was inspired by a pinterest find on subatising;

This is my blooms display to encourage higher order thinking and questioning - if you like it you can buy a copy here from my Teachers Pay Teachers store.. I LOVE this display and it's so useful to have up and pick questions to ask the kiddies from! 

 I bought this brilliant pack from TpT and put a copy in each of the kiddies drawers for early finishers;

This is my number bond display (again, another pinterest find!) That I absolutely love!! 

 Our school have introduced Spanish this year, so this is my little homage to our Spanish lessons!

This is my 'How are we learning?' poster so the kiddies know the noise level etc.

 This is my interactive numeracy table - I'll do a blog post on this soon!

And finally, my literacy working wall ...

I hope you like it as much as I do!! :) My resolution for this teaching year is to blog more, so hopefully I'll be keeping on top of my blog a lot more now my Master's is out the way! 

Finally here are a few of my 'made it's' that I'm proud of;

I started collecting pringle tubs, and bought loads of washi tape out in HK to make these cute storage cans;

And I also decorated this tired looking table to go in my reading area (it's not the handiest of DIY work but it will do!)

 ....and very lastly I'll leave you with one of my phonics 'made it's' that I love (and I didn't make most of it!!)

The kiddies loved building words today!! They could not resist learning :p

Dani x

Back to School Sale

Hey guys!

This is a super super quick post. I know I have been totally useless as of late with my blog - I am literally at the end of finishing my Master's degree, so my summer has been completely consumed with writing my dissertation - but as we speak I have 6000 words left to write so there is a light at the end of a very very dark tunnel.. then I PROMISE I will show my poor neglected blog lots of loving!!

 So tomorrow is the start of the huge Back to School TpT sale with a huge 28% off my store - be sure to enter the code BTS13 !!

Click on the link below to go to my store and snap up some bargains - I even have some new products that I've added, but unfortunately haven't had the chance to show them off explain them on here yet!!

I have lots saved to my wishlist, so I can't wait to do some shopping tomorrow - let me know if you buy anything :)

Dani x