Back After a Fabulous Time in the Beautiful New Forest

Hi there, Finally back home after a wonderful family holiday in the beautiful New Forest. Cut off from the hustle and bustle of everyday life with no mobile signal or internet to distract us, we had a fabulous family break and tons of quality time with our children. Our rented cottage was in such an idyllic setting, surrounded by swathes of purple heath and lush green foilage and the garden held many hidden secrets along the rivers edge. It was a truly beautiful and relaxing setting (as you can see from the photographs, below) and we all enjoyed every moment, creating lots of happy memories.
Now it's back to the grindstone, so to speak, in readiness for the new school year; very quickly approaching. I prefer to think of it as an exciting time with new challenges and new opportunities ahead.

Amongst the developing and expanding Blog posts and Web Links to the many classroom and learning activity resources, on The Classroom Carousel BlogSpot, you may also encounter links and mentions of some of the inspiring sites I've come across, on the Web. Some are from farther afield than the UK and hold some fabulous ideas and inspiration for teaching and learning. The Internet creates marvellous opporunities for exploring classrooms in other countries providing valuable insight into their culture and teaching and learning ideas, opening up a whole world of diversity at our fingertips. A concept that would have at one time only been available to a priviledged few, but now available for us all to embrace, at our leisure. So too, some fabulous Blogs create opportuities to share in the ideas of our colleagues within the UK, too. I hope that you find them as interesting and as useful as I do.

Just Over a Week In The Life of a Blog.....

Well, just over a week has passed since I began my Blog and it's starting to come together. Of course it will always be dynamic, ever fluid and ever changing, full of growth and hopefully some inspiration, too; aspiring to become a resource,in itself, offering valuable and time-saving teaching and learning ideas and tools.
A big thank you, to you all, for taking the time to visit my blog, I look forward to seeing you all again, soon.

Discovering Spelling City

Signed up to a fab site, Spelling City, today. It's a treasure trove of activities and ideas, offering direct links to your own homepage, that you can customise with learning activities, to meet your children's specific learning needs. It allows you to create your own spelling lists thereby catering for groups as well as individual children. I am only just beginning to explore the site as there is so much available and not just centred on spelling. So I'll keep you posted how I get on learning to use Spelling City, effectively, and don't forget, if you use, or have used Spelling City, I would love to hear from you; hints and tips, for getting the best out of the site, gratefully accepted...

Voki...Really want to explore this!

Am quite excited about Voki, wondering how we can best utilise this in our classroom, to enhance the children's learning.

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

Wallwisher

Wallwisher
I discovered Wallwisher some time ago and informed my colleagues of its potential. I would really like to explore it further, durng this next school year. I think it would be really useful both administratively and as a teaching and learning resource. Using it on the IWB would allow children to have hands on visual participation when sharing ideas during Science investigations or brainstorming ideas for a new project or for group work. We'll see what happens and how we can develop its use to enhance the children's learning...
If you've used Wallwisher yourself, I'd be interested to know what you think and how you have utilised it in your classroom.
Be sure to place a comment and let me know.