ICT in my Classroom

To kick off Whale Week (the final few days of work using Endless Ocean in our Sealife topic) with my class I planned to discover the Blue Whale in the Nintendo Wii game. Planning a discovery is I suppose a bit odd, but in a moment of solitary gameplay, I mean planning, in the classroom [...]

We had fun today using Wii Sports Golf during our maths lesson. This week the children have been practising different written methods of subtraction and today we repeated the Wii idea from last year. After doing some recapping of the compact method of written subtraction we worked as a whole class with the game. Each child was [...]

We have been working with Endless Ocean on the Wii for a couple of weeks now as crucial element in our Sealife topic this half term. I thought I would grab a few minutes and return to the surface to reflect on it’s impact so far. Manta Ray by Kawa0310 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Lic The game has [...]

We do so much these days to try and engage our learners within our classrooms, to create content that is inspiring. But what about finding inspiring content for us. Teachers need to be inspired to go on to create great learning opportunities. We mustn’t forget about finding content that inspires us too. With the summer [...]

As part of my numeracy lesson yesterday I used our class Nintendo Wii to support some of the shape work we have been doing. I identified the mini game Block Spot within Big Brain Academy as an opportunity for the children to continue to practice visualising and consolidate their understanding of 3D shapes. After a [...]

All of the children in our year group have been enjoying using our class Nintendo Wiis and we have even used them to support the numeracy work that has been going on over the previous week. A student teacher began work in my colleague’s classroom on Monday and was amazed to see him enjoying a [...]

We have had our Nintendo Wii in our class for about a week now and the children have been busy making their Mii avatars. They have truly engaged with it and seem to appreciate and understand the valuable role it can play in our class to have fun and support learning. One idea I mentioned [...]

I am delighted to get our Nintendo Wii installed and setup in our classroom. To get the audio working I used a small jack for the connections and ran it from the Wii into the PC’s Line In and then out again to speakers. We have one for each of the Year 5 and 6 [...]