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Fully on to it! Hazelnuts and got the broom

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LANGUAGE LEARNING, LAUGHING, ENGAGED, PROGRESSING - a teaching blog: insights and reflections     15Sls 2019 At Lincoln to learn  about care of flax (harakeke) February 2019. How happy it makes me when I see students teaching one another :      Fully on to it! 😊👍👍 This class is doing incredibly well. At 10:10 this morning I told them I am very very proud of them. 22.2.2019 They spent the first hour or so today totally fully engaged learning far more than they realised but interacting with one another asking one another checking with one another and doing the same with me So we went over the same material again and again and again but we were doing the whole thing orally. Basically I told them a story with lots of bizarre pictures of Brooms and torches and hazelnuts on the boards. Well I actually sellotaped a real hazelnut on the board. And I had a bunch of hazelnuts on the front desk. And I had passed around a bucket o...