Shedasia writes:

Our school held a “World Tour” Event where each classroom studied a country and presented what they learned one evening for families and friends to see. The next morning each class got to go visit some of the other classes and learn about their countries. My class studied Canada & they did a fantastic job of researching and presenting! The kids made several attempts at a maple leaf for the flag, but we never got it done!
I e-mailed several of the tourist bureaus in the various provinces & they were kind enough to send us a bunch of tourist literature & even some posters

Jannine is teaching in Japan and posted these quick makes for a Haloween party in her school. I like them very much simple and yet effective, just the thing if your searching for a quick idea to make tomorrow.

If you’ve got a spare board then this one from .Olga might do the trick:

In our school, as in many parts of England, there’s not much interest in Halloween and as tomorrow is still half term for us it will pass unmarked this year.

It’s a huge contrast to my memories of Scots schools where Halloween is often a major festival with much dressing up and hilarity.

We love writing poetry, originally uploaded by LindaH.

Year three have been writing all sorts of poems the last couple of weeks. They seem to have really enjoyed it.
The work was never intended to all be on one display board so it has a variety of coloured paper mountings. The harvest baskets, some of the shape poems and the Autumn poems were originally going to be part of another display in the main hall.
I think I might have got away with it by using a fairly neutral backing paper but I’m still not sure.
At least it’s good to see so much good work up on the wall. I think it’s better to find examples of really good work than to put everyone’s up. What do other people think?

Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch, originally uploaded by LindaH.

Another story check list display from our Year 2 classroom. There are other displays in the room that showcase children’s own work. I still have mixed feelings about something that’s so obviously the work of an adult. How effective are such informative displays?

Up-date:

Popping back into this classroom a few days later I found a much more interactive display. A bo’sun’s line (like the one in the story) had been added. It looked great! There’s Hamish, looking suitably glum, being mobbed by a gang of hungry seagulls

A basket of food has also been added and this was where the interactivity came in. The children had been asked to sort food that might be in the Lighthouse Keeper’s lunch into food groups and talk about making healthy choices. Thus meeting one of their science targets at the same time.Then children then chose a variety of food to go into the basket:

People somtimes search for this post and forget the apostrophe, so just for them you could call it The Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.