Easter Hols - the learning doesn't stop!

Moved house and spent the weekend unpacking and settling in....everything has it's rightful place, for now. Don't think it will all settle in until I start back at work. Really missing having a car, but feels good to get some fresh air in the lungs! 

Couch to 5km in the rain, Terance watch, gardening, relaxing & marking! Making progress on my motivation board ideas, rejoining SW and plan to get fit!! Accommodation booked for mountain climbs too....its all becoming very real! Nervous/excited...challenge accepted!p

Cannot get into The Book Thief, started Girl In The The Box 5 "Omega" ...making good progress on my Goodreads challenge. Finished book 6 "Broken" in 24hrs!! I just can't get enough these holibobs!

Walking, tracking exercise with runkeeper app; hiding stretchy man daily for Simon to find! Trying new SW recipes: chicken arribiata; learning what my apps do and how to apply them to teaching! I have also completed a 20 mile bike ride....note to self invest in some padded cycling shorts! 

I aim to make some stop animations for revision purposes and look into how QR codes can help students with exam questions.....

Started expecting with painting my nails again....here are my Iron Man nails.  I also watched .Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2' a lot these holidays! Loving the spring onion dinosaurs!,

Learning up to the Easter holidays.....

Easter holidays at last.....both staff and students alike are ready for the 2 week break! We've all made it and despite the tiredness kicking in, it's been another week of learning! 

Takeaway homework has made an appearance this week with much thanks to the very talented @TeacherToolkit and also stop animations! I acquired a science based Takeaway Homework and made some very slight adjustments.   I am initially trailing it with my Yr10 chemistry group, who on the surface thought it was very exciting that they could chose their own homework! I have given them a 3 week deadline to compete 3 different tasks.  Looking forward to the results! My lovely colleague, Jo, showed me how to use stop animations and I'm really looking forward to giving it a go after the Easter holidays with my classes.  I am initially thinking it would be a good way to revise topics that involve molecules. 

Over ther Easter break, I will be catching up on some sleep, but also looking into different apps that I will be able to use in the classroom.  Initial thoughts are using some for revision: Socrative, Stop animations and Popplet!