Mrs Irvin and her little Munchkins

The children I teach are mostly now 11; am I babying them a bit? I decided that (although they are my little munchkins) a title of Year 6′s Blog would be more appropriate. The response I got was not the one of indifference I’d expected:

“Year 6′s blog? What? That could be anybody!”

“Why aren’t we your little muchkins anymore?”

“Change it back!”

Needless to say I will do so and, in future, will consult them about blog decisions.

I intend to use this page to record and share my teaching experiences. I hope you find them useful.

Claire

http://mrsirvinsmunchkins.blogspot.com/

After the wonderfully inspiring Teachmeet Blackpool last Thursday I decided to throw out my literacy plan and try something new to engage my pupils. One look at ‘Machinarium’ and I knew that it would fit in perfectly to our fiction genres topic. I immediately loved the slightly dark and mysterious world, as did my class when they saw it. I was very impressed with the ‘Brainstorm’ forum in our Fronter classroom that developed after only a small glimpse at the game.

Unfortunately,  we have now come to end of the free demo and my class are demanding to know when I am going to buy the full version! I’ll have to get on that tomorrow

Hopefully, I’ll be able to get some recordings of the children reading their creations and upload them for the world to hear – but for now just a taster…

“A little dot in the far distance, hardly visible through the fog, comes closer and closer growing larger and larger. It looks like a little bee – yellow in colour and then you realise it’s a screech, the street cleaners of machinarium….”

“A dot in the distance, beyond the tallest tower, grew larger and larger as it tumbled across the sky leaving a trail of black dust behind it. The creature was called a fly-bot. It got faster and faster as it got closer, and as it got closer it was more visible. He was made out of metal but that wasn’t a surprise in the land of Machinarium, everybody was a robot!”