Such a good training day

Today was one of the few training days we have as part of the course and wow, it was good!
There were so many bright ideas given to us that are so simple but so beneficial to the children, whether they are whole lessons or five minute fillers.
The lecturer went through such games as word tennis, alienation phonics, spot the difference (using text), missing item passages and loads more word games.
All were designed at increasing the children's word voacublary and all were really fun (even for us!)
That was followed by assessment for learning where we got given so many helpful hints to bring to the classroom.
Such things as talk partners, using lollypop sticks and even as simple as interactive displays for helping learning.
There is another training day tomorrow, I hope it is just as worthwhile!