I’m just getting my desk cleared, ready for a week of teaching. Some of my students bring their stuffed toys to their lessons.

Sometimes the toys speak on their behalf, it takes away some of the anxiety over making mistakes, and I’m happy to chat to stuffed toys.

I’ve now got Paddington on standby in case I need reinforcements.

For breakfast this morning, my student and I sampled some banana. This photo is a reconstruction, because by the time it occurred to me that we could write on the skin … I’d already eaten mine … so only my student actually wrote on a banana at the time!

Can anyone recommend edible pens? I don’t think sharpies and soft fruit will be a tasty combination!

Dienes (or Base 10) are a really useful way of showing number in a concrete way.