Top five tips for creating resources for the interactive whiteboard

Box of Tricks is a fabulous website with plenty of ideas on making the most of Smartboards in the classroom. Plus tips on whiteboard magic and other bewitching tricks to get your class really interacting with MFL.

Word of the Week: Spaghettieis

Spaghettieis is a German-invented ice cream, a cool concoction that looks like a plate of spaghetti bolognese. Created in the 1960s in Mannheim, it is not very well known outside Germany. The white ice cream is squeezed through a press so that it resembles spaghetti, before being topped with strawberry sauce and grated almonds or white chocolate shavings to represent parmesan cheese.

What do you think? Would you try some?

Word of the Week: lustig

Lustig is a great German word. It means funny, merry, jolly. It can also be added to another word to give another layer of meaning. For example, lebenslustig means in love with life, or full of zest.

Does anyone know any other adjectives ending with -lustig? I'd be really interested to know.