The Alphabubblies jumping song is an excellent video that the children enjoy because they can sing along with the video. Check out the video here.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Sentence Building
Below are some great sites for young students to work
on building and creating complete sentences.
Many have oral options and would be great to use
whole class or with individual students.
Let the sentence building begin!
Students drag the puzzle pieces to make a sentence.
Students fill in the blank to complete the sentences.
This has an audio button where the sentences
can be read to them for an independent activity.
The teacher types in a sentence and the words are them mixed up.
The student's must arrange the words
correctly on the runway to complete the sentence.
Arrange the words in the correct order across the bottom of the
screen to make a proper sentence and reveal the patchwork picture.
Click on a word or letter and while holding down your mouse button,
drag it to a different place on the refrigerator.
When you release your mouse button, the word will "stick" to
the fridge right where you left it.
If you need to duplicate a word, click on the word and hit the
"d" key and another card for that word will appear.
Click the words/phrases to make complete sentences and earn bananas.
This is a great site from Reading Rainbow. Just click on a button
from each row to make a silly sentence.
Once you complete your sentence, it is read aloud to you!
The following sites from TES iboard are all great sentence creators.
Students position the characters on the backdrop
and then create sentences to show their location.
Make silly sentence by dragging around nouns and verbs into the boxes.
Click on the sound icons to hear the words.
A correctly formed sentence will be rewarded with an image
and sentences can be printed.
Gamequarium - Maths Games
Gamequarium is an excellent online website with a variety of wonderful online Maths games for students. Check out the website here.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Ordinal Numbers
Alien Flower Show
Drag the flowers into order and label them with ordinal numbers. Which flower should come first? Which flower should come last? What comes after 2nd?
Compare the aliens' attributes: most arms, most legs, etc. Put them into order - 1st, 2nd, 3rd. Do different aliens win different competitions?
The aliens each say which place they go in the line. Put them in the correct order.
Watch the snail race carefully and award rosettes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Watch carefully as the aliens teleport in. Who arrived 1st, 2nd and 3rd?
Click the start button to start the race. When the race is over move the cars to the left column in the order that they finished.
Ordinal Numbers
Sparklebox Ordinal Number Printables can be found here
including banners, ordinal numbers and words mats, PP files on ordinal numbers, and ordinal numbers on ducks, flowers, planets, and cars!
source: Technology Rocks
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Leapfrog Videos
Below are direct links to the videos.
Talking Word Factory
Letter Factory
Storybook Factory
Math Circus
Patterns
Patterns are a difficult area to teach because most of the time teachers will just do the one activity where children create their own pattern. Some of the following links may come in useful for introducing patterns into your classroom. Check out some of the resources here, here, here and of course, here, as well as here.
Just in case the third one doesn't work the link to copy and paste into your address bar is below.
Counting
I have recently been looking at ordering numbers in my classroom and came across two new resources which may be useful. The first activity (which can be found here) encourages children to order the colourful numbers on the Interactive Whiteboard. The second website (which can be found here) has about five different activities on ordering numbers.
1,2,3,4,5 Once I Caught A Fish Alive
1,2,3,4,5 is a short little video on counting and it is great for teaching younger children about the numbers 1-5 and beyond. Check out the video here.
Villainy Inc
Villainy Inc is an awesome new online Maths game for students in Year 3- Year 6. Students have to solve Maths problems to save the world.
Your cover is as one of Dr. Wick's trusted advisors at Villainy, Inc. This means he'll turn to you for help on all of his plans…and that you alone can help stop him.
How? Dr. Wick has one important weakness: he has no idea how to make any of his plans work. With help from the AVU and some quick mathematical thinking, you should be able to foil Dr. Wick's plans without him even knowing it!
The AVU has assembled an elite team to help you with your missions. Field Agents Garbanzo Al Dente, Dr. Winifred Patterson, Kotori Hoshi, Coach, Molly Wick, Pascal, and the robot Mathbot are all prepared to help you stop Dr. Wick. You can call on two field agents for help throughout each mission.
Each agent has their own strengths and weaknesses, so be sure to read their biographies in the Anti-Villainy Unit Briefing area.
HQ will tell you when and how to foil Dr. Wick's plans. You'll receive a briefing at the start of each mission. You'll also get an email from HQ before each activity with detailed instructions on what you're expected to do.
If you're stuck during a mission, you can always call on Deep Thought as a last resort. Deep Thought is the AVU's mysterious live-in genius. Each time you call Deep Thought you'll get a little more help. But don't call back too quickly, or you're likely to get Deep Thought's annoying secretary, Maxine. And don't expect Deep Thought to do your missions for you — you're not a field agent for nothing!"
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Professional Reading - Child Led Learning
Stephen Heppell is a wonderful educator and one whose videos and readings I could watch and read every day. You can find one of his conference presentations here.
75 Interesting Ways to use an iPad in the Classroom
For those who want to use the iPad in new, interesting ways in the classroom, check out some tips here.
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Sesame Street
Days of the Week Song
The Teacher opposite my classroom plays this Youtube video when teaching the children about the Days of the Week and the kids seem to absolutely love it, it's a short video to the tune of The Addams Family, view the video here.
ABC Ya
I've mentioned ABC Ya Before while making a post about typing but I think I would be doing the site a disservice if I didn't mention some of the other wonderful resources on the site. There are Literacy and Numeracy games for all sorts of levels and they are all wonderfully interactive and brilliantly imaginative, this site is well and truly worth checking out. Check it out here.
Ten ideas to help your child with reading
Some tips are included in the following link for helping your child with reading. Read the article here.
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