Sunday, 15 November 2009
Saturday, 31 October 2009
More E2BN
discoverybox.e2bn.org - Inspired by anti slavery campaigner, Thomas Clarkson. It provides a toll for KS2 children to build up evidence , argument and description of a historical event or person by children being able to create their own virtual discovery box. Great for any history topic!
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
E2BN again.
This time a great website for ICT in the early years which is often an area difficult to find resources for. This site has loads of ideas and resources to support early years practitioners. www.foundation.e2bn.org
Another e2bn site!
War witness is a great resource for those studying everything from WWII to more recent conflicts. Find it at www.warwitness.e2bn.org
Fantastic websites from E2BN
The purpose of the 'cook it' website is to improve children's knowledge and understanding and of course enjoyment of food. There is a wide range of teaching resources including a recipe section, cook it creator where children can make their own food TV show and also a recipe creator where children can create instructions with photos as a cross curricular link with literacy.
Here is the 'cook it creator' kitchen. Try it youself at: www.cookit.e2bn.org
Sunday, 25 October 2009
Sorry!
Due to the security settings on my new work laptop I have been unable to update recently but please still click on the ads for me. I am trying to resolve the problem asap!
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Saturday, 5 September 2009
Hello everyone, and welcome to the new term! I hope you and your class have settled in well, I'm not sure who was more tired at the end of last the week, me or my Year 1s. I'm hoping to include lots of exciting and useful things on my blog this year and expand the number of people looking at it. Please let your teacher chums know about it and please keep clicking the ads so that I can raise money for my charity trek to Nepal next year.
Lynn x
Lynn x
Friday, 24 July 2009
Friday, 10 July 2009
Two stars and a wish!
Using 2 stars and a wish is a great way of marking for both infants and juniors and there are lots of resources available online to support it. The one above is from Sparklebox. (http://resources.sparkleplus.co.uk/sb165.pdf)
The strategy of ‘Two stars and a wish’ was aims to encourage the children to reflect on their own and each other’s learning. It promotes peer assessment as well as both children and teachers can adopt the technique.
The ‘two stars’ in the strategy form the positive feedback on a piece of work and the ‘wish’ indicates where development could be made. Children can assess their own work by giving themselves ‘stars’ and ‘wishes’ or they can give feedback on another child’s work. The strategy can be flexible and allows the children to sometimes give only one star or no wish.
You can also get rubber stamps to help with marking, this one can be found at: http://www.makeyourmark.biz/teachers_selecta.html
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Thanks to my friend Lisa for this one!
Monday, 29 June 2009
Explore the world from your whiteboard!
http://learn.christianaid.org.uk/globalexplorerswhiteboard/index.html
Global Explorers is a fantastic, interactive whiteboard resource for primary schools.
It features fascinating facts, quizzes, video footage, photos, lesson plans, worksheets and the real-life stories of children all over the world.
This resource is ideal for cross-curricular teaching. It encourages active learning and stimulates thinking about global issues.
Global Explorers is a fantastic, interactive whiteboard resource for primary schools.
It features fascinating facts, quizzes, video footage, photos, lesson plans, worksheets and the real-life stories of children all over the world.
This resource is ideal for cross-curricular teaching. It encourages active learning and stimulates thinking about global issues.
Global Explorers covers the following themes:
water
climate change
comparing lives
active citizenship
disasters
access to food
healthy eating
what influences how Christian people act
the work of a faith-based charity
Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Thursday, 18 June 2009
Teaching ICT
This site is dedicated to teaching ICT at all levels. Students will find revision notes to learn your ICT subject along with plenty of quizzes, competitions, polls to keep things interesting. Teachers will find starters and plenaries along with Schemes of Work ( SoW) , lesson ideas and tons of free material. Revision resources for every level are available.
I particularly like the video tutorials section! View at: http://www.teach-ict.com/index.html
Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Just for Fun!
Monday, 15 June 2009
http://school.discoveryeducation.com/teachingtools/teachingtools.html
Lots of useful teacher stuff! Including hundreds of good quality classroom resources.
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Here is one of my Egyptian displays, focusing on using non-fiction books - key words were obtained from http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/
Wednesday, 10 June 2009
Writing Fun!
This site is great for all aspects of writing as it gives children the structure they need in order to write in a particular genre. I'd actually forgotten about it until I was looking around for something to blog today! I was a bit miffed as I thought of lots of occasions this year where I could have used it!
For a report, for example, there is information about all the things you need to remember as well as 6 examples of work, ranging from year 2/3 standard up to year 6/7 standard.
Monday, 8 June 2009
Film Street
Film Street - Everything you need to help and inspire you to use film in your classroom! This of course fits in very nicely with the Primary Framework!
There are lots of activities for children to do to find out more about how films are made. In my year group we planned a unit of work on Wall-E and the information and activities on the website really helped my class gain a better understanding of how films are put together.
Needless to say, they were very motivated and produced some fantastic work that week!
Other areas on the website include an area for teachers, news about current films and useful information on different film genre such as making a documentary.
Sunday, 7 June 2009
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Scratch - Free animation and control software!!
I have been having so much fun with this! I was introduced to it at an ICT subject coordinators meeting in Essex and I've just Incorporated it into our ICT planning for year 5.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Scratch is available free of charge!
The website says: Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.
Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create and share Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also learning to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively.
Scratch is available free of charge!
http://scratch.mit.edu/download to download
http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Support for support which includes
video guides, activities for children and a getting started guide.
Here is an example of one of the 10 pdf documents you can download for use with the children. My class are loving it! They can download the program at home and make their own animations to upload to the scratch website. You can also download any animations already on the website that link with current topics that you are studying.
Friday, 5 June 2009
Assemblies Website
This assemblies website is great for assemblies throughout the year for all year groups. They are also very fast at adding assemblies about recent events. http://www.assemblies.org.uk/
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