Useful+Links

 **Useful Links ~ Educational Websites / Blogs / Wikis**

Please contribute links to quality educational sites that you have used and would recommend to other teachers.

 || Cool animated movie making site - great for motivating writers [] Wall Wisher - brainstorming site [] Cool timer - plays a youtube video at the conclusion of the time. []
 *  **ICT sites** to use with kids

** Interactive White Board ** [] heaps of activities curriculum and QCA linked Reception Y1 & Y2 easy to use and very comprehensive [] free resources from Crocodile [|www.iwb.org.uk] [] [] Promethean planet - need to register [|www.btinternet.com/~tony.poulter//IWBs/resources.htm] links to other sites [] || || Some great Thinkers keys activities. [] ||  || UK Teachers site all sorts [] UNESCO global education. [] Suzie Vesper's website chocca block of good ideas for all areas of the curriculum - links to websites for all levels Suzie Vesper's website
 * **Thinking Skills **
 * **Great teacher sites **

Great web sites for teachers and students Lesley Ennis and Sharon Taylor Ashburton Borough School Key: J = junior area, S= senior area, F= free, I=interactive

All curriculum areas top sites [|Earthquake activity update] [|http://www.sparklebox.co.uk] (J & F : lots of great visual aids, displays posters, ideas, a must use site for all junior area teachers) Sparklebox - resources to print for displays and topic. Aimed at juniors but easily used up to year 6. [] (J, S, F and I: lesson plans, power points great ideas, set out by curriculum and age) [] (J, S, F and I: lots of good teaching ideas and online games, organised by curriculum area) [] (J, S, F and I: lots of good teaching ideas and online games, organised by class level and curriculum area) [] (J, S, and I: plans display, sheets, displays etc WARNING does cost organised by curriculum area) [] (J, S, F and I: good interactive games and activities to support maths and literacy. [] (J & F : mainly worksheets and activity sheets to support early learning best for New entrants year one) [|www.kidzone.ws] (J, S & F : mainly worksheets and activity sheets to support all curriculum areas. [|http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk] (J, S, F and I: good interactive games and activities to support maths and literacy. [] (J, S, F and I: lots of good teaching ideas and online games, organised by class level and curriculum area)

** Early Years ** [|www.starfall.com] (J & F : reading and pre reading activities sheets to support early learning best for New entrants year one) [|www.carlscorner.us.com] (spelling and grammar, free, not all links are still active) [|www.teacher.scholastic.com/clifford1/] (good for junior area, especially if you like Clifford!) [|www.pbskids.org] (J, F & I, covers all areas best for early junior) [|www.puzzlemaker.com] (J, S & F really cool site where you can create all sorts of puzzles to fit your focus, try the word search great fun) [|www.handwritingworksheets.com] (handwriting sheets average)

** Circle time activities ** [] Puzzle maker[] [] puzzle maker sites || || San Francisco Orchestra Site for kids: Interactive music theory, instruments of the orchestra (picture and sound), an interative keyboard etc. Great to introduce and interest kids in musical notation and instruments. []
 * Cool sites for teaching music

Interactive piano keyboard. Great for teaching basic melody lines / notation to beginners. []

Music tracks to download. Most .99c or $1.99. Cover version, instrumental with backing singers, or just instrumental available for most tracks. Can change pitch before you download. Really useful for choir trainers. []

[] cool karaoke site to sing along with. My class loves it. It is really good for reading fluency as the kids are so motivated to manage the singing in time - they really make an effort. ||
 * How to... Procedural reading / writing || This is a wiki-style site which you can join for free and contribute to. Great place for finding How To.... and for contributing your own quality How Tos. Some of my year 4, 5 & 6 class are submitting thier instructions for various inventions, recipes they have created etc. [|instructables]

Build Yourself Wild - design a character. Great for writing character descriptions. ||
 * Literacy sites

|| [] **//Into the Book//** is a reading comprehension resource for K-4 students and teachers. We focus on eight research-based strategies: Using Prior Knowledge, Making Connections, Questioning, Visualizing, Inferring, Summarizing, Evaluating and Synthesizing.

Key: J = junior area, S= senior area, F= free, I=interactive [|www.storylineonline.net] (J & F : stories read by actors) [] (J, S & F on line books) [] (J & F good online interactive phonics activities) [] [] [|There are KS1] and KS2 sites [] word games site [|http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org] Online stories and poems ||
 * **Maths Sites** || [] Maths games, tutorials and movies.

Key: J = junior area, S= senior area, F= free, I=interactive [] [] [] [] problem solving [] maths games [] (countdown clock, handy for rotations choice of alarm) [] http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ (J, S, F & I, one of the best sites I've found) [] Great site for the kids to use at home. ||