http://www.poetry4kids.com/poems Kenn Nesbitt’s Poetry for Kids is another source of poetry for your classroom.It contains a great range of poems, games, how to write your…
Category: Literacy
Great Poetry Website: Giggle Poetry
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Reading, Teacher Resources, Uncategorized, and Writing
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/poetryclass/poetryclass.html Giggle poetry is a great site for interesting and funny poems to share with your class. The poems have been put into categories (there are lots…
Padlet online multimedia pin board
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Maths, and Web 2.0 tools
Padlet http://padlet.com Wall Wisher is a free online pin board which allows all forms of mulitmedia to be posted. (video, audio, pics, Web Links). It…
You are your words website: textual pictures
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, and Web 2.0 tools
http://www.youareyourwords.com/ This site allows you to upload any picture, add text and voila out comes a picture with the text. The one drawback I found was the…
Online Interactive Brainstorming / Mind Mapping Tools
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, History, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Reading, Science, and Writing
There are a lot of online, interactive brainstorming tools and graphic organisers which can be used in the classroom. I have featured only two of…
National Geographic for Kids http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/ I have used the photfill in’s with my class when we were discussing dialogue and speech bubbles, the children thought…
Tagxedo http://www.tagxedo.com/ Tagzedo is a free word cloud software, that allows you to create text into different shapes.The one on the right is a christmas…
Puzzle Maker at Discovery Education http://www.discoveryeducation.com/free-puzzlemaker/?CFID=2270462&CFTOKEN=93156013 Puzzle Maker is a free resource and allows you to create Word Searches, Crossword puzzles, mazes, Hidden messages and…
Pic Lits is a great site which could be used for older grades, but the pictures could be used as writing inspiration for all grades.…
Toondoo – create online comics and books
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, Literacy, Reading, and Writing
http://www.toondoo.com/Login.toon?param=reg Toondoo is free and allows the children to make their own digital cartoons and books. They look fantastic! The website also allows you to…
I love You Tube. Below are some videos I found that you could use in your classroom. I like the fact that you can read…
Christmas Websites
Posted in Christmas, Classroom, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Maths, and Reading
Ho Ho Ho, it’s that time of year again so I thought I would focus this post on various Christmas websites I have used in the classroom.…