Creating a comic is a great engaging learning activity. It can be used in all subject areas from P-12. Reading ( retell, make a new ending, create…
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100 square activities
Posted in Addition, Classroom, Counting, Division, iPads and Apps, Maths, Maths Apps, Multiplication, Number, Place Value, and Subtraction
I have listed some of my favourite sites for using the 100 square in your teaching. I have used these as warm up activities for maths on…
Create interesting titles for projects
Posted in Classroom, General, and Teacher Resources
http://cooltext.com/ Cool text allows you to create a FREE graphic’s/Logo’s and then download it as a pic. (You can also use the HTML code and embed it…
More Apps and Websites for spelling?
Posted in Classroom, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Literacy Apps, Spelling, Writing, and Writing Apps
This post is all about spelling. I have posted about sites you can use in education such as word clouds (…
Digital Citizenship: Free images you can use in the classroom
Posted in Classroom, General, and Web 2.0 tools
The internet is a huge web filled with massive amounts of information in all forms, videos, images and text. I believe very strongly that we need to…
Wild Fables App – Aesops Interactive Fables
Posted in iPads and Apps, Literacy, Literacy Apps, and Reading apps
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wild-fables/id418338859?mt=8 Wild fables is a FREE app (you are able to purchase additional fables for .99 cents). You get three stories which are interactive. The Crow…
How Stuff Works and Discovery Kids
Posted in Classroom, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, and Teacher Resources
http://www.howstuffworks.com/ How stuff works is exactly that. It is a website which uses a variety of media (text, audio, video) to explain how everything works.…
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…
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…
Record of Reading App: LOVE THIS !!!!!!
Posted in General Teacher Apps, iPads and Apps, Literacy Apps, Reading, and Reading apps
I absolutely love this app! It has been designed for the ipad. https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/record-of-reading/id543574721?mt=8 The record of reading was created by Marie Clay and allows for…
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…