Woodland trust calendar to download

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Teaching videos

Teaching videos

More world cup resources

This fabulous link was sent to me.

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World cup resources

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Flags

Online activities

PDF maker

I use this free software for converting word documents to pdf files. It is very simple to use. Takes a few minutes to download the software.

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Poster maker

This is good. Upload a photo and make it huge, then download the pdf files to print and stick together. The only drawback is you are limited to 1 megabyte for your original photo. Here is a poster of my cat which I experimented with. You can make it as many A4 sheets as you like. The generator gives you a rough guide to how big the finished poster will be.

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If you don't have software that will resize your original image to below 1 megabyte then search online for a free image resizer, use websites like http://www.photobucket.com/  or use 'Paint'. Here are some instructions for resizing using paint.

Learning about the world around them

A brilliant site to help children learn about the world around them.

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Big and Little schools birdwatch

New for 2010 is Little Schools' Birdwatch - designed for Early Years settings, and run in partnership with Cbeebies show 3rd & Bird.

Click the title above to take you to the RSPB website.

There are some great resources on the site. For example this bird spotter

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And this counting chart

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Make your own bird feeder and here
Recycle an old milk or juice carton here

There is some nice clipart of birds on this site

Flash card maker

Spent a good hour this morning making keyword flash cards for my daughter who is doing A level Biology. You can put the keyword on the front and the definition on the back. Great for her revision. I thought it might be useful for someone so thought I would post it here.

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Super website with lots of free resources

This is just the English section...loads of phonics resources to download. I had a quick look at the Maths section too and there are lots of resources there too. Click here

Reading motivation

Number mat

Print and laminate for lots of use.

Fabulous site for mp3, text and pdf story, poetry and nursery rhyme files

Absolutely fabulous site. You must look. You can download mp3 files, text and pdfs of literally hundreds of stories, nursery rhymes and poems.

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DK Clipart

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Motivational posters for the classroom

Pupil observation sheet

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Self assessment for young children in writing

I started putting this on the bottom of all the writing frames I make for the children with fantastic results. The children love being able to colour a star each time they remember to do something. When a child has finished writing we look at the work together and decide how many stars they should colour in.

Click on the image to open, right click and save to your computer. Insert as an image into a word document. Make your writing frame.

Activities for responding to reading

This looks like an excellent set of resources for assessing children's response to reading. Year one to year six from the Lancashire grid for learning.

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Name picker

You can literally in seconds paste your classes names into this and use it to pick random names....the kids will love it. There is a choice of a fruit machine for picking or a typewriter

Name picker

Countdown timer

I love this, you can choose different music and press countdown. It counts down second by second and plays the music.

Countdown timer