Poetry for kids rhyming dictionary online

I just love this site. Fantastic for writing poetry or even finding lists for phonics lessons.

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Communication 4 All

Communication 4 All

I really love this website. There are loads of free resources with an emphasis on the child with SEN. Some great printables and games. You must check it out!

Flip flaps or flip flops for Numeracy

Great resource for numeracy. You can use them for number bonds to 10, counting in 2's, 4's. 5's etc. The one above is one I made for number bonds to ten. The instructions for making one are in the first link

Here are some links

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Time Fillers

What to do in those spare few minutes with a whole class...

A TA might just have to look after a class for a few minutes if the teacher is called away. What can you do with them

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Circle time activities are good too. One I use is:-
Children sit in a circle and close their eyes. I gently touch a child's head and they have to go and hide. I ask all the children to open their eyes and guess who is missing.

Also chinese whispers is a very popular one.

Group work feedback form

Thank you to Vee from the HLTA forum who has sent me these two feedback forms that she has designed.

This is a form I designed for using in class or for group intervention work. I use a simple tick, tick and question mark or a cross if the children have either got the objective, nearly got it or haven't got it at all. I find it easy to use whilst working with a group of children.

Click on the image above and then right click and save to your computer. You can then insert it into a word document set for Landscape. I hope you find it as useful as I do.

Vee from the forum just suggested a traffic light system where you could use the colours red, amber and green for if the children have understood the objective or not. Thanks Vee!

Plastic Milk bottle lids

What do you do with yours?

We save ours at school and use them for giving each child in the class a little pva glue. They can be thrown away afterwards...no washing up! I have also started collecting the green, and blue ones. With a permanent marker you can write consonants on the green ones and vowels on the blue ones. Children can make words with them.

Use them for wheels on junk models also for filling larger containers to make shakers (Tezz)

Our school collects them and gives them to the local children's hospice who exchange them for money. I think alot of schools round here do the same so it adds up to a fair bit of money. (Juniper)

If you have any other ideas then join the forum and post your idea or comment on this thread.
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Certificate maker

Another site from Blueliz's link, thankyou!

A certificate maker

http://www.123certificates.com/

Dice maker

Blueliz sent me a link with lots of sites on.

I found this on one of them which I thought might be useful

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/dice/

Make your own writing paper

I like this site and use it a lot for producing writing paper for the role play area. Lots of themes and different line sizes. Have a go and you will be amazed at the lovely paper you can make.

http://www.dltk-cards.com/writingpaper/cpaper1.asp

Useful tools for teaching assistants and teachers

Great for finding groups of words
http://www.morewords.com/

Fantastic site for making alsorts of resources
http://www.senteacher.org/Print/

Phonic word list generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/wordlist/

Loop card generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/myloops/

Make your own Educational worksheets
http://www.educationalpress.org/index.asp

Make your own handwriting sheets
http://66.113.195.73/

Puzzle maker
http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/

Make your own games - fantastic site with lots of ideas for games
http://www.kellyskindergarten.com/Games/GamestoMake/games_to_make.htm

Sudoko generator
http://random.brendenisteaching.com/sudoku/

A huge collection of links to help anyone in education
http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teachertools2.htm#form