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Lego Mini Me
Long time no blog! Just been messing about on this new website, surely lots of fun for every kid (and adult)! Gives you the ability to create a mini figure based on you. Bit of promotion for the LEGO movie in the final graphics but I'm sure we all know how to use the crop feature! Anywho enjoy this piece of fun! LEGO!
Hope you like Lego Me! To create your own you can find it here http://sigfigcreator.thelegomovie.com/
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Pins I Love Part 1
Just thought saying as I use it a lot more id share the things I love on the blog. Hope they can create ideas and be of some help!
The first is an idea I am planning to use for our ICT day at the end of term to be displayed in the entrance way of the school. The second pin is an idea for our 3 Little Pigs topic in art, a nice collage of materials.
For these and more be sure to follow my pins below using the button :)
iPads in Primary Education - Persuasive Writing
Here is a 'guest' post I have found on iPad's in the classroom and how they can be used for persuasive writing at Key Stage 2. Definitely an idea I'm going to pass on to other teachers at school.
iPads in Primary Education: Using the App Store for Persuasive Writing: CONTEXT This year all the pupils in year 6 are using their own iPod in lessons, and they all have their own blog space ( http://6aclas...
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Using Apple TV and an iPad, the App Store was mirrored onto the Interactive Whiteboard. A screenshot of FIFA 2013 and The Room was opened in Skitch. The pupils were asked to highlight and identify language features of persuasive advertisements as the iPad was passed around the children used the highlight tool in Skitch to identify persuasive words, phrases and rhetorical questions.
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| FIFA13: Persuasive language in the App Store |
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Buried Treasure
This is a fairly familiar game for most Early Years Teachers and one that is very popular with the children. The focus here is to sound out, read, sort in to real and fake words and discuss meaning of words. This is a very useful game in Year One leading up to the Phonics Screening Test and a discrete way of introducing those fake words.
Personally and excellent resource is PhonicsPlay which has a different game for each of the sounds meaning you don't always have to be thinking of words with today's sound. This particular game is free on Phonics Play but subscription is only £12 and I highly recommend. Below is a flash video of the game :) Enjoy!
Alternatively, you can download from Twinkl a custom version of the game that a group of children can work on or be set up as an independent activity.
Or to be even more impressive, get into character, grab a few resources and dress up as a pirate and get the children involved for some role play!
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Rhyming Sing Along
With the new school term (fast) approaching, I found this awesome video for a rhyming pig song. The children enjoyed it. Excellent for The 3 Little Pigs topic!
Also another on Jolly Phonics from the big book.
Triptico
Some ICT resources for the masses!
This has been a recent discovery of mine and very time saving in the classroom. From previous experience it takes time making lollipop selectors, setting random groups, setting a group tally. Well this app, for your computer does it all with very little setup.
"A simple desktop app, packed full of innovative resources to enable you to quickly create engaging interactive learning." Triptico
One of my favourites in this app is the student selector, which with a swipe of the screen selects a random child. Very effective in a plenary to select a random piece of work! Also pretty helpful is the circle timer (does what it says on the tin), group scoring app and student group selector which quickly splits your class into groupings of your choosing! Very useful app from a fellow teacher, top work!
It is completely free to download the Triptico Plus app from this site. Many of the resources on the app are completely free for everybody to use, but there are some which are 'bonus resources' for Triptico Plus subscribers. Also you don't have to register! :)
#ClassDojoLove
Just a new post from me ... well really its from a favourite webpage of mine. Class Dojo (as mentioned before on here) is a revolutionary behaviour management software for the classroom that works. From personal experience it has made such a difference to both my classes I have had the pleasure of teaching.
These guys have just released a competition to get us back to school with a smile on our faces.
We'd love to hear how you plan on using ClassDojo this school year! We're sending an iPad mini or Nexus 7 tablet to our favorites! Just answer the following question via Twitter, or a public Facebook post, and include the#ClassDojoLove hashtag, by Friday August 23rd: What learning habits, behaviors, or skills do you want to build with your students this year?
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Small Steps
Just a quickie...
I have just passed 1000 views for the blog and as the title says its small steps to what I want to achieve. Here is to all that have helped and shared with the world!
Thanks again!
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Back Again!
Decided after the light of the BETT Learning Technology Event at the weekend I want to make you all aware of a piece of cloud software I have loved using in the classroom.
Became aware of this software a few years back as an individual CD-ROM through 2Simple To Create A Story which I have used in a Year One class to create a class story. Now this and much much more has been put online as a cloud software meaning schools can purchase for around £600 and access a wealth of applications which will cost much more on CD-ROM. Lets face it, its the way most ICT is heading nowadays!
"2simple was started in 2000 by teachers and IT professionals with a common mission: to make software that really helped children learn. Their software is simple, easy to use and relevant.
Their first program, the Infant Video Toolkit, was written specifically to help children from the ages of 4 to 7 develop basic core computer skills. The suite of six programs contains simple painting, publishing, counting, graphing, direction and branching database programs that are now used in schools across the UK as well as internationally. Since the release of the Infant Video Toolkit they have created many more programs based on the same principles."
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I recommend this software to anyone and I am looking into fundraising in order to purchase for our school. I particularly love the 2 Publish app, very good for basic computer skills in typing, mouse control and paint.
My only downside is that the font can sometimes be confusing with the Arial font - the 'a' bringing the most confusion as we tend to write it differently.
All in all an excellent piece of software!!
Enjoy
All Things Phonics #4 Parents
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Recently we decided in school over the Christmas holidays to send home some phonic resources to parents. This included a letter explaining about what we do, a phase appropriate sound mat and a set of tricky words. I figure this is the best place to start blogging, so giving it to the world!
What is Phonics?
Phase 1 - 5 Sound Mats (www.twinkl.co.uk)
Tricky Word Bookmarks (www.twinkl.co.uk)
Enjoy
Avatar Ani-me!
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Just wanted to share this, been looking at these for ages and really wanted one for myself. Those folks over at Twinkl have these avatars on their blogs and now they have an Avatar Creator! YAY!
Check me out! Now go and create your own!
Will be posting a lot more over the coming weeks from the folks at Twinkl. An excellent resource site for all Key Stages!
Enjoy :)