Guest Post: Creating Authors With Booksmart
What are the greatest aspirations you might have for your students in the various subject areas? From your maths class you might like a mathematician. From SESE, you might hope for a scientist, historian or geologist. From PE, an Olympian. From Visual Arts, a sculptor. And so on. But what might be your greatest aspiration for a student from your English class? Perhaps an author? read more…
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Numeracy Toolkit
Donal Horgan from Áiseanna.com contacted me to let teachers know about a new maths product which he has just released. Áiseanna is the same company which developed the Maths Tracker CDs. This new product, Numeracy Toolkit, is a computer programme designed to improve numeracy skills in the number range 1-100. While the programme will be of particular benefit to pupils in the age range six to ten who are in the process of broadening their knowledge of number in this range, read more…
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Fun 2 Write
Fun 2 Write is a website with free printables especially useful for the infant classroom. It includes alphabet tracing worksheets; number tracing worksheets for numbers 1-10; shape recognition and tracing worksheets; colour identification worksheets; big/small, tall/short etc. worksheets; number recognition and simple addition worksheets. read more…
Collaborative Writing With Widbook
The team behind Widbook contacted me to see if teachers might be interested in this free digital collaborative reading and writing platform that’s creating a buzz among the teaching, tech and publishing industries. It may be of particular interest to those teachers who are looking to collaborate on writing projects with pupils (or who wish to publish a book with pupils for free this year). read more…
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I’m sure that many of you are aware that providing a website with more than 3,000 free resources and articles does not come cheap. Some people may think that because the resources are free, that the site also comes free. But that is not the case. Because of the level of traffic into the site, I’m constantly trying to make sure that there is enough bandwidth to ensure that the site does not crash. read more…
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Making choices can be difficult for some pupils on the autism spectrum. However, it is important that they get experience of making choices. This Choice Board is a great visual cue to the pupil and allows them to select one of six choices to include in their schedule. The choices are included in a shape, not a line, so that it is not confused with a schedule. The teacher may at first like to direct the choices or the pupil may have a say on what is included on the Choice Board. The sheets should be laminated and pictures of the six choices
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Topography Games Website
Topography Games is a section from the Games.co.za website. It is a free resource for teachers, pupils and parents to use and contains links to various Geography games which are suitable for senior primary and post-primary school aged pupils. Topography is about the description of geographic features and landmarks and the names of places. The links on this site will fit in well with the Natural Environments strand of the SESE Geography curriculum. read more…