Know the World - Globalising kids

Use this simple activity to familiarise the children with main parts of the world map. Very useful for lesson starters!
http://funschool.kaboose.com/globe-rider/games/game_my_world.html

Values with News

I am exploring ways to make reading newspapers more purposeful for children.

• Select news that are more relevant and match the news to a core value.
• Discuss and share the news in class, highlight how WE should feel after reading the news.
• Ask them which core value they think the news help them to see. It kind of helps them make meaning of the things they read in a simple way.
  
• Put the news up at the back of the class to allow follow-ups. (E.g Classify news under core value headings) If it becomes a habit, they will be able to id the core value very quickly!

Time for Kids offers many interesting news for reading with the children.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/

Steps to Take for Kids' Research

A site that brings the children through the main steps of online research. Recommended for P3 HA and above.
http://www.cyberbee.com/raccoons/raccoon.html

Useful framework with lots of resource packages for EL and Maths

Lesson packages with rationale and clear objectives for busy teachers. Will be good to browse through site to adapt resources for use in classrooms. Thank you Miss Woo, for sharing the site.
http://www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframework/

Resources from CanTeach

Lots of lesson plans, thousands of links, and tons of other resources for teaching. Explore the songs and poems, very useful for setting rules for younger kids.

http://www.canteach.ca/

SONGS for TEACHING

Plenty of songs that can be used for teaching various subjects. Lyrics are available and songs can be listened to online.

http://www.songsforteaching.com
http://www.havefunteaching.com/songs.html

Interestingly simple Website for EL

Simple to navigate website for kids on English with grammar games.

http://kidsite.arapahoelibraries.org/

Teaching Time

This site provides three interactive resources on Time : An interactive clock for basic time reading, a matching activity on analog and digital clocks, and the a very good one on telling time after/before a given duration. Do note that we use only a single dot here and not 2 as in the resources listed.
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/category_g_1_t_4.html

Archive of resources from BBC

A good collection of interactive activities for use in teaching of various subjects. Pre-lesson exploration of site is strongly encouraged if you want to use it for presentation in class.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/index.shtml

Videos for teachers

Lots of videos here that can be downloaded for viewing. Quite an extensive library of clips for teaching purposes or simply for professional development. Registration is free and needed if you wish to download the videos.

http://www.teachers.tv/