Collected Links (September - December 2006)

http://www.primarystuff.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=107.0
This forum post includes all the websites I've linked to in the blog this term presented on one easy to click page. The past two collections (July 2005 - February 2006 and March 2006 - July 2006) are also still available.

Site Update: 15th December 2006

The final update of this term has 40 new resources including lots of Christmas themed material. Full details are below.

Since September 2006 we've added over 1,000 new resources and almost 200 new photographs to Primary Resources. A very big thank you to all the many, many teachers who have shared their material and have supported the site in other ways this term. The updates will take a small break until the new year but please keep sending in your resources!

ENGLISH: Y5 Skills in Reading / Non-Fiction Prompts / Phoneme Count (PiP s5 g1) (ppt) / Antonyms / Speech Marks / Bob Robber and Dancing Jane Characters
MATHS: Which is Greater? Which is Less? (ppt) / Numberline Strategies: Counting Up (ppt) / Handling Data (ppt) / 2d and 3d Shapes (Smart) / Stand Up Fractions Game / Mode and Range / Tables Loop Cards / Adding Several Numbers / Traffic Survey / Linking Addition and Subtraction / Add up the Coins (<£1) / Add up the Coins (>£1) / Shopping (Paper Addition) / Toy Sale Fractions
SCIENCE: Changing State / Light Sources Survey
HISTORY: Famous Victorians (ppt) / Lord Shaftesbury (ppt) / Mary Tudor (ppt) / Roman Gods
D&T: Slippers Introduction (ppt)
RE: Mother Teresa (ppt)
LANGUAGES: Christmas Display Vocab / Christmas Display Pictures
PSHE: The United Nations (ppt)
OTHER: Christmas Tree Fractions / Sleigh Investigation (Smart) / The Christmas Story (ppt) / Christmas Codes / The Night Before Christmas / Christmas Assembly / Christmas Word Search Template
ASSEMBLY: Recycling Assembly

Primary Strategy Q&A

http://education.guardian.co.uk/talk
I've been asked to mention the online Q&A on the National Strategies that the Guardian newspaper is running this week. Paul Wagstaff, the national director for primary, and Nigel Bufton, the strategy's programme director of mathematics, will be live online on Friday December 15, from 12.30pm to 2pm, to answer your questions. I know that many of you will have other things to do at lunchtime but if you visit the site now you can leave your question for them to answer tomorrow.

Exploratorium

http://www.exploratorium.edu/
This museum of science, art and human perception in the US has a great website. It's very easy to spend a lot of time exploring it! The site's Digital Library has an interesting collection of photographs as well as a searchable database of mathematics activities. There's an online exhibition of optical illusions and even a complete fun science book (which is really useful when you're looking at instructions).

Ancient Civilisations

http://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk
Students can explore and compare civilisations from the ancient world using this site from the British Museum. It's packed with objects, photographs and information on the themes of writing, buildings, cities, religion, trade and technology. The interface can be a little tricky to follow at times so the site would be best used with upper KS2 or in teacher led sessions with younger children.

Amanda Hayler's Resources

http://www.amandahayler.co.uk/schools.htm
Amanda Hayler's fun website includes interactive activities (on electricity, minibeasts, plants and the Tudors), photographs, clip art and a collection of links.

Site Update: 8th December 2006

There are well over 50 new resources in this week's update. Full details are below. My thanks go to everyone who continues to support the site by sending in contributions.

ENGLISH: Y4/5 Medium Frequency Wordsearches / Seaside Wordsearch / Beach Poem / or Words / Birthday Privilege Debate / Science Fiction Story Planning Sheet / Blank Playscript Template
MATHS: Number Bonds Dominoes 0-5 / Price Tags 11p-19p /Fractions Y4 T1 U11 d1 & 2 (Activ) / Silent Subtraction Game / Area & Perimeter (ppt) / Symmetry / Weight Investigation (1kg) / Fruit Subtraction / Adding up to 10 / Beach Carroll Diagram / Beach Activity Graphs / Coins (Making Totals ) / Coin Purses (Making Totals) / Division Machines / Shapes Detectives (ppt) / Word Problem Solving (Smart) / Word Problem Solving Cards / Adding Several 4-digit Numbers (Measures) / World Timezones (Smart)
SCIENCE: Earth, Moon and Sun (Activ) / Healthy Eating (ppt) / Exercise (ppt)
HISTORY: Tudor Entertainment / The Story of Anne Boleyn (ppt)
GEOGRAPHY: The Caribbean / Cutting Down Rainforests
D&T: Moving Toys (Smart) / Moving Toys Booklet
RE: Muhammad / Holy Books / What is the Bible?
LANGUAGES: French: Animals Booklet / French: Describing People
FOUNDATION: Days Display / Months Display / Counting in 2s Display
PSHE: Family Circle
OTHER: Christmas Maths (Smart) / Christmas Quiz (ppt) / Advent Calendar Template / Christmas Dictionary (xls) / Christmas Deliveries Maths Investigation (ppt) / Timetable Labels / The Three Kings (Writing Playscripts) (Activ) / Christmas Fractions

Language of the Month

http://www.newburypark.redbridge.sch.uk/langofmonth/
This absolutely superb website has been produced by Newbury Park Primary School in Redbridge. It showcases the huge number of languages spoken in the school and provides a wonderful resource to promote language awareness.

Each language is demonstrated by one of the bilingual children at the school. You can listen to some simple everyday words, basic questions & answers and learn how to count from 1 to 12. There's also a section which gives a little information about where the language is spoken.

You can download each of the presentations or the associated audio files to use offline. There's also a resource pack for each language (which gives you everything you need to make a suitable wall display) as well as a great activity booklet with over a hundred ideas for promoting language awareness.

KS1 Christmas Resources

http://www.northpole.com/Overview/Teacher.html
There's some useful Christmas themed worksheets, suitable for Foundation and Key Stage 1 students, on this US site. They cover areas such as big/small, left/right, rhyming words and counting. There's dot to dot puzzles (using numbers and letters), wordsearches and mazes as well.

Ma & Pa Kettle Do Maths

My thanks go to Ann for pointing us in the direction of this great clip from one of the old "Ma and Pa Kettle" movies. It's the classic scene where they try and convince a business partner that 25 divided by 5 is 14. Upper KS2 students love it, especially when they realise that the family in the film make the same mistakes that they do!

Watch it on your favourite movie site... Google Video - You Tube - TV.com

(It's certainly one to share with older classes but please check the advertising and comments on the video pages (each time) before displaying it in school.)

BBC Motion Gallery

http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com
The BBC Motion Gallery contains a huge collection of film clips from not only the BBC but also CBS News (US), NHK (Japan) and ABC (Australia).
It's designed for media professions to use in order to obtain footage to use in adverts and corporate films but teachers will find the site extremely useful as well.
It's great for pulling up clips of certain subjects to use as inspiration in poetry or creative writing. There's also a whole collection of material that would be great for use in geography lessons, particularly the high definition footage of Africa.

Site Update: 1st December 2006

Over 60 new resources have been added to the main website this week. Full details are below. Thanks to everyone for the new contributions. Keep them coming please!

ENGLISH: Mr Bip and Mrs Bop - Comparatives (ppt) / Types of Connectives (ppt) / Homophones (ppt) / More Homophones (ppt) / Don't Use Said (ppt) / Verbs and Adverbs (ppt) / -ough Words (ppt) / Ideas for Poems (ppt) / Reading Response Sheets: A House Inside Out, There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom, Boy, Fingers on the Back of the Neck, The Goalkeeper's Revenge, Henry's Boots, Kensuke's Kingdom, The Lie Detectives, Sandstorm, The Switchers, The Deathwood Lettters, The Fib and Other Stories, The Secret of Weeping Wood, The Witches, The Time Travelling Cat / -tion Spelling Game (ppt) / Shape Poems / CVC Words: -an (ppt), -ap (ppt), -at (ppt), -en (ppt), -in (ppt) / Using Adverbs / Newspaper Template
MATHS: Fractions (Smart) / Time Game! (o'clock) / Capacity Word Problems / Lines of Symmetry / Short or Tall? (ppt) / What's the Time Mr Wolf? (ppt) / How Much Money? / Area and Perimeter Word Problems / Addition - Partition and Numberline / Recognising Coins (ppt) / Totals to 10p (ppt) / Y4 T1 U11 d4 Fractions (Activ) / Capacity (ml/l)
SCIENCE: Skeleton Measurements / Light - How We See Things (Smart) / Solids and Liquids / Making Rice Krispie Squares
ICT: Internet Research (The Olympics)
HISTORY: What I Know About the Egyptians / The Land of the Egyptians / Egyptian Mummy / Great Fire of London Diary Y1/2
RE: Jews and Judaism (ppt) / Mezuzah (ppt)
LANGUAGES: French: Months Labels / French: Days Labels / French: Sports (ppt) / French: Clothes (ppt)
OTHER: Target Sheet / Christmas Party
ASSEMBLY: Modern "Romeo and Juliet" Class Assembly