Random+fun+stuff

Here is a bunch of stuff that has no classification or just links to other cool sites!

To support the Technology part of our curriculum there are several helpful sites:

[|TKI Technology Community]

[|TechLink] - also useful for other curriculum areas

[|BP] - this will be familiar from the Strategies and Starters publications that we receive

I have just found some really neat things, well I got shown them at the conference, but here are two really neat ones that you can play with to start out...

This is a [|fun one]. I think it can be used for the Nikau Poetry unit, but also as a brainstorming tool. For example have children in groups brainstorm some ideas on anything (in the jrs it could be an animal. Then get them to type their thoguhts into this website page, even if the words are already there. Then you can find out the most popular things about the animal that the children came up with, as the more times the word is written the bigger it shows up.

[|Glogster] - it a poster making site. It has heaps of backgrounds that you can use and images and ideas to start from. I thought that us Jrs can use it to make posters of our animlas during our animal study and the Nikau block can use them to make amazing poetry displays, or anything!! It looks fun and easy and there are heaps up there for you do get your inpiration from...

[|ToonDoo]- This is neat! It is an online comic making tool. It has heaps of characters that you can chose from or you can make your own. Children can perhaps recreate their zoo trip by making themselve in the comic form and explaining each site or just creating a story to go around them at the zoo. It has backgrounds and animals and sports thing and props and caption, thinking bubble or lable type boxes. Very fun to play on!

Here are some [|graphic organisers] that you can print off. They are PDFs so you can't change them to suit, but they are still fun to look at and should be helpful.

Here is a cool site from the Discovery Channel. It is a great source of cool ideas and activities. Here are some [|Brain Booster] questions. A good source for homework sheets or a class challenge. Mainly for the older children. Or it has the lesson plan ideas to bass your planning on! This site is worth a look and a play!

[|Adventure School]

Here is a neat Website on how to make a [|power point presentation]. You may want the children to work through it individually and then do the unit attatched. It shows all the bells and whistles in short little clips and works like a question and answer interview type thing. Looks good. Check it out and see what you think.

[|ABC Teach] This is a great site for teachers to find that afternoon activity for choosing time, or to compliment a classroom activity.

[|AtoZ] teacher stuff is asite with a bunch of printable activities and lesson plans that can be addapted for your classroom programme.

[|Easter Activities] This is also a link from tki with suitable easter activities for lower primary schools.

I'm just trying something here. You can create documents in Google on line and create links, I think! Here goes... [|Caterpillar stories]

Ok, so if anyone gets brave and wants to make their own class blog, here is the website I used: [|Blogspot] Just follow the instructions on line, they are really easy. If you can't manage, I can help! :-)

Here is the site that Greig mentioned we have free trial access to for the week. [|For Teachers] It seems to be articles and helpful hints for thngs on first inspection, but it may have activities too. You will need the username: adventure and the password: (Better ask me for it rather than putting it on the web!)

Here is a site that lets you create documents like Word and Excel on line. If you publish them they become public and have their own special space in Cyber space! I have used these to publish my children's stories and then created a link to their page on the blog so that everyone can just click on it and it means that the blog space isn't filled up with stories. It is a google thing so you log in using your google account. If you won't have one you can make it. [|Google Docs]

And if you want to make some fun movies on line of other neat things here are a few sites to visit: Movie/News making tool free [|download]trial

[|Rock You] [|Big Huge Labs] Simon has created a Rimu syndicate Wiki, so check out his one too guys! Rimu Wiki

Poster sites [|Tigers] [|Tigers] 1 [|Tigers 2] [|Tigers 3] [|Poster] [|Writing @ the bottom] [|Big photo words on top] [|Drawing] [|Repitition of image] [|Video of kiwi] Tiger site for the children to make their own [|enclosure for a tiger]! [|Pictures] for children to colour. The site of [|info] on tigers.