LCF Phonics Website

I was pointed towards a website called Children Learn English Online by a colleague over the weekend. Having had a look around and played some of the games myself I have decided to let my kids loose on it tomorrow during my slot in the ICT suite. The site is …

Painting Like Jackson Pollock with Spaghetti

I’ve been searching for art related activities for this half-term and came across this site when looking for Jackson Pollock activities: How to use spaghetti to paint like Jackson Pollock on Instructables.com It has step-by-step instructions on how to do the activity which can also be downloaded as a PDF …

Stellarium – An Open-Source Planetarium

Stellarium is an open-source astronomy application for all platforms. In their words: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set …

Making Books From Wikipedia Content

This morning while going through my feeds I came across an article from MakeUseOf.com called How To Make Your Own Books From Wikipedia. It’s a great article that would be of use to many in education wishing to prepare background reading material. I’m thinking of following their instructions next time …

7 Useful Sites for a Dinosaur Unit in Early Years

Next half term I’ll be doing a Giants/Dinosaur unit with my Reception Class. Below is a list of some sites that I’ve found useful when looking for ICT based resources. I have added to it as I go along so there are now 9! http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/dinosaurs/buildadino/ – You can build your …