Advent

Did you open the first door of your Advent Calendar today? Woodlands Junior School has its own ‘Online Interactive World Advent Calendar’ with a test of Christmas knowledge:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/ 

While Kent Ed has produced one aimed at key stage 1:

http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/advent_calendar.html

For more Christmas ideas and activities try:

http://primaryict.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/free-christmas-activities-2/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/christmas.html

http://primarynuggets.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/more-christmas-websites/

http://sample.iboard.co.uk/activity/re/Vx4er3Dr0Fx8eF6HYMIkq

Have a happy festive season

Easter Activities

i-board regularly make a small selection of their resources available to teachers free of charge.  Currently http://www.easter.iboard.co.uk contains 6 activities suitable for KS1 and early KS2.

They are free to use and you can also link to them from your website, Merlin and My First Place. They are creative, pattern making activities, some themed around Easter. Simply go to the library area of the URL provided and click  “Show All Activities”. Note: When you get to the launch screen of an activity it contains a “copy link” button and “download thumbnail” button to support easy creation of lessons in a Learning Platform.

If you would like to see all i-board resources go to http://www.iboard.co.uk/free free to register for a free trial

More Christmas Websites

This year there seems to be more Christmas websites than ever before. Festive ICT resources can be found in the Christmas Section at Topicbox and on the Kent website including the great build a snowman activity. In addition i-board have made some Christmas resources freely available.

From around the other blogs ICT nuggets discusses tracking santa with www.noradsanta.org/ 

There are more great Christmas resources from Spencer on the Banes ICT Blog and also on the Bristol Blog where Keith excels himself with Elfyourself! (LOL!). Also don’t forget the ever popular www.northpole.com  as mentioned here last year.    

Finally all subscribers to Ictopus will be able to download the sharing good practice resources.

Sorry if that is information overload or if I haven’t mentioned your blog or resources. Have a great Christmas from all at Primary Nuggets!

Christmas is Coming!

Now that December is here and we can officially turn our thoughts to Christmas, why not take this opportunity to add some festive entries to the new SWGfL Media Gallery. Get you pupils creating their own festive images using collage and scanners, digital cameras or graphics software and upload them to the Festivals and Celebrations area of the gallery. Not onle could you win a Digital Movie Creator (DCM3) for your school, but your images could be added to the SWGfL Postroom to be sent as e-cards.

Full Competition Details here.

More Christmas ICT Resources

With the festive season well and truly upon us more Christmas ICT resources have come to light. Firstly, the Naace Christmas Crackers offers a range of online activities from searching a database of Santas to Nativity Big Books.

In addition, iboard have made their Christams activities freely available which include 4 topics for children in reception and key stage 1.

 Enjoy!

Christmas is Coming

With the rapid approach of the festive season here are a couple of websites to add some electronic sparkle into your classroom.

At www.northpole.com you can sing karaoke carols, visit the present-making factory and even email your Christmas list to Santa.

Woodlands Junior School has its own ‘Online Interactive World Advent Calendar’ with a test of Christmas knowledge:

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Xmas/calendar/ 

Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year