Love Little Critter? Then this place is for you - Little Critter World-Wide Network with coloring pages, the library, interactive activities, songs with downloadable songsheets, storytime movies read by Mercer Mayer, and, of course, wonderful illustrations that will surely motivate young learners and help them explore the world of these charming creatures.
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Word Central Games
Merriam-Webster's Word Central has the Games section with Alpha-bot, Robo-Bee, BIGbot, Jumble Kids games - nicely designed and funny, these games will help students improve their vocabulary skills in an easy and active way. The games are a good thing to make vocabulary practice the students' favourite.
English-Zone.Com
English-Zone.Com - a great number of resources necessary for EFL teachers and students. The pages are interactive, some of them with printable versions - very convenient to use. Some material is free, there are for members only.
Friday, April 26, 2013
technology rocks. seriously.: Animal Habitats
technology rocks. seriously.: Animal Habitats: There are some absolutely amazing sites out there for kids to learn about animal habitats. Here are a few of my favorites: ...
Wonderful Pictures
Wonderful pictures of 30 Abandoned Places that Look Truly Beautiful from My Science Academy could become a great source of inspiration, could motivate the students to speak about the beauty of the world, the way we live and the way we forget, the students may want to learn more about the places they see, to discuss why the places have become abandoned.
Like Jazz Music?
KB...Konnected has recently posted a nice collection of resources for International Jazz Day (April 30th) - watch, read, learn and of course, listen and dance to jazz music!
Infographics on Education
An Ethical Island regularly posts education-related infographics, they are nicely designed and contain information - tips, comments, ideas - which can be used to discuss the issues with teachers and parents, to use in one's own practice, to organize the information boards.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
5 Sites Students Can Explore to Learn About Career Options
Sunday, April 21, 2013
21st April - The Queen's Birthday
Kings and Queens from Teaching Ideas has a wide range of ideas and resources to help teaching children about Kings, Queens and the Royal Family.
Friday, April 19, 2013
About Hair Styles
List of Hairstyles from Wikipedia is a very good resource to support the lesson about style, fashion, hair style. The big list of hairstyles with photos and descriptions will be of much help for a teacher preparing a lesson (much new and interesting information), during the lesson presenting the topic (the students have the opportunity to see hairstyles and discuss them using the vocabulary from the table), and for students at home working individually.
All English Games From Skillwise
All English Games From Skillwise (BBC) - reading, writing, spelling, word grammar, sentence grammar - all the games in one place - very convenient and easy to choose the necessary one. 54 games to make the lesson more interactive, productive and interesting.
Ten quotations to make you think | EnglishAgenda | British Council
Ten quotations to make you think | EnglishAgenda | British Council - very interesting and inspiring thing from Ken Wilson and British Council, surely worth watching and using the ideas in class.
Resources on Earth Day
Edudemic helps with 10 Online Resources For Learning About Our World - the links to learn about some of the greatest places on our planet.
21 Free Earth Day Lessons from Sean Banville's Blog.
Ideas for English-Language Learners | Earth Day and the Environment byLARRY FERLAZZO - much useful information and great links as usual from this author.
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options
Career Sighted - Short Videos About Career Options posted recently by Free Technology for Teachers must be a useful resource for introducing and teaching the topic of jobs and professions to students.
Friday, April 12, 2013
Nice Video) about Spelling
Humanities Enrichment has recently posted a really nice video, short but quite useful, about the words which bring students much headache)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Duckie Deck - 125 Educational Games for Toddlers
Duckie Deck - 125 Educational Games for Toddlers posted by Free Technology for Teachers with comment and applications for education as usual. The games are really nice, why not to use them in teaching English in primary school ? The students could comment what they are doing, what they are seeing - a good practice to speak about everyday activities.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Happy Class
Happy Class - Automatic Classroom Seating Chart Maker - creates classroom seating arrangements based on your students’ needs and relationships; each student’s unique needs are taken into account when generating seating charts; HappyClass automatically determines which seat will make each student the happiest - all this sounds really nice, so why not? Students love fresh ideas, computer-based ideas. Happy Class can really help the teacher make class organisation more pleasant and less tiresome.
The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs from Forbes
CareerBliss.com released its new list of The Happiest and Unhappiest Jobs In America, based on analysis from more than 65,000 employee-generated reviews in 2012. Here are the 10 happiest jobs and 10 unhappiest jobs, according to CareerBliss data, with the article from Forbes. The resource is a good start for a discussion: comparing jobs, comparing job rates in different counrties (in America and in the students' place), listening to students' plans for choosing a job.
Friday, April 5, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
For Young Explorers
National Geographic presents Young Explorer - a classroom magazine for kindergarten and first grade. It is the collection of interactive books with audio and wonderful pictures. The resource is great to use in class or reading with your child at home - much interesting information - in English! The children will love predicting the story by its title, listening and reading the issues, giving more facts about the animals and plants, revising what animals or plants they have seen discussing what new they have learnt. The fact that each story is read is very important, it helps improve listening, pronunciation, intonantion, and reading skills.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME!
technology rocks. seriously.: Tick Tock- TIME! - the post with a great collection of teaching time resources. It often happens that when students learn how to speak about time in English they are not sure about understanding the time at all. These resources will surely help children
both read clocks and tell the time in English correctly.
both read clocks and tell the time in English correctly.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Monday, April 1, 2013
Grammar Bytes!
Grammar Bytes! - much about grammar: detailed definitions of common grammar terms, interactive exercises, handouts to accompany the exercises, teaching presentations, YouTube videos, tips and rules. The teacher will surely find something very useful for the lesson (the level is mostly upper-intermediate and advanced).
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