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.

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.

Encourage Reading

We Give Books is a great reading resource "combining the joy of reading with the power of helping others".

We Give Books is a digital initiative that enables anyone with access to the Internet to put books in the hands of children who don't have them, simply by reading online. All of the books available for online reading are children's picture books appropriate for children through age ten. There is a mix of fiction and nonfiction, a range of authors, and an equal balance between read-alouds and books for independent readers. 
All the books are available online after registration. Editor's Picks are free for anyone to read.

 

In Class: Surely the books are worth spending the whole lesson reading: listening to the teacher, reading one after another, reading all together, predicting the story with the pictures, telling after-stories about favorite characters and so on as far as the students enjoy the book. 

Exploring with National Geographic

Kids.National Geographic - an awesome place to spend time with kids. Interesting, interactive, useful - much information to get and facts to explore. Teaching English with this site can become real fun - much to read, to play, to watch; the teacher can take something for a lesson or base the whole lesson on some material. The site is very good for students' project working.

Playing Snow

Snow Fun  is a nice place with much to play with snow: Snow Apps, Snow Builders, Snowflakes, Snow Games and Stories, Snow Printables, Snowman Smart Notebook Files. Great things to have a great time with kids at school and at home.







There will be The World Day of the Snowman on the 18th of January. Teaching News has a nice celection of The Resources for the World Day of the Snowman:

Watch This!

The Kid Should See This is a nice video site where kids can watch good instructional videos. The idea is to provide kids with a safe watching environment. The videos cover various topics: nature, art, music, science, technology and more.

KIDEOS collects appropriate for kids videos of various kind. The large collection to choose from.

National Geographic|Kids - worth watching short videos on different topics: Animals, History, Science and others.

Christmas Fun and Activities

We can have Christmas fun all year around and still there will be much great activities left!
Here are some ideas from various places:
technology rocks. seriously.: Sweet Gingerbread Fun!: Gingerbread Apps: The Talking Gingerbread App  is a free app that lets you interact with the gingerbread man by having him dance  ...

Much on British Council and ESOL Courses.

Christmas is Coming! from various resources

10 Resources for Christmas Activities! from Teaching News

Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas Fun! from technology rocks. seriously

Cookie and others

Cookie offers more than your traditional games website. It features educational games chosen by child experts and educators. It contains worksheets, educational videos and stories to help children develop basic skills and have fun while they learn. Games and activities help develop language, math, reading, science and general problem-solving skills. The site is brightly colored and pictures, containing many things the children will enjoy not only at school but also at home.

City of Grammaropolis - a wonderful grammar reasource introducing the parts of speech in all the details with funny cartoon characters. The site offers various activities on each part of speech - the pictured description, colorful on-line comics, videos, quizzes and games, songs. Grammaropolis is a fresh and exciting way to learn about the parts of speech. Students associate human qualities and characteristics with the parts of speech, abstract grammatical rules start to make a lot of sense.

e-Learning for Kids offers interactive material for a number of subject areas: Math World, Math General, Language Arts Courses, Science Courses, Computer, Environmental Skills, Health, Life Skills, English Language. In each group the materal is presented by the courses for different ages. The courses are mainly interactive animated slides.

More Activities for Kids

eslgamesplus contains numerous activities online, classroom games, memory games, spelling games, sentence games, interactive board games, matching games, concentration games and many others on various topics (lexical, grammatical). There are also printable worksheets, flashcards, printable board games.

Kiz Phonics

Phonics Activities, Learn to Read, for Preschool, Kindergarten, First Grade, 2nd Grade is a good resource to help kids enjoy reading. Kiz Phonics is a nice progressive program for teaching kids to read using a systematic phonics approach. The program is arranged by levels. The level sections are complete with phonics worksheets, videos, online games and activities. The program is suitable for school teachers, parents and other educators trying to help children learn to read.

LearnEnglish Kids

LearnEnglish Kids by British Council is a nice helper for teaching kids at school and at home. Games, songs, stories, videos and worksheets on various topics. Especially valuable is the Parents section with helping ideas, the forum and the links to related websites.

Teacher's Pet Displays

Teacher's Pet Displays is a wonderful site full of amazing resources of all kinds. The site offers numerous downloads on different topics stimulating ideas for a lesson, nicely created worksheets will make learning and teaching fun. Posters, labels, sound displays and other materials are lifesavers for a techer who wants to make unforgettable and bright lessons.

10 Resources for World Food Day

10 Resources for World Food Day - 10 resources to make your lessons on Food topic more interesting and    informative.

Premier Skills English

The world id crazy about football! Why not use it in teaching English? Premier Skills English is organised all around this popular game and offers wonderful resources both for teachers and learners.Boys will be happy)

elllo

Much listening practice on elllo presented in Views, Mixer, Games, Videos and News sections, sorted by Level, Country, Topic, Media. Interesting topics, illustrations (in Games especially), vocabulary practice and quizes make the site really valuable for teaching English.

neoK12

neoK12 offers a wide choice of educational videos, lessons and games for school kids. The materials are given in Physical Science, Life Science, Human Body, Earth and Space, Geography, Social Studies, History, Math, Fun Video and English sections. The English section with its Phonics and Rhymes is especially interesting for EFL teachers.

Jolly Phonics - A to Z - Part 2/3

More Phonics and English Lessons at NeoK12.com  

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie

Lessonstream.org by Jamie Keddie is a great place containing wonderful lessons with plans and all the materials needed. The organisation of the site is very convenient as you can search the lesson by Language level, Learner type, Time, Main Activity, Language aim, Topic, Material. The teachers'comments to each lesson give an opportunity to see how the material works in real - very convenient and useful.

Art.sy

Art.sy is of great help to prepare and conduct the lessons on art,  or just to enjoy various works of art online. It provides the large collection of contemporary art available online. Works from all cultures and time periods, the information about artists and art movement are accessible for study and enjoyment. 

Vocabulary.co.il  is a vocabulary website with flash online word games. They include an online word search, an online crossword puzzle, hangman online, unscrambles and others. The fun of the games can help both native and foreign learners of English build their English language vocabulary skills. There are word games for all levels of English.