Learning Links
Here are some EXCELLENT sites to visit to support learning at home. Enjoy using them and if you find a great site add it as a comment so we can share it with others!
Ministry of Education
The MOE website contains various information and links.
www.moe.govt.nz
General
http://www.factmonster.com/ All sorts of useful information and learning tools for children
www.funtrivia.com A great site to take quizzes on all sorts of things, many are specifically for students.
http://earth.google.com If you haven’t downloaded it yet – you really should!!
http://www.freerice.com/ Complete questions to donate free rice to help those less fortunate
http://www.what2learn.com/ All sorts of free learning games and activities (you need to sign up)
http://www.teachertube.com/ Find videos that can teach you anything from how to use capital letters to how to make sushi!
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/flash/ Check this out! Hold your mouse over the cities of the world and see what the front page of the local newspaper is featuring today!
SpellingSpellingCity is an online spelling program to help improve spelling skills.
Writing
Write poems is a neat little site that lets you find all of the rhyming words for a given word, just type your word, hold down the alt key and click your word. It can’t find a rhyming word for purple though!
Maths
The room 1 students like making 3D shapes. There are some great and free printable nets at this site here…
http://www.senteacher.org/wk/3dshape.php
Click the link below to see the PowerPoint presentation from our reporting to parents meetings.
REPORTING TO PARENTS MEETING PRESENTATION
Click below to see the powerpoint presentation from our recent parents numeracy evening.
Numeracy Parents Meeting
Click the link below to see the takehome booklet we send home at the meetings.
Booklet of ideas parent meeting
Play krypto! Krypto is a challenging maths activity where you select numbers and operations to make a number sentence true. It is great fun!
This site has some good quizzes to play covering many aspects of maths – give it a try!!
Ask Dr Maths to help you with your maths homework!
http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html
Maths really is fun – the clocks are great for learning how to tell the time!
http://www.mathsisfun.com/teacher-resources.html
Learn your times tables through some fun games (and lots more besides!)
http://www.coolmath4kids.com/times-tables/index.html
Try some great maths games!
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/maths/interactives.php
This one speaks for itself.. (lots of neat games for times tables practice here!)
Even more maths sites here…
http://www.mhschool.com/math/mathtoolchest/mtc_online/http://new.nzmaths.co.nz/student-sites
