Animated Stories from Youtube

There are some gorgeous stories available on youtube. I have already posted Michael Rosen's We're Going on a Bearhunt, here are some more.

The Gruffalo

Unfortunately I can't embed this video for you but the link above will take you directly there. This is the full video of the film made out of the Gruffalo, it is approx. 25 minutes long.

The story, rather than film,  read aloud is here



Here's The Gruffalo's Child

Nursery Rhymes

Back to School!! Sorry have not updated this blog since January but will give it a go now for another few months :-)

Nursery Rhymes


Literactive
Have focused a lot on Nursery Rhymes over the last ten days or so using activities from Literactive as well as learning and singing the Rhymes. The nursery rhyme activities in the Road to Reading section are great.
I also like Speaksboos most if not all of their Nursery Rhyme videos are free, and there are also lots of stories read aloud for free.

Story time

Have come across lots of great sites for story time, one of my favourites is StoryLine Online featuring stories read by members of the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. It is definitely worth checking out.

We Give Books

Another great websites to view and read books from is We Give Books the books are not read aloud for you but it is great to be able to see the books enlarged on the whiteboard. You can also zoom in on the book by double clicking it.

I particularly like the DorlingKindsley books, they are great for S.E.S.E.

I hope you like the links and that they are of some use to you.

Catch it, Bin it, Kill it!

Colgate Lather Up for Good Health 

Lots of excellent resources on this website, generally more suited to junior classes with whom you may need to explicitly teach the importance of hand washing. The links below all come from this site.

When to Wash

When to Wash Hands

An undersea explanation of why, when, and how to wash hands.

Featuring Handy™ the Hand

How to Wash Your Hands

How to Wash Your Hands

How to Sneeze Correctly by Elmo

Simple song from Sesame Street to sing while washing hands, its is recommended that it is sung twice while lathering hands;

Wash, wash, wash my hands
Make them nice and clean
Rub the bottoms and the tops
And fingers in between (to the tune of Row, Row, Row your Boat)

Fabric Angel

Fabric Collage Angel

There are a couple of stages to the Fabric Angel but its easy and looks gorgeous! 

I precut out the fabric triangle and circle in lots of different colours and patterns. Children decorated the angel's dress with buttons, ribbons and sequins.

Handprinting

 Dresses

Assembling

Face and hair detail

Finished product!

Winter Art

Jack Frost Collage

Straight forward collage using tinfoil, which is a bit more difficult to manipulate than ordinary paper, some students found this difficult to complete and needed help and encouragement!

Christmas Cards

We created these prints which were then used to make a class Christmas Card.
We used sponges to print the Snowman's head and body and cardboard to print the hat and arms. Buttons and facial features were fingerprinted on.

The tree was printed using cardboard again and the decorations were fingerprinted again, with a sticker star on top!

Bouncing Snowmen

Hoping to post some of the art work that we made just before the holidays, I like this one and will probably do it again. It was great for fine motor skills and cutting skills and of course following directions! A few snowmen had bits of their body cut off but that's to be expected, I always have a few spares when attempting these type of activities.

I have attached the template and instructions for the snowman below. 

Bouncing Snowman -