http://www.starfall.com/
Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Our systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
In May of 2009, we released our Starfall Kindergarten Reading and Language Arts Curriculum. The lesson plans motivate kindergarten children by creating an atmosphere of fun and enthusiasm, providing opportunities for child-directed instruction, and facilitating the needs of English language learners and struggling readers learning alongside their peers.
We invite you to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost books and phonics journals that parallel this website.
Monday 23 November 2009
Hero in Snap dragons
Stage 7
Snapdragons
Hero
Toad Swims for his life
The Monster Under the stairs
Shy Shark
I'm Not Wearing That!
Rory's Lost his Voice.
Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 7: Snapdragons: Hero
Jane Langford
Paperback, 24 pages, 2005
Published by Oxford UniversityPress
Loot price: R58.00 (Eligible for free postal delivery on orders over R200)
Hero needs 3 things to sleep,
1. a clock that ticks and sound like his mother heart beat
2. a hot water bottle that keep him warm like his mother cuddle
3. a teddy bear with fur as if his mother fur that he can feel it
or else everyone is miserable...........
Synopsis
Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Easy-to-use reading notes for parents/carers are included on the inside cover of each book. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.
Product detail
Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2005
Authors: Jane Langford
Illustrators: Dawn Vince
Dimensions: 216 x 165mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-845556-1
Categories: English language readers
LSN: 0-19-845556-9
Snapdragons
Hero
Toad Swims for His Life
The Monster Under the Stairs
Shy Shark
I'm Not Wearing That!
Rory's Lost His Voice
Snapdragons
Hero
Toad Swims for his life
The Monster Under the stairs
Shy Shark
I'm Not Wearing That!
Rory's Lost his Voice.
Oxford Reading Tree: Stage 7: Snapdragons: Hero
Jane Langford
Paperback, 24 pages, 2005
Published by Oxford UniversityPress
Loot price: R58.00 (Eligible for free postal delivery on orders over R200)
Hero needs 3 things to sleep,
1. a clock that ticks and sound like his mother heart beat
2. a hot water bottle that keep him warm like his mother cuddle
3. a teddy bear with fur as if his mother fur that he can feel it
or else everyone is miserable...........
Synopsis
Written by top children's authors such as award-winning Gillian Cross, Malachy Doyle and Pippa Goodhart Snapdragons are fabulously illustrated with various writing styles and fonts to make reading enjoyable for all your infant readers. They provides a wide range of picture books for children aged 3-9. Easy-to-use reading notes for parents/carers are included on the inside cover of each book. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.
Product detail
Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: 2005
Authors: Jane Langford
Illustrators: Dawn Vince
Dimensions: 216 x 165mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-845556-1
Categories: English language readers
LSN: 0-19-845556-9
Snapdragons
Hero
Toad Swims for His Life
The Monster Under the Stairs
Shy Shark
I'm Not Wearing That!
Rory's Lost His Voice
The Motorway
Can Gran stop the motorway from being built near her cottage?
Difficulty word for wawa :
picnic, windy, wind, mind, wild, between, bulldozers, rare
new word:
shed , dragon, surprise, upset, kite, pole,
Stage 7 More stories A
The Motorway
The Bully
The Hunt for Gold
Chinese Adventure
Roman Adventure
The Jigsaw Puzzle
Difficulty word for wawa :
picnic, windy, wind, mind, wild, between, bulldozers, rare
new word:
shed , dragon, surprise, upset, kite, pole,
Stage 7 More stories A
The Motorway
The Bully
The Hunt for Gold
Chinese Adventure
Roman Adventure
The Jigsaw Puzzle
Thursday 19 November 2009
Stegosaurus Dinosaours
1. Stegosaurus
music click here
1. Stegosaurus hasn’t got a very big brain.
He’s got lots of bony spikes upon his back,
‘Cause he isn’t very clever,
He has to use them if another dinosaur comes to attack.
Chorus:
Oh Stegosaurus, what a life you have.
You only want to live at peace
And maybe find a little love!
2. Stegosaurus doesn’t really like all this fighting.
He just wants to eat the plants and have good fun!
If only other dinosaurs would leave him alone
Then he would never think of harming anyone.
Chorus:
Oh Stegosaurus, what a life you have.
You only want to live at peace
And maybe find a little love!
music click here
1. Stegosaurus hasn’t got a very big brain.
He’s got lots of bony spikes upon his back,
‘Cause he isn’t very clever,
He has to use them if another dinosaur comes to attack.
Chorus:
Oh Stegosaurus, what a life you have.
You only want to live at peace
And maybe find a little love!
2. Stegosaurus doesn’t really like all this fighting.
He just wants to eat the plants and have good fun!
If only other dinosaurs would leave him alone
Then he would never think of harming anyone.
Chorus:
Oh Stegosaurus, what a life you have.
You only want to live at peace
And maybe find a little love!
Roman Adventure
stage 7 More stories A
Roman Adventure
A school project on the Roman leads to an interesting adventure.
The project was for Mrs May.
Biff made a chariot and chip drew a picture.
The chariot was pulled by four hourses.
The races were dangerous.
Romans didn't have pizzas.
Diana father was a baker.
The bread didn;t look right It was flat.
It didn#t look like bread at all.
We can make pizza.
A banner in his chariot.
The people ran to buy pizza.
The Emperor wants to see you.
He was angry, no banner but can deliver pizza to the palace.
:--
Roman Adventure
A school project on the Roman leads to an interesting adventure.
The project was for Mrs May.
Biff made a chariot and chip drew a picture.
The chariot was pulled by four hourses.
The races were dangerous.
Romans didn't have pizzas.
Diana father was a baker.
The bread didn;t look right It was flat.
It didn#t look like bread at all.
We can make pizza.
A banner in his chariot.
The people ran to buy pizza.
The Emperor wants to see you.
He was angry, no banner but can deliver pizza to the palace.
:--
stage 7 More stories A
stage 7 More stories A
The Motorway
The Bully
The Hunt for Gold
Chinese Adventure
Roman Adventure
The Jigsaw Puzzle
The Motorway
The Bully
The Hunt for Gold
Chinese Adventure
Roman Adventure
The Jigsaw Puzzle
Monday 16 November 2009
Best Educational Websites
23 Best Educational Websites and Tools for Kids
wow cool
source here
Undeniable Internet has turned into one of the space for kids to learn and grow. Parent can easily find some useful tools on Internet to educate their kids in a simple and attractive way.
Most of the education websites offers kids a safe environment to discover their abilities and learn new skills with interactive and fun computer games.
We’ve filtered and collected 23 best education websites and tools for kids on this week and they’re all FREE. Details next!
1. Coolmath-Games
Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math. Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get through this stuff so they can reach their other academic goals.
2. FunBrain
FunBrain is the Internet’s premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.
3. Apples 4 The Teacher
Apples 4 The Teacher includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (creative arts, foreign languages, language arts, math, science, social studies), articles, literacy coloring pages and more.
4. Kid Sites
Your guide to the best kid sites on the web.
5. BBC Learning School
The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain.
6. Natural History Museum
Make a volcanic explosion, collect evidence against a cunning thief or find out whether you are more like a Diplodocus or a Tyrannosaurus. There’s much more in the fun and games below and you can download wallpapers and screensavers for your computer too.
7. Tate Kids
8. PBS KIDS
A safe place for kids to explore and play hundreds of fun educational games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters.
9. SFS Kids
This website, in conjunction with SFS Kids live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music.
10. National Geographic Kids
11. Adrian Bruce
Free Educational Resources of Adrian Bruce – Reading Games-Educational Software,Math Games-Motivational Posters & much, much more.
12. The Color
You can save your interactive online coloring pages that you have created in your gallery, print the coloring pages to your printer, or email them to friends and family. These coloring pages are fun and they also help children develop important skills.
13. Class Tools
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
14. Ask Kids
Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It’s a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that’s safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines.
15. Edbydesign
Education by Design has been online since 1997 providing educational resources and fun activities for kids of all abilities.
16. EcoKids
EcoKids is a free, environmental education program that offers curriculum-linked materials and activities for Canadian elementary schools to engage in environmental action.
17. Kids Know It
Kids Know It is making education fun and free. Free educational Websites For the young, and the young at heart.
18. NeoK12
The best selection of FREE online educational videos and lessons from all over the Internet.
19. Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software designs educational software and online games with these goals: 1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. 2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress. 3) To provide games that will exercise players’ brains.
20. Fun-Educational-Games
Discover how fun educational video games on Nintendo or PC can help improve problem solving, logic, maths, memory, attention spam, reading .
21. Quiz-Tree
At Quiz-Tree.com you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more.
22. KIDiddles
KIDiddles offers Free Song Sheets, Activity Sheets and Music Sheet for kids!
23. Watch Know
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
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wow cool
source here
Undeniable Internet has turned into one of the space for kids to learn and grow. Parent can easily find some useful tools on Internet to educate their kids in a simple and attractive way.
Most of the education websites offers kids a safe environment to discover their abilities and learn new skills with interactive and fun computer games.
We’ve filtered and collected 23 best education websites and tools for kids on this week and they’re all FREE. Details next!
1. Coolmath-Games
Coolmath was designed for the frustrated, the confused, the bored students of the world who hate math. Coolmath was designed for the students who just need to get through this stuff so they can reach their other academic goals.
2. FunBrain
FunBrain is the Internet’s premier location for interactive, educational games (math, grammar, science) for children and kids of all ages.
3. Apples 4 The Teacher
Apples 4 The Teacher includes interactive learning games, quizzes, and worksheet generator tools by subject (creative arts, foreign languages, language arts, math, science, social studies), articles, literacy coloring pages and more.
4. Kid Sites
Your guide to the best kid sites on the web.
5. BBC Learning School
The BBC is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. Its mission is to enrich people’s lives with programmes that inform, educate and entertain.
6. Natural History Museum
Make a volcanic explosion, collect evidence against a cunning thief or find out whether you are more like a Diplodocus or a Tyrannosaurus. There’s much more in the fun and games below and you can download wallpapers and screensavers for your computer too.
7. Tate Kids
8. PBS KIDS
A safe place for kids to explore and play hundreds of fun educational games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters.
9. SFS Kids
This website, in conjunction with SFS Kids live performances, provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music.
10. National Geographic Kids
11. Adrian Bruce
Free Educational Resources of Adrian Bruce – Reading Games-Educational Software,Math Games-Motivational Posters & much, much more.
12. The Color
You can save your interactive online coloring pages that you have created in your gallery, print the coloring pages to your printer, or email them to friends and family. These coloring pages are fun and they also help children develop important skills.
13. Class Tools
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!
14. Ask Kids
Ask Kids is a search engine designed exclusively for young people ages 6 to 12. It’s a free, safe, fun way for kids and their parents to quickly and easily research school topics like science, math, geography, language arts, and history in a search environment that’s safer and more age-appropriate than traditional, adult search engines.
15. Edbydesign
Education by Design has been online since 1997 providing educational resources and fun activities for kids of all abilities.
16. EcoKids
EcoKids is a free, environmental education program that offers curriculum-linked materials and activities for Canadian elementary schools to engage in environmental action.
17. Kids Know It
Kids Know It is making education fun and free. Free educational Websites For the young, and the young at heart.
18. NeoK12
The best selection of FREE online educational videos and lessons from all over the Internet.
19. Sheppard Software
Sheppard Software designs educational software and online games with these goals: 1) To add sound and visual effects to make learning fun and more memorable. 2) To design games with many difficulty levels so that players will continue to be challenged no matter how far they progress. 3) To provide games that will exercise players’ brains.
20. Fun-Educational-Games
Discover how fun educational video games on Nintendo or PC can help improve problem solving, logic, maths, memory, attention spam, reading .
21. Quiz-Tree
At Quiz-Tree.com you will find educational games and quizzes on many subjects, including Math, Reading, Spanish, Geography, SAT, Spelling, Music and more.
22. KIDiddles
KIDiddles offers Free Song Sheets, Activity Sheets and Music Sheet for kids!
23. Watch Know
WatchKnow is both a resource for users and also a non-profit, online community that encourages everyone to collect, create, and share free, innovative, educational videos.
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pronounce VASE?
how do you pronounce VASE?
got to ask teacher and her answer
vase ( as wawa pronounce ) is in US
vase ( as me(mummy)pronounce ) is in UK
refer to here
but i thought it is the other way round...
new knowledge !!!!!
Thursday 5 November 2009
High Frequency words
high Frequency words
These activities help with the learning of 'high frequency' words (eg him, her, us, then). The National Literacy Strategy Framework identifies approximately 200 words which should be achieved by the end of Key Stage 1.
star word games
A new consignment of Star Words is being delivered to your sector - can you match them to the right shape?
Wordblender game
Help Wordblender by choosing the
start and end sounds for each word.
Press 'GO' to find out if you're right!
At the end of the game you can print all your words and keep them.
sandcastle game
Build a sandcastle by clicking on the sandpie with the correct spelling to fill in the gaps in the words written in the sand.
When you’ve finished, you can print out the sandcastle with all the words written on the sandpies.
These activities help with the learning of 'high frequency' words (eg him, her, us, then). The National Literacy Strategy Framework identifies approximately 200 words which should be achieved by the end of Key Stage 1.
star word games
A new consignment of Star Words is being delivered to your sector - can you match them to the right shape?
Wordblender game
Help Wordblender by choosing the
start and end sounds for each word.
Press 'GO' to find out if you're right!
At the end of the game you can print all your words and keep them.
sandcastle game
Build a sandcastle by clicking on the sandpie with the correct spelling to fill in the gaps in the words written in the sand.
When you’ve finished, you can print out the sandcastle with all the words written on the sandpies.
Long Vowel sounds
Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities - featuring Daisy the snail, the toad and the goat, and friends.
where ? at bbc here.....
Meet the Creeps
Daisy the snail
A meal by the sea
the toad and the goat
the birthday day
Ice-cream cake
the man in the moon
I spy a little fly
Marching throught the night
the doctor's line
where ? at bbc here.....
Meet the Creeps
Daisy the snail
A meal by the sea
the toad and the goat
the birthday day
Ice-cream cake
the man in the moon
I spy a little fly
Marching throught the night
the doctor's line
Rhythm and Rhyme Can Help Your Child Learn to Read
Rhythm and Rhyme Can Help Your Child Learn to Read
Do you want to learn how making music with your child can increase school and life success?
Would you like to improve your child’s brain function, cognitive abilities, social skills and emotional competence through music? Do you want to find out how rhyme can help your child learn to read?
Experts agree that music can strengthen children’s minds and serve as a fundamental skill of learning. As parents we all know that our children enjoy music and most of us have heard of the positive effects of music. If nothing else we have a vague awareness of the Mozart effect. We know that music is beneficial but we don’t always know why.
In recent years there has been a large body of research to support a number of positive effects that music enjoyment and training can have on a young child’s brain function and ability to learn.
The benefits of music include:
* Extending the neural networks in the brain
* Sound discrimination which leads to spelling success
* Increased vocabulary
* Abstract and spatial reasoning which leads to math success
* Improved coordination
* Better concentration skills
* Sharper memory
* More focused listening skills
Both scientists and educators are realizing that early, positive musical experience is uniquely effective in helping children achieve their full potential intellectually, artistically and emotionally.Simply using music on a regular basis with your child, including singing, listening to music, and playing instruments, can reap tremendous benefits. It is important to note that simply listening to music is not enough. Making music is more powerful for children than just listening. It is important for you to provide your child with a solid early childhood education experience that you won’t have to trust to chance but it is even more important to foster a love of learning!
Remember, today’s preschoolers and kindergarteners are expected to know far more than their parents (that’s US!) were at that same age. Start your child out right.While success in the early grades does not guarantee success throughout the school years and beyond, failure in the early grades does virtually guarantee failure in later schooling. Don’t let your child fail and don’t fail your child!
source:
http://www.wannaplaymusic.com/blog/rhythm-and-rhyme-can-help-your-child-learn-read
Do you want to learn how making music with your child can increase school and life success?
Would you like to improve your child’s brain function, cognitive abilities, social skills and emotional competence through music? Do you want to find out how rhyme can help your child learn to read?
Experts agree that music can strengthen children’s minds and serve as a fundamental skill of learning. As parents we all know that our children enjoy music and most of us have heard of the positive effects of music. If nothing else we have a vague awareness of the Mozart effect. We know that music is beneficial but we don’t always know why.
In recent years there has been a large body of research to support a number of positive effects that music enjoyment and training can have on a young child’s brain function and ability to learn.
The benefits of music include:
* Extending the neural networks in the brain
* Sound discrimination which leads to spelling success
* Increased vocabulary
* Abstract and spatial reasoning which leads to math success
* Improved coordination
* Better concentration skills
* Sharper memory
* More focused listening skills
Both scientists and educators are realizing that early, positive musical experience is uniquely effective in helping children achieve their full potential intellectually, artistically and emotionally.Simply using music on a regular basis with your child, including singing, listening to music, and playing instruments, can reap tremendous benefits. It is important to note that simply listening to music is not enough. Making music is more powerful for children than just listening. It is important for you to provide your child with a solid early childhood education experience that you won’t have to trust to chance but it is even more important to foster a love of learning!
Remember, today’s preschoolers and kindergarteners are expected to know far more than their parents (that’s US!) were at that same age. Start your child out right.While success in the early grades does not guarantee success throughout the school years and beyond, failure in the early grades does virtually guarantee failure in later schooling. Don’t let your child fail and don’t fail your child!
source:
http://www.wannaplaymusic.com/blog/rhythm-and-rhyme-can-help-your-child-learn-read
Christmas Adventure
Christmas Adventure
The children were excited but Mum was hot and Dad WAS CROSS.
Dad put up some decorations. He wanted the children to help, but they didn't want to. They were waqtching television.
Dad turned off television.
Just then, Wilf and Wilma came. They had presents for Biff, Chip and Kipper.
We can help later.
Bif and Chip had presents for Wilf and Wilma.
Dont' open until tomorrow.
The magic key began to glow.
It;s time for a magic adventure.
The children were excited.
They all wanted special presents.
I want a new bike, said Kipper.
Iwant a new skate board, said Biff.
I want a computer, said Chip.
Why is he asleep in a chair?
by Rederick Hunt
Alex Brychta
.......
Stage 6 MORE STORIES A
A fright in the night
Rotten Apples
The Laughing Princess
Christmas Adventure
The Go-Kart Race
The Shiny key
The children were excited but Mum was hot and Dad WAS CROSS.
Dad put up some decorations. He wanted the children to help, but they didn't want to. They were waqtching television.
Dad turned off television.
Just then, Wilf and Wilma came. They had presents for Biff, Chip and Kipper.
We can help later.
Bif and Chip had presents for Wilf and Wilma.
Dont' open until tomorrow.
The magic key began to glow.
It;s time for a magic adventure.
The children were excited.
They all wanted special presents.
I want a new bike, said Kipper.
Iwant a new skate board, said Biff.
I want a computer, said Chip.
Why is he asleep in a chair?
by Rederick Hunt
Alex Brychta
.......
Stage 6 MORE STORIES A
A fright in the night
Rotten Apples
The Laughing Princess
Christmas Adventure
The Go-Kart Race
The Shiny key
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