Sesame Street helping children who have experienced trauma

You may have heard about the fantastic work Sesame Street does to support children, including their inclusion of a character with autism on the show, and now they have announced a new portal on their website to support children who have been through traumatic experiences. Take a look - it's great.

Other activity portals featured by Sesame Street in Communities feature resources on dealing with bullying, grief, coping with incarceration and dealing with emergencies. It would be a great resource to use alongside Emotion Works with younger children.

Wonder by RJ Palacio

This website lets you create a portrait in the style of the book cover for Wonder by RJ Palacio, and you can choose a precept to add.

St Andrew's Day

Education Scotland have a great list of suggestions for learning about Scotland as St Andrew's Day approaches:

5 ways to celebrate St Andrew's Day

This video looks good for older children:

Numeracy websites

Here are a the websites that were recommended at our recent development session to support numeracy in class (Click the text under each picture to visit the website):

Coin Game

Transum Maths

Don't forget about about the Primary Maths goes that should be installed on all computers (let me know if you don't have these!) in the Start menu, in the Interactive Resources folder. There are fantastic time, measure, money and times tables games and supporting worksheets to name but a few - definitely worth exploring. You should find something to support pretty much every area of maths.

Vocabulary Ninja

This is worth a look - a website that shows a word of the day for upper or lower primary, and a literacy question to try. 

Here's an example of what's on the website, and below is an example of a class activity that was posted on Twitter.

Auto Draw

Auto Draw is amazing - a website which lets you draw and then corrects your doodle - a bit like predictive text, but for pictures if that makes sense! It is also great just as a simple to use drawing program you could use on your SmartBoard. It can be accessed from a computer, phone, tablet or iPad. Watch the video below:

Once Upon a Picture

Once Upon a Picture is great looking website, similar to Pobble 365 I wrote about a while ago.
Its got pictures to be used either to inspire writing, promote use of interesting vocabulary, to teach skills such as inference, deduction and prediction, or to use for cross-curriculare lessons. Watch the trailer below:

Once Upon a Picture.. on Vimeo.