Websites+for+Toby+Homeschool

[|Te Kete Ipurangi] New Zealand's official website for New Zealand Educators. There is everything in here to do with educating children. You MUST go in here. [|English Online] where there are fully resourced teaching units and unit planners. Examplars or benchmarks for learning at different stages can be found in the links on the left hand side as well. [|NZMaths] where there are loads of curriculum units and links for families etc [|Digitalstorehouse] has over 5000 interactive games (visual, cartoon, video, sound, multi-media) for learning in Science, Maths, English Arts everything!. You will need a user-name and password. If you are interested get back to me and I will give you mine. [|ICT ideas for Juniors] (wicked links in here to loads of useful resources). To get in here...go to http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/ give yourself a username and password. The access code is **ictpd **. This is where I work. This is my area http://centre4.interact.ac.nz/tessa [|What Five Year Olds Can Do With Computers article]

**For you Toby...**
[|BBC Learning,] online learning, support and advice. Heaps of interactive games for learning in here [|Create-a-reader] Four groups of activities for your use. These activities are companion exercises to the supplementary curriculum. [|Lookybook.com] a site where you can actually read books online and turn the pages etc. Very cool. You will need to create a username and password. [|Literacy Activities and English Games] activityes for punctuation, grammar, nouns etc. [|Starfall.com] (where kids have fun learning to read). [|Child's Play] - A neat wee programme for juniors to reinforce mouse, keyboard and simple numeracy skills. [|Sebran] - A programme that supports juniors in simple numeracy, literacy and keyboard/mouse skills. [|2 + 2 Maths] - A neat wee programme that has a number of simple (and more complex) numeracy activities. Suitable for juniors. [|Child's Play] - A neat wee programme for juniors to reinforce mouse, keyboard and simple numeracy skills. [|Oyunlar1] huge website full of interactive games for both fun and learning. [|ICT Games] for all ages [|Magic Studio] - Powering Great Interactive Content. Digital learning resources and tools for **cross curricular**, **personalised learning**. Designed by and for Teachers and Students to be **quick** and **easy to use**. [|Kaboose]- Where families get going! Encouraging the safe use of gaming at home.

Tools for publishing your new learning on the Internet...
[|Flickr Toys] fun stuff to do with your photos like magazine covers, badges etc. Very cool and free! [|Flash-Gear.com] Free web tools. [|Bubbleshare] Here you can make your own slideshow presentations online for free. [|Wix website creator] for making your own website like Ashton's. http://www.wix.com/tessagray/Ashtons-Site [|Blogger.com] for making your own online diary or blog like Ashton's. http://ashton-space.blogspot.com/