(New Entrant to Year 2 in New Zealand which are 5 and 6 year olds)
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| ICT Games A huge number of interactive learning objects. |
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BBC Bitesize KS1 Numeracy and Literacy activities aimed at younger primary children. |
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| Up to 10 A website with a huge number of games and activities. You can get access to the full site if you register as a teacher (you have to pay otherwise). |
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Woodlands Interactives for Children This school site has collected interactive activities from around the web and catergorised them for you. |
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| Under 5's While designed for pre-schoolers, there are a large number of printables that could be useful in a junior classroom. |
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Coxhoe Durham School Website Links Excellent resource with a huge number of activities linked to. Click on a curriculum area to see the links. KS1 is for up to 7 year olds. KS2 is for 7 to 11 year olds. |
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| CrickWorld - Early Years Simple activites that can be completed on a dataprojector or on classroom computers. There is also a KS1 section (up to Yr 2) |
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Little Animals Activity Centre Each animal character links to a different type of activity. Another high quality site from the BBC for 4 to 8 year olds. |
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| Cbeebies The site for younger children from the BBC. A lot of online stories, songs and activities. |
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Birmingham Grid for Learning - Foundation Stage A number of high quality games to play organised under six headings such as Communication and Lanuguage and Literacy |
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| Sesame Street Workshop New Games and activities on letters, counting, sorting, and shapes. |
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The Mouse Club Fun games and activities to both build mouse control and build literacy skills. |
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| Learning Games from Kent NGfl These games feel very similar to the ICT games website - a large number of literacy and numeracy resources. |
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Seussville University Printable and online maths, reading, reasoning and science activities based around Dr Seuss. |
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| Kindersay Pre-School Site A very attractive site with easy to use online flashcard type resources that include an image and a video of someone saying the letter or word. |
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KinderSite You have to register (for free) to use this site. It has games, songs and stories indexed from other sites for children up to six years old. |
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| Adrian Bruce This is the site of an internationally recognised Australian teacher who has made a huge amount of resources available for you to use. |
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Enchanted Learning You need to pay to get access to all the materials but there is still a lot in here for free. |
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| Tweenies A website with games, online stories, music activities and printables for young children. |
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Kids Only A number of simple online activities such as stories and drawing. |
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| Help Kidz Learn A site set up by a company specialising in special needs software with free games and activities for young children or those with special needs. |
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| Guess My Number You are given clues in order to figure out numbers. eg You add 2 to me and you get 50. Guess my number. |
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Rainforest Maths Great interactive activities organised into year levels. |
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| Maths is Fun Both online activities and printable worksheets for the classroom. |
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Count Us In Simple games to help develop basic number knowledge. |
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| Number Time From the BBC, activities with 'Addem' the snake as he learns about early numeracy skills. |
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Placevalue Charts Practice different making different numbers by expanding out numbers. |
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| The Story of the Numbers to 9 Each of these has a series of animations where a character encounters numerous examples of the target number. |
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| Starfall An awesome reading website with interactive stories with audio support if required. There are also worksheets available to download. |
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The Magic Key Another BBC site for developing literacy skills for 5 to 7 year olds. |
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| Literactive Another great reading site with guided interactive stories, activities and printouts. |
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Roy, Tale of a Singing Zebra This site has interactive stories and games for emergent readers and printable worksheets. |
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| Game Goo Interactive games to develop Early Literacy Skills. |
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Stories from the Web Designed for 7-11 yr olds. Read stories and poems online and do other literacy related activities. |
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| The Story Place An excellent site site with online stories and activities at both pre-school and elementary levels. |
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Book Pop Read stories on the web. There are links to audio stories, music and colouring-in books to download. |
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| Children's Poetry Archive A very well presented site with a large bank of poems. There is also some information about poets. |
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Words and Pictures Yet another BBC site with excellent activities to learn about letter sounds and high frequency words. |
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| ABC handwriting and letter sound object This helps kids to learn letter sounds and see visually how to correctly form letters. |
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Phonics Fishing Game Help Garfield keep the objects he finds while fishing by dragging the correct initial sound or final sound in place. |
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| Woodlands School Literacy Activities Again there are a huge number of resources in this section. |
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Get Ready to Read A website with screening tools for pre-schoolers to check for reading readiness as well as some online activities and printable resources. |
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| Read Write Think Word Family Sort Drag the words for each short vowel sound into the correct column in the word family chart. |
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Read Write Think Word Build and Bank Choose a word ending and then try and choose as many initial sounds as you can for that ending that will make a real word. |
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| Read Write Think Picture Match Children are shown a picture and have to choose the correct starting letter. |
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Between the Lions A site with quality online games, stories, and other resources including printables in the Parent and Teacher section. |
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| Looky Book This site allows you to look through picture books from cover to cover. The idea is that this gives potential buyers confidence but it would also be useful in a classroom. |
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Alphabuddies A HUGE number of printable worksheets and resources based around the alphabet. See also the NumberBuddies site. |
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| Carl's Corner An ex reading advisor has shared a huge bank of printable resources through this website. |
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