Friday, April 8, 2011

More sites of interest:

Awesome site for keyboarding skills and much more:
      http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html

Acedemic Interventions for Reading Comprehension and Writing Fluency:
Keyboarding for everyone, regardless of limitations:




    Celebrate Easter                                      

     

http://www.2learn.ca/enjoy/easter/easter.aspx

           Earth Day

      

http://www.2learn.ca/enjoy/earthday/earthday.aspx

        Enjoy Spring

      

http://www.2learn.ca/enjoy/spring/spring.aspx

 

   Build a Flag (Arthur)

          
http://pbskids.org/buster/games/flag/index.html

Build your own flag with Buster.
Choose items on the left and drag them over to your flag.
What flag represents you?

Grade 1

Nina loves to Name Things


http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/nina/index.htm

Choose a place to visit and then help Nina find all of the things
that belong in that place. You will need to drag each item and
put it in the box.

Grade 2

Canadian Geographic Kids Atlas: Culture Club


http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/cgKidsAtlas/culture.asp


This interactive site from Canadian Geographic provides you with
videos, images, games, wordsearch puzzles, and a quiz on the culture of Canada.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Symbol World

                       Symbol World is a wonderful site!        
                      http://www.symbolworld.org/                    


                                SymbolWorld.org
                 eLIVE             Learning
                  Stories            My World

         Symbolworld is speech enabled with Browsealoud and Webwide
         get text help Download Browsealoud for Free then hover over the symbols.
         Note: you must have 'hover highlighting' set from the Browsealoud toolbar.

Feedback                        April                    Information
In The News:
Cyber Bullying
The issue of bullying has been thrust back into the spotlight by Port Coquitlam, B.C., teen Amanda Todd who took her own life Wednesday, weeks after posting a YouTube video...
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/10/12/bullying-prevention-funding.html

What can parents do to stop Cyber Bullying?

For a week in the spring of 2012, CBC-TV's Connect with Mark Kelley set up a video booth in a school in Gatineau, Que. More than 150 students...
read more in this story here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/bullyproof/