A Song About Feelings/Facial Cues

In this cute video, a cartoon fish asks how are you today. The fish answers he is thirsty, hungry, hot, cold, happy, and angry. Pictures are shown that match the feeling and the fish's facial cues match what he is feeling. This could be used to teaching rhyming words, to teach feelings, and to also help those special needs students who have a hard time with feelings and matching appropriate facial cue.  http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=27088&CategoryID=7367 From YouTube, produced by DJC Kids

Dragon Tales Sing "Hum"-Coping with Fear, Trying New Things

This is another cute animated video that will help students with some conflict resolution techniques when they are nervous and scared. The words to the song appear on the screen and each word is highlighted as it is sung. Content is appropriate for elementary students. http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=7367 From YouTube, produced by PBS

Zac Browser
The Zac Browser will simplify using a computer for children who find the options too overwhelming or if you are wanting to be able to control the Internet for your child in a friendly way. PC games generally have too many functions children accidentally turn on with a keystroke, too much going on visually to take it in all at once and often getting lost and not knowing how to go back to what they really wanted is.
  
View a UTube video introduction to Zac Browser.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJGncJatGUg&feature=player_embedded#at=34

Zac Browser presents hand-picked choices from free, public Web sites, with an emphasis on educational games, music, videos and visually entertaining images, like a virtual aquarium. It is designed to go beyond other browsers that are designed for kids.
To direct play or to download Zac browser go to www.zacbrowser.com

WatchKnow.org

Well free doesn’t always mean better, but free and more video resources can be better for children/youth.  WatchKnow.org is a website with a compilation of free videos  for primary thru secondary aged students organized with a wide range of topics from sciences to  history, math to life skills. The videos are carefully organized by subject with the capability of searching by age using a slider tool on the web page to narrow your search.  Videos are also rated. They also provide a video of how to use the website for ease of use.

What a fabulous resource for instruction, building background knowledge or reinforce educational concepts to your children and youth.

Here are web based links to support literacy learning for emergent learners. 

1. Shiny Learning: http://www.shinylearning.co.uk/

2. Helpkidzlearn: http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/

3. Starfall.com: http://www.starfall.com/

4. Literacy Center: http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.php

Ever find websites that you wonder how you could have ever missed them in the past? Here’s one:

www.literactive.com

Literactive is a fabulous resource that has Guided Reading activities, phonics activities and worksheet activities available from Nursery Rhyme to early primer books.

Students can have the books read aloud to them or read the books themselves. Games and sequencing activities are also offered.  Registration is free.

      On the Job (Curious George)                         

http://pbskids.org/cgi-registry/curiousgeorge/on_the_job.pl
Each person has a special job. Pick the tool that best matches their job. Fun and engaging for preschool to early elementary.