St Joseph's Bulli Staff

38 Free Printable graphic organisers. 

Interactive spelling activities using your spelling words! Children love and great way to learn the weeks words!

tool for creating character profiles

Explore museums from around the world, discover and view hundreds of artworks at incredible zoom levels, and even create and share your own collection of masterpieces.

Jenny Mosley's site on circle time

Ian Jukes website from the spectrum conference. if you are interested in keeping up with articles etc go to commit me and follow prompts

Clay yourself is another website you can use for creating virtual avatars, with a twist. Using this website, you not only can create your Avatars, but you can also record a 'script' which will prompt the students to enter vowels, adjectives, nouns etc to make a funny story which they can then record and share it in a gallery. 

This is a very cool website which compares various measures of quality of life and standard of living compared to Australia. You just select the countries at the bottom of the page, then it will display various facts compared to Australia eg. use of electricity/oil, life expectancy, birth rates etc. 

PuzzleFast is a great site for making different types of puzzles (word, crossword, etc) that you can then print for students - great resource. 

Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read. It can also be used as a prewriting activity for student autobiographies. Best for primary students.

This is an interesting website which allows children to hear other children their age reading stories, some would be familiar, whilst others might be new. The stories are written by several authors who contribute to the site, and all the videos are screened before they are uploaded. Many of the videos include captions in other languages, so it may be a good tool for language learning, too. 

Here are some great sites for finding Clipart for your docuements/SMARTBoards etc...

Here are some great things you should consider trying with your classes next year! Some of them will sound familiar, others might be new to you. Take a look at some of the tools listed, and let me know if you would like a hand with any of them! 

Some great panoramic views from the seven wonders of the world! 

Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for primary school students. 

This blog entry links to an article which promotes the use of webcams for improving children's reading fluency etc. Interesting stuff! Link to article here: http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2010/11/webcam-research-helps-kids-improve.html

Just came across this post which has some great web-based resources for teaching languages, and links to an article outlining some important reasons for teaching a child a second language in the 21st century. 

A cool math game based on the who wants to be a millionaire concept. Covers lots of different math terminology - may be good to be used in conjunction with http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/dictionary.html only worked when i tried it in Firefox. 

K - 5 interactive experiences for the smartboard

A nice tool that can be used for creating tests/quizzes online. Tests can be password protected so you have access to the results after anyone has completed the test. Does not require registration.