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General
Finding Out Links
Find out about animals and the environment on this website full of
fun facts and games. Subscription is free. www.habitatheroes.com
Download this high tech video
game for FREE and learn your tables up to 12 as you
play. (Simply scroll down the page and
click on the free Base Version.) Times tables
shouldn't be this much fun! www.bigbrainz.com
If you'd like to learn French or Spanish in a
way that feels like playing, then have a look at
the wonderful BBC websites. The link is: www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11
Another great site for learning French is: www.kidsrcrafty.com
Here you can make crafts, print off games
or colouring in pages, with everything in English and
French. A great resource!
www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart
Dorling Kindersley has decided to make beautiful photos
available as clipart for homework. The images are in
categories (history, animals etc), so you can find the image you
need and copy it. Your homework will be looking very
professional from now on!
Kids studying the Tudors might like to
try their hand at entertaining Queen Elizabeth I, in
this online game from English Heritage.
www.english-heritage.org.uk
You take the role of Lord or Lady of a
castle and have to keep the queen entertained when she
comes to visit - she seems to be very demanding!
There are great
games and activities on this History website. You can
joust like a Tudor, patrol the streets as a Victorian
policeman, send and receive coded messages like a real spy and find
out how you would have coped in World War Two.
Visit: http://nationalarchives.gov.uk Another great site for help with homework is the
web version of TIME magazine. It has a Homework
Help Research button plus a wonderful Round the World section
where you can find out all about all the countries of the
world. www.timeforkids.com/TFK/kids Need to hear the news in a child-friendly
way? What could be better than the BBC's Newsround?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/default.stm
Try the Learning
Journey website for help with your next piece of homework. There are some great study sheets to print off on
all sorts of subjects, such as Romans, Tudors, plants, electricity
and festivals. Well worth a look!
San Francisco's Exploratorium is a bit like our Science Museum in
London. If you like science, or are just wondering what to do
on a wet weekend, there are loads of fun activities to try on the
Exploratorium website: www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/
You can also find little bite sized experiments
called "snacks" on this site www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/
Do take a look at these pages as they are set out
very clearly and have endless ideas to keep you entertained.
Used to love Sesame Street? Then you'll love this,
especially if you're learning to read or just starting to read well.
www.starfall.com
Need some more practice with maths, so that you can really
impress your teacher (but without getting bored?) Try this fun
site where you simply have to balance some scales to find the
correct answers:
www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files
If
you enjoy Jamie Oliver's programme about school dinners try this
site:
www.bhf.org.uk/food4thought
It's designed to look like a kids' magazine so is
full of games and great pics.
National Geographic for Kids: www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
Great for help with homework, activities, games.
Top Marks Homework Help: www.topmarks.co.uk
This site is organised by subject and age group so its easy to
quickly find the information you need.
Learn how to tell the time:
www.flikflak.com/games
A game from Flik Flak watches.
Free Peel and Stick 5 a day activity sheet for
3-7 year olds:
www.bhf.org.uk/publications
Astronomy for kids:
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild
Beijung Summer Olympic Games
The Beijing Olympics
The Olympics are held every four years and are hosted by one
country.
This year the Olympics are in China, in the city of
Beijing. Britain will be hosting
the Olympics in London in 2012. The Olympic Flag
is white with five coloured connecting rings.
There
are five rings to symbolise the five continents from which the
competing nations
come:
Europe, Asia, Australasia, Africa and the Americas
(which are counted as one).
The
rings are red, green, blue, yellow, and black.
These represent the colours of national flags.
All the flags of the world are made up of combinations of
these colours.
The rings are joined together to represent the unity of the
nations of the world.
Every country likes to wave their own flags at the games
and they also have
mascots who represent them.
Our official British mascot for the games is a lion
called "Pride"
copyright
www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008
You
will find Pride on the official UK website: www.olympic.org/uk/
where there is also a very sophisticated online
mini game to play:
www.olympic.org/uk/games
However,
the cutest mascots come from the Beijing Organizing Commitee.
They have created five Chinese Olympic mascots, called "Fuwa", who
carry a message
of friendship and peace to children all over the world.
Each
is the colour of one of the Olympic rings. Four
of the characters are popular
Chinese creatures, one the
Olympic flame. Each
of these symbolises something
that the Chinese people wish for
all the peoples of the world.
(Images
- Copyright
The
Beijing
Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad).
Beibei
- a fish, represents prosperity
Jingjing
- a panda, represents happiness
Huanhuan
the Olympic flame, represents passion
Yingying
a Tibetan antelope, represents health
Nini
a swallow, represents good luck.
If you put all five
names together they say: Bei Jing Huan Ying Ni which
means
Welcome to Beijung.
The National Anthem
When an athlete comes first in his event or race, he wins
a gold medal and stands on
a podium to receive it. Everyone cheers and the band
plays his country's national anthem.
This national anthem for the UK - see if mum and dad can sing
the words correctly, most
people can't remember more than the first two lines!
"God
save our gracious Queen!
Long live our noble Queen!
God save the Queen!
Send her victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the Queen."
The best place to find out
more about the Olympics is:
www.nationalgeographic.com/summergames/
You'll find straightforward information,
interactive games, a Beijing blog, photo gallery and quiz.
You can find out how the Olympics started in Ancient
Greece here:
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/
FILM WEBSITES:
Fans of the Kung Fu Panda film can
have lots of fun on this site from Hewlett Packard: becomeacraftmasterwithkungfupanda
There are masses of free colour printable
craft activities to download. With a little bit of
preparation these would make the ingredients for a
terrific party. You can learn to dance
"The Panda" by watching the video on the site
and printing out the Steps Sheets. Then there is
everything you need to make paper fortune cookies, wall
masks, Chinese lanterns, stick puppets and 14 other
activities. There's enough here to keep kids
entertained for hours, as long as you have a colour
printer and lots of paper!
Happy Feet Resources
The official website is great fun. You can meet the characters and watch a
trailer, then download - desktops, posters, screensavers,
bookmarks and door hangers, plus a printable Tip-tap-toe Game.
wwws.warnerbros.co.uk/happyfeet
Watch a penguin slide show at:
www.siec.k12.in.us/~west/proj/penguins
Learn how to draw a penguin:
www.unclefred.com/draw/penguin
Find out
more about penguins by visiting Penguin Planet, where you can do
a penguin quiz and wordsearch and download a penguin mask:
http://kevinschafer.com/penguinplanet/kids.html
There's a Penguin Panic game at:
www.ferryhalim.com
Freeze the penguins by
clicking your mouse to stop them running around madly.
Charlotte's Web Resources
www.charlotteswebmovie.com
The website also has spin offs to loads of fun activities.
There are lovely colouring sheets featuring your
favourite characters to print off at:
www.walden.com/walden/create
If you scroll further down the same page you
can also find Fern's Sketchbook to colour in, an activity
calendar and two games; Wilbur's Barn Break and Memory
Match. (Just click on the titles on the website to go to them.)
Make a papier mache Wilbur piggy bank with the instructions
at:
http://fun.familyeducation.com/childrens-art-activities
There's a Charlotte's Web Quiz, a Creepy Crawlies Quiz, a word
search and more about the book
"Charlotte's Web" on: http://school.familyeducation.com/literature
There is a wonderful website made entirely by second graders at
Pocantici Hills primary school in America. It has chapter
summaries of the book "Charlotte's Web", a photo journal
of the children's farm visit to meet some pigs and various puzzles
and quizzes. It it a wonderful example of just what kids can
achieve themselves.
www2.lhric.org/pocantico/charlotte/
You can write a book (or film) review of "Charlotte's
Web" onto this printable page. It has a lovely farmyard
border to colour in too. www.abcteach.com/ebwhite/
RATATOUILLE.
As the official website for this film is a Disney one, it's
full of good things. You can watch a long film trailer,
explore Linguini's apartment in Montmartre, play games and evn
download daily recipes. http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/ratatouille
SHREK THE THIRD. (There's a trailer,
downloads, games and a soundtrack, plus Virtual Shrekland and
Shrek Sudoku at:
www.shrek.com
It'll probably take you as long to explore this
website as it would to watch the film!
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER
OF THE PHOENIX.
There is an action-packed trailer at:
www.harrypotterorderofthephoenix.com
Your kids can join Dumbledore's Army by
visiting:
http://joindumbledoresarmy.warnerbros.com
Where they can practice Defence Against the
Dark Arts spells and charms, meet the members of Dumbledore's
Army and even recruit new members from their own website.
THE SIMPSONS MOVIE
Explore a virtual Springfield, visit Moe's tavern and play
games, plus watch the movie trailers at www.simpsonsmovie.com
Pirates of the Caribbean Resources
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/
Meet the Robinsons
Resources
As this is a Disney film, there is a very
sophisticated website with games, videos, downloads and a
personality quiz.
http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/meettherobinsons/
Mr Bean Resources
www.mrbean.co.uk/ This fun site has clips, downloads, games and e-cards to
keep you entertained.
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