Support Learning – Ministry of Education
If you would like to know more information about how to support your child at home in their learning, the Ministry of Education has established a webpage that may provide the answers to some of your questions and practical information.
Learning Supports – Apps, Websites & Handouts
At Clive School we use a variety of digital tools to enhance learning – iPad Applications & Websites.
Below are some examples of Apps & Websites that may be used in classrooms at Clive School.
Literacy
- Google – Drive, Docs, Spreadsheets and Blogger (if you have a gmail or Clive School email address). Free.
- Notability – write, scan documents and take photos, all aspects can be written over or highlighted (similar to Evernote).
- Quick Voice – recording voice notes. Free.
- Spelling City (website – any search engine). Free.
- Dictionary App. Free.
- Dragon Dictation – Record audio, typed text will appear. Free.
- Reading Eggs Apps -Various Apps Eggy Sight Words and Eggy Phonics. (Mostly paid, some free).
- Reading Eggs or Eggspress App – licence required for use.
- Sunshine Classics App or website – licence required for use.
- Montessori Crosswords – Fun Phonics Game… (Paid).
- Supporting Reading at Home – Year 5 & 6
- Year 3 and 4 – Supporting Learning at Home Reading & Writing
- Supporting Year Three Reading at home
- Supporting reading at home – First 2 Years at School
- Ideas for learning high frequency words – Rob Bryant
- Oral Language – Lynne Wilburn Punctuation – Paul Wallace
- Spelling Homework Ideas – Sara Lowe
- Oral Language – Lynne Wilburn
- Phonics – Sandra C
- Treasure hunts to promote reading
- Auditory Memory – Jane Smith
Mathematics
- Sumdog. App or website https://www.sumdog.com/, licence required for ‘best’ use
- Slide Maths Apps – 100, 1,000, Multiplication and Division, Addition. Free.
- Slide Basic Facts and Slide Place Value. Paid.
- Number Line (resource to skip counting on and add, subtract, multiple). Free.
- King of Math. Paid.
- Money Mind NZ. Paid.
- Cookie Factory – Place Value. Free.
- Thinking Blocks – Problem solving, word problems (Senior School). Addition & subtraction, multiplication & division, ratios and fractions. Free. (Math Playground Website link: http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html)
- Friends of 10 (Junior School). Paid.
- Missing Numbers (Junior School). Paid.
- Bricks 4 Kids (Junior School). Paid.
- Eggy 1 to 10, Eggy add to 20, Eggy numbers to 100, Eggy subtract to 20, Eggy timestables – Apps. Paid.
- Matific. Free App or Website login access: https://www.matific.com/nz/en-nz, licence required for use
- Supporting Learning at Home – Maths Vocabulary
Brainstorming & Sequencing Ideas
- Popplet. Free (there is a paid for version that is excellent as it allows you to save plans).
- Kidspiration Maps. Free (there is a Paid version).
- Doodle Buddy – Drawing. Free.
- Kids Doodle – Drawing. Free.
- Padlet. Free App or website https://padlet.com/
Creative & Presentation
- Explain Everything – a slideshow presentation that allows you to film, record audio, annotate thinking or images
- iMovie.
- Word Pack – collation of words in visual formats (similar to Wordle – Website: http://www.wordle.net/).
- Book Creator. Paid (there is a limited Free version).
- Strip Design. Paid.
- Pic Collage. Free.
- Puppet Pals. Paid (there is a limited Free version).
- Sock Puppets. Free.
- Green Screen by Do Ink. Paid.
- Adobe Voice – Spark Video. Free.
- Toontastic. Free.
- I can Animate. Paid.
Search Tools
- Puffin (enables Adobe Flash Player)
Gamification – Computer Programming
- Kodable. Free.
- Hopscotch. Free.
- Scratch Jr. Free.
- Scratch MIT
- Minecraft. Paid.
- Bee Bots & Blue Bots. Free App & Robots can be purchased.
- Sphero. Free App & item needs to be purchased – sphere shaped robot.
- Ozobot. Free & Robots can be purchased, including pens.
Thinking & Problem Solving
- Free Flow. Free.
- Tetris.
