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Educational Sites | |
| A-Z of Amazing Animals | Easy to navigate factfiles on the BBC Science and Nature site |
| My Child | Free downloadable software for parents to help children with spelling, reading and writing skills. |
| Free maths worksheets | Curriculum linked worksheets for people who enjoy more formal maths work. |
| Teaching Fractions | Fractions games and worksheets |
| Primary Games | Free try outs of loads of maths games |
| Horrible Histories | Website of the book series with information, games and activities |
| Annabel Greenhalgh | Beautiful Landscape art |
| Alphabet Animations | Lovely animations for all the letters of the alphabet for people learning their letter sounds. |
| Starfall | Lots of worksheets, animations, games and activities for people learning to read. |
| Primary Resources | Free downloads,worksheets, lesson plans and ideas in many topics. |
| Handwriting pack | Free software which generates endless worksheets to practise handwriting |
| International Monetary Fund | Some interesting information and resources from the IMF |
| Keynotes | More free worksheets - phonics, RE, music, art, science, French. Some interesting stuff and certificates to download if you like to have rewards for all that hard work! |
Resources to Buy or Subscribe to | |
| Click'n'Read Phonics | American site but sells to UK customers as well. |
| CurrClick | Unit Studies, e-books, curriculum materials on many subjects all in electronic format. |
| Emrys Art Supplies | Camarthan based art and craft supplier also selling online. |
| Literacy Pack from Curriculum Online | Literacy activities for formal learning. Pricy cd but once loaded the cd is no longer needed to access the activities. |
| Primary Games | Maths games - purchasing options for home users |
| Gridclub | Over 400 games and activities in all areas of the national curriculum from The Telegraph website |
| Kumon | Maths and English programme which puts the emphasis on children developing basic skills at their own pace rather than age based standards |
| Tarquin Maths | All things maths - books, posters, packs and other resources! |
Ideas and Things to do When you are Bored! | |
| Nature Detective Challenges | The Woodland Trust site for junior nature detectives has challenges to download and fill in, investigate and create including The Bee, The Ladybird, Bluetit, Rain, Mole and Fox. You can also join the club and receive themed activity packs plus wall charts and stickers. The teacher's pack costs £15 - just £3 more than for 1 child and even states it's suitable for home educators - can't be bad! |
| HE Resources | Ideas and recommendations in this home educator's blog |
| Habbo | Online virtual world for teenagers where you create your own character, home and business. Strict on blocking bad language and inappropriate behaviour. |
| Kumon Brainteasers | Figure out the answers to these tricky questions. |
| The Size of our World | Marvel at this comparison, then call every member of your family in and make them look at it too! |
| Make your fortune from international trade | Play Trading Around the World from the IMF |
| Where in the World and What in the World | Is Money? Find out about the history of money in this game from the IMF |
| Virtually Ignorant | Learn html and build a website from scratch with these tutorials that even parents can understand! |