Websites For Foundation Stage

Free things for your classes FLASHCARDS http://www.apples4theteacher.com/coloring-pages/index.html http://www.mes-english.com – Fantastic website for FREE flashcards about anything http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Flashcard_maker/ - great for creating your own personalised flashcards and word cards http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-flashcards.htm - flashcards for primary school vocabulary – clothes, the body, jobs, school, the playground, shops and places, sea and zoo animals. Includes wordcards for those teachers working at word level. http://www.coloring.ws - for pictures to make into flashcards http://coloringbookfun.com/ - great pictures http://www.crayola.com/ - this is an excellent page for downloading flashcards and art and crafts. You need to register for the good stuff but it is free! http://www.janbrett.com - a beautiful website with flashcards, stories and activities http://www.kizclub.com - excellent website for flashcards and printables in colour http://www.primaryresourcecentre.com/free.html - some free classroom flashcards. The rest you have to pay for http://www.sparklebox.co.uk - Excellent website with flashcards and storycards. You have to pay for some but they are very cheap. http://www.dltk-kids.com/coloring.htm http://www.dorlingkindersley-uk.co.uk/static/cs/uk/11/clipart/ fantastic photos http://www.akidsphoto.com/ - fantastic photos on all subjects http://bogglesworldesl.com/cards.htm - fantastic flashcards

ROYALTY FREE ILLUSTRATIONS http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/resources/illustrations/index.asp - with pictures organised by subjects. http://gallery.nen.gov.uk/help.php#general – great free videos, pictures and noises POSTERS http://www.sbac.edu/~tpl/posters/posters.htm#pricelist - where I found the Posters for Primary. It talks about a pricelist but then I didn’t have to pay for them. http://print-a-poster.p-rposters.com http://www.schoolslinks.co.uk/resources_rules.htm - some free classroom posters

FREE FONTS http://www.abcwebworx.com/ - fantastic fonts www.harmonyhollow.net – for some downloadable programmes to help teachers http://www.teachervision.fen.com/

BRITISH SCHOOL WEBSITES http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/ http://www.coxhoe.durham.sch.uk/Classrooms/reception.htm#Top excellent resource. Check the topics marked BGFL to hear teachers and children speaking. http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/index.html - An award-winning school website for everything about British culture and life in a UK primary school.

FOR IDEAS AND WORKSHEETS http://www.first-school.ws

has a Spanish version

http://www.primeraescuela.com

http://www.earlychildhood.com/ http://www.everythingpreschool.com/ - good section on arts & crafts http://www.funwithspot.com/ Spot’s official website http://www.kinderart.com http://lessonplanz.com/Preschool/ http://www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=2158 – check the Planning documents for Buildings, Festivals. Minibeasts, Ourselves, Toys and Transport http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/ http://www.preschoolcoloringbook.com/ http://www.preschoolexpress.com/ http://www.preschoolprintables.com/ http://www.preschoolrainbow.org http://www.preschoolbystormie.com/ - excellent site - good section on curriculum planning http://www.preschooleducation.com/sstorytime.shtml - Great songs for classroom routines http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/other.asp http://www.swgfl.org.uk/earlyyears/topics.htm - lesson plans organised under ‘Áreas’ or topics http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/early_childhood/ http://www.underfives.co.uk/ just about everything for the under fives http://www.senteacher.org – for teachers of children with Special Needs

SONGS http://www.songsforteaching.com - excellent website with songs for teaching anything! http://www.bussongs.com/ http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html http://www.childrensmusic.org/ http://www.gameskidsplay.net/frame_rhyme_listing.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/2200/stories.htm – lots of new, original stories http://www.theteachersguide.com/ChildrensSongs.htm http://www.wendy.com/children/ http://www.karafun.com/ - you can downlod karaoke versions of many pop songs from this site. You have to pay for this but it might be worth it for an end of term concert.

ART http://www.auntannie.com/ http://www.billybear4kids.com/ http://www.dltk-kids.com/ http://members.aol.com/lewisart44/2nd.html http://www.thepaintedhorse.co.uk/rousseau_art.htm http://www.perpetualpreschool.com/ http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/Files/Rousseau.htm http://www.studyplans.com/art.htm http://www.teachit.co.uk/ http://www.teachnet.com/

STORIES http://www.beenleigss.qld.edu.au/requested_sites/audiostories/index.html - audio stories in American English http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm - same website as above but the story section http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/drilldown/stories/2/4/1/ - excellent animated stories http://www.dl.ulis.ac.jp/oldtales/ http://www.eric-carle.com/catexchange.html - ideas to use with Eric Carle stories http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/carle.htm - more ideas for Carle books http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html – storybooks on-line http://www.mape.org.uk/activities/bigbooks/index.htm Bigbooks to download http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html - easy printable books with versions in Spanish. Includes lesson plans. http://www.storyarts.org - an excellent website with great ideas and links to other storytelling webpages http://www.storiesfromtheweb.org/sfwhomepage.htm http://www.storyplace.org or http://www.storyplace.org/eel/eel.asp - download stories and audio version http://www.storyit.com/

http://www.tprstorytelling.com/story.htm http://www.tprstories.com http://www.tprsource.com/brain_research.html http://www.tellitagan.com/ - download stories and audio version Check these pages out: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/britlit/lrrh/lrrh.shtml#activities everything for Little Red Riding Hood. This is the first in a series of units of work for primary teachers. http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories-red-riding-hood.htm - listen and follow LRRH on this page http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-goldilocks.htm - similar materials for Goldilocks http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/kids/print/printarchive.html on the same website: http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/storybook/# - with activities about some

FOR YOUR ENGLISH http://www.teachers.tv/ - watch programmes for teachers and classes given by British teachers http://www.teachertube.com – for videos for you to watch or download for the children. For the pronunciation of subject specific words, look them up on: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx - find out the pronunciation of any word http://www.kdp.org/ - great articles about teaching http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/ http://www.robertporter.freeserve.co.uk/ - an excellent website with lots of links http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/ http://www.isabelperez.com http://www.wikipedia.org – online encyclopedia http://the_english_dept.tripod.com/teachers.html http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/songlyrics_frame.html http://www.english-to-go.com/ Exercises for your own English http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/ http://www.better-english.com/easier.htm http://www.teachingexpertise.com/ - some very good articles about teaching for you to read.