Sum Scales
Sum Scales is a subscription site which is a whole class teaching tool where you can explore greater than, less than and equals to number maths stories.
Grover's Winter Games
This game is ideal for use at home. It has three parts. The first has number to 15 number recognition activities, the second has shape patterns to complete and the third tests a child's ability to follow instructions.
Poop Deck Pirates
A subscription site phonics game which can help you to build words. Read the words and decide if they are real words or not. The game links to phases 3, 4 and 5 of the 'Letters and Sounds' programme. It works well on an interactive whiteboard.
Maths is Fun
A useful site if you are struggling with your maths as it explains different areas of maths. You can then work through examples and answers are provided. It is an American site, with something for all age groups. There is useful maths dictionary of terms.
BBC Special Report - The Moon Landing
Read about the 1969 moon landing and view video footage from the time. You can listen to interviews with the astronauts.
Fruit Splat Addition
7 levels of addition sums to solve. The levels go up to adding two digit numbers with regrouping. Splat the fruit with the correct answers. Vary the speed to give yourself more time.
Claw
A game of estimation. You need to estimate where on a decimal number line to position the claw grabber to match a percentage figure. It is a good way of testing whether you understand the relationship between decimals and percentages.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
A great site for instructional resources on the Holocaust. There is illustrated, historical background of the rise of the Nazi Party, the Nazification of Germany, the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps.
Countdown
A great mental maths challenge where you need to use the numbers available and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) to hit the target. The game does not check your solution. Works well on IWB.
Sorting 3D Shapes on a Venn Diagram
An activity where you use a Venn diagram to sort a variety of 3D shapes according to their properties, including: whether they are pyramids or prisms, the number of faces, edges and vertices and whether they have a curved surface.
