Storybook

Storybook is a great website with games, word banks and videos about a collection of stories written by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers. It would be a prerequisite to have the books of course and the books in question are Never Keep a Python as a Pet, Katie Morag and the New Pier, My Little Brother, I Can’t go to Sleep, The Bunk-Bed Bus, Backseat’s Special Day, Oh No Peedie Peebles and The Snow Lambs. Teachers of the younger classes my well be familiar with some of these and hopefully have them in their libarary. If so the website is for you.

The sie has interactive activities for each of the stories including bright, fun games and choosing the correct letter to complete words from the story. There are also videos of the authors talking about their story and reading excerpts. If you have these stories I highly reccomend using this website. It is suitable for children from Junior Infants to possibly 2nd class at a push.

Safety in the Home

This is a great interactive website about safety in the home, probably geared more at the younger classes. It’s bright, colourful and has some great sound effects. The website can be directly applied to the ‘Safety and Protection’ strand of the SPHE curriculum. It goes through safety in all areas of the home – kitchen, living room, the bedroom and the garden. It also shows children what to do in the event of a fire in the house. It’s a great opportunity to make your SPHE lessons come alive on the whiteboard, because I know from personal experience there are not too many chances to do so.