aclJohn's Family Learning Finds

Whether you are a family learning practitioner or a parent, I'm sure you will find some useful educational resources on the Kindergarten Worksheets website.

It is no surprise that Kindergarten Worksheets provides visitors with numerous printable worksheets aimed at children. These worksheets span four areas...

• Maths;
• English;
• Learning; and
  
• Holidays.
  

Each category contains subcategories that include relevant worksheets.

Visitors to Kindergarten Worksheets can...

• view the...

Safe is a new programme of practical, activities to develop young children's skills, self-confidence and safety awareness when using social network sites.

Combining a safe, social network, downloadable materials and practitioner resources, the programme will enable any family learning providers to easily deliver fun activities which develop childrens' digital literacy skills. By completing the programme children gain a Safe certificate as evidence of their learning.

Visit http://www.digi...

ColoringPagesPlus is a colouring pages search engine that aggregates all websites together and lets users search them all at once.

Users...

• enter the name of the object or character they are looking for such as "tractor" or "dragon";
  the search engine will locate several colouring pages.
  
• Click on any of the thumbnails they wish to use
  the image enlarges
• can the print it out
• can also browse through the recently searched or the most popular colouring pages and print them.
  

Family Learni...

Looking for colouring pages? Check out TwistyNoodle.

TwistyNoodle hosts thousands of colouring pages and worksheets.

Users can...

• browse for colouring pages and worksheets by going into their separate tabs.
  Each colouring page also has its own worksheets.
  

• select an item by clicking on it; a customization page will open where users can change...
  • the style;
  • the font; and
    
  • the text of the colouring page;
    
• quickly print out the customized colouring page.

TwistyNoodle also has o...

Early Learning HQ is a new site offering lots of free Foundation Stage and Key Stage One resources for practitioners to use.

These include...

• Literacy;
• Numeracy; and
• themed resources

Early Learning HQ  also has a ‘photo and illustration' area where visitors can get clip art and pictures to use in their own resources.

A valuable resource for Family Learning Practitioners; check it out at http://www.earlylearninghq.org.uk/!

wickED is managed by the New Zealand Ministry of Education.

wickED provides engaging curriculum-based learning activities, many of which have been developed to reflect a

• literacy,
• numeracy and
• ESOL focus.

The activities are intended to support facilitated or independent use by learners.

wickED provides...

• interactives,
• online activities such as crosswords and quizzes,
• an online storybook,
• story creation tools,
• a student gallery,
• regular student-centred projects and
• mini-proje...

MeeGenius is an inviting site that is easily accessible by both parents (Guardians/Carers/Family Learning Practitioners/etc) and children.

This group of adults all want children to develop, from as early an age as possible, reading habits.

MeeGenius, a new online library, combines reading and playing in a way that keeps everybody happy - children will have their fun and parents (Guardians/Carers/Family Learning Practitioners/etc.) will be delighted that their little ones are spending tim...