Art Competition theme: world music festival

Stay up Late have launched an art competition for anyone with a learning disability.
Closing Date 31st January 2012.

The brief is to come up with an image to use on The Wild Things website. The image will help to launch the next Wild Things compilation featuring new music made by musicians with learning disabilities from around the world.
The image needs to be of an imaginary ‘world music festival’ and will be the main feature of the project on the website, along with a compilation CD.

Further Information here

and Easy read here

Relationships

Jump Cuts have a new film:

Moving On (Relationships & Sexuality training DVD)

5 real life stories about relationships and sexuality from people with a learning difficulty. The stories cover different issues in relationships:

Michael wants a girlfriend but is stuck in the grey zone.

Phil and Ali are moving in together.

Jo has never talked about it, since it happened.

Anton says it’s just a label.

Dan thinks they’re ready but Sue is not so sure.

Includes a menu of specially devised questions to accompany each story and promote discussion.

Review of the year 2011

Zeitgeist 2011: Year in Review

It was great. Oh yes it was !

image: ARASAAC PICTOGRAMS
My colleague Phil and the Entry 2/1 students have just performed Cinderella as part of their Wednesday afternoon enrichment . There were no lights,scenery, stage or parents and in parts the performance was a little shaky but overall it was a triumph.The students have so enjoyed preparing the performance. It has been the highlight of the term and a fine example of embedding learning into a meaningful context. We have seen students writing cast lists, writing out the story, script reading, memorising lines, talking in sentences, contributing ideas, actively listening, working with others,learning about story structure and the tradition of pantomime. All done with lots of laughter. Thank you Phil !

Christmas Very fast mouse skills !

Christmas games for those with fast mouse skills.
NOW SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED


TES i board
sort the presents by shape colour or numberNOW SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED


Click on the reindeer noses to play a tune.(still free!)

Christmas Mouse skills

Press to reveal ! a demo game (2 screens, santa and presents) from
Shiny Learning Click the mouse or use with a switch or space bar.


Also from Shiny learning singing sheep



Help Kidz learn What's behind the present (no need to register)

REGISTER to play . REGISTER to play . REGISTER to play .

Christmas Presents from Help Kidz learn . REGISTER to play . Use switch or mouse

Rudolph

Can you put Rudolph back together. Drag and drop activity from NGFL






REQUIRES ADOBE SHOCK WAVE REQUIRES ADOBE SHOCK WAVE

Decorate the Christmas Tree A drag and drop activity from Funranch.com
requires Adobe shockwave

Extras:

Some You Tube Xmas videos on My Sqworl


Art Attack Christmas theme video

A resource for the interactive whiteboard

Have you explored TES iboard ? There are lots of games for literacy, numeracy, ICT as well as some useful resources under science.

Safety Poster Competition

AOSEC Competition for learners with learning difficulties and / or disabilities

Students with a learning disability who study at colleges in the South East of England can now enter a poster competition on the theme 'Keeping safe'

Further details on the AOSEC website
Closing date 1st December 2011.

1st PRIZE £100.00 Love to Shop Vouchers

Changes on Help Kidz Learn . WARNING !

I have recommended lots of games on Help Kidz learn. Unfortunately you now need to register before you can play the free games. You also have to sign in to access the games which will make using the games more difficult. So be prepared . Register now and be ready to sign in all your students every time!

Developing Reading skills

There is always a debate about teaching reading at F.E level to students with a learning disability(i.e teach them to use the skills they already have rather than learning using phonics)

If you do want to have a go at using phonics and teaching tricky words here are some links to help you:

• A guide from DFES

Letters and Sounds guidance from Department of Education

• An introduction to synthetic phonics from dyslexics.org.uk

An over view of how and when to introduce the sounds and words can be found at:

• Phonics Play .

• DFES

A contibutor to the TES website has listed all the key words in phase order

• TES High Frequency Words in phase order

And here are a few resources for teaching phonics at the early stages.
Phase 1
An introduction to sound
Phonics Play has an explanation and some free to use games

Phase 2
Decodable words
Games for the interactive whiteboard from TES I board  (now have to pay to access) covering letter sounds in phase 1 and 2 developing Grapheme Phoneme Correspondence mainly as, at, pat, sat, tap





TES Letters and sounds phase 1 and 2 .
A PDF or publisher document. A collection of flashcards for phases one and two printed on pastel to assist dyslexic pupils with their phonics work as well as other pupils experiencing learning difficulties. The collection includes graphemes, tricky words and decodable words.
phonics play free during the Lockdown school closure April 2020
Username: march20
Password: home
 Another game is Picture match, a game Phase 1 and 2 words from Phonics Play




SEN teacher domino template can also be used to make your own word tiles