Currclick holiday sale!

   Have you seen the Christmas decorations up in town? Have you been stocking up on special holiday foods and gift wrap yet? Well, here is one more holiday sale - but this time for your homeschool!

   Currclick do instantly downloadable ebooks of Home ed curriculum and resources. If you do pop over to take a look please consider clicking on the Currclick box in the sidebar as that is our affiliate link and we get a small commision on your order if you do. Thanks - Deedee

7 day FREE trial

Hey everyone! The Learning A-Z website is doing their FREE 7 day trial membership to their sites again. Here are the details below. It is a great time to check out the sites and see if you want to subscribe or even just to get a few downloads while they are FREE! Enjoy! - Deedee

Today’s best teachers meet the unique needs of every student. That’s where LearningA-Z.com comes in. Through six integrated websites, LearningA-Z.com provides a wealth of downloadable, printable, projectable, and online resources for every K-6 classroom. But don’t take our word for it — sign up for a free 7-day trial by November 13, 2009 and experience the sites for yourself! Filled with thousands of readers at 27 levels of difficulty, ReadingA-Z.com provides resources for differentiated instruction and improving comprehension. Also contains assessments, worksheets, lesson plan templates, and many other teacher resources! Raz-Kids.com is an interactive reading site where kids can read or listen to 27 levels of animated books online — anytime, anywhere! ScienceA-Z.com delivers science curriculum resources, organized by unit themes and grouped into grade spans, for elementary teachers to teach a concept at each student’s appropriate reading level. WritingA–Z.com provides teachers with all the resources necessary to teach the common process writing genres, including expository, narrative, persuasive, procedural, and transactional. Contains thousands of words placed in content-area, functional, and resource-correlated categories. Teachers can also build their own vocabulary lists and lessons!

Calling all young writers...

I have just been in touch with this lady who is hoping to get this message out to all home edders...

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Sarah

Message:

I am launching a competition open to home-educated children and young people only. To enter the competition, you need to produce a story about bullying.
Your story may be told in any one of the following 3 formats:
a) a written story
b) a film
c) a comic strip
Whichever format you choose, you must be able to send it to me in digital form, either by e-mail (writing and comic strips) or on a DVD rom (films).

All work submitted will be made public on a website in Anti-Bullying Week (November 16 to 20), unless you wish your work not to be shown, which is fine.
I am in the process of finding judges and prizes, so will let people know more about those when I have arranged them!
If you are interested, contact me as soon as possible for an application form and more details.
Ali    ali@yggdrasil.org.uk    

Fanfare competition

The Royal Opera House is looking for a young person aged 11-14 to write a fanfare.  You can find out more here http://www.roh.org.uk/education/schoolsandteachers/fanfare.aspx?utm medium=fanfare& emailsource= 4270&utm_ campaign=education& utm_source= fanfare
 or here http://www.numu.org.uk/fanfare/.

The closing date is 12 February 2010.

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Sarah

Road Safety Week 23-29th November

Road Safety Week 2009 takes place 23-29 November.

If you go to www.roadsafetyweek.org you will find plenty of information about the week and how you can be involved.  There is an educators section where it is possible to order a free poster pack and to find detailed ideas on teaching about road safety.

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Sarah