Super Teacher Worksheets

I have recently spoiled myself with a Super Teacher Worksheet membership! This amazing resource tool is definitely going to make my life next year easier. There are many resources from maths worksheets and ideas to brain teasers and puzzles. It is really affordable (for under R 200 for the year) and their worksheets are of a really good quality.

I recommend STW for every Intermediate and Foundation Phase teacher. One of my mentor teacher always told me that, as teachers, we must be wise and "not reinvent the wheel". I think this website provides great additional resources for the classroom where educators can rather spend their creativity on classroom activities and exciting lessons rather than creating new worksheets when great ones are available.

Think Maths

I am fascinated with helping my learners love maths as much as I do. I am a big believer in encouraging learners to play fun maths games online and make use of task cards and board/card games. I think that the more learning that is done through play, the more the love of learning grows. 

I also think that peer teaching and group work are excellent ways of making maths more exciting and allows learners to explore their own knowledge as well as learn from other learner's understanding.

However, I always think it is difficult to find fun and interesting maths sums to pose to the learners for them to grapple with individually. I found this wonderful example (on Pintrest) of flipping the problem around and getting the learners to pose the question.

 

funbrain.com

We all want our learners to be instilled with a love of learning. We know that children love to play. There are many websites that incorporate this love of playing with learning to help children enjoy learning.

One of these websites is funbrain.com  I find some websites difficult to navigate and I end up getting frustrated. funbrain.com is very easy to navigate and well organised into games for specific grades (kindergarten - Grade 8), for both language learning and mathematics.

The learners are able to move through various levels in the games and each game is appropriate for the age and grade of the learners. It is often difficult to find good online educational games for learners after Grade 3, so funbrain.com is a useful site for a large variety of grades and levels.