Free SMART notebook stuff on animals

[Jo Rhys-Jones]

Been making some Interactive Whiteboard resources and thought I'd share a few with anybody who may be using the same software. I will eventually transfer most of this to powerpoint too and will add it to the post for those who don't have an IWB / compatible hardware. Thanks to Joe Dale's brilliant tip about adding the drag'n'drop macro to a powerpoint presentation, you should be able to move the pictures/text around the screen just like you can on the IWB.

The slides are in no particular order as I know we all like to teach in different ways / repeat things / skip things. There is a slide where you can play animal noughts & crosses; several where the name of the animal is jumbled up and needs sorting out, two slides for sorting the animal vocab into masculine or feminine (one with just pictures, the other with picture and text); there are two animal rhymes - 'Ramunoir, le beau chat noir' and 'Mes animaux préférés' both from Petit Dimoitou - Centre Educatif et Culturel and some links and soundfiles in the attachment tag and on the last slide.

For those interested the links are:
Mama Lisa's World - great for songs with lyrics and music. I linked to Quand Trois Poules..

Les rats des villes et les rats des champs - an animated tale from Northumberland grid for learning

An episode of Chez Mimi - Nos amis les betes - from Teachers TV (can also be downloaded to watch offline), which may seem tricky at first but it's amazing how much the children are able to understand.

Some online games for children to practise vocab in the ICT suite or as a class, from the Prescot School site and some more fro the lovely Bleu, Blanc, Rouge.

And taking inspiration from Lisa Steven's fascination with masks - here are some to download and print from the momes site

Finally - for a little more obscure fun (or maybe you are teaching KS1) I included a link to the lovely TICTAC site which has some animal noises - the idea you play them and children guess what they are.

There are plenty more links I could have put - but instead I have just pointed towards the bookmarks on http://del.icio.us/devonlanguages so people can browse for themselves. (Suggestions are always welcomed for more - does anyone know how I can subcategory a tag in delicious by the way - so I can search through a language by topic for example rather than having the tag add itself to the main tag roll?)

I am hoping to extend this topic more into sentence/conversation level with my yr 5/6 so will post more stuff asking about pets, describing them when I get a mo! Also while this is in French - a lot of the slides have no languages on them so could be used for Spanish, German etc. Also if you right-click on the text box to 'unlock annotation' and then double click it again you can always write over the French in another language yourself, so if anyone wants to adapt any of this - feel free!

Hmmm - not able to upload file at the moment - so will create a link to it instead in the discussion forum - hang in there!

[Isabelle Jones]

This is very useful, Jo. Thanks for the ideas and the links.

[Jo Rhys-Jones]

ooh and just seen this link for a page that explains what noises animals make in Spanish http://spanish.about.com/od/spanishvocabulary/a/animalsounds.htm