Reading Eggs

Hi all,

We currently have a one-month trial set up for the website www.readingeggs.com.  Room 20 will be using it for Reading homework over the next four weeks.

This website works similarly to Mathletics, but is focused on reading, writing, spelling and grammar.

It is particularly good for reading, where you can complete learning activities based around reading comprehension and read a large range of books from the online library.

There is also a place where students can race against the computer or other people for spelling and grammar.

Each student has an avatar (of course!) that they can change.  They use this avatar to navigate the site, where the goal is to collect as many golden eggs as possible.  These golden eggs can be traded for goodies within the site, which can be bought from the mall, and are kept in the apartment.

Each student has a sequence of targets to achieve on the site.  Please encourage your child to work through these targets as it should help with their reading.  Also encourage them to read the texts carefully to get the most out of the site.

If you can, take some time to look at the website with your child.  If you like it, let me know and I will fee it back to the management staff.

Technically, this site was designed to run on the Google Chrome browser, so if you do experience any issues, you could try installing Chrome, which is free, and running it on that browser.

Spelling City

I have added a page on www.spellingcity.com where you can practise and test spelling words for the Essential Lists and Topic words.  Have a go!

Mr Heyes' Spelling City homepage.

Mathletics for 2013

Hi all,  Mathletics is up and running for 2013.  All of the children who have had their activity fee paid should have received passwords.

I have set up assessment type tasks for everyone, which I will be using to find the appropriate level for them in Mathletics.  The address is www.mathletics.co.nz.

Note that Mathletics is available on iPad now - I'm looking forward to seeing how that works.

If you have any questions, please email or come in to see me.  It is possible that some activity fees have been paid without me being made aware of it.