This week, we'll be launching our Five for Friday feature on our DB Primary blog.
Each week, we’ll be exploring five of our DB Primary platform features for you to enjoy and use in your classroom. If you’re looking for innovative and creative ways to use your VLE, read on....
This week we’ll be looking at
communities to download from our learning library, made by our team of Educational Advisors. Containing a mixture of teaching resources and fun activities, these communities aim to make the learning experience better for all.
Here is our pick of what we have to offer:
DB Primary: Getting Started
Probably the most useful community in our Learning Library, it includes handy advice on getting started with DB Primary and shows you how to make good use of the features. Filled with resources, it includes how-to videos and great advice on how you can engage your children with the DB Primary platform. Perfect for any beginners.
The Great Fire of London
The Great Fire of London is a historical community aimed particularly at Key Stage one and Lower Key Stage two pupils. It explores the history of the Great Fire of London through a number of resources and activities. Specifically targeting children’s literacy skills, they are able to write their own poem and practice using adjectives when describing the fire. They are also able to view Samuel Pepys diary and use it as inspiration for their own blog.
Volcanoes
Our Volcanoes community is aimed particularly at Key Stage two pupils. Answering questions such as ‘What is a volcano?’ it educates the children on the various types, as well as the structure of a volcano itself. Children are also able to take a quiz on what they have learnt, and even design their own volcano.
Under the sea
Under the Sea is aimed at the foundation years. A fun and engaging community, it looks at the various different species of sea life. In teacher resources, there are a range of DB Primary alphabet flashcards containing sea creatures, such as mermaids, dolphins and seahorses to teach the alphabet in an enjoyable and exciting way. There are also number cards to aid children in learning to count from one to ten.
Christmas
The most seasonal of all our current communities is of course, Christmas! Enchanting for all ages, this community looks at educating children about why we celebrate Christmas as well as having a lot of fun. For older children, there is the opportunity to learn about the origin of Christmas carols as well as trying their hand at our festive word-games. Younger children will enjoy our Nativity slideshow and snowman colouring sheet.
For extra fun in lessons, why not print out our Letter to Santa template and let the children create their perfect Christmas wish list? Don’t forget to open your advent calendar too, but not before December the first!
