“The Teacher’s Guide is a great support to any teacher since the activities enable both on and off screen tasks where a whole class can be involved. The activities are also valuable to stimulate further ideas for classroom use.” Debbie Green, Primary Teacher
Age Range 5 - 11
Arthur’s Birthday is a popular story to delight your pupils and involve them in activities designed to include all areas of the National Curriculum and Curriculum Guidelines, with a special emphasis on improving reading ability. The School Edition is designed to encourage teachers to integrate the use of the CD-ROM into your normal curriculum activities, and feel comfortable with it as a source of information, stimuli and fun, bringing added-value to reading activities. It links the exciting technology of Living Books with the reality of classrooms full of children, and the constraints of time and other curricular requirements.
The possibilities of linking Arthur’s Birthday School Edition with other curriculum activities are enormous, and the Teacher’s Guide not only offers advice for this but also provides activities on and away from the computer. We feel that the benefit to all children in this respect will be increased. The Guide will give you ideas to incorporate Arthur’s Birthday into popular classroom topics, and also provides worksheets covering the National Curriculum and Curriculum Guidelines which can be duplicated for use in the school.
As we all know, events like birthdays hold much anticipation and excitement for children which makes Arthur’s Birthday a real favourite. The following is an example activity from the Teacher’s Guide.
Choices
Two birthday parties the same day! Friends are in a quandary about which to choose.
Arthur and Francine have designed one solution (work sheet provided in the Guide).
Encourage your class to brainstorm alternative solutions and evaluate each.
