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Having fun in the classroom is essential for good results and to foster a love of learning in young children. Mashcams is a hilarious way to get valuable information across without the child even realizing they are learning valuable content and skills.

World Cities Day is upon us this week and Purple Mash has heaps of wonderful resources and tools to help you explore the theme. Also, remember that you can upload any of your own resources and use the Purple Mash tools to add an activity to your lesson or assess their understanding of the content.

What can be more satisfying than designing your own object, and then seeing it come alive? 2Design and Make allows the children to do just that. Fire up the application, and the first thing youll see is a selection of templates to get you started.

Write together in real time using this collaborative word processing tool, 2Write is the cornerstone of many of the activities used in Purple Mash. It offers a word processing tool for learners to use in written projects, not just in English but across the curriculum.

The tool we want to highlight this week is Developing Tray. Developing Tray, within the Text Toolkit, is an application that draws children into applying their knowledge and skills of reading to an unknown text. It encourages work, not just on a word level, but on a sentence and whole-text level. It works well as a whole class activity using a whiteboard but can also be used by groups and individuals, with or without a teacher.