Check this page for learning activities and suitable websites. Children must be supervised when using ICT devices.

Resources can be found at https://www.webwise.ie/parents/covid19-online-safety-advice-for-parents/ to talk about being safe online and protecting your children.

For families who have access to a printer, many activities will download as a PDF.Many activities can be done by writing on to any page or by talking about it.

You can find out more about the ImagineNation project here and download the full playbook or
individual activity pages: https://childrensbooksireland.ie/resources/imaginenation/.

The final printed edition will be slightly different as we are commissioning new pages.
Please see below information re free ImagineNation activity book for primary school children.

In
short, simply click on the link below and complete the form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfXFXtgk-QxtSuqF1RCYyGdmkq8mA549lAdvfWy9OTlTlTQ/ viewform

The aim is to get books to organisations who are supporting children or adults in the following
categories:

  • Children or adults experiencing homelessness
  • Children or adult Travellers
  • Children or adults in Direct Provision
  • Children or adults with addiction issues
  • Children or adults with special needs
  • Children or adults with literacy issues
  • Children or adults for whom English is not their first language
  • Children in hospital

Tusla have 10 activities which you can do calmly with your family, click this link tusla10thingstodo-10  and then click which blue link you want to try today.

Physical Education, Diet and Well-being activities can be found at https://www.supertroopers.ie/family-zone/# SuperTroopers wants to help Irish families to make healthy choices.

Home Pilates suitable for children  Adults should supervise  https://imoves.com/home-learning/1433

Physical Education, song-singing, midfulness, Go-Noodle has 100s of videos made for children. Can be streamed on their app or website https://family.gonoodle.com/

Physical Education: The Body Coach, Joe Wicks, via Youtube is online at 9am Monday-Friday to support exercise at home. Perfect for rainy days but remember to be safe on YouTube and always have adult supervisions. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAxW1XT0iEJo0TYlRfn6rYQ

Well-being writer Fiona Forman has created this PDF that can be printed or read together to support health and strong minds and bodies. https://indd.adobe.com/view/5237deef-2311-469f-9e2d-b5ee89c2000f

This blog is run by a family who love craft activities. Try out their stamping with lego where they made cool pictures of robots, rockets and trees. https://frugalfun4boys.com/lego-stamping-its-art-with-bricks/

Art for Kids Hub is a Youtube Channel run by an American Family. The dad draws with one of his children most days and it is very easy for children to copy their drawings. Many of our students will recognise this. https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub

Draw with Don is a Youtube Channel run by Don Conroy. He draws really funny animal pictures. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo4dO9D4okn25M6mvfB02rQ

Mr T:

  • Junior and Senior Infants can learn to read from Mr. T’s videos. https://www.youtube.com/user/breakthruchris
  • Individual phonics can be found at this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqh11DN6jmbCsIPschffPaxvCdS9d6qPN

Alphablocks also have longer phonic episodes at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_qs3c0ehDvZkbiEbOj6Drg and show how to break words up into letters, then squeeze letters together to make words.

https://www.storyberries.com/ has easy to read stories, comics and poems

Infants, 1st and 2nd can access free skills books at https://www.gillexplore.ie/products?Type=1&SubjectList=0&LevelList=0

Vooks- Storybooks brought to life is a streaming library of your children’s storybooks.1 month free trial at https://www.vooks.com/ Similar to Youtube but no ads and is solely for children’s books.

For step-to-step coding projects check out http://www.codingireland.ie for free resources.

Maths website at https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/apps/number-rack

Maths Challenge https://imoves.com/files/imovement-resources/dice-challenge.pdf to use a dice to get you moving.

Requires a printer, click “Begin worksheet here” to make your own practice sheets for whatever letter or word your child needs to practice.  https://www.handwritingpractice.net/

These links will bring you to readings, pictures and rhymes to talk about a topic.

Junior infants, senior infants, 1st and 2nd would enjoy learning about

Insects: Happy Talk Insects Pack (4 – 8 Years)

Monsters: Happy Talk Monster Pack (4 – 8 Years) (2)

Monkeys: Happy Talk Monkey Pack (4 – 8 years)

Posting Letters at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-0d6jUouF5_El4UWleKE6PlLndjQF2_Z/view

Older children will enjoy these packs with their families

Television TV Language on devices

Kitchen Language in the Kitchen

Garden Language in the Garden

Irish Learning Games for children which are products that can be bought and will be posted to your home. http://www.smartycatgames.ie/

National Geographic has a broad website with videos and games, You will definitely find a new favorite animal here https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

If you like looking up into the sky and trying to see outer space, NASA https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html    is perfect for you. Nebula will show you around the universe.

Do you like listening to bird’s singing? This website is not in english but you can click very carefully on the birds in the top picture to hear their call. Click to website here and then listen to your local birds to see if you can find your local singers!

Covers many topics

The COVID-19 Time Capsule is designed to help children record the events of this historical moment. It is designed for a printer but using a copy or pages to write out or copy these pages would really make it your own. My-Covid-19-Time-Capsule-1 Some people will even build real time capsules with examples of letters, booklets, signs, newspapers, pictures to record all the events.

Click the link Activity and workbooks for kids during the isolation period
to access free workbook activities based on popular books.

Requires a log in (email address and details)

World Book Reader https://worldbook.kitaboo.com/reader/worldbook/index.html#!/

Kahoot is a quiz and learning website where you can challenge friends and family to quiz competitions.  You can write your own quizzes too. You need to sign in as  a student and make an account. Clicking “play” only works if the teacher has already sent you a code to use. https://create.kahoot.it/auth/register/birthday

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