Home Learning 2020/2021 |
Remote Education Provision_Information for Parents_Jan 2021_V1
Letter to Parents_Home Learning_220121
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Health and Well Being
Headspace for kids
A useful mindfulness app, especially in the current climate to help children manage their thoughts and feelings.
Cosmic Kids Yoga (YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
GoNoodle (Online) https://www.gonoodle.com/
Great videos to get our children moving. Check out the Good Energy at Home button
National Trust: Currently free of charge (Cafes and shops are closed). This may change so keep checking on the website
English
Jane Considine (Twitter @janeconsidine)
Scholastic https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
Providing English activities for each age group. Click on For Families for free content. A different topic for each day. It is American so just click on the relevant age group:
Pre K and Kindergarten Reception and Year 1
Grade 1- ages 6-7 Year 2
Grade 2 ages 7-8 Year 3
Grade 3 ages 8-9 Year 4
Grade 4 ages 9-10 Year 5
Grade 5 ages 10-11 Year 6
Phonics
Phonics Play is now free to all users https://www.phonicsplay.co.uk/
TeachYour Monster to Read Free to all users https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/accounts/sign_up
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
White Rose Maths – Website and Twitter https://whiterosemaths.com/
Teachers will be using this weekly to direct your learning. This will be posted onto Dojo
Nrich Maths https://nrich.maths.org/primary
Some great activities to extend children’s mathematical thinking
https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/– American but some nice science videos for curious kids
Scratch – A coding Website https://scratch.mit.edu/parents
Click the create and Explore buttons
Raspberry Pi (Twitter @Raspberry_Pi @astro_pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/ )
Adds free content and activities for coding
Paper Construction Projects https://www.robives.com/
Lego ideas and play https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/kids-lego-activities/
Science Kids - http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/
Crash Course Kids (on YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
https://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/resources.html
Other Curriculum areas
Duolingo (App – our school language is Spanish)
Piano Maestro (App)
Horrible Histories
Geography Quizzes https://www.triviaplaza.com/geography-world-quizzes/
https://www.educationquizzes.com/ks2/geography/ (Other subjects too)
Jenniemalzels.com – some great books to look out for in the library
*Cost at the moment for the projects, but again look out for free activities
Online authors to look out for:
Oliver Jeffers (Twitter @OliverJeffers)
Alex T Smith (Twitter @Alex_T-Smith)
Holds live question and answer sessions. Holly Webb (Twitter @HollyKateWebb)
Anne Boyere (Twitter @AmusedNonQueen)