Seesaw – online learning platform
We are using the ‘Seesaw Class’ app to share the learning children are doing at school with parents/carers at home, but also for the children to complete their home learning. You will need to download the app and use the QR code given to your child. Please let us know if you need help. You can use Seesaw for free on any device – phone, tablet, laptop, etc. Our teachers regularly post activities and respond to your child’s learning.
Click on the pictures below to find additional activities to try at home:
Social, Personal and Health Education
It is important to look after your child’s well-being. This journal is designed to help children to enhance their mental well-being through a range of different activities. Most of the topics, such as positivity, gratitude, kindness, bravery, creativity and self-kindness are drawn from the field of Positive Psychology, which is the science of well-being. There are also activities based on dealing with worries and coping with change.
Keeping Active – PE
Go Noodle is a great website to help children keep moving at home. There are lots of different exercises and workouts for all different tastes – give it a try!
Cosmic Kids has lots of yoga, mindfulness and relaxation exercises for children.
Joe Wicks, the Body Coach, has recorded workouts for children streamed on Youtube.
English
Hairy Phonics is a YouTube channel that supports children who are learning to read. It has funny, engaging videos to help children learn their sounds.
Alphablocks is a YouTube channel of short clips, teaching children phonics sounds. It is great revision for children – just choose a sound and watch the clip!
Teach Your Monster to Read is a free website for younger children to help them learn to read. It has lots of fun games and activities.
Visit Seussville to explore the world of Dr Seuss. Read a book, watch a video, try an activity or game. From the Cat in the Hat to the Lorax and the Grinch – they are all there waiting!
ImagineNation is a playbook created by Childrens’ Books Ireland with An Post. Children can take some time to draw, read, write and create with activities, puzzles, poems and short stories from some of Ireland’s best children’s writers and illustrators.
Gaeilge
Remember – what is most important is that children enjoy learning Gaeilge. Just watching or listening to Gaeilge is helpful. They (or you) do not need to understand every single word that is being said. You will gain lots of meaning from pictures and sounds.
Séideán Sí is an Irish-language website to support children’s learning of ‘Gaeilge’. At the beginning, you will be asked to ‘Roghnaigh do chanúint’. This means to choose a dialect – there are three different dialects in Ireland. Choose ‘Connachta’. Then choose your child’s class and pick an activity.
Naíonáin Bheaga = Junior Infants
Naíonáin Mhóra = Senior Infants
Rang a hAon = 1st Class
Rang a Dó = 2nd Class
Rang a Trí – Sé = 3rd – 6th Class
Maths
Numberblocks on YouTube has lots of short videos to help younger children with early number work. The videos are very visual and children love them!
Math Playground is a website with lots of maths games and activities for children of all ages. You can choose the right age range and the kind of activities you are looking for.
Top Marks is another great maths website with interactive games and activities.
Hit the Button is a great website for practising your quick-fire mental maths!
Arts – Visual Art, Music, Drama
Out of the Ark Music @Home is a great place to find a song to put you in a good mood! If you’re looking to learn a new song – give it a try!
‘I am an artist’ is a great website for exploring your creative side! Lots of different links and activity ideas for every strand of the Visual Arts curriculum.
Incredibox is a creative space to compose your own music, with the help of a crew of beatboxers!
Classics for Kids introduces children to classical music and the instruments in the orchestra.
History, Geography, Science
World Book Online is a FREE online encyclopaedia for children of all ages. It is available to all children in Ireland for free via Scoilnet. Click on the link below, choose the right age-range and start exploring!
Click below for a Heritage Council tutorial on how to access the Schools’ Folklore Collections – includes activities where children are encouraged to ring grandparents with questions on what life was like when they were children.
National Geographic has a super website for children. There is oodles of information about all sorts of things! Click below to find more:
Looking for some science experiments? Look no further! Science Foundation Ireland have a great selection of activities. Just choose the kind of activity you are looking for, gather your materials and off you go!
Digital Learning and Coding
Scratch is a free programming language and online community where children can create their own interactive stories, games, and animations.
Barefoot Computing have some fun online games to help your coding brain!
Find out more about Minecraft with this tutorial:
