Help with Home Schooling - Thanks to Alex Power

To Help Keep Them Quiet and Busy ☺

• Listen to Kids of the Move, Saddleback Kids or read a Bible Story and create a Bible
  Journal – look up some Bible Journaling ideas for inspiration if you’re stuck!
  
  
• Create some prayer stations around your house – google some ideas if you’re stuck – playdough and fingerprint prayers are great fun!
  
  
• Practise life skills – tying shoe laces, use a camera, telling the time, counting money, setting the table, help sort and put away laundry etc...
  
  

• Make a fort or create a base in your house or garden
• Create an obstacle course – time yourself!
• Create ‘Minute-to-win-it!’ Challenges around your house – try beat your previous time
• Teach one of your siblings or a parent or friend something new – you can even record yourself doing it and send it to them!
• Reading – try do at least 30 minutes of reading each day – kindles and tablets also make greatbooks☺ (DolchWordListsavailableonTwinklforsmallerchildren)

• Write a book review based on a book you have read!
• Practise some tricky spellings– have someone test you on Friday☺ -Twinkl has loads of tricky spelling lists

• Revise Irish vocabulary or verb rules – test yourself
  
• Play Irish Dice games on Twinkl – practise writing and creating sentences
• Comprehension Practise – there are lots of sample comprehensions in both English and Irish on Twinkl
• Create a lesson for your class in a subject of your choice – English, Irish, Maths, SESE or Music
• Practise your tables as much as possible! Play some online tables games each day too (some on attached list) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3PojOwjHcc Practice Times Tables Songs if they help! Use this time to get these as fast as you can! Time yourself – timer challenge on Twinkl

• Keep a diary – Anne Frank didn’t know she’d be famous!
• Watch some Origami videos on YouTube and let your imagination go wild!
• Maths – Revise topics that we have covered so far. Try practise at least 1 tricky sum a day – practice makes perfect ☺

• Pick a movie that you haven’t seen before – write a plot summary and recommendation for your teacher, classmates, family members, friends...

• Look up some science experiments on YouTube – find some you can do at home
  
• ​Learn some new songs or revisit some old songs from Summerfest or Sunday School –

• ​RAK – Random Act of Kindness - Do something kind for someone – Help with chores around the house, making your bed, playing nicely with siblings, helping parents etc... – keep track of all the nice things that you do in your Kindness Journal.
• Ask an adult or someone older than you what their favourite song is now or was when they were younger – have a listen, think about it and draw a picture of what comes to your head.
• Call/Skype or Facetime someone you haven’t talked to in a while!
  
• Practise letter writing skills – Write someone from church a letter, you can post or keep it
• until you see them next ☺

• Practise Conversation Starters – Find out what your family think about things... Have fun in the garden! – There’s so much you can do!
• Practise the countries and flags of the world – try and memorise a country for each letter of the alphabet
• RendCo Kids, Hillsong Kids, VBS Kids have great songs on Youtube – you might recognise a few ☺
• Use a phone or tablet to take some photos each day:

• You could also use these challenges or your own and keep a sketch book of different things each day ☺
  

• Write a script for a short drama or film
  
• Interior design – choose a room in your own house that re-design – make a poster-board of ideas for what you would do – eg sketches, colours, patterns, furniture etc...
  

• Make your own comic strips ☺
• Create a 2-5 minute presentation about any topic that interests you – Create a PowerPoint,
• Poster or Scrapbook about your topic.
  
• Learn and recite a poem you like – Spike Milligan – Smiling is Infectious - is a great one!
• Bake a Cake
• Create a new game – use your imagination!
• Take a GoNoodle break (gonoodle,com)
• Hide something and make a treasure map!

• Play I Spy
• Watch something on TG4/Cúla4
• Create a Maths trail around your house – number or shape hunt
• Sort your toys by size or colour!

• Learn a new song to sing
• Play a card game
• Practise tying your shoelaces
• Spend time outside every day!

• Do a jigsaw
• Make your bed
• Paint something
• Clean your bedroo

• Build something!
• Fold your clothes – match your socks ☺
• Make patterns
• Practise your writing – make a shopping list or write a book

• Draw your favourite animal
• Plant some seeds
• Help make lunch or dinner
• Make up a quiz

• Play with some play dough
• Design a new cover for your favourite book
• Practise cutting
• Blow some bubbles

• Play a board game
• Read something every day!
• Build a fort!
• Read a story to your sibling/pet/toys

Helpful Websites for Home Learning
These are just a few of many websites we thought would help ☺


Math

• - https://www.coolmathgames.com/
• - https://ie.ixl.com/
• - https://www.ducksters.com/games/mathtimestables.php
• - https://www.mathsisfun.com/
• - https://www.timestables.com/
• - https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/7-11-years/times-tables
• - https://www.theschoolhub.ie/sample.php
• - https://www.mathsonline.com.au/games/times_tables- https://www.primarygames.com/math.php
  
  

English

• - https://www.kidsreads.com/
• -  http://www.helpmykidlearn.ie/
  
• -  https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/fun-games#sidr-0
  
• -  http://www.funenglishgames.com/
  
• -  https://www.education.com/games/spelling/
  
• -  https://www.starfall.com/h/
  
• -  https://www.primarygames.com/reading.php
  
• -  https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zjxhfg8
  Irish
  
• -  http://www.easyirish.com/
  
• -  https://www.cula4.com/ga/
  
• -  http://www.irishpage.com/quiz/preppron.htm
  
• -  http://talkirish.com/games/
  
• -  https://www.duolingo.com/course/ga/en/Learn-Irish-Online
  

-  https://www.seideansi.ie/

SESE and General Educational Websites

• - https://jr.brainpop.com/
• - https://www.education.com/games/fourth-grade/
• - https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
• - https://www.education.com/games/fourth-grade/
• - https://www.dogonews.com/
• - https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html#.VYmm2GTF_fZ
• - https://sciencebob.com/
• - http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students
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Twinkl is amazing - There are lots of free resources available on www.twinkl.ie to help with all subjects and topics – www.twinkl.ie/offer will allow you one free month trial to download whatever necessary!
The offer code is IRLTWINKLHELPS. Loads of resources available to download for all subject areas ☺