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Learning (and playing) at home

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This is a library of ideas to visit when you need.

  1. Class Dojo
  2. Links to activities and games
  3. Links to lists of fun things to do
  4. Reading, maths, and science
  5. Helen Currie's Story Time
  6. Listen to stories online
  7. Podcasts for children
  8. Cooking together
  9. Child-friendly workouts
  10. Arts and crafts
  11. Screen-based activities
  12. Book publishers' online activities
  13. Places (e.g. museums and Mars) to visit online
  14. Learning help for older children, teens and adults

Class Dojo

We use Class Dojo to join together the ‘playing to learn’ we do in school with what you do at home. When your child starts school with us you will get a username and password.


Links to activities and games


Links to blogs of links


Reading, maths, and science

  • Love My Books All about children's books including search for good books by age, topic, traditional tales and more, and activity to do together
  • earlymaths.org maths in the early years
  • http://www.physics.org/marvinandmilo.asp: an amazing resource of simple and cheap but awe-inspiring and exciting experiments that you can do easily with household things.


Helen Currie's Story Time


Listen to stories online


Podcasts for children

Recommended by Waltham Forest Parent Forum:

Some are free, but most require a subscription to Spotify or to the individual podcast:

Barefoot Books Podcast – beautiful stories for small children
Circle Round – folktales for children aged 4 to 10
Peace Out – mindfulness stories for children
Purple Rocket – adventure stories
Sparkle Stories – magic and wonder stories
Story Pirates – pirates stories
Story Time with Yarn Story Factory – FREE stories
Storyformed – celebrate how stories nourish and shape us; for parents/carers
StoryNory – FREE stories; search by American school grade
What if World – all kinds of stories told by Mr Eric
Wow in the world – science and technology stories


Cooking together


Child-friendly workouts


Arts and crafts


Screen-based activities

Learn how to set up parental controls on the NSPCC website


Book publishers' online activities


Places (e.g.museums and Mars) to visit online

In particular:

The British Museum - located in the heart of London, this virtual tour allows you to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies

NASA - visit the NASA image gallery

San Diego Zoo  - the San Diego Zoo has a website  with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour

Yellowstone Park - tour Yellowstone National Park!

Access Mars - explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.

farmfood 360 - this Canadian site Farm Food 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.


Learning help for older children, teens and adults

subject place to look
homework

Khan Academy - FREE help with homework (for parents who are confused by their children's school work as well as for children!)

crafts

Ravelry - Knitting and crochet

MAKER STATIONS HOME PACK.pdf - Google Drive - Fun things to do. Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet

geography

countryreports.org/ - search by country for geographic, economic and demographic data

Funbrain - explore how our planet is put together

history

Big History Project - History and science for older children

bunkhistory.org - American history for teens and grown-ups

maths

https://www.coolmath.com/

Maths Aids – dynamic maths worksheets

meditation

Insight Timer - try meditation

thinking

Scratch - code stories, games and animation

puzzle-words – all kinds of puzzles

TEDEd - all kinds of interesting videos

courses

The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award - Free mini courses an international award-winning programme that helps children and teenagers develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free.

The Open University - free courses in just about anything

https://www.edx.org/ - 2,500+ online courses from top institutions

Coursera – 2,730 free courses (and links to many paid ones) from top institutions

yoga http://yogawithadriene.com/ - free and donation sessions to try at home in private

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