Useful Websites And Apps For Learning
Here are some websites that might be useful:
Literacy
A site packed with interactive phonics games, phonics planning, assessment ideas and many teaching ideas and resources to help children to learn to hear phonemes, recognise graphemes and develop the blending and segmenting skills that are vital for learning to read and spell.
https://www.teachyourmonstertoread.com/
Practise everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.
https://stories.audible.com/discovery
Free audio stories for a range of ages.
https://www.booktrust.org.uk/books-and-reading/have-some-fun/storybooks-and-games/
Lots of lovely interactive books, retelling favourite stories and lots of reading games.
Free educational games covering maths, literacy and topic.
Premier League Stars. Videos and activities to support with Maths, Literacy, PSHE and PE.
Numeracy
Interactive maths games.
https://nrich.maths.org/fortwo
Some maths games to play at home. There are other challenges if you explore the site.
Interactive maths games and printable resources.
https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/
Weekly planned activities for each year group
Free educational games covering maths, literacy and topic.
Premier League Stars. Videos and activities to support with Maths, Literacy, PSHE and PE.
Topic
Free educational games covering maths, literacy and topic.
Premier League Stars. Videos and activities to support with Maths, Literacy, PSHE and PE.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary
You can find something linked to all subjects here.
Suitable for all ages, LightBot was designed with first-time coders for children to give instructions and directions. Available on website and app.
https://musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/Experiments
Musical activities to play at home.
https://www.energiseme.org/getting-active/getting-active-at-home/
Ideas for getting active at home.
This has power point presentations and worksheets for all subjects, they are offering free access for parents during the closure.
https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes
https://naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
In their Nature activities to do at home with your kids, the Woodland Trust have put together some simple, nature-based activities you can enjoy together at home or in your garden.
www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
Yoga videos designed for children aged 3+
Here are some apps that might be useful:
Bee-Bot (app for iPhone/iPad users)
Bee-Bot (app for Android/Google Play users)
Enables children to improve their skills in directional language and programming sequences.
Kahoot! (app for iPhone/iPad users)
Kahoot! (app for Android/Google Play users)
Create a quiz for you and your family.
CBeebies Go Explore (app for iPhone/iPad users)
CBeebies Go Explore (app for Android/Google Play users)
Focussed on learning games from geography to phonics, to feelings and self-care.