The National Council for Special Education is currently preparing online resources for children with special educational needs. Please visit https://ncse.ie/online-resources-for-parents
Electricity Worksheet from Mrs. Gleeson for Senior Infants
Grow in Love is giving free access to their website to all parents during this difficult time. Log onto https://www.growinlove.ie/en/ and use the following details:
Email: trial@growinlove.ie and password: growinlove
In Kilcornan, a large portion of our readers and workbooks are from CJ Fallon publishers. In order to help during this time, CJ Fallon is providing free access to its online books. Visit http://my.cjfallon.ie, click 'Student Resources', then filter to the title you require, making sure 'Online Book' is selected under 'Resources'.
In light of the Covid 19 outbreak, the Twinkl website are offering parents a one month free ultimate membership to twinkl.ie. This now includes school closure packs which are very useful for keeping pupils in touch with the curriculum at home. Setting this up is very easy to do: Go to www.twinkl.ie/offer and enter the code IRLTWINKLHELPS.
gonoodle.com is another website that is used regularly in Kilcornan National School. It provides free movement and mindfulness vidoes for kids and includes a 'family' log in for use at home.
Epic! is an online library which offers over 35000 resources including “Read to Me” books, audiobooks, student tracking, reading level linkage with Accelerated Reader and other reading levelling schemes. It also offers high interest texts such as National Geographic Kids and Guinness Book of Records. It is suitable for children from ages 4-12.
www.getepic.com
Vooks is committed to being a resource for families to keep kids reading at home. Vooks can also be a welcome distraction for parents, allowing them to enjoy time with their kids, watching and discussing books together. To help, we have created take-home lesson plans that can be shared with parents and guardians - built to provide children with 20 minutes a day of read aloud time and activities.Note: One month free, sign up required
Oxford Owl has an ebook library with over 250 books in it and offers free access to teachers and parents once you create an account at www.oxfordowl.co.uk They also have some vocabulary and comprehension activities for most of the books.
As part of their Assistance for Schools response to Coronavirus they are providing Writing Legends free of charge through to July 31, 2020. Writing Legends is a comprehensive writing program, containing hundreds of activities for students in grades 3 to 6. The regular price is $11.50 (USD) per student. The school has created an account: E mail: secretary@kilcornanns.ie Password: Together2020. Due not to differing grade systems, please use the category you feel best suits your child.
https://www.writinglegends.com/
Science Resources
Day to day projects (USA based) for children Infants to Sixth Class
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html
Infants to 6th Class
Any science experiment you could ever think of is nicely organised into lots of different sections. Much of the equipment you can find at home but well worth exploring to try and do a science experiment every few days.
https://www.sfi.ie/engagement/discover-primary-science-and-maths/activities-search/
Infants to 6th Class
This web site covers both History and Geography from infants to 6th class including some great project ideas.
http://www.askaboutireland.ie/learning-zone/primary-students/
Infants to 6th Class
Teachers working with Scoilnet have produced a number of subject-based themed pages. Each theme page presents a set of links and resources on a particular topic. This page contains a number of resources on different Geography topics. Many of them also tie in to Educate Together’s Learn Together Curriculum.
https://www.scoilnet.ie/primary/theme-pages/geography/
All Classes
One of the best produced Visual Arts guides for the curriculum.
All ClassesFree downloadable PDF for children about Coronavirus which is information but also acts as an activity sheet.Website is www.mindheart.com Then enter tab for ‘descargables’. Most of this website is in Spanish however, they have the pdf version in English. Tab for direct link is below.
For more ideas for learning at home:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1FvOvoKrEiJEUTt8bHJguHDViL2RGHjod
We will update this page with relevant sites and information. Please be safe and take care of each other.
The staff of Kilcornan National School
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