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Do you know that our taste buds can develop over time? As children, we can train our taste buds by exposing them to different foods. Over time we develop liking for certain healthy foods. This way we can expand our palette and add many new foods to our diet. If we introduce a healthy diet, full of delicious fruit and vegetables from an early age we can develop our taste buds to like many different nutritious foods as we grow older.

There is lots of evidence to show that the more we taste a food, the more we learn to like it. It can range from from just a few tastes of a food, to 15 or more tries to learn to like something. It ranges per individual child and it also depends on the type of food. That is why the Food Dudes programme gives every child an opportunity to try a new fruit and vegetable at least 4 times, over the course of the Food Dudes programme. This ensures that everyone gets the opportunity to learn to like new varieties of fruits and vegetables.

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Welcome to Food Dudes Fun at Home! We have games, worksheets, activities and videos for parents to download which are aimed to support primary school children of all ages to make learning about fruit, vegetables and healthy eating fun and interesting. Join the conversation on #FoodDudesFun

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A free app available in Google Play or iTunes stores. Create your own story with animations.

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Artist Don Conroy, has officially launched his own YouTube channel, where he will teach us all to draw our way out of these trying times.

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Hi everyone Don here and welcome to my channel. I hope to inspire your love of drawing, nature and creativity in children and adults alike through my videos. Get your paper, pencils and paint ready and get involved and you never know, you might just discover your hidden talents.

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Instructions on how to access these publishers online resources and books.

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These videos are packed with activities pupils can play at home.

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Official education portal of the Department of Education and Skills in Ireland. Curriculum focused resources and support for primary and post primary teachers.

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Follow the links on this Scoilnet Learning Path by Claire O Riordan to learn lots about space.

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Follow the links to learn lots about space. This path is aimed at students in the middle classes. Kids will learn about space through songs, poems and exploring websites and can test their knowledge with a crossword and quiz.
7 resources in this Learning Path

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Official education portal of the Department of Education and Skills in Ireland. Curriculum focused resources and support for primary and post primary teachers.

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Use these garden-themed learning activities created by Siobhán McAndrew to enable children explore a range of subjects linked to the garden, plants, growing and spring.

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Use these garden-themed learning activities to enable children explore a range of subjects linked to the garden, plants, growing and spring. Relevant to Science, English, Gaeilge and Geography curricula.
9 resources in this Learning Path

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Official education portal of the Department of Education and Skills in Ireland. Curriculum focused resources and support for primary and post primary teachers.

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The Primary Planet is Ireland’s first children’s news magazine.

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The Primary Planet - Ireland's First Children's Newspaper

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With schools and printers closed, it's impossible for us to get your mags out to you for now. But, fear not, you can now read them online by clicking here. You will also have FREE access to News Flash and Eipic. See you soon, and enjoy the read.

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With schools and printers closed, it's impossible for us to get your mags out to you for now. But, fear not, you can now read them online by clicking here. You will also have FREE access to News Flash and Eipic. See you soon, and enjoy the read.

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With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

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Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

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ABCya provides educational games for primary school pupils. It is a paid subscription site but some activities and games are provided free of charge. There are also apps for both Apple and Android mobile devices.

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ABCya! • ABCya! • Learning Games and Apps for Kids

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Educational games for grades PreK through 6 that will keep kids engaged and having fun. Topics include math, reading, typing, just-for-fun logic games… and more!

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Oxford Owl has a section of activities for children listed by age from 3 to 11+.

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Check out our range of activities to download, print and use at home. Including character and book related activity packs, maths games, recipes and more!

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Kids' Activities: fun learning games for ages 3-11 - Oxford Owl

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Activity sheets and ideas for children, all free to download, print and share.

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Welcome to WordUnited's fast-growing Free Resources Hub. Here, we hope you find inspiration to help children learn while having fun. Explore our range of activity sheets, printables, and videos. Feel free to download any of the resources, to print them and to share them again and again...

Discover 100s of fun worksheets for kids on WordUnited's Free Resources Hub! Free printable worksheets, free teaching resources, free classroom display and inspirational videos.

Welcome to WordUnited's new Free Resources Hub! Here, you will find free printables for classroom displays, teacher resources, early years resources and worksheets for KS1 and KS2. Below, you can browse the expanding range of resources, all of which are easy to download for free.

Free Printables

At WordUnited, we believe that learning and playing are one; this is reflected in our choice of bright and engaging colours, child-friendly fonts and layouts for the free worksheets and classroom displays. Our free printables are easily accessible to all, including parents, teachers, teaching assistants, home educators and children. We have carefully designed the Free Resources Hub to be user-friendly, enabling you to efficiently filter by subject and age range or use the search bar to quickly locate the resource you have in mind. Simply select the worksheet sheet you would like to download on any mobile, tablet, laptop or desktop device, print and spread the fun of learning. Whether it's an inspiring worksheet for a lesson or an attention-grabbing display to inspire young minds, you can download a growing collection of excellent learning resources. We will also be taking requests for new free resources. To get involved, contact resources@wordunited.com with any suggestions for free worksheets and up to five of these requests will be created each week.

Science and Primary Resources Maths Worksheets

Searching for free math sheets? Look no further - we have a wonderful range of math worksheets to support learning numeracy skills. Handy matching times tables worksheets can help children to remember their times tables; practice the two times table with times tables worksheets like colouring pairs of socks. Try addition and subtraction worksheets such as robot 10 more or less o improve adding and subtracting numeracy skills or dinosaur counting year 1 maths worksheets to place a fun spin on counting to 100. Put your fraction knowledge to the test with fractions worksheets or play a fun game of fraction dominoes. For early years resources in numeracy, you can use our handy filtering tools to quickly locate a range of math worksheets. Filter by "Maths" and age range "3-5" to see what primary resources maths are available. For example, kids can learn how to count to ten with food-themed colouring sheets of fruit and cupcakes. Not only this, but children will simultaneously learn about different colours and food. Additionally, little ones learning about shapes may benefit from a differentiated 2D shapes matching activity, or if you are searching for KS1 and KS2 maths worksheets, explore free resources such as tally chartsand Roman numerals. Little scientists can experiment to see what happens when they mix primary colours to create secondary colours.

Teaching Ideas and Home Education Resources

Whether you are a teacher within a school or home education setting, our wide range of worksheets support the national curriculum, lesson planning and aim to inspire teaching ideas. Many of our free teacher resources are also differentiated for all abilities and include answer sheets to assist with marking. Decorate walls with classroom displays and home education resources. For example, add a pop of colour to the room with a vibrant colour wheel display or download a map of Europe to help kids easily identify different European countries. Moreover, effortlessly create free home education packs by downloading any relevant resource with ease. For children with Special Educational Needs such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Speech and Language needs, our range of SEN worksheets support topics such as educational, behavioural, social and emotional learning. These free printables provide SEN teaching ideas and include activities such as weather chart displays, drawing feelings and understanding emotions.

Colouring Pages for Kids

Colouring sheets are excellent for all ages and have heaps of benefits. As mentioned on colorpsychology.org, colouring pages can help to improve fine motor skills when using the muscles of the hand and wrist to grip the pencil. Building hand strength and dexterity can later contribute to improved handwriting skills, whilst focusing on controlling the crayons can improve hand-eye coordination. Children can also develop their creativity and knowledge of different colour names as they choose which colours to use for their work of art. We have therefore created free colouring pages for kids. Choose from early years resources like this giraffe colouring activity or for older kids, try mindful colouring pages. Alongside colouring pages for kids, in our art category you will also find plenty of other art activities and messy play teaching ideas. For example, kids may enjoy a colour scavenger hunt, a brilliant way to incorporate the outdoors into everyday learning, as kids venture into nature to locate objects that match the colours.

History and Geography Worksheets

With a growing selection of humanities worksheets on our Free Resources Hub, finding history and geography teaching ideas and activities has never been easier. Whether you are seeking informative and colourful maps of continents and countries or parts of a castle classroom displays, we have got you covered. Children can tune into their creative side by designing their own shields or label colourful illustrations of Egyptian Gods with or without clues, depending on each differentiated sheet. For geography activities, develop knowledge of European countries with an enjoyable wordsearch or work on understanding the location of the seven continents of the world with a matching worksheet.

Phonics Worksheets and Handwriting Practice Sheets

Within our literacy category of free printables, children can practice their alphabet with letter formation sheets. Learn the order of the alphabet and practice letter recognition or combine colouring and writing skills with handwriting practice sheets. Here, children can trace the different letters of the alphabet and colour in objects beginning with each letter. Why not start today with a colour & trace activity for letter "A"? Alternatively, if your child is learning another language, you may find our expanding range of handwriting practice sheets and letter formation sheets for French, Arabic, Spanish and German helpful. Furthermore, phonics worksheets can be a fantastic way to reinforce learning different sounds. For example, learn the digraph "sh" with a cute sheep worksheet and improve letter recognition and formation. Pair phonics worksheets with flashcards and digraph dominoes to further develop literacy skills.

Feel free to download, print and share the resources to spread the joy of learning! To read our blogpost about the Free Resources Hub and learn more about our free printables click here.

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Discover 100s of fun worksheets for kids on WordUnited's Free Resources Hub! Free printable worksheets, free teaching resources, free classroom display and inspirational videos. Welcome to WordUnited's new Free Resources Hub! Here, you will find free printables for classroom displays, teacher resources, early years resources and worksheets for KS1 and KS2.

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The National Geographic website has some great stories and articles for children. A very interesting and informative website.

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Kids Club - for kids like you! | National Geographic Kids

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Do you love exploring, learning & discovering exciting, new things? Then our Kids Club is for you! Find bags of cool content written for kids and by kids…

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Primary Teaching Resources aimed at pupils in the UK so aligned with their curriculum but there are some excellent resources here you might find useful.

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Teaching resources for primary school teachers, arranged by subject and age-group.

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Interactive games and lessons from the Utah Education Network. Some of these activities are Flash based and will not work on an iPad/iPhone and some modern PC browsers.

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The Utah Education Network provides free web tools and services, such as lesson plans, videos, curriculum resources, student interactives and professional development for Utah educators, students and parents. UEN is the Internet Service Provider for public education, the Utah System of Higher Education and state libraries.

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Here are six classic children’s books, free to read or listen to.

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This is an online platform to read, write, code, share, and remix interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds. Access to the site normally requires a paid subscription but the site has suspended paid access and is free until May.

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Write & Code Interactive Stories for Free

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Elementari is an online platform to write, code, and share interactive stories using professional illustrations and sounds. Get started for free.

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Do2learn provides thousands of free pages aimed primarily at developing social skills and providing resource materials for pupils who benefit from non traditional teaching approaches.

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Do2Learn began in 1996 through a National Institutes of Health Small Business Innovative Research grant. Our team searches out the most talented and creative teachers and clinicians across the world. These gifted individuals work with our technical experts to transfer their knowledge into formats that we can make available to you.
Since beginning, we have grown into a world-wide resource with over 11 million hits a month. While based in North Carolina, approximately half of our users are from outside of the U.S. Thousands of sites link to us and we can be easily found on most search engines using topics such as 'picture cards', 'facial expressions', and 'job tips'. We hope you find our resources helpful and pass on our link to others.
We believe that simply telling busy teachers, parents, and professionals what they should be doing is not enough. If we explain how to devise a visual communication system using picture cards, we provide free cards to get you started.

When we present the Teacher Toolbox on how to adapt a classroom for children with special needs, we provide resources for behavior management plans, literacy tools, and the materials to create everything in your classroom.

Our approach is to use the latest technology and expert guidance to create innovative and usable solutions.

Learn about DiagnoseFirst, our newest project to help teachers and clinicians recognize the symptoms of ASD.

Pre-employment screening assessments are online or paper tests that some companies require applicants to complete during the application process. Read more about JobTIPS Student Version!

JobTIPS Toolbox PRO is filled with resources to help you coach your students through the challenges of assessing their skills, finding and applying for jobs, and practicing the social skills needed to do well in the workplace.

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picture exchange communication system cards

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Do2Learn: Educational Resources for Special Needs

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picture communication cards, songs, games and learning activities for autism, aspergers, fetal alcohol syndrome and disabilities

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NRICH provides thousands of free online mathematics resources for ages 3 to 18, covering all stages of early years, primary and secondary school education – completely free and available to all.

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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Seomra Ranga is a subscription based site but they are running daily Stay at Home quizzes. There’s a prize each day and the online quiz is free to enter.

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Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors "Seomra Ranga" means "classroom" in the Irish language.
Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources. The resources on the site, which support all areas of the curriculum, are arranged in accordance with the curricular provisions of the Irish primary school....

Please have a browse through the new site and support our work in developing new resources by becoming a Member. Individual and School Memberships are available.

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Seomra Ranga | The Primary Education Hub

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Welcome to Seomra Ranga, the Hub for Primary School Resources. For the overseas visitors "Seomra Ranga" means "classroom" in the Irish language. Seomra Ranga has been successfully providing tried and tested resources for primary school classrooms since 2007. Since that time, the site has gradually built up a strong following amongst educators as a repository of quality teacher-created resources.

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Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. This is an American site and is providing a 20 day free trial which you may find helpful.

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Raise a reader by getting the best book recommendations, reading tips, and discounts delivered straight to your inbox.

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Inclusive Technology supply educational software and on their website have a listing of educational apps you might find useful.

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Inclusive Technology - All the Help You Need

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Inclusive Technology is a leading provider of assistive technology with over 20 years of experience helping learners of all ages and abilities to play, learn and communicate.

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This website has a range of activities for all classes in most subjects. It’s a very busy site with lots of links at the top of the page but there are some very good online activities on the site.

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Testimonials

IXL is brilliant. I am using it for autistic secondary students who need literacy and numeracy support. I love the instant feedback, the huge library of questions available, and the teacher insights!

Tara, teacher

Dublin, Ireland

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site. Used by over 14 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 5,000 maths and English topics. Interactive questions, awards and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Splash Maths is available on the Apple App Store and for PC use. (Sorry Android users!) It is for all classes but there are Free Apps for iPad/iPhone listed on their website for class groupings as well. (Links are at the very bottom of the Splash Maths webpage)

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Fun educational math app for 4 - 14 years old

Instead of a single grade, kids can now practice content for all elementary Grades 1 through 5. Kids who have completed their grade level, can now go beyond and practice the next grade level; and the kid who needs revision of previous grade skills, can go back and strengthen them. This app comes with cross-platform accessibility; kids can access Splash Math on the desktop or on iPad using the same login.

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Splash Math Grade K-5 App for iPad and iPhone

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Instead of a single grade, kids can now practice content for all elementary Grades 1 through 5. Kids who have completed their grade level, can now go beyond and practice the next grade level; and the kid who needs revision of previous grade skills, can go back and strengthen them.

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Scoilnet has a large selection of resources for all classes. It is free and can be accessed from home. You do not need to register or sign in to Scoilnet.
Resources can be located using the search tool.

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A selection of ebooks was recently added to the World Book section of Scoilnet. When you go to the World Book page you can access these books through the ebooks link.

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a comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles

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A comprehensive suite of e-learning resources designed for all ages and abilities with articles, videos, educator tools, eBooks, research guides and more.

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Ms Farry in Cloughfin NS in Donegal put this excellent list of resources together. Links might need to be tried a few times due to the volume of traffic on these sites but they do work. (World ebooks page can be slow to load)