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YOGA | MINDFULNESS | RELAXATION FOR KIDS! Screentime that gives kids SUPERPOWERS! ⬇️ D O W N L O A D T H E C O S M I C K I D S A P P ⬇️ 🍏Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cosmic-kids/ 🛍️Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cosmickids 🖥️ Desktop (great for teachers!): https://app.cosmickids.com/ 📺 Roku: https://rb.gy/44r8d -------------------------------------------------------------------- Why watch on the App?

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Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks

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Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for teachers of Years 1 to 6. It asks ten random questions on addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ordering, partitioning, digit values and more. Ideal for use on a IWB and as a starter or plenary activity.

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Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the essential vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It can help children to understand what type of calculation they have to do when faced with word problems.

It is a multiple choice game that is suitable for children from 5 to 11 years of age. Mental Maths Train is also good for consolidation of times tables knowledge. As with all of our games, Mental Maths Train works well on an interactive whiteboard.

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5-11 Years

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Maths Addition Subtraction Multiplication Division

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Mental Maths Train - A Four Operations Game

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Mental Maths Train is a maths game which focuses on the vital vocabulary of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. It helps children understand what type of calculation they have to do when faced with word problems.

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Hit the Button is an interactive maths game with quick fire questions on number bonds, times tables, doubling and halving, multiples, division facts and square numbers. The games, which are against the clock, challenge and develop mental maths skills. An untimed, practise mode is available in our Hit the Button app along with lots more extra features.

The activities can be matched to appropriate mathematical ability. Regular use of Hit the Button can help students to sharpen their recall of vital number facts in a fun way and learning multiplication tables need not be boring.

AGE

6-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Times Tables Division Number Bonds Doubles Halves Square Numbers

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Hit the Button - Quick fire maths practise for 6-11 year olds

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Quick fire questions on number bonds, doubles, halves, times tables, division facts and square numbers against the clock. Superb!

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Our Chinese Dragon Game is designed to fit into a Chinese New Year topic. It is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme. Check out our Chinese New Year teaching resources and activities.

This maths game has different levels which can be matched to mathematical ability level.

The drag and drop activities help children to order numbers, beginning at a basic level and progressing to more challenging exercises ordering decimal and negative numbers. The sequencing activities help children to recognise number sequences and reinforce their knowledge of multiples.

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5-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Ordering Sequencing Odd and Even

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Chinese Dragon Game - Ordering and Sequencing Numbers

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A super game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. You can order numbers up to 100 and complete sequences counting on and back in multiples up to 10.

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I Use A Comma Song | Songs For Kids | Grammar | GoNoodle

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Jonah and the Whale | Stories of God I Animated Children's Bible Stories | Bedtime Stories | 4K UHD

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Helicopter Rescue is a mental maths game with different sized number charts and it is designed to help you to identify and work with numbers up to 100. The game works well on an interactive whiteboard.

The game modes include 'Find a Number' and 'Count On & Back'. In the first, you are asked to find a number on the grid, either directly or in between two voiced numbers. The count on and count back games are designed to help you learn some of the vocabulary of addition and subtraction; count on, count back, more than and less than.

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4-8 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Number Addition Subtraction

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Helicopter Rescue - Mental Maths for 4 to 8 Year Olds

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Helicopter Rescue is a mental maths game for 4 to 8 year olds which can help you to know your two-digit numbers and help with addition and subtraction skills. It covers different vocabulary such as more than, less than, count on and count back.

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By Mary Gallagher, Assistant Editor

The celebration of summer solstice on June 21, when the sun rises before 5 a.m. in the northern hemisphere, marks a sacred tradition in Ireland dating back 5000 years, when the power of the sun is celebrated at the burial places of ancient gods since pre-Christian times. ℘℘℘
Ireland has a number of megalithic monuments. Well-known sites such as the passage tomb called the Mound of the Hostages at the Hill of Tara, and Newgrange, which features stone carvings dating back to 3000 B.C., draw hundreds of visitors, especially for Winter Solstice on December 21, when the ancient passage tombs capture the rising sun. Less famous, but also spectacular are the Carrowkeel Cairns passage tombs in County Sligo, which for about a month before and after the summer solstice, captures the sunset.

The Carrowkeel Cairns (the word cairn, taken from the Irish, means "a pile of stones used as a memorial") is made up of a total of 14 passage tombs built on the Bricklieve Mountains (from the Irish breac sliabh, meaning "speckled mountain," after the limestone that composes them). The structure named Cairn G resembles Newgrange's passage tomb most closely. It similarly houses a cross-shaped arrangement of chambers (the three on the side intersect at the main) sheltering ancient remains, and demonstrates an early mastery of the architectural technique of corbelling - the layering and distribution of stones to create a sturdy ceiling at a desired height.

By far, however, the most significant shared feature is the roofbox structure takes in sunlight and disperses it in a controlled pattern within the larger cell of the monument. Carrowkeel's and Newgrange's are the sole two roofboxes in documentation, which only serves to make each other's existence more curious.

While the inner chamber of Newgrange sanctifies the shortest day of the year, Carrowkeel's Cairn G showcases the longest, offering a wondrous spectacle over the entire season surrounding the Summer Solstice. Angled perfectly to take in the rays of the sun during the two months of particularly lengthy daylight, before and after Summer Solstice, the roofbox diverts light inward to illuminate the opposite wall, gradually yet brilliantly.

Because of a lack of written record, prehistoric Ireland remains something of a mystery as far as a cultural understanding is concerned. All scholars have to go on is what can survive: objects such as metal tools, jewelry, and decayed human remains are dominant artifacts examined for insight, but still leave many questions unanswered.

Ancient monuments like the Carrowkeel cairns are important pieces of the puzzle because they illustrate a new, essential aspect of daily life for the ancient Irish: their spiritual beliefs. The elaborate constructions, so carefully engineered to embrace their external environment, assert a strong sense of kinship with the natural world, and the early peoples' gratitude to the land from which they carved out an existence.

Archaeologists conjecture that Newgrange's purpose was to embrace the arrival of warmer weather and fertile seasons. It is supposed to recognize that the worrisome months of shortening days and food supply and high risk of death are coming to an end, and express hope in the future after a long period of arduous strain.

Carrowkeel, on the other hand, is reminiscent of a more jubilant celebration. For an early civilization that could depend on little more than crude technology and the cyclical change of seasons, the relief indulged in that less harsh, less painful period of summer must surely be worth trumpeting - or monument-building, in this case. As a time of light, warmth, and fertility, summer provided a beautiful few months of relative safety for people who lived on the sharp edge of survival.

Its painstaking engineering, representation of an ancient culture that is long dead, and the sheer dedication and effort required to make such a structure a reality make the Carrowkeel Cairns a site both interesting and evocative to the observer. So take a moment this week to reflect on these long, luxurious days of summer, and how we continue to celebrate them today.

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Note: Because Newgrange is such a popular site, there is an annual lottery for only ten people to be admitted to witness the dawn of the winter solstice from inside. The summer sunsets at Carrowkeel are more easily accessed: tours can be booked at http://sligotours.ie/ ♦

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The celebration of summer solstice on June 21, when the sun rises before 5 a.m. in the northern hemisphere, marks a sacred tradition in Ireland dating back 5000 years, when the power of the sun is celebrated at the burial places of ancient gods, since pre-Christian times.

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Sebastian's Roller Skates read by Caitlin Wachs

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Place Value Basketball helps you to understand the concept of hundreds, tens and ones. You need to recognise the Dienes base ten blocks and match to numbers up to three digits on the basketballs.

Place value is a difficult concept and this game can help you to know the value of each number depending on its position.

As with all of our games, Place Value Basketball works well on an interactive whiteboard.

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5-8 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Place Value

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Place Value Basketball - Dienes Game for 5 to 8 Year Olds

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Place Value Basketball is a fun, base ten blocks game which helps children aged 5 to 8 to know what each digit in a either a two or three digit number represents.

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This palm tree fork painting is a really fun art project for older kids and tweens! Using a fork to create the texture for the leaves and trunk of the palm tree is a unique and fun way for kids to paint.

We love exploring different painting techniques. Take a look at my collection of painting ideas for kids for more fun and creative art projects to try!

I love the bright tropical colors in this painting! The calming blues of the sky and water and the bright greens in the palm tree make this such a great summer art project!

We love creating and exploring with different art supplies and techniques. If you are looking for more art projects to try, take a look at our ultimate collection of amazing art projects for kids!

Create your own palm tree fork painting

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Instructions for your palm tree painting

1. We used canvas paper for this project, I really like how the acrylic paint looks on the canvas paper. But you could easily use any type of canvas or if you are doing this in a classroom then just regular white cardstock will also work.

I cut our paper in half to 8 x 11 inches.

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2. Next, you need to draw in the lines for the water and sand like in the picture above. You want the biggest part to be the sky, and to draw the sand line on an angle to add some interest.

3. Start by painting in your sky. Put light blue paint onto a paint palette and swirl in some white paint. As you paint there will be white streaks mixed in with the blue.

You can add in some more white as you paint to show clouds and give the sky some interest.

4. Let the sky dry and then move on to painting in the water. For the water, use a turquoise blue color and add in some white like you did for the sky.

5. To finish off the background, paint in your sand with a sandy cream color. We didn't add in any white for the sand, just painted with the one color.

Make sure the background is completely dry before moving on to the palm tree.

6. Now it's time to draw in the palm tree. Using a pencil lightly draw in the trunk of the tree and some lines to indicate the leaves.

Remind kids to press very lightly in case they need to erase something as they are drawing.

7. Using a darker brown color, kids can paint in the trunk of their palm tree. We painted two layers for the trunk, so paint in one coat of dark brown and let it dry.

Then paint in another layer of the same brown, but mix in some white on to make a lighter brown.

While the second coat is still wet (the paint must be wet for this step), use a fork to create some texture on the trunk of the tree. Remind kids to paint with the fork in the same direction and to stop before the outside edge.

8. Time for the palm tree leaves! Start with a darker green color and using the pencil lines as a guide, paint in one leaf at a time.

Use a paintbrush to paint in the leaf, you want lots of paint on your brush and to paint in a thick line. Drag the paint down just slightly to create the leave shape like in the picture above.

Then drag a fork down over the leaf shape to create the palm tree leaf texture. Kids can go over the leaf with their fork a few times, dragging the paint down.

Because the paint has to be wet for the fork painting to work properly, you just want to do one leaf at a time.

9. The final step is adding in a lighter green to the palm tree leaves. Just like with the darker green color, start with a paintbrush and then use your fork to create the leaf texture.

I love how calm and serene this palm tree fork painting turned out! Using a fork to add in some texture to the leaves and trunk of the palm tree is such a neat way for kids to make this painting.

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Sort the mail into the correct post boxes by working out simple addition, subtraction and division calculations as well as multiples. A resource which is great for use on interactive whiteboards too.

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Sort the mail into the correct post boxes by working out simple addition, subtraction and division calculations as well as multiples. A resource which is great for use on interactive whiteboards too.

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Come on spring! We really can't wait and if you too can't wait for the flowers to start blooming try this paper plate flower weaving activity. This easy craft was inspired by a paper plate weaving project from Red Ted Art but we decided to make it a bit differently.

Simple at first glance but this spring inspired activity can have a twist to it that even requires some problem solving!

The weaving process is simple - the thread going under and across flower petals. Which is all great if your paper flower has a odd number of petals - this way kids will just weave their way round and round going across and under for as long as they like.

Now if the number of petals is even (which is the case more often than not) then things get a bit tricky as if you go "under and across" once you come back to the first petal and are ready to start weaving the second round you'll see the thread goes under the same (as well as across) petals as in the first woven circle. Now kids will either have to make a loop around one petal or change direction (making half a loop) to continue weaving. You can let them figure out "the solution" by themselves. This will make this paper plate flower weaving activity even more fun (and creative).

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