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At the back of the book there is a list of trusted resources for children, along with further reading for parents, guardians and carers.

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Paints, pencils, crayons and markers at the ready! The Irish Times is inviting children to enter our "isolation art" competition with a painting or drawing based on your experience of how life has changed in recent weeks.

The competition will be judged by children's illustrator and environmentalist Don Conroy (who has been sharing tips for getting creative on his YouTube channel and website, donconroy.com. Read Patrick Freyne's interview with him here).

The competition will be judged by Don Conroy.

It could be a picture of the view from your window, a person you are missing a lot, an activity you have enjoyed doing recently, something you are looking forward to doing when you can go out to play or go back to school again, or anything else inspired by your experience of the last few weeks.

A selection of our favourite pictures will be published in the Irish Times Magazine and on irishtimes.com on May 2nd, and the winners will receive book vouchers from Dubray Books.

How to enter

When you have finished your picture, you should scan or photograph it - or ask your mum or dad to do it - and upload it using this form below. (If you are reading this on the Irish Times app, you can access the form here)

Please include your name, age and a few sentences about the picture, what it shows and why you drew it.

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There are many different skills involved in the game of hurling. These can be broadly broken down into those that involve Gaining Possession, Maintaining Possession, Releasing Possession, Contesting Possession and other skills that facilitate the playing of Hurling, called Other Skills.

(Click on the images below to learn more about each skill).

Gaining Possession

Involves gaining possession and control of the sliotar. Thus, skills such as catching, and lifting are included along with skills involved in getting control of the sliotar using the hurley.

Maintaining Possession

Once the sliotar is under the control of the player, there are a number of skills which help the player in possession to maintain possession. These skills encompass ground skills, handling skills and evasion skills.

Releasing Possession

Involves striking the sliotar, with either the hand or the hurley. Many of these skills can be performed with a stationary sliotar or a moving sliotar, while the player is stationary or while the player is moving.

Contesting Possession

Involves many of the skills used to tackle an opponent in possession, or to contest for possession when neither player is in possession of the sliotar.

The following are special skills usually associated with specific roles or set plays in the game of Hurling

Fundamental Movement Skills (ABC's)

These set of skills provide opportunities for players to perform the skills from the other categories.

Basic Motor Skills (Have a Ball)

These set of skills provide opportunities for players to perform the skills from the other categories.

It should be noted that this method of "grouping" skills is only a suggestion that may help coaches to ensure that as many skills as possible are developed, and there are a number of different ways of matching the skills together.

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60 Ways to Practice Spelling

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1. Paint with water- Dip a Q-tip in water and practice spelling the words on a chalkboard. The words will disappear like magic, leaving the chalkboard clean!

2. Shaving Cream Practice- An easy way to clean those dirty work tables clean is to let the children finger paint on the table tops. Have the students practice their spelling words in the shaving cream.

3. Scratch n' Sniff- Use a new sensation to teach the alphabet or spelling words. Write letters with glue on paper, then sprinkle with Jell-O. Makes a super scratch n' Sniff when tracing over the letters.

4. Adding Machine Tape Spelling- Students get tired of writing their spelling words the same way every time. Try having the students practice their words on adding machine tape.

5. Fishing for Words- On 3" x 5" cards print the students spelling words, fold in half, and fasten each with a paper clip. Place the cards in a large fish bowl. Using a toy fishing pole or a long stick, place a magnet on the string. The students go fishing for a spelling word to practice.

6. Finger Paint Bags- Freezer strength zip lock bags and fingerprint make great writing slates. Place a dab of finger paint (tempera paint can work, although, not as well. Hey, look! A use for all that semi-dried up paint!) in the zip-lock bag, tape the bag closed for extra strength. The student then lays the bag flat on the table and writes the word on the bag with a finger. The word will disappear like magic.

7. Record a Word- Have students use a tape recorder to practice their spelling words.

8. Disappearing Act- Help your students perform a real disappearing act. Children write their spelling words with chalk on black construction paper. Then you can spray and watch their words disappear and return.

9. Flannel Board Practice- Students use a flannel board and flannel board letters to practice their spelling words.

10. Scrabble Spelling- Place the wooden letter squares from an old Scrabble game on the Scrabble rail. Students can use the squares to spell the weekly words or to write a sentence of words. Incorporate math practice by having them add the number values printed on the squares to find the week's "most valuable word."

11. Word Cubes- Write letters on small wooden blocks and have the students arrange them and to spell their weekly words.

12. Spelling Magic- Try a little magic to teach spelling words! Have students write words on white construction paper with white crayon. Then have them paint over the paper with watered down tempera paint or watercolors. Words appear like magic!

13. Partner Word Step- On large piece of butcher paper print the letters of the alphabet. Have two partners pair up together to play this game. Have one student read the word aloud. The other child must step on the letters to spell the word.

14. Read and Grow- Encourage flash card practice with this growing flower. Cut a large, colored, construction paper flower with a yellow circle glued to its center. Use an X-acto knife to make two parallel slits in the center of the flower. Cut green tag board strips the width of the slits, and insert the strip though the flower from the back. Write the spelling words on the stem for the children to practice.

15. Egg Spellers- The teacher writes the weekly spelling words on small pieces of paper and places them inside plastic eggs. (Now you know what to do with all those plastic Easter eggs after your kids are bored with them. ) Students pick the eggs from an Easter basket. The students then must write that word.

16. Spelling Keys- The teacher writes the words for the week on construction paper keys. The keys are placed on a shower curtain ring. The students can use keys as flash cards to help them practice the weekly spelling words. On Friday, after the spelling test they can tear off the keys that they learned to spell. The words that they missed remain on the ring, this allows the student to continue to practice the words they need help on. If the student can spell these words on the review test they may then tear off the keys to take home.

17. Take the Pepsi Challenge- For a motivational technique, "Take the Pepsi Challenge!" Each student has a Pepsi cup. When Friday's spelling test is returned, he writes words he misses on a card and places it in his cup. When we have our review test, students are re-tested on the same words. Anyone who has a perfect score on all the unit tests and keeps his cup empty wins a Pepsi! Give a Pepsi also for perfect scores on review tests.

18. Spelling Puzzles- Write the spelling words on different colors of tag board. Cut the words apart in a variety of ways. The students then put the puzzle back together to form the spelling words.

19. Q-Tip Eraser- Write the spelling words on the chalkboard. The students then erase the words by tracing over them again and again with a Q-tip until the words are erased.

20. Block Puzzles- The teacher strings together wooden block beads. Write the spelling words on the top of the cubes, fill in the other sides with other letters. Attach a tag to the end of the string of blocks and write the spelling words on it. The student turns the blocks to reproduce the spelling word.

21. Spelling Bingo- The teacher gives a blank bingo card for a fun activity to take the place of your traditional pretest. As the teacher reads each word, students write it in a space of their choice. After giving all the words, I call words randomly until someone calls, "BINGO!" The winner must say the correctly spelled words that gave him the win.

22. Spelling Dice- The teacher writes the weekly spelling words on dice made from inverted milk cartons. The student rolls the dice and whatever the dice lands on they write 5 times.

23. Musical Words- A word skill game that is played like musical chairs. The teacher places the spelling words on small pieces of paper in a large box or bag. The children sit in a circle, and start passing the box around while music plays. Whoever has the container when the music stops must pick out the paper and read the word. If he can't, he is out. Continue to play until there is only one person left.

24. Transparency Show Off- The teacher makes a transparency of regular lined paper. The students practice writing their spelling words on the transparency. The students then show off their work on the overhead projector for all to see.

25. Individual Chalkboards- Have the students practice writing their spelling words on small chalkboards. They love it!

26. Tissue Paper Tracing- The teacher writes the weekly spelling words on a large piece of paper. The students then place tissue paper over the words and trace over them with crayon.

27. Wooden Flash cards- Try using pieces of wood as flash cards. The students enjoy the change!

28. Contact Paper Chalkboards- The teacher needs to make 5" x 7" cardboard pieces, cover half the cardboard with the special chalkboard contact paper. (You can also do this with chalkboard paint!) Then write the spelling word on the other half. The students look at the word and then copy it on the chalkboard side.

29. Magnetic Cookie Sheet- The teacher arranges assorted magnet letters on a cookie sheet. Students use the letters to form the weekly spelling words.

30. Overhead Posters- The teacher makes a transparency of the weekly spelling words. The list is then shown on the wall. A piece of butcher paper is taped to the wall. The student then traces the spelling words onto the butcher paper.

31. Hold It- Young children often find it difficult to hold a handful of cards while playing "Go Fish!" These card holders are really simple to make and really do the job! Place two plastic lids (Cool Whip lids work great!), flat sides together. Place a button in the center on each side, and sew the entire unit together with strong string or dental floss. Children slip cards between the two lids and hold the card holder. The game is played just like "Go Fish!" by using a pair of cards for each spelling word.

32. Typewriter Fun- Have the students write their spelling words ten times each on the typewriter. (Or try it on your classroom computer. If you're brave you can use your graphics software! Kid Pix is perfect for this.)

33. Paint Your Words- Have the students use small paint brushes to paint their words 5 times each.

34. Soft Flash cards- Use wall paper scraps to make unusual flash cards to practice the words.

35. Carbon Paper Practice- Have the students use carbon paper (yes, remember that stuff?) to help them write their words. I got some old NCR scraps from a printer that worked great and was a lot less messy. The best part: it was free!

36. Close pin Spelling- The teacher cuts out articles of clothing, from construction paper. The spelling words are then written on the articles of clothing. The students then reproduce the spelling words by hanging them on the clothes line with clothespins that have the letters written on them.

37. Salt Box Spelling- The teacher pours salt in the lid of a box (approx. 1/4"). The student then practices the words in the salt.

38. Alpha-Bit Spelling- Students use cereal to reproduce their spelling words. Don't forget to have a snack with the words you make.

39. Pudding Practice- Try using instant pudding as a finger paint to practice spelling words.

40. Palm Reading- Motivate your students with palm reading. Write a spelling word with watercolor marker, (you might want to make sure that this is all right with the parents first. ) on the palm of each student. Have the students try to spell each other's words. The students can check their spelling by reading each other's palms.

41. Pyramid Power- Give your students a weekly spelling assignment with a different twist. Have students write their words in order of difficulty. They write their easiest word once at the top of the paper near the middle, the next easiest twice, and so on. Students will have a pyramid shape when they are finished.

42. Portable Slates- Portable slates make a great spelling game. Plastic coffee can lids and 1 pound margarine tub lids are used as slates. The teacher calls out a spelling word and the students write answers with crayons, hold up their slates to be checked, then wipe them off with tissue.

43. Sandy Words- Have students write their spelling words in glue, sprinkle sand over the glue. The students then trace over the words with their fingers for practice. They make terrific flash cards!

44. Rainbow Words- Have the students practice words with felt pens, alternate colors for a rainbow look.

45. Put It In Print- Have the students cut out the letters from a newspaper to spell the weekly spelling words.

46. Round About Flash cards- Have students decorate a paper pate. Cut a slice out of the paper plate so it looks like a slice of pie cut out of the plate. Brad around piece of paper to the back. Then write the weekly spelling words in the window. The students turn the wheel and practice saying the word.

47. Spell It With Beans- The students use lima beans to spell the weekly spelling words. The students can also glue the beans in place for a 3-D flash card.

48. Spelling Squares- Students practice their words on graphing paper. The students use 1 box for each letter. Have the students figure out which spelling word is in the shortest, longest, etc. . . .

49. Rainbow chains- Rainbow chains are a great way of keeping track of the words a student knows. The student writes the words he successfully spelled on Friday's final test on a construction paper chain. The children love to see their chains grow!

50. Sandpaper Practice-Students write their words on sheets of sandpaper. The students can really feel their words!

51. Pipe cleaners - Children use these to form their spelling words.

52. Toothpicks - Same as above.

53. Word search - They can pick 10 of their stumper (high frequency) words to make up a word search.

54. Alphabet Stamps

55. Word collage - They design a collage using all of their words using markers, colored pencils etc.

56. Design a word - They pick one word and bubble letter it and design it.

57. Magazine letters - They find the letters in a magazine and glue them onto construction paper.

58. Painting - Paint their words.

59. Playdough - I have cookie cutters that are letters of the alphabet. The kids also like to form the dough itself into letters.

60. Magnetic Letters - I bought at a dollar store. Twist-Tie Spelling - use the twist-ties from the store to form letters to spell the words.

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Stories for all ages read by astronauts on the International Space Station

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Story Time From Space | T2 Science & Math Education Consultants

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Story Time from Space Directory

Book by Susan Lendroth
Read in space by astronaut Christina Koch
Running Time: 9:34 Minutes

Running Time: 22:04 Minutes

Running Time: 18:28 Minutes

Running Time: 13:15 Minutes
Read by: Anne McClain

Running Time: 9:31 Minutes

Read by: Hazzaa al-Mansoori (In Arabic)

Running Time: 10:29 Minutes

Written by: Lost My Name

Read by: Tim Peake

Running Time: 16 Minutes

Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Mike Hopkins

Running Time: 16 Minutes

Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Koichi Wakata
Running Time: 15 Minutes
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Mike Hopkins
Running Time: 15:16
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Mike Hopkins
Running Time: 16:35
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Mike Hopkins
Running Time: 20:32
Written by: Jeffrey Bennett

Read by: Koichi Wakata
Running Time: 15:47
Written by: John Danny Olivas

Read by: Tim Kopra
Running Time: 8:32
Written by: Andrea Beaty

Read by: Kate Rubins

Running Time: 11:16

Written by: Jeffrey Bennett
Read by: Col. R. Shane Kimbrough
Scientists and Their Writings

Running Time: 10:53

Written by: Jessica Fries-Gaither
Read by: Joseph Acaba
Running Time: 13.51

Written by: Travis Bossard & Mick Szydlowski
Read by: Richard (Ricky) Arnold
Running Time: 11:35

Written by: Emily Morgan
Read by: Mark Vande Hei Running Time: 8:07
Written by: Mark Kelly
Read by: Scott Kelly

Mousetronaut Goes to Mars - Coming Soon

Running Time: TBD

Written by: Mark Kelly

Read by: Scott Kelly

The Rhino Who Swallowed a Storm - Coming Soon

Running Time: TBD

Written by: LeVar Burton and Susan Bernardo

Read by: TBD

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Library Directory | Story Time From Space

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Book by Susan Lendroth Read in space by astronaut Christina Koch Running Time: 9:34 Minutes Running Time: 22:04 Minutes Running Time: 18:28 Minutes Running Time: 13:15 Minutes Read by: Anne McClain Running Time: 9:31 Minutes Read by: Hazzaa al-Mansoori (In Arabic) Running Time: 10:29 Minutes Written by: Lost My Name

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Julia Donaldson reads some of her books in the "Songbirds" series

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Julia Donaldson reads stories from Songbirds | Oxford Owl

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Find videos for students on internet safety, cyberbullying, online privacy, copyright, and more.
Suitable for Infants to 1st/2nd class

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Healthy Habits Playlist: Videos
Hand washing, routines, dental hygiene etc.

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Enjoy this collection of videos that help children learn about healthy habits, like making time for breakfast and dancing for exercise!

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Interactive books and games

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Beautiful resources for all ages to help students discover nature!

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Help youngsters learn about trees and wildlife with our outdoor learning resources and interactive activities.

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Educational Games and Manipulatives for All Levels

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Educational Games and Manipulatives for All Levels

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Toy Theater is your source for free educational games specially designed for elementary-aged students. It's available on all desktop computers, tablets, and mobile devices, ensuring learning is never out of reach. If you are a fan of our site, we encourage you to share Toy Theater on your social media or website.

Explore Toy Theater

Here's a sneak peek into what Toy Theater has in store:

Math Games: Ranging from counting and numeral recognition to division and telling time, there's a vast assortment of interactive math games.

Language Arts: Students can work on spelling, letter recognition, and even practice reading with online books.

Art and Music : From teaching students to play simple songs on a keyboard to exploring symmetry via art games, the platform fosters creativity alongside learning.

Puzzles and Games: Ideal for early finishers or indoor recess, their online educational puzzles and games promise fun-filled learning.

Teacher Tools: Need a fun timer or a spinner? Or perhaps a simple way to evaluate basic math skills? Their virtual teacher tools have got you covered.

Whether you project Toy Theater games and interactive tools on your smartboard for the whole class to see or use them during small group work, you're sure to love them!

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Toy Theater | Fun Online Educational Games for Kids

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Make learning a blast! Toy Theater is chock full of interactive online art, reading & math games for kids. Designed with the needs of kindergarten through third grade classrooms in mind, these free games are trusted by teachers around the world to provide real educational value.

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Here you can find lots of lovely interactive books to read online or watch with signing.

There are classic children's stories that we think you and your family will love, including Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy by Lynley Dodd to Owl Babies by Martin Waddell and Patrick Benson, along with newer favourites such as Chris Haughton's Oh No, George! and Everybunny Dance! by Ellie Sandall.
Our storybooks and games are free to use, however some older devices aren't able to support them. You can also watch our Storytime playlist on YouTube read by the likes of Ore Oduba, Adam Buxton, Fearne Cotton and many more.
We also have lots of free online games for children to enjoy. Whether you're after number games, puzzle games, colouring or interactive storybooks, there are lots of fun activities to try!

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Stories for kids online and fun games to play

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Find kids' books to read online for free, including classic children's stories like Hairy Maclary and Owl Babies, and play our fun online games - from number games to colouring.

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Lots of helpful videos about different maths topics

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BBC Schools: Numbertime: Numbers 1 to 10 - Number 1 (1998)

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Practice addition, multiplication, fractions and algebraic reasoning with our popular math games. Discover fun learning games kids love to play.

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Counters, Abacus, Fraction Bars etc. manipulatives for use by all levels.

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

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A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

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Author Oliver Jeffers Reads on Instagram Live

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Author Oliver Jeffers Reads on Instagram Live

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Alphablocks: Phonics and Literacy Videos

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Alphablocks: Phonics and Literacy Videos

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alphablocks "alphablocks cbeebies" alphabet "learn to read" "learn the alphabet" "learn to spell" phonics education "kids tv" "cartoons for kids" "kids shows...

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The Alphablocks are 26 living letters who discover that whenever they hold hands and make a word, something magical happens. With adventures, songs and silliness, it's tons of fun with words - all built on a firm foundation of key phonics skills.

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

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A different story every week, for more stories, visit BBC iPlayer https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00jdlm2/cbeebies-bedtime-stories You can also downl...

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Learn the numbers one to ten with Numberblocks!

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These activities can be done at home using household objects or children could make resources as a craft project.

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These hands-on activities are ideally suited to Key Stage 1 children.

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3 maths questions for Infants - 6th Class

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Welcome to the Land of Nursery Rhymes

Can I First Introduce you to:
with OVER 1000 Nursery Songs, Nursery Rhymes and Riddles Lyrics for you to enjoy. A ll are listed in Alphabetical order - Choose your letter or the Complete Listing page
The Kids Learning Centre

Our NEW Website Just for YOU - click on any of the pictures above

We have a Wonderful Collection of Poetry

These are Extremely Popular Nursery Songs and Kids Nursery Rhymes

Many of Your Favourite Poems, Riddles and Limericks

What Are Little Girls Made Of?
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly This is just a small selection

Try our NEW Family Website " Land of Magic "

for FREE MP3's of Talking Books, UK No1 Hits and Christmas Stories

plus Games and Very Much More - You will not be Disappointed

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Lyrics for every Top 20 number 1 hit in the UK charts
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My 1st Book Designed with Children in mind, it will eventually have 100's of beautifully illustrated popular family books 1830 to 1920

Now Checkout www.cinnamonbear.co.uk a "GREAT" Kids site With Loads of FREE Downloads

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Land of Nursery Rhymes and Songs Riddles Poems and Limericks

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Land of Nursery Rhymes - Lyrics to Over 1000 Childrens Nursery Rhymes, Kids Nursery Songs, Riddles, Poems and Limericks. With a Singalong, puzzles and quiz, colouring books, brain teasers and games ALL FREE for Everyone

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Reading Is Fundamental is committed to a literate America by inspiring a passion for reading among all children, providing quality content to make an impact and engage communities. As the nation's largest children's literacy non-profit and charity, Reading Is Fundamental maximizes every contribution to ensure all children have the ability to read and succeed.

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ICDL - International Children’s Digital Library

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Get behind the wheel and compete at the Talla-Peg-a-20!

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Help Peg and Cat put together different shapes to build spaceships for the animals on the farm. Then watch them blast off!

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Bubble Bath . Games . peg + cat | PBS KIDS

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Help Peg and Cat fill the bathtub for their bubble party!

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K-2 Interactives - Fun, educational, online games geared towards Kindergarten through 2nd grade students.

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LearnEnglish Kids is brought to you by the British Council, the world's English teaching experts. We have lots of free online games, songs, stories and activities for children. For parents, we have articles on supporting children in learning English, videos on using English at home and information about English courses for your child.

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Reading and Maths Activities for Junior Infants - Sixth Class

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Reading and Maths Activities for Junior Infants - Sixth Class

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Reading and Maths Activities for Junior Infants - Sixth Class

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Reading and Maths Activities for Junior Infants - Sixth Class

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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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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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Educational games and videos from Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, Wild Kratts and other PBS KIDS shows!

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Phonics Pop

Phonics Pop is a mobile friendly bubble pop game. Choose a set of sounds to practice, or select from the digraph (2/3-letter sounds) checkboxes. Then listen to the target sound and pop as many as you can.

If your child achieves >95% accuracy the bubbles will change to rainbow colours.

This game is © copyright 2020, J.Barrett, ictgames.com All Rights Reserved.

Made using the and libraries.

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Phonics Pop is a mobile friendly bubble pop game. Choose a set of sounds to practice, or select from the digraph (2/3-letter sounds) checkboxes. Then listen to the target sound and pop as many as you can. If your child achieves >95% accuracy the bubbles will change to rainbow colours.

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Selection of excellent educational maths and literacy games, organised by topic and age group - Topmarks

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A nice video explaining what's going on at the moment for little ones

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PrimEd have home learning packs for all classes available free to download

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Free e-books. Fully aligned with Jolly Phonics

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QR CODE

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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.

AGE

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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(Set to euro coins)

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Toy Shop Money is a game for helping children understand Euros. There are two game modes; the first where children use coins to make up varying amounts to buy the toys and the second where they work out change.

This money game is suitable for children from 4 to 11 years of age as it has varying levels of difficulty. The easiest levels involve working out amounts with coins of the same denomination and the activities progress from counting out amounts with mixed coins to working out change from up to €10.

The game also supports other currencies including British, Australian and US money.

AGE

4-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Money

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A shopping game where children work out which coins will buy toy shop items and where they can calculate change. Suitable for children 4 - 11 years and tablet-friendly. Different levels of difficulty and currencies - GBP, USD, AUD, EUR.

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Should be done on a regular basis

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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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Online Creative Writing Pack for Primary Schools PDF Version

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Dublin Zoo has webcams that you can watch the animals! Feeding times are on the website in this link but I think it’s around 2pm/2.30pm!😃😃

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Check out what's happening at the Zoo on our webcams!

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Amazon cancelled the subscription of books and audio stories for children and students of all ages as long as schools are closed!
Your kids can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages!😃💻📱🖥🎧📚
All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet using the following link

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Joe Wicks will be doing daily PE lessons on YouTube for children out of school

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Announcing "P.E with Joe" | Daily LIVE workouts for kids | The Body Coach

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Sing along to child-friendly chart songs, performed by children.

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Welcome to our official KIDZ BOP YouTube channel! KIDZ BOP is the #1 music brand for kids in the U.S., and our YouTube channel is THE place to watch exclusive KIDZ BOP Kids interviews, behind the scenes footage, videos of our talented KIDZ BOP Kids singing and dancing, and official KIDZ BOP music…

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Author David Walliams will be releasing a free audio book every day! 📖🔉

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Join the The World of David Walliams to be the first to hear about new David Walliams books, special offers, free activities, live shows, events and more!