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Use these simple instructions to teach yourself the actions and rhythm of the Cup Song! (Amhrán na gCupán)

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For your last week of the year choose ONE activity from the Choice Board everyday. You may choose ANY activity you would like! Make sure you post anything you do to your Portfolio, Enjoy!! :)

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This is the park map of Legoland, have a look at all of the places you can explore!!

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Read and learn about the Summer Solstice, which happened this weekend! Answer the short questions.

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Enjoy a Virtual Tour of Legoland Florida! After you have seen all of the sights and lego models, create your own with any lego or blocks you have at home!

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LEGOLAND Florida Resort | Interactive Virtual Tours

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Experience an AWESOME, interactive virtual tour of LEGOLAND Florida Resort including THE LEGO MOVIE WORLD!

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Find a large space and try these character walks. Remember you don't just act with your voice, you use your body too!! Have fun!

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Amhrán na gCupán - try to follow along with the words as Gaeilge!!

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Create your own digital book using Write Reader.
Username: Child's first name and first letter of second name and the number 3. (no fada's but include capital letters for start of names and first letter of second name.)
Class code: 47ry

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Try some at-home Science Experiments, have fun and take pictures or record your results!

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Draw a self-portrait taking inspiration from famous artist, Frida Kahlo.

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Watch this video to learn about the famous Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

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Choose from a variety of 'Just Dance' videos and get active by dancing along to your favourite songs!!

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Create your own Comic, using pictures and small captions! See the instructions and the template!

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Choose 1 or 2 activities a day from the Choice Board. You may choose ANY activity you would like and you Do NOT have to finish the Choice board. These are all just ideas! Make sure you post anything you do to your Portfolio, Enjoy!! :)

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An Bradán Feasa - new vocabulary

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Choose one activity to complete from the Reading Responses after reading your book today!

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Read the story of 'Fionn and the Salmon of Knowledge' and choose ONE short diary entry to complete.

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Enjoy a Virtual Tour of Dublin zoo and afterwards draw or paint an image of the best animal that you see!

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We are opening our virtual gates so that you can take a tour around Dublin Zoo to visit some of your favourite animals!

Watch along with us below and have fun!

Burmese python, West African crocodile, panther chameleon and more.

Red panda, meerkat, waldrapp ibis and more.

Asian elephant, okapi, African spurred tortoise and more.

Western lowland gorilla, chimpanzee, African painted dog and more.

Humboldt penguin, southern white rhinoceros, giraffe, hippopotamus and more.

Grey wolf, Chilean flamingo, Californian sea lion, Amur tiger and more

Asian Lion, snow leopard, Bornean orangutan and more.

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We are opening our virtual gates so that you can take a tour around Dublin...

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Copy this step by step Lake Landscape drawing or draw your own Landscape with just pencil or add in colour also!

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Enjoy this 25 minute exercise class and get your family involved!!!

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Find or create your favourite recipe and fill it out below or in your copy! If you can, make it too and enjoy!!

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A great website for practicing all of your Maths skills from Third Class! I have attached your personal username and password to your portfolio!

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IXL is the world's most popular subscription-based learning site. Used by over 15 million students, IXL provides unlimited practice in more than 6,500 maths and English topics. Interactive questions, awards and certificates keep kids motivated as they master skills.

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Practice reading litres and millilitres with this fun game!

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Capacity Countdown is a tablet-friendly volume scale reading game.

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After you have found the resources for 'Lá sa pháirc' scroll down to find 'Éist agus tarraing lch 146' / Listen and draw pg.146. This can be seen in the picture below!

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To complete activity G Abair Liom, enter Abair Liom online resources and click on 'Lá sa pháirc'. As seen in the picture below!

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Some simple instructions on how to make clay at home as well as some examples of what you can do with your clay when it's made!

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Watch this video for a simple way to make clay using salt, flour and water!

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How To Make Clay At Home| Make Clay With Flour | CraftLas

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After completing today's Virtual Sports day activity fill out the 2stars and a wish worksheet or take a picture or a video to document.

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Puffin are hosting an online festival for the next week with many competitions, challenges, activities and story readings by famous authors! All the details are on their website!

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A seven-day online festival in partnership with Waterstones from 8 - 14 June for families to celebrate the power of imagination and Puffin's 80th birthday - watch on Puffin Facebook and YouTube channels.
Join authors, illustrators and real Puffins for a week of events, travel through Puffin's 80 year history and get oodles of ideas to keep children dreaming after screen-time. Illustrator in Residence Nick Sharratt will be drawing your dreams all week. Send in your kids' most wild and extraordinary dreams using the hashtag #PuffinDreamer, in the video comments or via email PuffinDreamer@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk until Friday 12 June. Terms and conditions can be found here.

Let us know you will be attending by clicking going on the Facebook event page here. Then, watch with your kids, twice a day at 10.30am and 3.30pm for a 15 - 20-minute video which will include a creative activity that you can try at home. The festival will culminate in a live weekend extravaganza at 11am on 13 and 14 June. Watch here on either Puffin books Facebookor YouTube.

Sign up for your Puffin Festival of Big Dreams kit

Get ready for the Puffin Festival of Big Dreams event kit, there's everything you need to start dreaming at home, including the show schedule, Puffin templates and a guide to finding your official big dreamer name.
See which dreams Nick Sharratt's been drawing every weekday in the 3.30pm show.
Monday - Dream Big
10.30am - Creative Writing Challenge
Bring your incredible imagination and get those creative juices flowing with Yassmin Abdel-Magied's Creative Writing Challenges, inspired by her short story Kandaka from The Puffin Book of Big Dreams. Yassmin is the author of You Must Be Layla.
3.30pm - Mix-Up a Fairy Tale
Dream big and get ready to mix-up some fairy tales with Nick Sharratt and Pippa Goodhart, there'll be a special reading from You Choose Fairy Tales and a draw-along with Nick Sharratt at the end.

Tuesday - Dream Wild

The Puffin Festival of Big Dreams events will not be streamed on Tuesday 9 June out of respect for George Floyd's funeral. Events will be rescheduled to Wednesday when we hope that you can join us. To find out more about how to support black independent bookshops, publishers and writers please click here.

Wednesday - Dream Extraordinary
10.30am - Build An Adventure Workshop
Join this extraordinary workshop to create a wild and mind-blowing adventure story from scratch and join in a draw-along with Frostheart author and illustrator Jamie Littler.
11am - Animal Quiz
Play along and test your knowledge with Sam Copeland's paw-some Animal Quiz, featuring Charlie Changes Into A Chicken.
3.30pm - Very Hungry Caterpillar Craft-Along
For a very special, Very Hungry Caterpillar craft-along, you will need paper, paint, a paintbrush or sponge, scissors, pencil and glue. Join Lucy Walters and get colourfully creative making a beautiful butterfly inspired by Eric Carle's famous collage illustration technique!

4pm - Great Illustrators Draw-Off

Get ready to dream wild and see some drawing tips, as Nadia Shireen and Ed Vere battle it out in the Great Illustrators Draw-Off! Featuring doodles from How to be a Lion and Billy and the Dragon.

Thursday - Dream Magic

10.30am - Puppet Theatre Workshop

Grab a cardboard box and join Hana Tooke for a brilliantly magical and giggle-filled puppet theatre workshop inspired by The Unadoptables.

3.30pm - Magic Pony Draw-Along

Get your pens and paper ready and your magic dreaming hats on for a draw-along of Jonathan the Magic Pony with Stuart Heritage and Nicola Slater.

Friday - Dream Bold
10.30am - Storytime with Jacqueline Wilson
Settle down for a superb storytime with Jacqueline Wilson as she reads the winning story from the public vote!

3.30pm - Amazing Alphabets

Grab your festival kit and be inspired to dream bold and write your own A-Z of Amazing poem, as Rashmi Sirdeshpande explores Amazing Alphabets from The Puffin Book of Big Dreams. Rashmi is the author of Never Show A T-Rex A Book!

WEEKEND LIVE CREATIVE EXTRAVAGANZA at 11AM, 50 minutes

Puffin presenter Radzi will be reading out dreams and shout-outs throughout the show, so send them in using #PuffinDreamer or email PuffinDreamer@penguinrandomhouse.co.uk

Saturday - Dream Curious

Get ready for a LIVE show where anything could happen! Puffin presenter Radzi will once again be joined by Nick Sharratt, who'll be sharing his dream drawings. Then the exceptional Robin Stevens will be kicking off Saturday's show with a mystery-making workshop - grown-ups, you can vote for your kids' picks in the comments if you watch together on Facebook or watch on YouTube without comments. After that, hop aboard a boat and take a trip to meet real Puffins with the RSPB before going on an exclusive tour of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid studio with Jeff Kinney.

During Robin Stevens' event, she'll be showing viewers how to write a murder mystery story by voting A or B. Robin's books are recommended for children 9+. If you have younger children, you may want to join at 11:15 to meet the Puffins at Coquet Island.

Sunday - Dream Forever

Get your pen and paper ready for a draw-along of Rocket, the hero of Look Up!, with illustrator Dapo Adeola. Then author Nathan Bryon will give you a sneak peek of their brand new story After that, its time for some backstage secrets from Carrie Hope Fletcher, who'll be reading from Ballet Shoes, before Lucy Hawking beams in with an intergalactically awesome space quiz. Illustrator in Residence, Nick Sharratt, will be back to share his collage of big dreams inspired by all the dreams you've been sending in. Plus, the winners of the National Book Tokens and Puffin Big Dreamers Writing competition will be announced.
The Puffin Collage of Big Dreams
Thank you Puffin Dreamers for sharing hundreds upon hundreds of dreams throughout the festival. We are delighted to present the Puffin Collage of Big Dreams, illustrated by Nick Sharratt and created with the power of your imagination. See if you can spot your dream...

Books for 6 - 8 year olds

Books for 9 - 12 year olds

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A seven-day online festival in partnership with Waterstones from 8 - 14 June for families to celebrate the power of imagination and Puffin's 80th birthday - watch on Puffin Facebook and YouTube channels. Join authors, illustrators and real Puffins for a week of events, travel through Puffin's 80 year history and get oodles of ideas to keep children dreaming after screen-time.

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Why don't you try a small history project! Make your own Timeline or your Family Tree! Enjoy!!

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After completing today's Virtual Sports day activity fill out the 2stars and a wish worksheet or take a picture or a video to document.

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Virtual Sports Week - Traditional Sports Day

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Virtual Sports Day - Traditional School Sports

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Watch some Gaeilge classes on TV! This week the theme is 'The Environment'.

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© Copyright - please read
All the materials on these pages are free for homework and classroom use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place the content of this page on any other website or blog without written permission from the author Mandy Barrow.

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Leinster

Today

Cool and mostly cloudy this evening with some patchy light rain or drizzle. Northwesterly winds will be mostly moderate, but fresh and gusty near coasts.

Tonight

Tonight will be mostly dry with clear spells, although a few isolated showers will develop towards morning. Lowest temperatures of 7 to 9 degrees with a light to moderate northwesterly breeze.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow will be a cool and blustery day with a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. Highest temperatures of 12 to 15 degrees with fresh to strong and gusty northwesterly winds.

National

Today

Cool and mostly cloudy this evening, with scattered patches of rain and drizzle, but many areas dry, with a few bright spells developing in parts of the northwest.

Tonight

Dry in most areas overnight, with clear spells developing, but staying mostly cloudy in some areas, especially in parts of the west and southwest. Some scattered showers will occur, mainly in the north and northwest, becoming heavier there towards morning. Minimum temperatures 5 to 9 Celsius, in mostly light to moderate northwest breezes, fresh to strong on exposed coasts.

Tomorrow

Tomorrow, Friday, will be a cool, blustery day, with a mix of sunny spells and showers. Most of the showers will be in the north and northwest at first, becoming more widespread during the day, some of them heavy and possibly thundery, especially in the north and east. Maximum temperatures 11 to 13 degrees in Ulster and north Connacht, 13 to 16 degrees elsewhere. Winds mostly moderate to fresh northwesterly, but strong on exposed coasts, especially on Connacht an Ulster coasts.

Outlook

SUMMARY: Wet and windy on Friday night and early Saturday. Becoming mostly dry and settled again for Sunday and Monday. Temperatures remaining below normal for this time of year. FRIDAY NIGHT: Becoming wet and windy in the north early Friday night, with rain becoming widespread through Ulster, north Connacht and north Leinster. Holding mostly dry further south with cloud increasing towards dawn. Lows of 5 to 7 degrees and feeling unseasonably cold in a strong northwesterly wind, with gales on northern coasts. SATURDAY: A wet and windy start in the north, drier further south, with showers extending to all areas through the morning. The rain the north clearing to showers in the afternoon and evening, and remaining mostly cloudy in all areas throughout. A cool, blustery day with maximum temperatures of only 11 to 15 degrees, in a brisk northwesterly wind, which will be strong on coasts. Mostly cloudy on Saturday night with scattered showers, most frequent in the north and west. Lows of 8 to 10 degrees in moderate to fresh northwesterly winds. SUNDAY: Mostly dry on Sunday, with a few showers in the north and west through the morning. Rather cloudy early on, but sunny spells will break through in the afternoon and evening, best in the south and east. Feeling a little milder than previous days in a light to moderate northerly breeze, with highs of 12 to 14 degrees in the north, 14 to 19 degrees in the south. Dry on Sunday night with clear spells, lows of 4 to 7 degrees. MONDAY: Monday will be mostly dry with a mix of cloud and some sunny spells. Highs of 13 degrees in the north to 17 degrees in the south, in a light to moderate northerly breeze. TUESDAY: A dry start, with rain moving in from the Atlantic later in the day. Highs of 14 to 18 degrees.

Marine Weather Warnings

Yellow

Small Craft Warning

Northwest winds will reach force 6 this evening on Irish coasts from Hook Head to Mizen Head to Slyne Head and also on coasts from Fair Head to Belfast Lough to Carlingford Lough, extending to all coasts overnight.

Issued: 4 June 2020 16:00

Coastal Reports

Sea Area Forecast

Sea Area Forecast until 1800 Friday 5 June 2020. Issued at 1800 Thursday 4 June 2020.

Meteorological Situation at 1500: A moderate to fresh northwesterly airflow covers Ireland, in between an anticyclone of 1029 hPa in mid-Atlantic and a complex area of low pressure over continental Europe and Scandinavia. A weak occluding system over southern areas is moving away southeastwards. The airflow over Ireland will gradually strengthen, as a deepening depression moves into the north Sea early tomorrow.

Forecast for Irish coastal waters from Hook Head to Valentia to Slyne Head

Wind: Northwest force 5 or 6 and gusty, reaching force 7 at times locally towards the end of the period.

Weather: Cloudy, with rain and drizzle clearing southeastwards. Becoming mainly fair, with scattered showers.

Visibility: Moderate to poor in precipitation, becoming mostly good.

Forecast for Irish coastal waters from Slyne Head to Howth Head to Hook Head and for the Irish Sea

Wind: Northwest force 4 to 5 and gusty, locally force 6 in the west and in the north Irish Sea, soon increasing force 5 to 6 and gusty, later increasing force 6 or 7 and gusty.

Weather: Fair to cloudy, with scattered showers, becoming more frequent later tonight and tomorrow, with a risk of hail and isolated thunderstorms.

Visibility: Moderate to poor in showers. Otherwise good.

Outlook for a further 24 hours until 1800 Saturday 6 June 2020: Strong to near gale northwesterly winds, reaching gale force for a time in northwest and north and in the Irish Sea, later decreasing mostly fresh to strong. Rain developing Friday night and for a time on Saturday in the northwest, north and east. Scattered showers elsewhere.

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RTÉ Weather - Forecast for Athlone (Co. Westmeath)

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Leinster Today Cool and mostly cloudy this evening with some patchy light rain or drizzle. Northwesterly winds will be mostly moderate, but fresh and gusty near coasts. Tonight Tonight will be mostly dry with clear spells, although a few isolated showers will develop towards morning.

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A great website to research the weather, with lots of resources for a children!

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Welcome to Met Éireann's Primary School Resources page, where parents, teachers and children will find resources that have been designed for use in primary schools in Ireland.

This section of our website aims to provide a basic introduction to the weather and weather-related topics for primary school students.

These resources are designed to encourage primary students to engage in active learning though an exploration and investigation of basic meteorological principles.

It is hoped that these resources will help students to practice a range of scientific skills and to develop open, critical and responsible attitudes to the wider environment.

Content and Structure

The resources are presented as fact sheets, quizzes, lesson plans and experiments. They are grouped together under the following categories.

Younger Primary Students: this section offers simple descriptions of common weather facts, e.g. sunshine, rainfall, wind, temperature.

Older Primary Students: this section provides more in-depth information on weather-related topics and introduces more specific skills such as reading weather charts and cloud recognition.

Lessons Plans: this section is designed primarily for use by teachers and the lesson plans can be adapted to suit either younger or older primary school students.

Content is free!

All documents are free and fully printable. You will need Adobe Acrobat to read the resources. You can download Adobe Reader here.

Younger Primary Students

Older Primary Students

Lesson Plans

Acknowledgments

This project has been a collaborative effort, combining the work of various Met Éireann staff members over a number of years.

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School Resources - Met Éireann - The Irish Meteorological Service

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Met Éireann, the Irish National Meteorological Service, is the leading provider of weather information and related services for Ireland.

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After completing Friday's Virtual Sports day activity fill out the 2stars and a wish worksheet or take a picture or a video to document.

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Create a balanced, healthy meal using the food pyramid to help you. Draw and label the food on the plate and the drink in the glass!

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This poster has all we need to know about the food pyramid and having a healthy, balanced diet.

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Learn about all the different food groups and how much we should eat from each to have a balanced diet!

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New sentences and vocabulary from Chapter 17 Abair Liom. Fill in this worksheet to help you revise all these new words.

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After completing Wednesday's Virtual Sports day activity fill out the 2stars and a wish worksheet or take a picture or a video to document.

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Wednesday - Kicking!
Choose the activity that best suits the abilities of you and your family! Enjoy!

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How to make paint and how to paint your stones. There are also lots of fun examples in here!

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Watch this video for lots of ideas of pictures or patterns to choose from to paint on your rocks.

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Hide & Seek Rock Painting by Creativity for Kids

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Help to get the weather report ready for the weather forecast in this interactive game!

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Weather Report - Weather Game

Here is a game for kids to learn different types of weather through symbols. You will be informed about the weather of various places of US and you are supposed to drag the weather symbols to the correct places. The weather of a place may be cloudy, sunny, snowy or rainy and may have thunderstorms, low pressure or a warm front. Let us play this weather game and find out.

How to play Weather Report

An interactive game for kids to learn different types of weather - cloudy, rainy, snowy, partially cloudy, warm front, low pressure etc.

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Weather Report | Weather Game | Turtle Diary

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Challenge yourself to find as many weather words as you can in this Weather Word search!

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Practice your typing skills using this fun program!

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Learn how to touch type with the BBC Dance Mat Typing game. It’s a fun introduction to touch typing game for kids and covers levels 1, 2, 3, 4.

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After completing Tuesday's Virtual Sports day activity fill out the 2stars and a wish worksheet or take a picture or a video to document.

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Tuesday - Running!
Note: there are 3 different levels to choose from for each activity. Choose the activity that best suits the abilities of your child or family! Enjoy!

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Make your own wind vane to find out the direction of the wind!

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CRAFT: Make a Wind Vane! | Chirp Magazine

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A great website for learning all about different types of weather and about how to become a meteorologist!

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Meteorology is a fun and exciting career choice! Meteorologists across the world get to predict some of mother nature's wildest weather. From hurricanes to tornadoes and from heatwaves to blizzards, this is one career choice that will keep you on your toes.

Meteorology is a tough college major. The courses are challenging, but with a little planning and dedication you can get through it. Your planning should start in high school. Meteorologists need to be good at math and science, so take all the courses that you can! If your school offers calculus and physics, take these two classes because they'll help you a lot once you get into college.

The basic requirement for becoming a meteorologist or a climatologist is a 4-year Bachelor of Science degree in Meteorology or Atmospheric Sciences. Some teaching, research or management positions require a Masters of Science degree or a Ph.D.

Just to give you an idea, some of the classes that you'll be taking in college will be calculus, physics, dynamics, synoptics, and even computer programming courses. Meteorology is not an easy degree to get, but it one that is very worthwhile.

Whether you already know you want to become a meteorologist or if you're really not sure, the best thing you can do is to shadow or intern with local meteorologists. This is extremely important because it allows you to have a hands on approach and really get to see how we forecast the weather. Just a note, most internships aren't paid, but some of the forecasting techniques that you learn will be more valuable than money.

Here's some pictures that show you exactly what we do at the chrome-a-key wall. Click on the pictures to enlarge!

The top two pictures are of me at the chrome-a-key wall. This is the wall where I do the weather. There are monitors on both sides of the wall for me to look at.

The side picture is of my camera. This is the camera that you see me in, when you're watching TV at home. I see my reflection in this camera, so I know where to point.

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Weather Wiz Kids weather information for kids

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Weather Wiz Kids is a fun and safe website for kids about all the weather info they need to know. It contains tools for weather education, including weather games, activities, experiments, photos, a glossary and educational teaching materials for the classroom.

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A super game for practicing your Mental Maths online!

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Daily 10 - Mental Maths Challenge - Topmarks

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Daily 10 is a primary maths resource for Years 1 to 6 covering addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, ordering, partitioning, digit values and more.

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JK Rowling is releasing her book 'The Ickabog' chapter by chatper online for free for anyone to read! It's a wonderful book and she is also running a competition looking for illustrators for when the book is published! Why not have a read and draw what you imagine Enjoy!!

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I had the idea for The Ickabog a long time ago and read it to my two younger children chapter by chapter each night while I was working on it. However, when the time came to publish it, I decided to put out a book for adults instead, which is how The Ickabog ended up in the attic. I became busy with other things, and even though I loved the story, over the years I came to think of it as something that was just for my own children.

Then, in the Spring of 2020, lockdown happened. It was very hard on children, in particular, so I brought The Ickabog down from the attic, read it for the first time in years, rewrote bits of it and then decided to publish it at first in free instalments online for children stuck at home. I also thought how wonderful it would be if children on lockdown illustrated the story for me, and so we launched the Ickabog illustration competition, run by my publishers around the world.

The Ickabog book, illustrated by the winners of the competition, is now out as a book, and I'm donating my net royalties to my charitable trust, Volant, to help medical and frontline charities supporting vulnerable groups impacted by Covid-19.

Thank you to everyone who entered the competition and helped create the book, and I hope you enjoy reading it!

The Illustration Competition

Back in the 2020 lockdown, J.K. Rowling invited children across the world to take part in a competition with a truly delightful prize: a chance to see their illustrations in her new book...

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All You Need to Know

If you have any questions about The Ickabog - the story, the characters, or how J. K. Rowling came to publish the book - you'll find the answers here.

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About The Book

What's The Ickabog all about? You can look inside the book here, listen to a snippet from the audiobook, and watch J. K. Rowling reading selected chapters aloud...

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Ickabog Activities

If you're ready to have some creative fun with The Ickabog, then download your free activity pack now. And while you're here, you can get some artistic tips from winners of the illustration competition...

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Family Timetable!