Clare's Family Learning Page

Make a village today. How about Fox Bay, or maybe Goose Green? Make a template for a shearing shed.

PAPER HOUSES
How about making a paper village? For today’s live demo on YouTube we made paper houses 🏡 When we’re all stuck at home, this is a great opportunity to notice the architectural details in your own neighborhood or on your own house. Use this as a chance to think about what makes a home inviting on the outside and then use our templates to design your perfect house! I have three free templates on the blog for this activity here https://babbledabbledo.com/design-for-kids-paper-houses/ and if you fall in love with it there’s 13 more templates available in a paper village printable pack in my shop here: https://babble-dabble-do.myshopify.com/products/paper-village-templates.

A new book about COVID 19, free to download.
https://nosycrow.com/blog/released-today-free-information-book-explaining-coronavirus-children-illustrated-gruffalo-illustrator-axel-scheffler/?fbclid=IwAR2FDpqzi-YXrFPVZNGnsq9t7gTj2OrlWCba4ApOje5vpJAgBXVZdhGNh5Q

Should we lower expectations for home-schooling?

Why not do a little project about owls?https://www.hawk-conservancy.org/2020/04/10/childrens-activity-sheets/?fbclid=IwAR04J_wV-IWoIJQwh21XyX90IiE8EZTBL8FxLH4ZGLUB1io1tzLRgfOxAO8

Children's Activity Sheets - Hawk Conservancy Trust Get children excited about birds of prey with our fun and educational activity sheets. Usually featured in our exclusive Members’ Magazine, we’ve released these Owlets activity sheets for FREE for you to enjoy with your children at home. Including colouring, wordsearches, quizzes, jokes, facts a...

A time capsule is an interesting project for these times.

Grab this 11 page time capsule booklet from LONG Creations

Link - https://www.dropbox.com/s/po5rmhnau24vcg4/2020%20Covid-19%20time%20capsule%20sheets.pdf?dl=0

Fun science activities. If anyone local wants a tray, I can lend one.

I've popped all TEN investigations into one post!

If you missed these, they are very simple ( but still fun ) science investigations you can do at home or in school. They mostly use just paper and a few other things you probably have around the house.

Let me know if you try any!

https://www.science-sparks.com/science-at-home-experiments-for-kids/

'What I got wrong was trying to be a teacher': how to last the distance at home schooling It’s a challenge to keep up the momentum when tempers are fraying. Here parents and experts share their tips

emergingminds.org.uk

Wonderful article by Vince Gowmon on Flow State: https://www.vincegowmon.com/let-children-play-and-they-remain-in-a-state-of-flow/

About the importance of play. A bit wiffly in places, but the essence of it is true; children are primed to learn, and we don't need to do very much a lot of the time. At Fox Bay School, we recently got hours of learning out of four old landrover tyres in the yard. I'm using some of this time to think about other things we can have outside to create play opportunities.

Let Children Play and they Remain in a State of Flow ~ They Move with the Intelligence of Life - Vince Gowmon Letting children play allows them to remain in a state of flow. This is incredibly vital given that flow is the natural state of life. Nature does not force, rather it moves as a young child moves, instinctually, with the intelligence of the whole guiding it through quiet whispers and nudges. It sim...

Good afternoon home learners. Hope the home schooling is going well. Some people have asked me about topic work, and where to start with choosing something to learn about. I'm a committed child-centred educator, so starting with something that interests you is great, but when you have the whole of human knowledge to choose from, it can be a bit daunting! These Dorling Kindersley booklets are good to get you started. Pick a subject area and work in from there. Dig deeper, or spread wider; it's your choice. https://www.dk.com/uk/information/home-learning-for-kids/?fbclid=IwAR0E__iytUApC1Q30DecTXJhaacuwZLQ-7qEehwjgT_eLxlab9GyJxW7Luk

Home Learning for Kids The best educational resources at your fingertips ...

Something to do outside on a nice day.

It's Wednesday which means it's time for the second activity from my collaboration with the Primary Science Teaching Trust

This week we have some easy paper helicopters to try. Make them big, small, decorate them and build a target. Hours of science fun for the whole family!

See them all: https://www.science-sparks.com/science-worksheets/

Download Week 2 - Paper Helicopters - https://bit.ly/3aMjC45

Something arty for today...

This would be great to make so they could send to someone with whom they are having to social distance.

A wildlife challenge for today.

ANSWERS HAVE BEEN UPLOADED: Congratulations to all those correct answers, and thank you very much to everyone who played along.
A little bit of fun for your Tuesday morning; WHATS THAT WILDLIFE?
(Bonus question - guess which Communications Officer has been using their time to try to learn a few photoshop basics...)
No prizes available at the moment we're afraid, except that lovely sense of satisfaction that you are a true Wildlife Expert!
Answers will be revealed at 4pm Falklands time.
Simply comment on the images to give your answers :)

A drawing competition for you. Looking forward to seeing everyone's designs.

Last one for today🙂 This is for Ruby, and any other David Walliams fans out there.
https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/activities/?fbclid=IwAR2qEVSyQSo5utJT7ovTsU9H7L-mmtMza0x4wYEN41FWjLZuc8nXmtKvQp0

I really like these EYFS maths ideas. This blog has a free guide with lots more activities that you can download. There are other posts for other areas of learning in EYFS. https://famly.co/blog/inspiration/10-creative-early-years-maths-activities/?fbclid=IwAR23jg6a2ujZKiz9kLV373nHb3PO_TTXw4JxduK3vZNJ5g_PJe7Xcrdqbq4

EYFS Focus: 10 Creative Early Years Maths Activities Finding it difficult to get some inspiration? Here are 10 simple EYFS activities to help the children at your nursery develop their early years maths skills.

Good evening everyone. Thanks for liking my page. I will be here at 10.30 on Monday if anyone has any questions or wants any ideas. If you want to know what the subjunctive or an adverbial is, I might need to consult Carol Vorderman, but I'm good for most other. things. Have a peaceful weekend, Cx

Good advice here. I will post some links to some internet safety activities soon.

Good morning 🌞🌞 I have set up this page to help support families and individuals on their home learning journey. A lot of links to great resources are coming my way, so I'll pop them here. It's not a school initiative, just something that I think could be helpful.
I will be on here between 10.30 and 12.00 each day to answer any questions if I can. PM or post on here.