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Kaboom! Tables Game
This is a great way for your child to get to know their tables or to revise them. Write the tables on sticks. Take it in turns to pick out a stick and try to correctly answer the table. If you are correct, keep the stick. If not, you place it back in box. If you receive a stick with ‘Kaboom’ on it put all the sticks you have collected back in the box and begin again!
Do not underestimate the power of play!
Children of all ages can benefit immensely from play. So step back, allow your child to play. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop the skills children will continue to use in life. This is a fantastic website and now they have organised the play resources and ideas for indoors to be easily accessed for all during Covid 19 crisis. The link for this is: https://www.playboard.org/play-ideas/
Some Fun, Messy DIY Tasks to be done at Home
Grow your own Plant
A great STEM activity to try for the older children using an avocado pit. You can access it here at: https://www.shareitscience.com/2015/11/grow-an-avocado-hands-on-science.html
Make your own Playdough
Create Your Own Happy Jar
Decorate your jar how your child choose (use stickers, paint, paper etc.). Next, take some small pieces of paper and think of the things that have happened to you that made you happy (small or big). Add to the jar every day with the simple things that make you happy. This is an activity that can be done as a whole family to help you through Covid-19.
Virtual Library Storytime
Irish public libraries, publishers and writers have partnered up for virtual library storytimes across the country.
Spring into Storytime is the name of libraries’ annual celebration of families reading together – and this year, they’re planning to highlight the work of Irish authors by inviting everyone to #LoveIrishWriting.
Librarians will stream storytime sessions or post them online on their social media channels, and these videos will remain online while library buildings are closed.
The Irish publishers who have signed up are:
The O’Brien Press
Mercier Press
Little Island Books
Gill Books
Futa Fata
Leabhar Breac
An Gúm
Cló Iar-Chonnacht
Cois Life
LeabhairCOMHAR
Follow your local library service’s social media channels or Libraries Ireland’s Twitter, Instagram and Facebook pages to find out when storytimes in your area will be uploaded. Visit www.librariesireland.iefor more information.
Don Conroy Has Launched A Youtube Channel
Don Conroy has launched his own YouTube Channel where he will teach us how to draw – a great way to pass the time while we must remain indoors. The first lesson shows us how to draw a clown!
The Ark @ Home
The Ark @ Home is a way for children who are home from school to connect with The Ark through a series of at-home arts activities, virtual events, online screenings of live performances and much more.