P3 – St Mary’s Primary School Cloughcor

Miss Brolly

Dear Parents,

Please find below some educational strategies and activities to work on at home with your child. Also, I have included a comprehensive list of educational websites where you will find activities and games related to what we have been learning in Primary 3.

As well as this a pack will be sent home with your child to complete with the following resources. One Literacy activity and One Numeracy Activity per day is ample. If they can do a bit of reading as well every day, I cannot stress how important it is to keep reading.

1. 📚 Read , read and read some more. If your child has brought their school reader home try to read over stories/ pages they have already completed. Try to ask questions such as who/ what / why / where / when / how to ensure comprehension. For older children encourage use of an age appropriate novel and set tasks around each chapter eg: character profile /dictionary work/ art work / summarise story in a 100 words.

2. Number Facts: Children from should use this time to consolidate their addition/subtraction/ multiplication tables. There are a fortune of YouTube channels with songs and poems to help make learning fun. Infants children could be revising their counting from 1-100 and also shapes/ patterns and sequencing.

3. 🖥🖨Older children could benefit from project work for example :The 1916 Rising/ Ancient Egypt / The Celts or their own topic in school. P3 have been exploring Chocolate. Websites such as www.scoilnet.ie are wonderful resources for projects. Ask your child to create an A4 poster documenting their learning with pictures and writing.

4. ✨ www.twinkl.co.uk has kindly offered a months free membership for teachers and parents. Every topic is covered here and for all ages . There’s crosswords / dictionary scavenger hunts / mindfulness colouring and much more.

5. 🤸🏻⛹🏻‍♀️Physical activity: Get outside for walks ,games, football etc. If the weather is bad look up The Body Coach on www.YouTube.com he has 2 series especially for children. Also try RTÉ 10@10 for ten minutes of fun for all the family. We do Go Noodle Brain Breaks and Kids’s Meditation every day in P3 which can also be found on Youtube.

6. 🧁Baking : Why not bake some treats and incorporate math through measurement , science through the baking process and then write about it after ( procedural writing: Literacy) Younger children could draw and sequence the steps.

7. Finally! Look for the silver lining ☁️ In the midst of all this uncertainty be thankful for each other and the extra time together.

Stay safe everyone,

Miss Brolly xx

Literacy Workbook: This contains all phonics sounds, revision of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, sentence dictation, syllables, grammar, capital and comprehensions.

Keyword Lists: Please keep revision and reading keywords. Play memory games with flashcards such as Go Fish/Snap. Talk about syllables and practice writing them into sentences.

Maths Workbook: In this you will find Mental Maths activities you can do with your child as well as topics we have been covering (fractions, time, money, addition/subtraction, number sequences).

Spellings and Number Facts Book: Revision of spellings –put into sentences, jumble up words etc. Do number facts orally for practice and reinforcement or write out.

Sounds Book: Children can revise sounds we have covered and practice writing words with our sounds of the week.

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Booklet: Our topic at the moment for this term is chocolate. We have started reading Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Children can work on in the activities in the booklet.

Useful Websites

Khan Academy

www.khanacademy.org

Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it’s mostly common material.

BBC Learning

www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/

This site is old and no longer updated and yet there’s so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn

www.futurelearn.com

Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca

www.senecalearning.com

For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn

www.open.edu/openlearn/

Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly

blockly.games

Learn computer programming skills – fun and free.

Scratch

scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/

Creative computer programming

Ted Ed

ed.ted.com

All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids

www.natgeokids.com/uk/

Activities and quizzes for younger kids.