Digital resources – croaghns.ie

Learning at home

Welcome to the new section on the Croagh N.S. website. Hopefully you will find some activities that will help you over the next little while. At the moment, the first section has some websites that can be used for accessing information in a variety of subject areas. Further down this page, resources are organised by subject area and we will be adding to this page. It is strongly advised that grown ups monitor children’s use of this page, as pop ups, particularly in videos, are beyond our control. If children have created art work/inventions/poems etc., we would love to see them.

Click here to access the official portal from the Department of Education and Skills. It has a primary and post-primary section.

The Topmarks website has lots of really good maths and English games and is suitable for 3-14 year olds.

Twinkl have lots of worksheets, powerpoint presentations and school closure packs. They are available free at the moment.

CJ Fallon have made their books available for free until the end of the term using this website.

Folens publishers have made their books available online at this time.
1. Go to FolensOnline.ie
2. Click Register
3. Select Teacher
4. Fill in a username, email and password
5. For roll number use the code: Prim20

Ask about Ireland has ideas for learning in lots of subject areas. The history and geography sections have some interesting topics. Information is organised according to class level.

Mindfulness Classes for Children . The aim of these classes is to help children develop tools to deal with their emotions and worries. These classes are on Instagram Live, three times per week (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) at 5pm

There are resources in this section to support the development of language and literacy skills.

Oxford Owls is a website with a free e-book library. It is suitable for children from 3-11 years.

The author of 'How to catch a star', 'Stuck', 'The heart and the bottle' is reading his stories live each day.

Library members can borrow e-books using the barcode and PIN number. It is also possible to join the library at this time.

Author of 'The World's Worst Children', 'Millionaire Boy' and 'Gangsta Granny' has released audio clips of his writings. Children could check which stories are available, borrow the book from Borrow Box and read along with Mr. Walliams.

In this section you will find games to help with revision of maths skills and concepts, technology which can be used to create graphs, and most importantly, problems that need to be solved.

Nrich Maths: This site has maths questions designed to promote thinking skills, problem solving approaches and mathematical skills.

This website is useful for creating graphs. It can be used to create pictograms, bar charts and pie charts. It is suitable for children from 3rd class to 6th class.

The National Geographic Kids website has interesting facts about lots of animals and habitats. It has some interesting experiments too.

The Primary Science website by Science Foundation Ireland have some STEM activities to do at home, maths related activities and things for you to design and make.

Learning about the planets and space

The Science Sparks Website has lots of great STEM challenges.

In this section there are links to some videos for activities that can be done indoors. There are videos by The Body Coach who is creating new PE lessons every day while everybody is at home. These videos are on YouTube. There is a link to the Go Noodle website and some Go Noodle videos on YouTube. You will also find the 10 at 10 videos from RTE Junior, which were designed for Operation Transformation.

Click here for more PE videos with The Body Coach

Click here for Go Noodle videos on YouTube

Click here for short videos of 10 at 10 on RTE Junior

‘Let your art speak your mind’. There are some links here that might be helpful. They might be useful to get an idea. The most important thing about art is the exploration, the engagement and the enjoyment.

https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub/videos

Is there something you’ve been trying to draw and just can’t figure out how to draw it? Art for kids hub have lots of step by step drawing videos that might be useful. Click here to see their channel. Click on the link above to see some of their videos.

Mr. Willems is an illustrator. He is the artist in residence at the John F. Kennedy Centre in Washington. As he cannot go to work there at the moment, he makes a new video every day which shows children how to doodle. If you click on the picture, it will take you to the website where his videos are posted every day.

Ms. Stevens is an art teacher in the USA. She is really good at explaining her work step by step and she has been developing her own channel on Youtube for a long time. It’s good to look at other people’s ideas for inspiration. if you click on her photo, you will see her videos.