Learning (and playing) at home

Class Dojo
Links to activities and games
Links to lists of fun things to do
Reading, maths, and science
Helen Currie's Story Time
Listen to stories online
Podcasts for children
Cooking together
Child-friendly workouts
Arts and crafts
Screen-based activities
Book publishers' online activities
Places (e.g. museums and Mars) to visit online
Learning help for older children, teens and adults

Class Dojo

We use Class Dojo to join together the ‘playing to learn’ we do in school with what you do at home. When your child starts school with us you will get a username and password.

Links to activities and games

NHS activities for 0 to 5s - search by age group. Includes help with learning more than one language
Busy Toddler - indoor activities for toddlers perfect for rainy days
Childs Play in Action - ideas for talking games you can play any time anywhere
The OT Toolbox - play to learn activities for physical development

Links to blogs of links

Chatterpack blog - comprehensive list of 'free, online, boredom busting resources'
kids activities blog - 91 free educational websites, courses as well as activities

Reading, maths, and science

Love My Books : all about children's books including search for good books by age, topic, traditional tales and more, and activities to do together
earlymaths.org maths in the early years
Physics website Marvin and Milo: an amazing resource of simple and cheap but awe-inspiring and exciting experiments that you can do easily with household things.

Listen to stories online

BBC Jackanory: listen to the story and look at the book
Storyline online : more people reading stories

Podcasts for children

Recommended by Waltham Forest Parent Forum:

Some are free, but most require a subscription to Spotify or to the individual podcast:

Barefoot Books Podcast – beautiful stories for small children
Circle Round – folktales for children aged 4 to 10
Peace Out – mindfulness stories for children
Purple Rocket – adventure stories
Sparkle Stories – magic and wonder stories
Story Pirates – pirates stories
Story Time with Yarn Story Factory – FREE stories
Storyformed – celebrate how stories nourish and shape us; for parents/carers
StoryNory – FREE stories; search by American school grade
What if World – all kinds of stories told by Mr Eric
Wow in the world – science and technology stories

Cooking together

Recipes from the Association of British Dieticians - search recipes by ingredient, meal, cooking time, oven, hob or microwave, fewer than 5 ingredients or 500 calories…
Abel and Cole recipes - search recipes by ingredient, meal, cooking time, dietary requirements or season

Child-friendly workouts

The Workout Badges with Hey Duggee & Joe Wicks – under 10 minutes

Arts and crafts

The Artful Parent – hundreds of arts and crafts activities

Screen-based activities

Learn how to set up parental controls on the NSPCC website

cbeebies - the amazing source of things to do, play and learn which is the BBC
National Geographic kids – activities with a science/geography/geology focus
Switch Zoo website - play games and learn about animals

Book publishers' online activities

Dorling Kindersley - Activities and games to learn all kinds of facts
Dog on a log books - printable things to make and do
Oxford Owl from Oxford University Press - learning to read and books and more

Places (e.g.museums and Mars) to visit online

This Houston Chronicle blog lists 25 museums and galleries where you can take a virtual tour.
This Australian Families Magazine article has 17.

In particular:

The British Museum - located in the heart of London, this virtual tour allows you to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies

NASA - visit the NASA image gallery

San Diego Zoo - the San Diego Zoo has a website with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour

Yellowstone Park - tour Yellowstone National Park!

Access Mars - explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.

Canadian Farm Food 360 site offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.

Learning help for older children, teens and adults

subject	place to look
homework	Khan Academy - FREE help with homework (for parents who are confused by their children's school work as well as for children!)
crafts	Ravelry - Knitting and crochet MAKER STATIONS HOME PACK.pdf - Google Drive - Fun things to do. Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet
geography	countryreports.org/ - search by country for geographic, economic and demographic data Funbrain - explore how our planet is put together
history	Big History Project - History and science for older children bunkhistory.org - American history for teens and grown-ups
maths	Cool Math website Maths Aids – dynamic maths worksheets
meditation	Insight Timer - try meditation
thinking	Scratch - code stories, games and animation puzzle-words – all kinds of puzzles TEDEd - all kinds of interesting videos
courses	The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award - Free mini courses an international award-winning programme that helps children and teenagers develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free. The Open University - free courses in just about anything edx.org - 2,500+ online courses from top institutions Coursera – 2,730 free courses (and links to many paid ones) from top institutions
yoga	Yoga with Adriene - free and donation sessions to try at home in private

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