CareChoice Challenge & Educational Website List No: 2
Educational Websites List No: 2
Teachers: Karen Boyle
& Karl Lawless Class: 6th Class
Hey guys, hope you are all keeping well and helping your
parents & siblings at home. Karen and I are really missing you all L It’s
just not the same without our daily interactions and banter in school.
I’m
really missing annoying Karanosaurus Rex every day L I’m
sending her daily memes and tagging her in annoying stuff on Facebook but it’s
just not having the same impact. Looking forward to annoying her in person
again once we finally return to school J
I just wanted to add a few more educational links and
tell you about an initiative that I’d love both classes to take part in (I’ll
explain it fully below) and you might even include your siblings in this.
Karen and I have also started receiving some of your
projects (via email) on your chosen county in Ireland. We have been very
impressed with what we have seen so far and it’s lovely to see that you have
been continuing to work hard at home, despite how challenging it can be at
times. There’s absolutely no pressure on anyone to submit their project work
yet. Keep working at your own pace J
Okay,
so I’m going to list some links to useful websites and resources below. Please
have a look and see if any might be of use to you. Keep reading, exercising and
helping out at home. Feel free to email either Karen or myself @ Karen.boyle@belmayne-etns.ie or karl.lawless@belmayne-etns.ie and
let us know how you’re getting on. We would love to hear from you J
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1. PE: Best
Online PE – Have a look at these. Maybe your younger siblings might like some
of the websites aimed at the younger age groups. Remember ‘Suns out, guns out!
Get those gains!’ ;)
2. Reading: 27
Awesome Free (or Low-Cost) Websites for Practicing Reading J
Link: https://www.weareteachers.com/best-reading-websites/?fbclid=IwAR2Xw1z6Nz1fBUhqv6ZXmQ9ZFtrkLW0Nm6eec2VZ1-mjcBmOYOM0IWYUI20
3. Padlet Digital Resouces: Excellent Padlet Account with loads of Digital Resources
to help Home Schooling J Amazing
Resources and fun lessons, activities and challenges to try at home. Please have a look at this one!
4. Audible: Is offering free audio books for kids of all ages during
school closures. So if you prefer to listen to someone read the story to you
then this website is certainly worth a look!
Link to Audible: https://www.weareteachers.com/audible-covid-19-closures/?fbclid=IwAR36dfRHoh2g2qTQOGiZh16E_JNzMKWpUiDq2JQ4OLbh2OnD0wPWvFR000M
Lastly, CareChoice Challenge:
We called the nursing home near our school, ‘CareChoice’
today and spoke with a girl called Ciara. She said that the best way to make
contact and cheer up the residents at the moment would be to get the children
to make a card, draw/paint a picture, make a piece of art, etc. and ask your
parents (or older children could do this themselves) to take a picture and
email it to them. She also suggested videos of the children singing a song,
doing a dance, Easter cards, art work, etc. Anything to cheer the residents up
as they have had a no visitor’s policy for the last three weeks!!! L
They are really missing their families and friends and could really do
with some cheering up.
Ciara said that posting anything to them is risky so she
said if we could get them emailed, then they’ll print them off and stick them
around the place for residents to see. She also said they’re making a book with
all the positive things that have happened during this outbreak so some of the
pictures, artwork, poems, etc. could go into that.
I think that this would be a lovely thing to do and would
love everyone from both classes along with any siblings (who would like to) to
take part in this.
Important: If you wish to take
part please email: hello@carechoice.ie and
put ‘To the staff and residents in CareChoice Malahide, from (child’s full name
and class) in Belmayne Educate Together’ and attach whatever you’ve decided to
send to them.
Please don’t feel any pressure to do this but we thought
that it might be a nice way to cheer a group of people up who are very isolated
at this time.
Thanks guys J
Karl & Karen