Can home-ed & teachers recommend resources for parents in quarantine?

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From tonight's news it sounds like, even if we don't end up with Italian-style lock downs, in about 10 days anyone with any respiratory symptoms will be asked to isolate. Given that children are permanently sniffly at this time of year, lots of us are going to end up in isolation with our bored kids for weeks, probably whilst trying to work from home ourselves.

Would home-educators or teachers be able to recommend any home-learning sites, youtube channels etc please, that would be useful to keep some learning going, occupy the DC for a couple of weeks, and give us a chance to do a bit of work from home too? Are there any resources we can get in advance?

I've got DC ages 6 and 10 and assume infants and juniors are going to be harder to occupy than secondary age.

Thanks!

Twinkl website are offering free access for anyone who's school is shut.

Thanks Lucky, that's exactly the kind of thing I was hoping for.

Science Max on Youtube is great - my kids love it and have learned an astonishing amount.

My oldest also uses Prodigy for maths - it's a free game where they complete quests by solving maths problems. It assesses their level as they play and then increases the difficulty of the questions as they master new skills.

Brilliant thanks, these sound great.

BBC Bitesize as well as stuff mentioned above - languages, science etc stuff is pretty good on there.
Hamilton Trust offers some free stuff.
Join TES for free and use the free stuff.
Get plenty of printer ink.
Buy some scrap books on Amazon.
Children do a project about something they are interested in.
Plenty of time in the garden.
Get some mini-beast packs? There are loads of things going on in the garden at this time of year.
Grow some veg? Even if only have a window box.
DT kits?
Couple of cheap recorders? Learn online? Borrow a guitar, use online resources to learn basic chords.

Depends on ££, obviously.

Twinkl and bite size are good.

But seriously, at that age, just focus on having fun with them. Plant things in the garden, bake a cake, build something together. Family time is so rare nowadays and a few weeks of no school will do them no harm.

To be honest, if it happens to me/us and I'm off with my 5 year old off too, CBEEBIES and CBBC will take a beating while I get ahead on writing my reports and lesson planning for next term.

I will probably be able to think of more... Yes, some are games. Some of the free sites can be annoying when it comes to ads etc.

BBC Bitesize
Reading Eggs, Eggspress and Mathseeds
Prodigy Math
Maths4Everyone
ScienceBob
Brilliant.org
Scratch
TES
Twinkl
OneZoom tree of life explorer
OpenLearn
FutureLearn
TED Talks
funenglishgames.com
educationquizzes.com
topmarks.co.uk
mathplayground
puzzleplayground
crazygames.com (look for physics)
physicsgames.net
Ed Place
NASA
Nat Geo Kids
space.com
Vsauce (Lots of random topics - use your own judgement as to what is appropriate for your child to watch as you would with youtube etc)
Documentary channels (discovery, animal planet, science, history, nat geo)
childnet.com (netiquette)
TeachIt
Minecraft (yes really!)
Epistory (game)
Kodu Game Lab
Horrible Histories
Horrible Science
Horrible Geography
Murderous Maths

Phone apps:
Doodlemaths, English & spelling
Khan Academy
DragonBox Algebra (Self-explanatory)
Scribblenauts (English)
Duolingo (Languages)

Steam games - Anything online that requires cooperation is great for socialising and team building etc:
Age of Empires II & III (History)
Human: Fall Flat (Physics)
Mathoria (Maths)
Learn Japanese To Survive! Kanji Combat (Self-explanatory)
For a better country (politics etc)
BR Logic pack (Self-explanatory)
Game builder (Self-explanatory)
The Impossible Game (Problem-solving)
Language Worm (Languages)
Obliteracy (English)
Poly Bridge (Physics)
Scribblenauts Unlimited (English)
Strategist (Problem-solving/logic)
Osy Osmosis (Self-explanatory)
Turbo Dismount (Physics)
My typing skill (Self-explanatory)
Cell to singularity (Evolution)
Spore (Evolution)
Political Animals (Self-explanatory)
War Solution - A casual math game (Maths, reasoning, puzzle-solving)
Relativity Wars (Self-explanatory)
Niche (Genetics)
Democracy 3 (Self-explanatory)

..... Honestly, there are loads.... lol

Honestly though, there are loads of resources, but my kid loves nothing more than stuff they can do with me like watching stuff on netflix/prime, cooking/baking, making things, reading together. I often let them take the lead with their learning and it's great!

Great tips 👍

Teach your monster to read (app and online game) for phonics, mr Thorne does phonics on YouTube and alphablocks on cbeebies

We home ed and use buildyourlibrary curriculum .

buildyourlibrary.com/

All of our kids in Italy are having virtual lessons with their teachers. The efucy ministry was very clear from the go get, si you probably won't have to think about it too much.

Very handy info. Let's hope schools have a plan B if pupils can't come in.

I hope none of the people wanting tips from home educators now are the ones who are normally against home ed!
I think if schools close they will let parents know what to do at home. If not having a couple of weeks off won't be a problem.

I will be playing scrabble (9yr old) and making cards (Easter, Mother's Day, etc). Just as soon as I can tear him away from the xbox. He's glad you mentioned Human fall flat !

Corbett Maths. Lots for older kids.

Thanks for all the great tips!

I've done some workshops at school as a volunteer and I don't know how teachers or home educators do it every day, it's probably my worst nightmare but kudos to everyone who does.

Loads of resources, if twinkl is offering free then for children of your ages that is fab.
BBC bitesize,
Khan academy is also good, possibly more for older kids.

But if possible I'd play board games and read and let them be creative, bake cakes, cook, do some gardening. Schools take some of the joy out of learning so take it as an opportunity.

Literacy

Phonics - hairy words and hairy letters, teach your monster is free subscription right now.

Oxford owl are great. They have Biff, Chip and Kipper books
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/find-a-book/library-page/

Scholastic are offering great free learn at home resources, show video clips and read along books and activities.

classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html?fbclid=IwAR0HKj2GvLG5By7iuZRTuFf2q5S0DBZ4oOTUmkADK9v7aAryYZO_6VDIEAU

World books online

Maths
Sumdog (free just now)
topmarks hit the button
Countdown
ictgames

Sheffield maths chris moyles has great maths songs with maths equations age 8+ more for fun

BBC teach/bbc bite size

For exercise I use
Bodycoach on you tube - he's doing live vids every Monday-Fri 9-930
Cosmic yoga
Just dance on you tube
BBC supermovers
Go noodle (weird but kids like it)

There are loads of drawing tutorials on you tube too - kids art hub or dinosaur drawing tutorial, Pokemon or whatever you want you can find it.

Twinkl is my favourite to use, especially for worksheets. There's loads on there.

Hi there I’m using every lesson counts virtual school it’s amazing. Gives fantastic structure to the day with a combination of academic work and fun activities. There is even an assembly in the morning so can interact with teachers and other children. Worth a look.

Binumi has free video projects all based around the curriculum for little ones (KS2). Been a lifesaver in terms of getting them to do something creative but homework friendly

I found a great project which is supporting the storytellers who usually come into schools to work with our kids.
There are two stories offered per day in 45 minute sessions.
All of the stories are available anytime on their website archive too.
It’s a creative way to break up the learning day, and there’s the option to support the storytellers too.
I love projects which help people on both sides of the deal !
Www.worldstorytellingcafe.com/story-circle