Learning at home - ideas

The following was on our Facebook page, I've taken the ideas more appropriate for young learners.

• Graph the types of birds that you see outside your house or through the window. Tips for Identifying birds 

• Build a hut out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day, then tell your family a story about your hut over dinner.

• Stay up late and stargaze. When you don’t have to go to school in the morning, it can be okay to stay up late once in a while. Stretch out and watch the stars. 

•  Draw a map of your home and neighbourhood - we did this at school, so children have had some experience with this.

• Sit silently for 15 minutes while you listen to every sound you hear. Important to develop children's listening skills.

• Learn to tie shoelaces!

• Draw and tell - draw a picture, tell a story about your picture, parents can write this story on the picture, then you can read it together.

• Think, notice and wonder - Look out of the window or in your driveway or garden. Observe carefully, what do you notice? What do you think? What do you wonder?