Online resources/activities for children during school closures

A few more ideas for activities at home during the school closures:

RTE 2 are starting a school programme each week day from Monday, March 30th  11am - 12 noon.

Irish author/illustrator Oliver Jeffers reads one of his books and tells the story behind it on his Instagram page each day and also available on https://www.oliverjeffers.com/books#/abookaday/

The American artist Carson Ellis (https://www.carsonellis.com/) sets a drawing/painting task each day e.g. paint the view out your window. She then shares some of the artwork participants sends on her Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/p/B-L43sgpO0H/ 

www.topmarks.co.uk for maths activities. Select the learning games tab.

Gaeilge:

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ga/en/Learn-Irish

https://cula4.com/ga/cluichi/

Abair liom, the children's Irish scheme in school is available online if parent's sign into www.folensonline.ie. The online resources with this scheme are good for language development. Register as a teacher and fill in your name, email and password details. For Roll No. enter in the promotion code Prim20. You can access many of the children's textbooks on this site.