Our Favourite Home Learning Resources
Posted on 30th March 2020 at 17:54
At a time when more families are engaged in home learning, the MWC team wanted to share online resources that might be useful over the coming months.
The resources cover general advice for Home Learning, reading, music, art and languages.
General advice on Home Learning
Home Learning UK are sharing their expertise – https://homelearninguk.weebly.com/
MWC’s Maria loves opera for so to find out the best places for streamed opera check out BachTrack’s list – https://bachtrack.com/search-opera/medium=2,3
Explore Folk Music from around the World with https://folkcloud.com
Singing
Need inspiration for some new songs? Check out Sing Up who are currently offering free resources – https://www.singup.org/home-schooling
For families who have budding instrumentalists here is some advice on specific instrument challenges:
Oboists – Parents guide to an oboists reed crisis! https://www.rachelbroadbent.co.uk/post/parents-guide-to-an-oboists-reed-crisis?fbclid=IwAR0b9FMcX8mnibH84EK3ARmwHEtxUmXslao0K2sQ1sPhqlFyUXTGrVe6WGk
Ever wondered how to tune a violin? ViolinSchool have a handy resource to help you https://www.violinschool.com/how-to-tune-a-violin/
Creative Activities
Keeping It Creative with Miss Hodgson – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC04w15zk1qpp1wMVxIUN_BQ/videos?app=desktop
The Roald Dahl Museum has great resources to help children develop their creative writing skills – https://www.roalddahl.com/museum/make-stories
Creative Boom have put together links to lots of fun creative activities at – https://www.creativeboom.com/resources/fun-activities-to-do-at-home-brought-to-you-by-the-wonderful-creative-community/
Felt Tip Pen gives lots of suggestions for Art activities – http://felt-tip-pen.com/art-teaching-resources-you-can-access-anywhere/
Get free ballet Lessons with the English National Ballet – https://www.youtube.com/user/enballet
If you are looking for inspiration for theming activities, visit Teaching Ideas for festivals and celebrations from around the World – https://www.teachingideas.co.uk/events/march
London Bubble have created a free Speech Bubbles resource full of activities for drama at https://www.londonbubble.org.uk/parent_project/speech-bubbles/
64 Million Artists are sharing a daily creative challenge, sign up at https://64millionartists.com/
Exploring Art
Have a virtual day out at the National Gallery – https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/visiting/virtual-tours
Explore Tate Modern with Nick Grimshaw and Francis Morris – https://www.tate.org.uk/art/360-video/grimshaw
Visit the Vatican including the Sistine Chapel – http://www.museivaticani.va/content/museivaticani/en/collezioni/musei/tour-virtuali-elenco.html
General Home Learning Activities
BBC Bitesize includes resources and activities for children and young people from age 3 up – https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize
TTS are offering free downloadable resources for Early Years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 – https://www.tts-group.co.uk/home+learning+activities.html
Robin Hood Multi Academy Trust has free projects for Early Years, Key Stage 1, Years 3/4 and Years 5/6 on their website. These are broken into weekly tasks. Visit their site – https://www.robinhoodmat.co.uk/learning-projects/
NASA kids club has lots of activities for children – https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
Languages
Duolingo is a free app that supports learning a wide range of languages – https://www.duolingo.com/
Rosetta Stone is offering free access to their resources for the next 3 months – https://www.rosettastone.com/freeforstudents/
Reading
Audible Stories now has free classic children’s stories – https://stories.audible.com/discovery
The World of David Walliams is offering free audio stories – https://www.worldofdavidwalliams.com/elevenses/
Literary Shed + has free resources for Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 – https://www.literacyshedplus.com/en-gb/browse/free-resources
Ok, it’s not quite summer yet, but the Summer Reading Challenge has lots of great resources – https://summerreadingchallenge.org.uk/
The Stay-at-Home! Literary Festival is an international online literature festival running from 27th March until 11th April 2020 – https://stayathomefest.wordpress.com/
And the British Library have great resources and activities linked to children’s books – https://www.bl.uk/childrens-books.
History
Did you know you can do virtual visits to museums such as the British Museum? Read their top tips on how to access their amazing collection – https://blog.britishmuseum.org/how-to-explore-the-british-museum-from-home/
The Chester Beatty Museum in Dublin is one of Maria’s favourite museums, visit their virtual museum at https://chesterbeatty.ie/exhibitions/gift-of-a-lifetime/
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has more than 103,500 objects in its online collection – https://www.ashmolean.org/
Mental Health
And of course, supporting children, young people and their families with mental health.
We need to talk about Children’s Mental Health – https://weneedtotalkaboutchildrensmentalhealth.wordpress.com/2020/03/27/tips-to-share-with-children-to-help-them-cope-with-the-new-normal/
N.B. MWC is not affiliated with any of these websites. This list should not be taken as a recommendation for any products or services (and those featured should not claim any recommendation). All data and GDPR rules – and terms and conditions – should be closely scrutinised by schools and parents.
The images used in this post courtesy of Unsplash, by Goetz Heinen, Sharon McCutcheon, Dragos Gontariu, Toa Heftier, Kelly Sikkema, Annie Spratt, Brett Jordan, National Cancer Institute
Tagged as: CREATIVE ACTIVITIES, FOLK MUSIC, HISTORY, HOME LEARNING, INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT, MUSIC EDUCATION, SINGING
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