Explaining the Corona Virus to Kids Using this Cartoon
Category: Year 6
A Great Resource Page for all Families
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Enjoy checking out some of the many wonderful sites for families to access for free!
Have fun!
Letter regarding LEARNING FROM HOME REMOTELY
SCHOOL CLOSURE – as of tomorrow afternoon Friday 27th March
Home Learning Plans coming home on Monday 30th March.
Dear Parents,
Our Home Learning Plans for this week come home on Monday 30th March. These will be emailed to you by 9.00am.
Years PP-Year 3 are also receiving a Login Bookmark which will have a) the name of your child, b) the name of the online apps and c) a code. Students may need to login to these programs, either for this week’s lessons, or after the holidays (should schools continue to remain closed).
Please note that other classes Years 4-6 already have their login details.
Our TOP 10 TIPS:
- Please stay calm 🙂
- Organise a space for your child/children to work in.
- Turn the TV off.and read through Day 1 learning activities.
- If needed, have a device ready for your child to access.
- Engage with your child – include them on the decisions around the timing of the lessons and what is needed.
- Talk about each task. The talking is very important – it gives you an opportunity to allay any apprehension or uncertainty, it helps your child to clarify, discuss and organise their thinking.
- Encourage, affirm, and praise things like – effort, focus, good ideas, cooperation and responsibility.
- Take short breaks together – a jog around the house; some brain break activities; healthy snacks.
- Be kind to yourself and be realistic. In the final analysis, these are unusual times … things wont necessarily go according to plan. Stay as positive as you can.
- We will be teaching some face to face students this week and planning for next term, next week. Please send emails via admin if you need any assistance, thank you.
On a final note, while it can be helpful and supportive for families to stay connected during such a time as this, please be reminded that we have high expectations in regard to mutual respect and parent FB posts. All communications on social media that involve our school, our staff, and the learning programs being offered, are to be framed in a positive and respectful way. We will continue to do our very best to support you in the uncertain weeks ahead and we trust that you will do the same. May our community continue to care for each other even when we are not together.
All the very best to you all and stay safe xx
Free Websites with Online Books for Children
Best Websites With Free Online Books For Kids
- Oxford Owl
- Storyline Online
- International Children’s Digital Library
- Open Library
- Amazon’s Free Kids Ebooks
- Barnes & Noble Free Nook Books for Kids
- Mrs. P’s Magic Library
Oxford Owl
This award-winning website from Oxford University Press is your online resource for children’s books and other reading activities.
It’s designed to support their learning at school and at home. Once you register for free, you can access more than 250 free Oxford ebooks for kids along with storytelling videos, games and guides that help them develop their reading skills.
Storyline Online
Storyline Online is another award-winning, interactive children’s literacy site that features famous actors like Kevin Costner, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Eva Longoria, and others reading children’s books alongside minor animation elements.
Each video has a brief explanation below it showing details of the run time, book author, illustrator, and publisher, suggested grade level, and a plot summary.
Run by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, the site offers books developed by credentialed elementary educators and aims to strengthen verbal, written and comprehension skills for English language learners.
International Children’s Digital Library (ICDL)
ICDL is a nonprofit organization that provides access to the best children’s books of their culture, and cultures around the world regardless of where they live. There are over 4,000 titles in 59 languages to choose from, that you can read to your children.
If you want a personal bookshelf for your family, create a free account and save your favourite kids’ books, set personal preferences, and bookmark books you’d like to read later.
Alternatively, use the simple search interface to find suitable titles by age, length of book, genres, reading level and more. You can also pick a book from some of the featured titles on the home page, and read away for free anonymously.
Once you have a few to get started, it’s easier to extract powerful themes from the stories to help explain important lessons to your kids or allow them to expand on the stories and create games out of them.
Open Library
This site is part of the nonprofit Internet Archive and houses a collection of more than one million books, with access to over 22,000 free online books for kids – classic and newer titles – for free.
It continually updates its collection of links to children’s books online, plus other books, so you can rummage through the collection and find a few for your own reading pleasure.
Amazon’s Free Kids eBooks
Amazon isn’t just an online store to buy stuff from. It’s also a rich resource for kids’ books online.
You can find free Kindle books for kids categorized under the Children’s eBooks section. There are several subcategories like Action & Adventure, Animals, Early Learning, Sports & Outdoors, each with 100 free eBooks to pick from so you can read a different one each day to your kids.
With more than 3,000 children’s ebooks, you’re sure to find something you and they will like.
Barnes & Noble Free Nook Books For Kids
Barnes & Noble is synonymous with books so you’re guaranteed they’ll have some for the little ones too.
The site has a special Kids’ section with different categories to choose from such as age or subjects, and you can sort them by title, bestseller, new or old, and user ratings.
If you have the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader, you can download free online books for kids from ages 0-12 years. Some children’s favourites like Disney characters Elsa and Anna, or Dr. Seuss, Peppa Pig, Dork Diaries, and many others are all in there.
Mrs. P’s Magic Library
You probably know her from her role as ‘Mimi’ in the Drew Carey Show, but Kathy Kinney wears more hats than just actress and comedienne – she’s a storyteller and children’s advocate too.
Kinney believes that children deserve a good book to read or be read to, which is why she and her partners co-created this site to pep up the magic and joy of hearing timeless stories online.
She’s a wonderful and skilled storyteller, and on the site she stars as Mrs. P, a grandmother who reads classic storybooks aloud from her couch in a voice that children can enjoy.
Kinney takes children on unforgettable adventures as far as their imaginations allow, and find quality entertainment that inspires them to read and love books.
FEATURED STORIES
THE JOURNEY OF THE MARMABILL
For those spending time at home, looking for a cozy adventure or bedtime story, we offer this imaginative rhyming picture book, read by the author, Daniel Errico. Follow the Marmabill on her quest through the rainforest, where she meets fantastical creatures like wugs, tankadiggies, and flying fluthers. As her journey takes her from treetops to glowing underground caves, the Marmabill finds out for herself the true meaning of home. Remember, our stories for kids are here for you to read at any time. And remember, Dream Big!
GEMMA
Gemma is a middle grade novel that follows a curious explorer and her ring-tailed lemur, Milo, as they hunt for the “most greatest treasure in the world”. Solving riddles, battling a bell-wearing jaguar, and traveling the Eight Seas, Gemma’s adventures take her from a young girl to a brave captain, whose only limits are the stars.
THE PARTICULAR WAY OF THE ODD MS. MCKAY
This quirky tale is about our most infamous character of all. If you don’t have a soufflé-baking, trumpet-blaring, sleigh-riding friend, then maybe it’s time that you met Ms. McKay. Told as a monorhyme poem. “Say what you will or say what you may, you’ll remember the day that you met Ms. McKay…”
MONSTER MANNERS
When it comes to monsters, there are some secrets that you probably haven’t heard. For example, did you know that they like to get their picture taken, eat books, and dance the cha-cha-cha? Once you get to know them better, you might find that monsters aren’t so scary after all. This rhyming tale is a whimsical guide to being friends with monsters, but we wouldn’t recommend acting like one!
THE JOURNEY OF THE NOBLE GNARBLE
The Journey of the Noble Gnarble is a number one best-selling ebook that has been adapted into a hardcover book and play. Through rhyming verse and engaging illustrations, the Noble Gnarble teaches kids about perseverance and determination in the face of obstacles. Dream Big!
THE ROBOT BEDTIME BOOK
Ages 3-5, Narrated, Read Along
One of our most popular children’s stories, this is the tale of a group of robots winding down for the night. The Robot Bedtime Book is a playful bedtime story that encourages interaction, imagination, and a fun bedtime routine.
THE GUARDIANS OF LORE
While drawing in class to avoid listening to a story from his painfully boring teacher at Stagwood School, 12-year old Cal sees a frog staring at him through the window. Odder than that is the fact that this frog happens to be wearing glasses.
Cal and his best friend, the tactless but loyal Soy, learn that the frog (who prefers the name Deli) has sought them out for a reason. When a school administrator named Ream reveals himself to be a dragon, the boys discover that fairytales are real, and that there is magic afoot in Stagwood. With Ream on their tail, the trio must unearth a powerful tool protected by riddles and rile (the magic that fuels nightmares) to save the fate of all fairytales past. Their only means on conveyance, Cal’s now-flying bed, takes them on a journey beyond the home of the fairies (a cloud floating somewhere over Iceland) to set things right. But, before Cal can defeat Ream and his kidnapped army of fairies, he has to deal with Soy’s knack for arguing with magical creatures, discover the truth about Deli’s identity, and earn his place as the hero of the story.
The Guardians of Lore is a middle grade novel that centres around two life-long friends, infusing humour and fantasy-based riddles into a modern fairytale.
Help you child to develop the reading habit!
Stories are the children’s window to the outside world. They make them dream of beautiful castles, princesses, great adventures and superheroes who fight the ugly green monsters to make the world a safer place.
On their own, children can be voracious readers especially if they’ve developed a reading habit. It can be challenging trying to keep up when they want more books to read, but with this list of sites to find free online books for kids, there’s more than enough to get started.
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Year 6 PP Grid – Weeks 7 & 8
Target Number
One of our favourite ‘open ended’ mental maths tasks in Six Blue is Target Number! Each day we are given a target number on the board and we then have five minutes to come up with as many ways of making this target number as possible. We are encouraged to try using all the operations, indices, brackets, square numbers and anything we know really.
After a few days we calculate the average number of sums we create in the time limit and give our sums a difficulty rating out of ten. One being very simple sums and ten being very difficult. With our average and degree of difficulty, we then set ourselves a goal. This goal may be writing more sums than our average in the set time, without decreasing the level of difficulty. Or, it may be increasing the level of difficulty, but still aiming for our average number of sums. All of our goals vary, but these two are common examples.
We always share lots of examples on the board, to check each others working as well as applaud each others clever ideas. Here is an example of some of our work.