Holbeach Blog

The Easter Holidays are a great opportunity for you to spend time with your family playing board games, card games, completing jigsaws, reading together and lots more.

Below, we have tried to compile a few additional ideas of things you can do together, whilst ‘social distancing’ at home.

We would love to hear what you have been doing. Please comment below or send photos of the fun you have had to admin@holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk

Holbeach Easter Art Challenge

Miss Simpson has challenged everyone to take part in an Art project during the holidays. The challenge is to draw something different every day related to Easter or Spring

She would like you to send her your finished product to this address.

Send your art to: 4shomelearning@holbeach.lewisham.sch.uk

You can use any medium you like (e.g. pencils, paints, chalk, water colours, clay etc…)

Take a virtual trip to see some animals

• San Diego Zoo  –  https://kids.sandiegozoo.org/
• FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms – https://www.farmfood360.ca/
• Play games and learn all about animals –  https://switchzoo.com/

Discover things about our world or the universe beyond

• Vegetable growing learning activities that can be done inside or outside.
• Easter Fun with Maths – Get the whole family doing some fun Maths activities. https://whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/easter-fun/
• National Geographic for Kids –  https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/category/discover/
• Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China –  https://www.thechinaguide.com/destination/great-wall-of-china
• Virtual Tour of the planet Mars – https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/
• Space science – https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
• The worlds most detailed globe – https://www.google.com/earth/  

Take some time to appreciate famous Artwork or visit a museum

• The Louvre virtual field trip – https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
• Virtual tour of the British Museum – https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/   
• The Metropolitan Museum Of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metkids/
• Opportunities to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art –  https://artsology.com/

Try to recreate some Science Experiments or Design and Technology Projects

• Daily experiments to do at home – http://www.clubscikidzmd.com/blog/
• Science Experiments to try at home – https://www.everyday-earth.com/courses/experiments/
• Quick & easy at home projects –  https://www.kiwico.com/kids-at-home
• Crafts, projects, science, recipes for young children https://www.funology.com/
• Paper Engineering Challenges with things you have at home – https://thehomeschoolscientist.com/paper-structures-engineering-challenge/
• Online photograph jigsaw puzzles – https://www.jigsawexplorer.com/

Have some physical fun or musical fun

• Give It Your Max – Weekly online tennis sessions that you don’t need any equipment for!
• Dance and sign along – https://www.gonoodle.com/  
• Child-friendly fitness workouts — https://app.sworkit.com/collections/kids-workouts
• Play instruments online – https://www.virtualmusicalinstruments.com/
• A large selection of fun songs – https://www.songsforteaching.com/preschoolkindergarten.htm

Develop Computing Skills Together

• Improve your typing skills –  https://www.nitrotype.com/
• Keyboarding practice –  https://www.typingclub.com/
• Learn to code –  https://www.codecademy.com/   or https://www.kodable.com/  or https://scratch.mit.edu/  
• Coding with Star Wars – https://code.org/starwars
• Hour of Code – https://hourofcode.com/uk/learn

Prepare meals by cooking together

• Recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook with their grown-ups. –  https://www.nomsterchef.com/nomster-recipe-library  
• Chartwells Super Yummy Kitchen – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyu3g1IGSmMJAqGQGOJr7MA/featured?disable_polymer=1