KIDS—Games

Like to do a Project at Home?…  

1. World Book Online (great for projects)
2. Or, choose from 280 activities that Scouts UK have collected to do at home.

Games: Become A Maths Master! 

1. (new) Daily 30 second-challenge (click Start)
2. Mathletics Sign in
3. Maths Week Ireland every day continue to post new puzzles and challenges (try them WITH your family)
4. Maths Playground—lots and lots of games: take it easy, or make it hard: your choice…
   1. Games for 1st class, for 2nd class
   2. Games for 3rd class, for 4th class
   3. Games for 5th class, 6th class+
5. Maths Is Fun website—loads of games, like:
   1. Chess
   2. Connect 4
   3. Battleships
   4. Draughts/’Checkers’
6. Practice with Mathopolis—
   1. Do you want to do 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, or even higher-level practice?!
   2. You can choose to do some practice here with Counting, Adding, Taking Away, Multiplication, Division, Fractions, Time, Data, Money, … lots!
7. For basic maths, ask each other questions using your choice of ten frames and creepy creatures.
8. Wanna race? Two games that make you race!
   1. Really cool Race Against The Clock ! If level 1 is too easy, see what level is too hard! (Nine levels!) Danger: Watch the wall come down and stop you!
   2. The very popular “Just in Time!”— Can you answer the question before the computer gives you the answer?
      (Change the speed to make it harder or easier)
      (You can do adding, taking away, multiplying, or dividing.)
9. Addition & Subtraction Games
   1. Addition Games from multiplication.com
   2. Add It Up — Click ‘Submit’ and add up the numbers in your head.
   3. Hidden Picture — Addition Game
   4. Subtraction Games from multiplication.com
10. Multiplication & Division Games
    1. (new) Demolition Division! Shoot the right ones as quick as you can!
    2. Cloud Click Game — Your Multiplication Tables (requires ‘Flash’)
    3. Multiplication.com — Loads of Games–like this one, Multiplication Connect 4 Have a look at them all.
    4. Shoot the Multiple — Aim at the number you need to multiply by to get the answer (play this if you like shooting games)
    5. Ready to Learn the Hardest Table, the 7s? “This video is fun and it helps you to learn your 7s if you don’t know them” (Leon O’S)
    6. Division Games from multiplication.com
11. Space and Shapes Games
    1. Play Tetris, but be careful, you might become addicted.
       (If you get good at that, try the 3-D version of Tetris!!)
    2. Play ‘Hit the Coordinates Game’ (harder [for 5th or 6th] or easier [for 3rd to 6th])
    3. Drive the Car Out—move other cars to move your car out of the parking lot.
    4. Unlock the Treasure — Fun Learning About 2D and 3D Shapes
    5. Estimate the Angle — a quick game, how good are you?
    6. Make a jigsaw puzzle; you have lots of choice, like this one of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
    7. Memory Game — Click on ‘3D Shape Match’
    8. Rotation Game: Really HARD! Make the big circle match the small circle: what level can you get to?
    9. (new) (easy then hard) Count the Cubes... can you?
    10. (new) Tangrams online — (hard) Can you build figures using four shapes?
12. Time Games (both require ‘Flash’)
    1. “Stop The Clock!!” — Stop the clock when the hands are in the right position
    2. Match the Time — Match the digital time with the clock time
13. Fraction Games
    1. Match the Fractions (set it at a low level or it’s hard!)
    2. Build a Fraction (first build, then drag them to the right)(start at a low level!!)
14. Money Games
    1. Sort, order, or count coins
    2. Check your change–don’t be ripped off!
15. Chance Games
    1. Higher or Lower? A fun game to play in 5th class, you can play it here too.
16.  Cool Math 4 Kids — Most people find a game they really like on this site:
    1. Try some that are ‘very easy‘, some ‘easy‘, some for 3rd class, some for 4th class, some for 5th class, some for 6th class.

Extra Problem Games You Can Play Online

1. (new) Problems to try and solve from the brilliant nrich site.

Work in a Factory… Build a Bridge… Design Like An Engineer…

1. Imagine working in a factory. Can you learn to design ‘Factory Balls Forever’? (Can you get past level 3?)
2. Build a Bridge (‘Cargo Bridge‘): Design the bridge then see your workers move across it. If you’re stuck here are hints. This “Building Bridges” game is “addictive”, “too much fun”, and “great to play with someone else or on your own.” First you sketch your plan, then you try it out.
3. The very popular Dynamic Systems (beginning hint: you can rotate items)

Ready for some Home School? Time to watch RTE’s Home School Hub

1. RTE Home School Hub is over for now. But you can still pick and choose what to watch, so do it! Here’s clips from past shows for 1st and 2nd classes, for 3rd and 4th classes, and here’s clips for 5th and 6th classes.
2. RTE also gives us News2Day, and have an online dictionary for you about words people use about covid and tips how to deal with upsetting news
   

Challenge Yourself: Become a Really Fast Typist!

(The ONLY way to get REALLY fast is to learn how to type using all 10 Fingers. You must learn HOW first, BEFORE trying to go fast. Learning this is slow at first, but then you get quicker and quicker and quicker!)

1. Practice on Typing.com—the best site for learning FAST typing using TEN fingers
2. See how fast you are at 10fastfingers.com’s One-Minute Typing Test
3. See what you can do WITH 10 FINGERS and then try it beat it by one word per day.

Science: How Everything Works — Great and Short Science Videos, all Kid-Friendly

1. (new) 7 Science experiments you can do at home (thanks to Adler Planetarium)
2. NASA’s own website about Climate Change called Climate Kids has a Games page!
3. What level is right for you?
   For beginners, for level 1, for level 2, for level 3, for level 4, and for level 5.
4. Learn all about Space with these space games from NASA.

Love Animals? 

1. Go on a virtual tour of Dublin Zoo, right now, from your seat!
2. This website, from National Geographic, wants you to know all about animals — text and videos.
3. Watch the animal cameras in Dublin Zoo (penguins [best at 2:30], elephants [best at 10:30 and 12:30], and the African savanna] (idea from Sam Bennet in Mr Carroll’s). Or use the Zoo-Cams in Edinburgh Zoo (pandas, penguins, tigers, and koalas)(idea from Isabelle Keogh in Mr Gordon’s)
4. (new) Watch sharks swimming live right now in an aquarium.
5. Want to care for some birds or grow some herbs? Learn how by asking an adult to read this new Irish gardening book with you.
6. Become a bird watcher (here’s a short video on bird-watching from Dublin Zoo)(And Dublin Zoo have even more videos too) (also Sam Bennet’s idea). (new) Listen to the sounds and songs of different common birds and have someone test you.
7. Or go to the World Wildlife Fund website, to learn about animals in the oceans, or animals from Europe, Africa, the Americas, or Asia, or even the famous Polar Bear. Each page has facts to enjoy learning and games to play.

Learn Some Languages—Irish, Spanish, French…  

1. You can get points and rewards on duolingo.com (you can also download the duolingo app).
   (Idea came from Nerys Boateng in Ms Ward’s 6th):  “Nail It!… Me and my family have being doing this challenge called nail it! brain it! download the app duolingo on mobile. its a fun way to learn languages, I’ve been learning Irish, Spanish, French. The aim is the first person to complete the most tasks wins!! Give it a shot. I promise you won’t regret it.”
2. Cúla 4 for watching SpongeBob SquarePants and other fun shows in Irish. You can watch on TV — or watch now here!… Also, want to listen to a story in Irish?
3. Missing out on Irish? Here is a great place to revise and maybe learn something new: Séidean Sí is free while schools are closed, and it’s fun… for junior infants, for senior infants, for 1st class, for 2nd class, and for 3rd to 6th class (TIP: revise stuff you learnt years ago first)

Websites For LOTS of Different Learning Fun

1. Primary Games— has a few good games, like Connect-4, a Memory Card Game, Snakes-and-Ladders, Chess, and Put words in alphabetical order.
   1. And now they have a special ‘5-a-day’ page for you now, for younger children, while schools are closed.
2. Crickweb: So much choice here! What  will  be your  favourites?
   1. Easy English (15 games), Hard English (20 games)
   2. Easy Maths (18 games), Hard Maths (74 games)
   3. An ‘easy‘ weather game, 10 ‘hard’ Geography games
   4. Easy Science (11 games), Hard Science (15 games)
3. (new) Memory Game from BrainBashers—find the matching pairs.
4. (new) Can you remember a face? See how good you are. Can you get better?

Explore Your World…

1. Use Google Maps and explore Bawnogue and any part of Dublin… or the world.
2. How well can you get at knowing Ireland’s counties? Here’s a quick game to get to know Ireland and the countries beside us.
3. Wouldn’t it be great to see what is travelling the world right now? We can!
   1. Watch the boats on the seas of the world.
   2. Watch the planes in the air. How many flights can you count over Ireland?
4. Of course you can always travel quickly around the world by zooming out in Google Maps.
5. And you can check the weather all round the world here, just search by country or city.
6. If you want to learn more about the names of mountains, rivers, countries use toporopa.eu for Ireland and Britain. To get to know the trees of Ireland, watch these short videos with the chat-a-box Éanna (she’s full of energy!).
7. Maps Challenge Games—
   1. Map of the Countries of Europe challenge, capitals of Europe challenge, Countries of Africa challenge, Countries of Asia challenge, and lots more like this…
   2. Or, race against the clock on sporcle.com to find the countries of Europe, the countries of Africa, or the countries of Asia. What’s great with this is that you get better every time you play.

And LOTS of Other Fun Games…

1. Asteroids Game (NOT easy—how long can you survive? how many levels can you survive?)
2. Labyrinth Puzzle: Use the arrow keys to move to the checkered-square. Can you get past level 4?
3. Jigzone, which has a BIG selection of jigsaw puzzles, (or just do a different one every day)(or upload your own photo and make it into a jigsaw!)
4. Tic Tac Toe (or: “Xs-and-Os”): either 3 in a row, or 4 in a row on a 3×3, 5×5, or 7×7 grid.
5. Everyone knows that wasting food is wasting money. But is there a fun way of showing that??
6. Sweety Mahjong—a test of your eyes, you have to click on the matching pairs—click on ‘hints’ to help.
7. Challenge: Say the colours of the words but don’t read the words. How fast can you do it? Who is quickest in your family?
8. Memory Artist–how many things in a row can you remember? Turn up the sound to help you.
9. Sudoko is a logic game from New York, and Woobies is a strategy game from Woobieland. 
10. AND here are ‘Pen and Paper Games‘—games to play with your family or friends using a pen and paper, some really popular like Pictionary, or Battleships, or Dots and Boxes.

Game to Test and Develop Your Focus… How Well Can You Do?! 

1. How long can focus? Can you do two things at once? Click here and see how long you can do two (or more!) things at the same time well! Devon in Mr Byrne’s 5th class has the current record with 102 seconds. (Need ‘Adobe Flash’)
2. If you like this, try other “multitask” games here.
3. So, do you do better when you concentrate on one thing or try to concentrate on many things?

Ready To Code? (for 5th/6th)

It’s not too hard, and it’s a lot of fun.
It’s even easier and also a lot more fun when you learn WITH another person — maybe learn together with someone else in your family).

1. First of all, watch this cool video;it encourages us all to give it a go, give it just one hour!And here Will I Am tells us that “Great coders are today’s rock stars, that’s it!”
2. There’s lots of ways to begin,
   1. you can watch this teaching video from Microsoft just for children in Ireland: it teaches you about the games on code.org/mc
   2. and/or try the ‘Hour of Code’ games (you pick which)… we recommend the ones which say ‘Beginner’, obviously!!
3. Then you’re ready for the ‘Hour of Code’ on code.org — where we play with Minecraft and Star Wars characters! 🙂
4. And when you get really good, then you’re ready to go on to harder coding.
   1. You can begin to learn Python, the language that’s now in the new Leaving Cert course!!
   2. You can choose Course Two on the Learning section of code.org. It’s all free. Have fun!

Still Want Even More Choice?

1. Try out another school’s list of great websites:
   • This list is from Parteen in County Clare, near Limerick City.
2. Go to Khan Academy for videos teaching exactly what you want in Maths.
3. Go to AskAboutIreland for lots and lots in lots of subjects.
4. (new) Go to Great Web Sites for Kids and find your favourite sites (use the buttons in red)
5. (new) Cool online museums for curious kids
6. Go to TopMarks and find exactly what you want.

Know Your Rights! 

• Have you ever wanted to complain about something serious? Well, children have ‘human rights’ but many children don’t know what they are. Do you know how many you have? How many can you name? To find out your rights, go to the useful Irish government website itsyourright.ie

Childline.ie

• If you ever need to talk to someone about something serious going on in your life, tell an adult you trust and keep telling until they take action. Remember, you can also talk on the phone or by text to the people at Childline. It’s free. And there’s no record of your call on your phone, so it’s fully safe. The website is childline.ie and the phone number to call is 1-800-66-66-66 (that’s six sixes!–easy to remember!)

Anti-Bullying

• For everyone, know about watchyourspace.ie: It’s a great, Irish anti-bullying website. 

How to Cope and Thrive During Covid-19

• Here are tips in two short videos from Coláiste Bríde‘s Student Council in Clondalkin on 25th April 2020.

Remember: If it’s safe and dry get outside and get active! You know how good that feels. Make it a daily habit. Do it safely. Just do it!