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With home schooling out for the weekend; are you wondering how you will occupy your time today, with weather promising to be uncertain?
What about this project to hone your creative skills?
Follow these 7 steps to create Word Art just for fun or why not create something memorable for an upcoming friend’s birthday, a graduation or other special event.
- Go here to https://wordart.com/
- Click ‘Create now‘, (Button with green Background, found centre page).
- On the next screen click ‘Import‘ (Button on left hand side under the heading ‘WORDS‘). In the box that will appear, type a list of words, for example the names of people in your family. Then click ‘Import words‘, (Bottom right of that same white box).
- Next Click ‘SHAPES‘. (Shown bottom left.)
- Pick a shape, for example, the “Love Heart” in our picture shown above. Then click ‘Visualize‘, (Button Red background at top, middle, beside ‘Undo’) to see your word art creation.
- Click on ‘Fonts‘ and then the red button ‘Visualize‘; to observe the effect of the different fonts. Likewise click ‘Layout‘ or ‘Style‘ and then ‘Visualize‘ to experiment with different layout and style options.
- To save your creation, simply click download and save your Word Art as a .JPEG (or other file format), to email to friends and family, and to celebrate, for example a birthday.
Top Tip: If you want to make a word bigger and make it stand out more than any other chosen word, go to ‘WORDS‘ and click on that particular word you chose and under ‘Size‘, enlarge same and again hit the ‘Visualize‘ red button.
Have Fun.
Listen to the CEO of the Irish Primary Principals’ Network (IPPN), Páiric Clerkin, discuss schools re-opening.
In this short video, Páiric Clerkin describes the process of planning and consultation that will need to take place among educational stakeholders.
In addition, he acknowledges that parents, pupils, staff and Boards of Management will need absolute reassurance that the reopening of schools can be managed safely.
He notes that working collaboratively, educational stakeholders will strive to ensure that “no stone is left unturned in terms of preparing for the safe reopening of schools”.
Find a worksheet to help your children with maths learning at home.
Whether it is to test maths skills, reinforce or revise them, maths worksheets are an essential part of the teaching and learning toolkit.
For parents and teachers supporting learning at home, here are five websites that offer free access to good quality maths worksheets in PDF format.
PDF stands for Portable Document Format. PDFs retain their intended format and are easy to email and open on absolutely any device.
Another bonus of the PDF file is that you can easily display PDFs on screens and have pupils record their answers on paper. No need for costly printing!
- Snappymaths.com provides access to worksheets categorised by maths topic and presented in an order that supports step by step learning. An excellent resource.
- Mathsdrill.com is home to thousands upon thousands of worksheets on almost every maths topic. You are sure to find something here.
- Worksheetgenius.com is, as the name implies, a genius resource. It enables the user to create and customize their maths worksheets. Not only that, but Worksheetgenius.com also enables users to create and customize worksheets for spelling, phonics, bingo and a whole host of other teaching and learning favourites.
- Maths-aids.com provides free access to high quality maths worksheets organised according to topic. Like other websites on our list, it enables users to customize and create worksheets for their students’ particular needs.
- Maths4childrenplus.com not only provides free access to maths worksheets for primary and secondary pupils, it also provides access to games, flashcards, colouring pages and a whole host of other useful resources. Well worth checking out.
Make a 1 minute STEM video by May 29th 2020 and you could win €1000 for your school or youth group.
www.reellifescience.com in association with NUI Galway are challenging primary and secondary school students to share their passion for science and all things STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) by making a one minute science video at home.
To support prospective young filmmakers, Reel Life Science have produced a helpful guide outlining how to choose your topic and style for your video, as well as how to produce and submit your video. This helpful guide is available by viewing HERE. Reel Life Science also recommend that budding filmmakers visit Digitalstories.ie because it provides reviews of free and paid-for apps and websites for filming, editing, animating and finding copyright free music and sounds.
To inspire entrants, Reel Life Science outline eight different themes worthy of exploration. These are: –
Climate Action
How Things Work
Myths Busted!
Science and Me
Science Heroes
Science in Space
Science on the Farm
Healing the Body, in association with CÚRAM
To submit your video you will need to upload it to YouTube and send www.reellifescience.com the link via their online application form (available HERE) before the closing date of May 29th 2020.
Winning videos will be announced in June 2020, and you can keep up-to-date by visiting their Twitter, Instagram, TikTok and Facebook pages.
Note: If you are looking for STEM project ideas, simply visit our earlier blog post, dated April 23rd last, based on STEM projects for kids. View latter by clicking HERE.
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