The British Association for Early Childhood Education

Ideas for parents as suggested on the Early Education (The British Association for Early Childhood Education) website:

Playing and Exploring

The Gruffalo website
Octonauts on CBeebies if you feel inspired by Dr Verity Campbell-Barr’s blog on home schooling on our Early Education website
@RebeccaRHelm on Twitter is tweeting facts and pictures about the open ocean every weekday
@Emilydoodles on Twitter is the learning officer at Leeds Museum and is sharing fascinating scientific objects and facts – one week was all about sea creatures.

Creating

Bird drawing – Matt Sewell on Instagram live bird drawing on Friday afternoons.
@ScholasticUK on Facebook are showing Julia Donaldson reading and performing songs live every Thursday at 4pm.
If you use Apple, Eric Carle: Artist and AR pioneer has enabled The Very Hungry Caterpillar AR to enter the (almost) real world with augmented reality!
Chester Zoo on Facebook have been live with their virtual zoo days and you can view their films afterwards on their page.
50 things activities to do in your back garden if you’re lucky enough to have a garden this has plenty of ideas. Alternatively, the 50 things to do before you’re five App offers many options.

Supporting

Six ways to help your child come to terms with lockdown loss from the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, on BBC Bitesize

Helping

Winston’s Wish is an organisation that supports children who have lost a parent or sibling
Dr Karen Treisman’s Safe Hands Thinking Minds website has lots of info to support anxiety

Free resources for home learning

If you would like to see more links, here’s a good summary of 87 free resources for home learning from TES (28th March 2020).

Encouraging and supporting