Ever fancied home learning with the celebs? Well, today is your and your children’s day!
Here’s what various celebrities (and some subject professionals/experts) are offering you and your children for free everyday to help with their education while schools are closed in the UK (all times are relevant to BST). They include PE sessions, Maths Lessons and Cooking challenges!
9:00am - PE
PE with The Body Coach, Joe Wicks over on his YouTube channel every weekday morning at 9am for 30 minutes. This is one for the children and adults to get you active whilst at home in your living room! Also if you are bored on the weekend, he is even setting weekend homework tasks, check them out below or on Instagram. Can you design your own workout? I challenge you!
10:00am - Maths
The next celebrity home learning opportunity is Maths with Carol Vorderman, over on her website: The Maths Factor. Brush up on your Maths skills with your children. There are sessions available for all children of all ages. Also, who better than you to teach you Maths, other than the Carol Vorderman!
11:00am - English and Reading
In addition, the next home learning with the celebs opportunity is an audiobook. Read and listen to an audiobook by David Walliams everyday at 11am for 20 minutes from his collection of stories “World’s Worst Children”, check out his website for more information. These are funny, light-hearted and a firm favourite of many children out there. Furthermore, what is your favourite David Walliams story?
11:30am - Dance
Kids class online on my YouTube and Instagram at 11:30am get your little ones to get up and get dancing x
— Oti Mabuse (@OtiMabuse) March 21, 2020
Professional dance lessons for you to do at home with your children with Oti Mabuse. You don’t have to watch these at 11:30am as she is saving them all to her YouTube channel, check it out here. She is also offering FREE dance lessons for adults in the evening, head over to her channel for more information.
12:00pm - Cooking
Live cooking during lunch with Jamie Oliver. Moreover, you can catch up on his livestreams at a later date as he is on a mission to help teach children how to cook healthy meals. In other words, home learning with the celebs doesn’t get much better than this.
1:00pm - Singing and Music
Music and singing lessons with Myleene’s Music Klass (and Myleene Klass). She has so far taught some lessons on clapping to the beat of your name, finding a rhythm and understanding major/minors in Music. You can catch up on all those lessons on her YouTube channel.
1:30pm - More Dancing!
Professional dance lessons for children with Darcey Bussell. You will join a member of the DDMIX Professional Dance Team on their Facebook page. Importantly they aim to keep children active during this time of social distancing and self-isolation.
Don’t forget to tune in to the DDMIX Facebook page tomorrow and join a member of the DDMIX for Schools team for a LIVE kids shake up just after lunch at 1.30pm! Dx 🕺 https://t.co/qxNHvRLJNk
— Darcey Bussell (@DarceyOfficial) March 22, 2020
2pm - History
History with Dan Snow. Now this is usually a paid for service, however there is currently a 30-day trial for free to keep you entertained throughout April. If you look at the collections on History Hit TV then you will find a range of suitable content for KS2-5. There is a whole host of different History focused documentaries that are very interesting to watch!
4pm - Cooking
Home Economics Lesson with Theo Michaels (Mon/Wed/Fri) – the ingredients are released ahead of the livestream time. If you are into simple cooking and want to teach your children some based culinary skills, then Theo Michaels’ tutorials are the one for you.
Other Celebrity Sessions
Here is a list of other celebrity sessions and challenges that are happening throughout the week:
- Science with Brian Cox, Robin Ince and Guests – there are LOADS of scheduled talks and activities planned over on the website, check it out for upcoming times and dates under their ‘Stay at Home’ initiative.
- Geography, Science and Wildlife chats with Steve Backshall (currently happening on a Wednesday at 9:30am), for more information check it out here.
- Football training at home with Robert Francis (Tuesdays and Thursdays at 6pm), join the Facebook group to find out more.
Do you like Lego or being outside? Then finally, you can also check out the Lego Challenge here or the Nature Challenge if you are stuck on things to do for Home Learning projects. Happy Learning!
If you have anymore ideas, let me know in the comments below or stop by my Facebook page for more ideas.
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What a great schedule! I will start implementing the exercise routine in my daily activities as well. I teach middle school 6th grade.
A fellow teacher, hi Allie! Yeah, exercise is so important!
Home schooling was becoming a trend even before the covid season, well, its now in a different level because of our current situation. The question now is how effective it is..
I guess only time will tell. Parents have just got to try their best and that is all we are asking for these days.
Home learning is a great idea for kids especially right now in quarantine I’m sure they would love this!
Livestreaming is now being embraced by the world! This new norm will give us more new opportunities, more jobs, at the comfort of our homes.
I know right, it will be interesting to see how it shapes the future once this has all gone and passed.
This is a great way to keep the kids engaged in fun activities and will also help them in their academics. Thanks for sharing. I will forward it to all the moms I know.
You are welcome Sayanti!
Home learning is ever so important. Currently, we all need to keep up with self-improvement, even though confined to staying at home.
This is true, keeps your mind busy!
YAY!! I love your post! Thank you! I am going to use this for my children.
No worries Yemi!
Home learning is a great idea for kids to learn from home.