Resources

If you have internet and devices available, you may want to consider looking at some of these sites. (Keep scrolling for non-internet ideas.)

Live Animal Cams are fun to watch.  The link opens to polar bears, but they have many locations and animals.

Scholastic magazine is similar to TIME for Kids magazine. Scholastic has launched Scholastic Learn from Home website with wonderful reading, activities and home learning.

Junior Achievement has made their lessons available online.  I was going to teach this curriculum during 4th quarter.  I'm so glad they have made it available digitally.  This curriculum is quite good and I highly recommend having your child work through it.  You will see on the left side bar that all grade levels are available, so feel free to use with siblings as well.

Code.org teaches computer coding at ALL grade levels.  It's fun and educational, and it's a great way to expand thinking skills.  Many of their activities list the appropriate age to help you find computer science at your child's level.

Brain pop is now free for families and educators.  See right side bar. ☞

Practice math with a deck of cards!

For those with Amazon Prime: They have a section called Prime Reading and there are a LOT of kids books that are free if you have amazon prime.  It uses the kindle app.

This is a good article on doing school at home.  I couldn't get a "reader view" of it, so this link is to CNN on the web.

Brain Breaks are important.  In a typical class day I have the students moving around in some way about every 15 minutes – moving to a different part of the room, turning in work, etc.  Here is a link to good Brain Breaks for kids.

World Book Encyclopedia (and more) has made it's resources free in light of the current situation.  from WorldBook:

To easily access your World Book Online account, I’ve included your remote access login to share with your school and parents.  We’ve added all 15 databases to your account to help during the COVID-19 Crisis.

 www.worldbookonline.com

Username:  asdwb

Password: yourlibrary (not Birchwood, just yourlibrary)

Also, World Book has put together a Distance Learning site to help parents navigate these resources (this site is new, so please be patient while accessing it):

https://www.worldbookonline.com/training/distance-learning/distance-learning.htm

• Video Tutorial

• Learn & Play with World Book Online

• Fun Lessons (all ages)

Alaska Public TV/Radio has a great website with educational activities at AlaskaPublic.org

Excellent off-line learning activities listed on this We Are Teachers site, including printables to use with your child.  (Scroll to the bottom of the page for the printables to use off-line.)

This link takes you to the free TIME for Kids site, first grade "library" of the TFK issues. This is good grade-level reading and social studies. This is the same TIME for Kids that we used in the classroom. 

Adbo Books is giving free access to their online library through June.  I believe this will take you to the site for preK-6 books.  You are looking for red and green QR codes

Physical Activity is important.  Here is a link to a resource from Sanford fit for Families.  We have used their Fit Boost activities a few times in class.

LexiaCore5 ("Lexia") will be our main Reading supplement program and Khan Academy will be our main math supplemental program.

Lexia (reading)

 Khan Academy  (math with other subjects also)

 TIME for Kids has made its online magazine easily accessible.

cK-12  if Khan Academy is too overwhelming, this is a lower-key alternative.

Epic! books to read online, or have Epic read aloud while you follow the text

I have emailed an invitation to Epic!.  Click the links to activate your child’s access.

Epic has made it’s library free until June 30th.  (no credit card required)

Here is a list of children’s books authors doing read-alouds

Web cams for watching animals are fun for science and also a good brain break.

Reading Websites: a few of these have a cost.  This list includes SpellingCity, Khan Academy, and ReadWorks (a site many ASD teachers use) but also has some special interest sites such as Harry Potter and National Geographic (Young Explorer Magazine).