Counseling and community Resources
School Counselor
Mrs. Tambourine's Distance Learning BINGO board is fun to take a break with when you are home.
Parents - if you want tips on talking to your kids about the COVID-19 virus, please see this document.
Community Resources Website by CCPS School Social Workers
Some of our Chesterfield families are concerned about access to food, mental health, and internet services during this time. Please click on the website for resources provided by our School Social Workers.
Mystery Science - Open and Go lessons to inspire students to love science!
Time for Kids - Time magazine for kids
United for Literacy - books for younger grades
https://www.uniteforliteracy.com/
Wide Open School - resources for educators and families
Virtual Education Session on Reptiles at Rockwood Park Nature Center (Virtual Field Trip Idea):
https://www.facebook.com/chesterfieldvaparksrec/videos/239987993838954/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
Dutch Gap Conservation Area/Park Virtual Tour:
https://www.facebook.com/chesterfieldvaparksrec/videos/617616752428203/?epa=SEARCH_BOX
The Chesterfield County Public Library
Access TumbleBook Library and BrainPOP Online Now - For FREE!
TumbleBookLibrary.com is a collection of 1100 animated talking picture books, chapter books, videos, non-fiction titles, graphic novels, playlists, and books in French and Spanish for K through 6 grade levels. Freely available through August 31, 2020.
If prompted, use the username: tumble735 and password: books TumbleBook Library
BrainPOP is a trusted learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects, reaching millions of learners worldwide. BrainPOP offers engaging learning games, animated movies, and activities designed with relevance, depth, and humor to encourage kids on their unique learning paths. Teachers and families can have free access during the COVID-19 outbreak. Sign up now! BrainPOP
Audible, free audible books
Audible.com is offering free books for children to listen to. Visit here
Zoo Live Cam and Virtual Museum Tours
Community resources can be found here.
Social Story on the Corona Virus
Parents, if you would like a social story to share with your children about the Corona virus, here is one from The Autism Educator.
Multilingual Resources for the Corona Virus (including in Spanish)
Get resources about the Corona virus in English, Spanish and Chinese
Parent Resources to Support Students at Home (includes Spanish resources)
Scholastic Learn at Home
Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin! www.scholastic.com/stayathome
bbgb, a local book store in Carytown, is delivering books to the area. Please read the message below from the bookstore.
it's come to this.
oh we so hate to have to do this, but it's time for us to make those hard decisions. our shop is open for now, we have taken steps to be appropriately disinfected, but we expect to be announcing changes to our hours within the next few days.
we have canceled our events through march. this includes our special saturday storytime with author/illustrator angela dominquez, our felting workshop, and our weekly wednesday storytimes. we will reschedule these as soon as it makes sense.
many of you may not know that our bread-and-butter is the book fairs we do at schools throughout richmond, henrico, and chesterfield. it's the bbgb fairs that allow us to maintain our bbgb shop. so no school means no fairs. that hits a little shop in a big way. (many small businesses are being dramatically impacted, please try to shop local whenever you can.)
so we've put our heads together and have some ways that we can still help you get your book fix!
beginning monday, march 16, we are offering free local same-day delivery! (it's great to have a new driver in the family who is out of school for three weeks...) for all orders over $20 placed by 3pm, we will deliver straight to your door. orders received after 3pm will be delivered the following day. right now we will do this within a 10ish mile radius from the shop. we've updated our website with some of our new favs and our most popular titles, so take a look at book buzz to place an online order. or call the shop and we can take orders of any titles we have in stock. of course we are very happy to make recommendations. we are pretty darn good at that.
are you an audiobook fan? sign up for libro.fm. it's just like audible, only better! when you purchase an audiobook, you can select us as your independent book shop and a portion of your purchase will come to us. best of all, your first month is free!
this might be a good time to look at our book of the month program, a year of tales. (you can do a half-year of tales too.) what's better than a new book arriving on your doorstep every month? (really, the only thing would be if it came with a cup of coffee and a bar of dark chocolate. hmm...)
we are working on other ways that we'll be sharing stories with you, so stay tuned! and thanks for being such wonderful customers and friends, we couldn't do this without you.
and wash your hands
don't touch your face
read, read, read :)
stay in touch!
3003 west cary street richmond, va 23221 • 804.353.5675
monday–saturday 10-7 sunday 12-5