Distance Learning Resources

Google Classroom

Students must be signed into their school Google account in order to access Google Classroom.

Google Classroom Help

Kids For Peace - check out this website!

Kids for Peace website -valuable activities that allow us to better connect with our families and our communities.

"Things you can do at home to help reduce stress are: make a daily schedule and try to stick to it, include outside time - go for a walk, bike ride, or run around a local track, try mindfulness and meditation exercises, yoga, gratitude journal, play a board game as a family, crafting or art, try to spend time each day with cell phones and TV turned off, limiting access to news and social media will also help. Lastly, try to schedule a FaceTime or Google Hangout with friends or family members. I think what kids are missing most right now is social connection."

-Jennifer Hughes, Proctor School Psychologist

Here are some resources:

Reach out for help and support

It's ok to ask for help or seek resources if you need support. Your peace of mind and well-being matter, and assistance can be a click or call away.

Here are a few resources you can explore:

Greater Good Science Center

These new, strange times are challenging, to say the least. The GGSC is offering research-based tips, practices, and articles focused on boosting your resilience and feelings of human connection during tough times. Be kind to each other, everyone!

Your Happiness Calendar for August 2020: This month, work through conflict and find the love.

Your Greater Good Calendar for May 2020: This month, we offer you tips and tools to build optimism.

Your Greater Good Calendar for April 2020: This month, we offer you tips and tools to find resilience during hard times.

Your Happiness Calendar for March 2020: This month, be silly and find some common ground.

The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling’s new book, released chapter by chapter for free online, with an invitation for kids to submit suggested illustrations for the books, which will be published in print later this year:

Summer Fun for Kids - Activities to support social emotional skills over the summer from Ms. Trudy.

San Francisco Public Library’s learning program, Summer Stride, is the Library’s annual summer learning, reading and exploration program for all ages and abilities.

Summer Camp Hub has a list of four free virtual summer camps for students. The camps focus on different themes and offer activities on STEM, art, space, nature and music, among others.

Ringbeller wants to help students develop skills like creativity, collaboration and kindness. The company is releasing five episodes of its “edutainment” video content, designed for students in kindergarten through fifth grade on the Ringbeller Youtube channel.

PBS LearningMedia features thousands of videos on a variety of topics, with in-depth looks at history, biographies, culture and more.

CNN Underscored curated this list of virtual tours of historical sites and museums. The collection includes the Smithsonian museums, the Great Wall of China, performing arts centers around the world and more.

Yay, Virtual Library Access!

Dana Adams, CVHS librarian, has secured public library access for all of our students in CVUSD using their student IDs! The great news is Sora offered this to us for free for the rest of the school year!

This is an amazing resource with SO many books to choose from! Want to read the whole Harry Potter Series? DONE! They are all here and available!

Here is the info needed to access this resource:

SORA K-8 Access to Virtual Library Tutorial - Student Tutorial by Dana Adams https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cNyVVhcQcBXamC89KbCfDfJQKKSF_baV/view

Here are some other resources to keep everyone engaged at home.

  • Create CA -Excellent resource for finding a creative outlet for your whole family, reduce stress and make learning more engaging.

  • Eureka Math Instructional Videos - By now you are probably losing your mind trying to teach Common Core math. This resource to building your "new" math knowledge! Duane Habecker from Pleasanton is an amazing math teacher and resource to help you navigate Eureka Math. You can select by grade level, module and lesson. You’ll even find help for your middle schooler! Bookmark this resource!

  • Free Math Worksheets -If you're looking for a review of math skills, this is a helpful resource organized by grade level and concept.

  • NASA Kids Club - STEM games grades PreK-4

  • NASA STEM Engagement - Experiments, Space photos, games, etc.

  • Brain Pop - Resources across the content areas

  • Virtual Tours/Field Trips

New free at-home online learning programs

ABC mouse is recommended for K-2nd.

Adventure Academy is 3rd - 8th.

Reading IQ has books for age 12 and under.

How to Get Your Free Accounts

Click on the link for each program that you wish to provide to your child/children:

1. Click on the link below for each program.

2. Enter this School Code: school1446

3. Create an account using your personal email address and a password of your choice.

EPIC! is offering FREE worldwide Remote Student Access to Epic through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation — no credit card required.

1. Go to www.getepic.com/students

2. Log in with our class code: vzs9811

3. A student's password is the first four digits of their student number. (This is the number they use to buy lunch - it starts with a "5".)

Reading

Leveled Comprehension Questions -

Use these prompts to engage your child in comprehension conversations and then guide their written responses.

Students should use a variety of questions for their discussion and written responses: within the text, beyond the test, and about the text.

Level A-D
Copy of Comp. Conversation Prompts (A-D).pdf
Level E-K
Copy of Comp. Conversation Prompts (E-K).pdf
Level L-N
Copy of Comp. Conversation Prompts (L-N).pdf

Writing

Students were sent home with a blank composition book for their daily "writing". In this book, they will spend at least 30 minutes writing about whatever they want, or a prompt I will give them (assigned on Google Classroom).

Please help them develop descriptive writing by asking them to include details answering who, what, where, when, how and why. Also, prompt them to include sensory details by asking them what did it look like, sound like, smell like, taste like, and feel like.

Use the following checklists to help your child edit their writing:

Math

Lesley University’s Center for Mathematics Achievement in collaboration with the Kentucky Center for Mathematics have put together this resource guide for parents and caregivers to be able to support children’s mathematics learning at home during school closures for the COVID-19 outbreak. All the suggested resources below are free, with the exception of the board games. (link)


Easy Math Games to Build Number Sense.pdf

Math Games


Love Maths offers parent information sessions and family maths evenings.

2ndgrade_GAMES.pdf


Easy Math Games to Build Number Sense.pdf

Science

the Daily STEM

A FREE one page weekly “newspaper” to help inspire kids to engage with STEM in the real world. Each issue can be printed or shared digitally with the kids you know. Literacy & STEM…better together!

Physical Education

Other Resources