Additional Resources

Math Resources:

CLICK HERE for Math Video Lessons


Sample Schedules for Kids:

Several families have reached out to us and asked if we could provide sample schedules that you could have your child follow during these eLearning Days.

HERE is a resource we found from Huffington Post that has several options.

Free Subscriptions due to School Closings:

HERE is a resource we found from Kids Activities that has several options.

20 Virtual Field Trips:

Want to go on a field trip but quarantined because of the Coronavirus? Take a field trip to zoos, parks, aquariums, museums from the comfort of your couch!

CLICK HERE for a list of virtual field trips we found at Adventures in Familyhood!

Field Trips:

Want to go on a field trip to the zoo?

If you're on Facebook, login and head to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens for live videos! If you're not on FB, check out their website HERE!

Roper Mountain Science Center

RMSC science specialist provide videos and answer questions to common topics. Click HERE to check them out!

Love Mo Williems books?

Popular author Mo Williems, of the Piggie and Elephant books will be conducting "Lunch Doodles" beginning Monday, March 16 and will continue each weekday at 1pm EST. Tune in HERE for these exciting events!

Free Digital Cooking Classes

Check out these daily cook-along videos, click HERE to get started in the kitchen!

SC ETV At-Home Learning

SC ETV will be modifying their regularly scheduled programming to offer pre- K-12 resources between 8am - 9pm. CLICK HERE to see the schedule.

Schoolhouse Rocks!

Check out some classic Schoolhouse Rocks! videos HERE.

Baby Shark doo doo...

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy is offering Shark Story Hour Live on FaceBook each day at 10am.

30 Day Lego Challenge

Is your child into Legos? Check out this 30 Day CHallenge that we found from Free Homeschool Deals!

Meet Jerry Pallotta, author!

15 Engineering Challenges

Looking to build a variety of projects, CLICK HERE!

Get Moving With Go Noodle

Get your feet tapping and hands clapping with this fun and short videos. CLICK HERE to get started.

STEM Projects

Looking for some creative ideas to become STEAMtastic and use up all those recyclables?!? Look no further, CLICK HERE!



The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities

Here are some great examples of read alouds based upon popular children's book. CLICK HERE to check them out.

Boredom Busters

(and actually promote learning)


  • Write a letter to your teacher, principal, pastor, senator, community leader, grandparent, a friend in another city, anybody! Then send the letter!

  • Write a poem on your driveway or sidewalk with sidewalk chalk.

  • Learn ten new words and use them when you have conversations.

  • Read, read, read, As much as you can or as much as you want. This may be a good time to binge-read a series!

  • Maybe read a book to a younger sibling, a grandparent, or even a pet!

  • Write and illustrate your own story, then share it when you get back to school!

  • Make a sticker, photo, or picture book and write about the images you put on each page.

  • Create words and sentences with magnetic letters and/or words. Maybe even try poetry!

  • Create a reading cave or nook and read!

  • Create a vision board using old magazines. Parents can create one too

  • Writing idea: Make puppets out of socks (great for using unmatched ones) and write a puppet show. Take a cardboard box and use it for your theater. Put on a show for family at home.

  • Read a story (fiction), draft your own comic strip using simple construction paper, lined paper, printer paper, crayons, markers, etc. Make frames (boxes) and begin your story using setting (characters, time, place), initiating problem; rising conflict, climax, falling action and resolution. Add the lesson learned or moral of the story (theme).

  • Write a letter to thank a community hero.

  • Measure the area and perimeter of your home.

  • Find and photograph all the shapes in your home or neighborhood.

  • Make graphs of the animals in your yard or the pets in your neighborhood and use that data to create your own math problems.

  • If you have stairs, go up and down them, counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s.

  • Determine the volume of ten containers, then display them in order.

  • Create math problems with magnetic numbers on the back of a cookie sheet.

  • Use empty egg cartons and beans/rice/rocks etc. to practice the 4 basic math skills. Number the inside then add the beans/rocks, etc, shake it up then open and use where they landed to solve problems. Decide which operation and the number of beans first.

  • Draw a hopscotch and solve problems based on where the marker lands, then add or multiply and each block is touched.

  • Play 4-square and recite the multiplication tables while playing.

  • Find the internal and external measurements of your apartment or house (square footage/area/perimeter, etc.)

  • For kids with pets— they could measure the cups/servings of food, figure how many ounces /grams per serving, figure how many servings per bag of their food. Then it could help determine how much food to get for a week or month.

  • Walk around your neighborhood and notice all the living things. How might they all be connected?

  • Stay up late and look at the stars, visible planets, and notice constellations.

  • Find, pick, and dissect a flower. What do you notice? What do you wonder?

  • Create three different paper airplanes and test them. Use the best ideas to construct a better paper airplane.

  • Find ten rocks and describe their attributes.

  • Using paper, tape, and string, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet.

  • Go bird watching. Notice their colors, beak shapes, sizes, etc. Try to observe and figure out how they fit into their ecosystem.

  • Plant a seed inside or plant a bunch of them in a garden. Read about how to take care of the plant(s).

  • Engineer a boat that can really float. How can you improve the design?

  • Start a nature diary to document writings and pictures of what you see from day to day

  • Interview a family member.

  • Construct a family tree.

  • Cook/Bake a family member’s favorite dish and talk to them about why it’s their favorite.

  • Draw a map of everywhere the people in your family are from or have visited.