Parenting During a Quarantine (is really hard)

• An excellent article from a clinical psychologist on the on the challenges of parenting in the midst of COVID-19

Activities

• Daily Doodle with Mo Willems

• https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23MoLunchDoodles

• Google Arts and Culture

• https://artsandculture.google.com/explore

• Storylineonline Picture Books (Read by Members of the Screen Actors Guild)

• https://www.storylineonline.net

• Scholastic Learn at Home: day by day projects to keep kids thinking, learning, growing

• https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

  1. • Scholastic Books is organized by grade/age and learning activities

• Growing Book by Book: a guide to Nurturing Young Readers

  1. • https://growingbookbybook.com/online-literacy-resources/?fbclid=IwAR0b7hA07P0f0bMZ2am4xqWI_BdXDSY-ONzRfg4o_QZkCbdou2Rzi28s-GI

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar read by author Eric Carle

  1. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?

• Chicken Fat: the theme for President Kennedy’s Youth Fitness Program (circa. 1962)

  1. • The video is the original music updated by a PE teacher in response kiddos being at home in 2020. Lyrics are a bit dated, but a positive message about keeping healthy and as I remember pretty fun.

     • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8df2skF8gnQ