For the Everett Public Library and the Sno-Isle Libraries – there are a couple of apps that can be downloaded for ios and android, then when setting up the app, it links to a library account. (A public library account is needed.)

Parents can visit their websites to get more information about how to use the apps.

Everett Public Library: https://www.epls.org/168/E-Books-and-E-Audiobooks

Sno-Isle Libraries: https://www.sno-isle.org/digitalmedia

Another resource being offered for free until the end of the school year is the Internet Archive National Emergency Library - https://archive.org/

Parents will need to sign up for a free account and then they will be able to browse their collection and check out digital books.

https://archive.org/account/signup

The Internet Archive has collections for students organized by grade levels. Once logged in to their free account, a search can be done for the grade level. Example search: "Reading Level Grade 3"

Click here to view the Smithsonian's National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute.

Click here to download the zoo cam's Bingo cards and educational activities.

I hope you are enjoying your first day of distance learning. My daughter and I want to share one of our favorite recipes with you. Click here for the recipe.

1. Asking questions: Creativity is all about questioning: How can I? Why should it? What would happen if? How can I make this, or how can I change this? It’s about making sure that children are always being asked those questions.

2. Keeping everything: Do not chuck anything away. Keep a bag with all the egg boxes and toilet rolls in a corner, because that’s going to be a mine of incredible craft-making materials.

3. Setting challenges: What kind of musical instruments can you make today from what’s in the bags over there?

4. Giving them time: The beauty is that the parents are in control of the time, for once. So you can give your child two hours to get on with a wonderful creative task, and they wouldn’t have that in school.

5. Finding online resources: Use sharing resources like Twinkl, BBC Bitesize. And then there are the entrepreneurs, like Joe Wicks doing kids’ exercise classes. There are also artists and designers sharing resources.

6. Being creative with space: Think about the space in your house. What can you change, what room could be theirs? What space is not utilized? What can you get rid of to make them a work area or for their equipment? That’s a very easy thing to fix.

7. Thinking outside the paintbox: Creativity is not just about arts and crafts, it’s also about the kitchen. What kind of lunch can they make for you while you’re working?

• British art and textiles teacher Andria Zafirakou won the 2018 Global Teacher Prize

Most children can become actively involved in learning and be encouraged to become the creative, successful person that the Lord ans designed them to be. To read more click here.