Learning Resources

Websites for Learning at Home:

READING

• • Listen to celebrities read aloud a picture book on Storyline Online

  • Astronauts in space read aloud picture books on Story Time From Space

  • Unite for Literacy is dedicated to providing engaging multilingual online books for children. Enjoy listening to a great story narrated in multiple languages!

WRITING

• Check out the writing apps and websites under “Growing Reader” through this link: Writing Apps and Websites

• Write a book report on a book read at home.

• Write a letter to a favorite author.

• Write an informational book on a topic that your First Grader knows a lot about

PHONICS

• https://home.oxfordowl.co.uk/

• https://www.starfall.com/h/

• https://readingeggs.com/

• https://www.learninggamesforkids.com/vocabulary-games/homophones-games.html

MATH

• https://www.abcya.com/

• https://pbskids.org/

• https://www.mathplayground.com/

• Mathical Books has a wonderful list of books with mathematical themes for ages 3-18.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

• https://pebblego.com/

• The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is home to a wide array of maps. These are so fun to explore, and you can have great conversations about what maps tell us about a place, a time, and the people who made the maps. The Tools for Teachers section is a great place to filter what you are looking for in a map.

• Massachusetts Historical Society (MHS) has a great Teaching & Learning Center. There are Social Studies lesson plans with primary source documents from their collection. "Classroom Resources" and "Online Collections" are great to explore. The MHS has incredible documents from history including all of John, Abigail, and John Quincy Adams's papers and half of Thomas Jefferson's papers.

• Google Arts & Culture teamed up with over 500 museums to create digital tours. Though our local museums are physically closed, they are open online for a free digital tour! The MFA, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Peabody Essex Museum all have tours to take. But why limit yourself to Massachusetts? Take a trip to Paris to tour the Louvre or the Orsay! See the Dutch Masters at the Rijksmuseum and the perennial favorite VanGogh at the VanGogh Museum in Amsterdam. Travel + Leisure compiled a list of their 12 favorite museums from the collection.

SCIENCE

• https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

• https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html

• https://pebblego.com/

• World Wildlife Fund Wild Classroom Daily Activities Plan

SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING

• Check out these mindfulness-themed apps and websites: Headspace and Blissful Kids

• 50 Children's Books for Teaching Social Skills

• PBS's Arthur Interactive SEL Lessons

The district also made its own website of ways to learn from home which can be found here: NPS Learning From Home: PreK-5

Reading

Raz-Kids

Tumble Books

Pebble Go: www.pebblego.com/

Starfall

Writing & Spelling

Spelling City

Poetry 4 Kids

Math

Stop the Clock (Time)

Coin Combo (Money)

Counting Money (Money)

Treasure Hunt (Money)

Count On (Money)

Science & Social Studies

BrainPop

National Geographic for Kids

TIME for Kids

Coding & Computer Science

Scratch Jr.

Lightbot

Tynker

Kodable

BrainPop Coding Activities

The Foos (good for pre-readers)