iReady and Typing Club will require the students to log in.
iReady - This is a reading/math resource for grades 5th-6th. Please limit iReady usage to 20 minutes per day.
Typing Club - This is a keyboarding resource for grades 5th-6th.
LearningExpress Library - School Center
Offers 5th and 6th grade English and math practice tests and tutorials that can be completed online or paper/pencil. Register as a new user with personal or school email address.
Wide Open School - a free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense.
CK-12 - This is a collection of resources for grades 5th-6th on math, science, and social studies.
Brain Pop - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.
Username: whileathome | Password: abc123
Khan Academy - This is a collection of videos and resources for grades 5th-6th on multiple subjects.
Discovery K12 - Discovery K12 provides a complete online curriculum for pre-k to 12th grade. All main subjects are covered, plus extra curriculum courses.
PhET - Students can explore math and science topics with interactive simulations.
ABC Ya - This is a collection of learning games for grades 5th-6th on math, language arts, strategy, and skill topics.
Mr. Nussbaum Learning & Fun - This is a collection of learning games for 5-6 grades on a variety of topics and subjects.
Read Theory - Improve your students’ Reading Comprehension. It’s free. Personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students. The texts are accurately aligned to grade-level standards and a Lexile measure is provided for each, so you can trust your students’ performance metrics and reading level.
PBS Learning Media PBS has curated a special collection of resources organized by grades and subject area. Parents will find videos and activities that support learning at home. Spanish Version
COVID 19 Break Packet - Packets for K-8 for students to work on
CommonLit
CommonLit is committed to providing free remote learning resources to schools affected by coronavirus. CommonLit's digital platform allows teachers to stay in touch with kids at home through customized directions and annotations, instant feedback on student in-text notes, and easy grading with personalized comments.
Read Theory
Improve your students’ Reading Comprehension. It’s free. Personalized reading comprehension exercises for K-12 and ESL students. The texts are accurately aligned to grade-level standards and a Lexile measure is provided for each, so you can trust your students’ performance metrics and reading level.
The Story Starter
The Story Starter randomly generates 356,300,262,144 story starters. Use the story starters to help students become more creative with their writing.
School Name: Read at Home
Username: readnow
Password: myon
Audible Stories
Students can stream a collection of stories, including titles across six different languages. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone, or tablet.
Epic - Digital Library
Classroom Cereal - Grammar practice in free, printable short stories.
Free Childrens Stories - Read alouds with the visual book
Storytime Online - Famous authors and stars reading children’s books and short stories
Loyal Books - Free Public Domain Audiobooks & eBook Downloads
Project Gutenberg - Free ebooks (public domain)
Storytime from Space - Astronauts reading picture books on the International Space Station
Spellingcity.com - Spellingcity.com is free right now with code VSCFree90
Wonderopolis.org - Short videos and readings that answers various burning questions for students. There are vocabulary challenges and comprehension questions.
Time For Kids - This website provided articles on multiple subjects. The articles can be read aloud by the website and translated into Spanish.
XtraMath - A math fact fluency program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Fogstone Isle - Great for deep conceptual understanding of the rational number system. Highly engaging virtual world where students create with math intrinsic to every activity.
Illuminations - This is a collection of math interactive resources for grades 5-6, created by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Prodigy - Online math gaming platform
Everyday Earth - Everyday Earth is an interactive video earth science based curriculum supplement.
San Diego Zoo - Students can learn all about the animals at the San Diego Zoo.
Flinn Scientific - At home science labs and activities
Mystery Science - Free K-5 mini science lessons including activities designed to use simple supplies a parent will likely already have at home.
Science Bob - Fun science site that includes experiments, research ideas and videos for kids.
Foss At Home Resources - To facilitate science teaching and learning during school closures, the FOSS team has provided additional home-based activities on FOSSweb. When you log-in, select a module or course at your grade level, click on "Home / School Connection" and review the offerings presented on the landing page. Home/School Connection activities will also be available to students when they login with the user name and password you provide them.
National Geographic Kids - This website provides students with games, videos, and other resources focused around world geography.
Smithsonian's History Explorer - This is a collection of interactives and media resources for 5-6 grade.
Busy Kids Do Piano - Free month of lessons with coupon code PIANOATHOME
Chrome Music Lab - Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
GoNoodle - GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History - Students can explore the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtually.
Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden - Join them for a Home Safari on Facebook Live each weekday at 3pm.
Yellowstone Virtual Tours - Explore multiple areas of Yellowstone National Park.