Extra Activities

• Wide Open School is a new tool from Common Sense Media to help families and educators find tools for learning at home.

• Participate in this 5-Day Design Thinking Challenge from BitSpace

• Visit a museum, national park, another country, or even outer space with Google Arts and Culture

• Explore one of Roycemore's Scholastic subscriptions

• More virtual field trips can be found here

• Tell a story with Adobe Spark

• Explore computer coding: see our Hour of Code activities here or find even more here (check the "No computers or devices" checkbox for no-screen coding activities!)

• Middle Schoolers: Work on your P3 project!

• Create a book with Book Creator

• Learn something new with BrainPOP!, Khan Academy Kids or Khan Academy

• Play a Breakout EDU digital game

• Check out these ideas from Common Sense Media

• Check out these ideas (both screen-based and unplugged!) from Raising Digital Natives

• Here is another long list of activity ideas

• Scholastic Learn at Home

Though our #1 recommendation is to go outside and play if possible, here are some other ideas:

• De-stress together with meditation apps for kids and families.

• Get the blood flowing and elevate the mood with these 25 dance games (you might need to buy a special control from Amazon).

• Apps, websites, and video games that inspire running, jumping, and more to stay active.

• Do chores around the house!

• Go Noodle (this page in particular has tips for using GoNoodle at home)

• Cosmic Kids Yoga

• Freeze Dance

• Listen and Move

• Tooty Ta

• Bear Hunt

• Who Let the Letters Out

• #1 Exercise games

• #2 25 min bodyweight workout

• #3 Little bins little hands

• #4 Indoor activities for young kids

• Check out your local public library's online resources. Ms. Hilda put together this list for us!

• Listen to a book read aloud at Storyline Online

• Check out this Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read-Alouds & Activities

• Audible has many free stories for kids right now

• Check out free books from ABDO Digital: Elementary and Secondary titles are available

• Review and share books with others at Biblionasium

• Try out this Harry Potter reading wesbite

Music Ideas

• Lower Schoolers: practice your Frozen songs for the musical!

  • Just the music

  • Music and lyrics

  • Lyric sheet

Art Ideas

• LUNCH DOODLES with Mo Willems - new videos every day at noon

• 100 Silly Drawing Prompts

• Build with Legos

• Play with clay or Play-Do

• Create with cardboard and recyclables (create a prototype of a solution to a problem, like our Lower Schoolers recently did!)

• Printable blank comics and "finish this comic!" activities from Jarrett Lerner

• La Classe de Mme. Michaelson Website

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• Try these STEAM challenges from the Pittsburgh STEAM Station

• Try some of these at-home science experiments from the Museum of Science and Industry

• Participate in a citizen science project via Zooniverse or SciStarter