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Audible - The company is offering free audiobooks for kids.
All you have to do is download the free Audible app and you will see a variety of children’s stories for ages up to 10. These stories are also available in six different languages.
The Audible website says the service will be available for as long as schools are closed.
Preschooler Favorites
Preschooler Favorites
Timeless Tales of Beatrix Potter narrated by Katherine Kellgren
Stone Soup narrated by Heather Forest
Story Party narrated by Samantha Land
Elementary Favorites
Elementary Favorites
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland narrated by Scarlett Johansson
The Birchbark House narrated by Nicolle Littrell
The Terrible Two narrated by Adam Verner
Tween Favorites
Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons narrated by Bahni Turpin
Cirque du Freak: A Living Nightmare narrated by Ralph Lister
Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry narrated by LeVar Burton
Teen Favorites
Who Done It? narrated by Rebecca Gibel
The Bone Witch narrated by Emily Woo Zeller and Will Damron
Rad American Women A-Z narrated by Bahni Turpin and Allyson Johnson
Dancing is one of the easiest ways to get your body moving … and grooving. As kids follow the moves on this YouTube-based dance challenge, they won’t even realize the’’re getting in a great cardio workout. Plus Just Dance features all their fave musical artists.
Stretch, bend and get movin’ with the Cosmic Kids Yoga YouTube channel, where you’ll find 10-20 minute guided yoga workouts for preschool to elementary school-aged kids. Kids will love striking poses in outerspace, underwater, on the farm and more! You can also stream episodes on Amazon Prime Video.
Preschoolers can practice balance and coordination while also practicing everything from colors to numbers to the ABC’s in Coach Josh’s fun workout show, streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.
Get fit with a little monkey business! Moovelee is an animated monkey that leads 4-10 minutes workout videos for kids ages 3-5. With a focus on meditation, yoga, and cardio, Moovelee will get your kids moving.
This 30-minute-long exercise YouTube video is the perfect excuse to get moving along with your kids. HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a workout that combines intense bursts of exercise and short, active recovery periods. Think marching, jumping jacks and squats. No equipment needed! Just put on a pair of athletic shoes and press play.
Dance to the beat of rated-G versions of popular songs like Thank U, Next, Señoritaand Old Town Road.
Who wants to be a ninja? Join Abbey Manser on her YouTube channel to learn basic karate skills for kids.
This app features free 15-, 30-, and 45-minute workouts designed by expert Nike trainers, and will be a great fit for the sport-playing middle or high schooler looking to keep in tip-top shape at home.
The Sworkit Kids app makes it easy to create and tailor workouts that fit your kid’s age, ability, and fitness level. Kids can count on building strength and agility as they’re guided by app through an interval-style workout that mixes targeted exercises with fun challenges, making exercise feel more like a game than a must-do.
As your kids strike each of the thirteen yoga poses and breathing techniques featured in this yoga-focused app, they’ll gain flexibility and strength. They’ll also be more centered and calm thanks to soothing music.
Get up—and get down—with actress, dancer and choreographer Debbie Allen. The Fame star will be offering free classes on Instagram Live throughout the COVID-19 crisis. Follow her on Instagram @therealdebbieallen to find out when the next live video will pop up!
Teachers love to use the Go Noodle Kids app to get kids moving in the classroom. Interactive videos combine movement with mindfulness, helping kids center themselves for learning. The modules are short, making GoNoodle ideal for kids that need a quick energy boost through exercise.
With kids at home, it’s important to build time into schedules for focused brain breaks. Maybe they need a movement break to get the wiggles out? Or a quiet moment to just stay still? Research shows that giving kids frequent brain breaks to reset their energy level improves their ability to focus, retain more, and stay on task.
1. Practice “focus ball” breathing.
1. Practice “focus ball” breathing.
Walk your kids through the following exercise: Stand or sit with legs and feet together. Bring your palms together in front of your chest. Keep your fingertips together as you pull your palms apart, forming a ball with your fingers. Press your fingertips together until you feel the muscles in your hands and arms activating. See if you feel your core tighten too. Now close your eyes and as you breathe in, inflate your ball and as you breathe out, flatten the ball by pushing your palms together. (Then repeat these instructions for 60 seconds).
2. Try the old Ear-Nose Switcheroo.
2. Try the old Ear-Nose Switcheroo.
This is a quick and easy challenge to reset the brain. Instruct kids to touch their left ear with their right hand and at the same time touch their nose with their left hand. Then have them switch their hands and touch their right ear with their left hand and their nose with their right hand. Switch back and forth a few times. Then have them close their eyes, take a deep breath, and blow it all out.
3. Stretch it out.
3. Stretch it out.
It’s never a good idea to spend too much time sitting in one position. Allow kids to take a break and bring some flexibility back into their spines. Have them stand with their feet shoulder-distance apart. Put their left hand on their hip and raise their right hand overhead. Lean to the left and stretch their arm as far as they can to the left. Repeat on the right side. Then stand tall and slowly roll down one vertebrae at a time until their hands reach the floor (or at least their shins). Have them take a deep breath then slowly roll back up. Repeat as necessary.
4. Take a cue from the stadium.
4. Take a cue from the stadium.
Here’s one for a group of kids—start the wave! Beginning at one end of the room, kids stand up and throw their arms overhead, bringing them back down as they return to their seat. Each row follows until you reach the other end of the room. Amp it up by encouraging your kids to tap their feet or tap their hands on their legs so that they are in constant motion!
5. Just jump!
5. Just jump!
Sometimes kids just need to bounce their energy out. Have them pretend they are bouncing on a mini-trampoline (this will keep their movement on a vertical plane instead of all over the room) and give them a couple of minutes to let loose!
6. Have an arsenal of activities at the ready.
6. Have an arsenal of activities at the ready.
There are so many great brain breaks for kids out there. Which is why we love this amazing free resource from Sanford fit that has easy-to-print cards with dozens of action-packed brain breaks designed to get your kids warmed up, moving, and cooled down.
7. Stir the pot.
7. Stir the pot.
Have kids visualize they are standing in front of an enormous cauldron. Inside the cauldron is an ooey-gooey pot of caramel. Take hold of a large stirrer and plunge it to the bottom of the pot. Slowly begin to stir in a clockwise direction. Have them use their whole body to help get a full range of motion in their wrists and shoulders. Instruct them to throw their hips into the action. After a minute or two, reverse the direction.
8. Make it rain.
8. Make it rain.
Conjure up a rainstorm! Sitting or standing at a desk or table, have kids tap 1 finger on the desk, then 2, then 3, then 4, then their whole hand until you all feel like you’re in the middle of a deluge. Work your way backward from 5 down to 1 as the storm ebbs away.
9. Enjoy a golden moment.
9. Enjoy a golden moment.
Have kids sit quietly with their eyes closed. Ring a chime or gong. Have them listen carefully to the chime, feeling the vibration in their body as the sound reverberates and then slowly fades. Tell them to breathe slowly and deeply as they focus on the sound.
10. Chill out with this cross-body exercise.
10. Chill out with this cross-body exercise.
Have kids stand tall and cross one leg in front of the other while pressing the outsides of their feet together. Now have them cross their arms over one another at the wrists. Clasp their hands and curl their arms into their chest. Take a few breaths, uncross and cross the opposite way for a few more breaths.
11. Or energize with these.
11. Or energize with these.
First, instruct kids to touch their left elbow to their right knee, then touch their right elbow to their left knee. Switch back and forth going slowly at first, building speed until they are going at a vigorous pace. Next, do some windmills by standing tall with their feet shoulder-width apart and their arms stretched out. Bend at the waist and touch their right hand to their left toes, then their left hand to their right toes. Switch back and forth.
Online Resources for Kids in Grades K-5
Online Resources for Kids in Grades K-5
These sites have ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for a vast amount of subjects for younger students.
What It Is: This comprehensive program covers a wide variety of subjects for students aged 2-8 (Pre-K through second grade). It offers more than 850 self-guided lessons across 10 levels. A companion program focuses on teaching English as a second language for this age group.
What They’re Offering: ABCmouse for Teachers and ABCmouse for Schools are always free for all schools and teachers in the U.S. In another country? Contact them here to see what they offer if you’re closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus.
What It Is: This MMO game gives kids something other online learning resources may lack: a sense of community. Students up to age 13 play games to learn across a range of topics (math, reading, social studies, science, and more), while also creating their own online persona and interacting with others in the game.
What They’re Offering: In addition to their usual 30-day free trial, Age of Learning is offering Adventure Academy free to schools closed due to the outbreak. Contact them here for more information.
What It Is: Aperture Education is providing free Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Growth Strategies for educators and parents.
What They’re Offering: Both are accessible online for free here.
What It Is: Boddle is a math platform for 1-6th grade that makes learning fun and personalized. Teachers and parents are able to track student progress remotely and quickly identify learning gaps.
What They’re Offering: Boddle’s math game platform is available at no cost to educators, parents, and students dealing with school closures due to Covid-19.
What It Is: Boreal Tales is a literary and artistic creation platform designed to motivate school students to write. Aimed at Grades 1-8, Boreal Tales also allows teachers to track student progress and give specific, personalized feedback.
What They’re Offering: They’ve extended their free trial to 90 days and plan to extend it through the end of the school year, if the school closures are ongoing.
What It Is: BrainPop offers in-depth learning on topics across the curriculum for upper elementary and middle school students. Each topic includes videos, quizzes, related reading, and even coding activities. Teachers have access to planning and tracking resources too. They also offer BrainPop Jr., specially designed for younger kids.
What They’re Offering: All schools get free access to their COVID-19/coronavirus online learning resources for talking to students about the topic. Any school closed due to the outbreak can receive free unlimited use of BrainPOP during their closure. Contact them here.
What It Is: Breakout EDU uses online games to bring the fun of escape rooms to learning across the elementary curriculum.
What They’re Offering: They’ve put together a list of free online games kids can play at home. Click here to see them.
What It Is: Educational Resource Worksheets in pdf format that can be downloaded by students and teachers who are working from home.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free!
What It Is: A nonprofit and charity, Classroom Champions connects volunteer Olympians, Paralympians, Student-Athletes, and Professional Athletes to K-8 classrooms through a social and emotional based curriculum and mentorship experience.
What They’re Offering: Founder Steve Mesler (an Olympic Gold Medalist) and Board Member Christian Taylor (2-time Olympic Gold Medalist) have opened up the platform to share the entire K-8 SEL Foundations Curriculum, plus the Parent Toolkit, the video library, and access to the teacher community for free to help support educators and families.
What It Is: CreositySpace is a unique inquiry-based, learner-directed science curriculum that connects ALL K-5 students to science and capitalizes on their creativity and curiosity at a time when they ask, “What do I want to do when I grow up?”
What They’re Offering: CreositySpace is providing lessons from our Contagion Crushers, Water Watchers, and Conscientious Chemists units at no cost to help support teachers, parents, and guardians to keep all kids engaged in science.
What It Is: edHelper is online service that provides printable worksheets to teachers and homeschooling parents.
What They’re Offering: EdHelper is providing daily free workbook pages for grades K-6. Click to see the offering today!
What It Is: Turn writing assignments into something amazing with the illustrations, animations, and sound effects available. Kids can even write their own choose-your-own-adventure story!
What They’re Offering: Schools affected by COVID-19/coronavirus can get free access until May 2020 or the school reopens. Contact them here.
What it is: FabuLingua teaches Spanish through interactive stories on mobile phones and tablets. Their unique method is designed to introduce the new language in a way that subconsciously develops the child’s ear, comprehension and reading skills. They offer a new charming interactive story from Latin America or Spain every month, along with associated games and a Magic Sticker Book where they get to create their own compositions.
What They’re Offering: FabuLingua is suspending their subscription services and providing their entire platform for free to all families and schools while schools are closed. Click here from your mobile device to go straight to the app. Or download them from the App Store or Google Play.
What It Is: These online learning resources for younger students are easily differentiated for students of different ability levels.
What They’re Offering: Adaptive math and ELA courses are always available for free for teachers and students. Sign up here.
What It Is: Multimedia Interactive Posters. Express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video, and text on one digital canvas!
What They’re Offering: For Schools affected by Coronavirus Glogster offers a free Distance Learning option for Educators, with up to 30 student accounts, including creation of classes and projects. Please advise students to use the blank vertical and horizontal Glog templates so that they are able to add additional media to their Glog canvas without paid limitations. Teachers can sign up for a free account here. Students create accounts with your TeacherCode here
What It Is: Happy Numbers helps teachers deliver quality math instruction, monitor progress, and math growth—all remotely. Students can access Happy Numbers from any Internet-enabled device (even a smartphone!). They can start learning remotely today to ensure they don’t fall behind—in just 15 mins a day, 4 times a week.
What They’re Offering: They are offering Happy Numbers for free for the rest of the school year to ease the challenge of transitioning to online instruction. No strings attached.
What It Is: This program is designed to teach elementary-aged kids the computer skills they need. It’s specifically aligned to learning standards in the UK, but the skills apply to students everywhere.
What They’re Offering: iCompute is offering free access to their programs for schools anywhere that are closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus. Contact them here.
What It Is: This library of science and social studies articles allows differentiation by reading level, so you can use these articles for various age and skill levels.
What They’re Offering: Schools, districts, and teachers can request free unlimited access to Kids Discover Online here.
What It Is: It is an education app for everyone—whether you’re a parent helping your first grader with geometry or a postgrad looking for a deep dive into microfinance.
What They're Offering: Courses are always available for free for teachers and students.
What It Is: They offer a K-2 literacy program, with a strong focus on phonics and comprehension.
What They’re Offering: They have unlocked all parts of their premium program to be entirely free for all educators across the country.
What It Is: This popular differentiated learning site provides instruction across a wide array of elementary subjects. Teachers and districts can receive online training on effectively using the site.
What They’re Offering: All K-8 schools closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus can receive free access to a comprehensive curriculum through MobyMax. Learn more here.
What It Is: A free music curriculum from Carnegie Hall, Musical Explorers is a one-stop shop for all the resources you need to bring cultural diversity to your classroom—through real artists who share authentic music from their cultures.
What They’re Offering: Resources are always free. Learn more here!
What It Is: Mystery Science offers digital video mini-lessons for science subjects K-5.
What They’re Offering: Mystery Science is always free, but they’ve put together a special list of lessons grade-by-grade that are perfect for tackling remotely. Find it here.
What It Is: Authentic content turned into learning materials that are classroom-ready for teachers of all subjects and grades.
What They’re Offering: Newsela is making their entire product suite freely available to teachers and districts, and has published free distance learning resources. Access to products and resources are available at the Newsela coronavirus resource center.
What It Is: PebbleGo offers safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students K-3.
What They’re Offering: Schools can get free access to PebbleGo during closures. Learn more here.
What It Is: Hands-on, minds-on learning can happen anywhere and everywhere. If you’re looking for STEMspiration because of an unexpected homeschooling need, you’re in the midst of an uncommon education experience, or you just want to have some STEM fun, we’ve got ideas.
What They’re Offering: Free resources always.
What It Is: Get game-based learning in math for kids from first to eighth grade. The site offers lots of how-to articles to make your distance learning effective and fun.
What They’re Offering: The basic Prodigy site is always free. Sign up here.
What It Is: This British company’s site hosts games and creative learning opportunities for elementary level math, spelling, and writing. Teachers can set daily tasks for students, create a blog, and find other ways to communicate.
What They’re Offering: Purple Mash is offering free access for schools closed due to the outbreak for the duration of their closure. Find out more about using Purple Mash When School is Closed.
What It Is: QuaverMusic is a world leader in online curriculum development for grades Pre-K to 8.
What They’re Offering: QuaverMusic offers K-8 general music teachers a platform to stay connected to their students, no matter where they are. Free 30-day trial. Learn More here.
What It Is: ReadingIQ is a comprehensive digital library offering books, magazines, comics, and more for kids from ages 2-12. It’s a smart replacement for library time right now and makes it possible for teachers to monitor what and how much their students are reading.
What They’re Offering: Age of Learning is offering ReadingIQ free to schools closed due to the outbreak. Contact them here for more information.
What It Is: Scholastic created the Scholastic Learn at Home website to provide students with approximately 20 days worth of learning journeys that span various content areas. Students get approximately three hours of learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and more.
What They’re Offering: This service is free and limits printing materials for those who don’t have adequate access. Learn more here.
What It Is: A Utah-based educational company that creates customized, standards-based curriculum for Social Studies and Science, founded on integrated learning strategies that increase student knowledge, skills, and dispositions. .
What They’re Offering: They are providing Studies Weekly Online to ALL schools as a free trial online. The online platform includes all student editions, Teacher Editions, lesson plans, English Language Arts integrations, and customizable assessments, and pairs with the company’s periodical-based printed materials.
What It Is: An online learning tool which provides personalized math and spelling practice. It adapts questions to each student, using engaging games and rewards for effort and achievement to build their confidence, and is proven to accelerate progress. Teachers can set focused work to consolidate existing knowledge and get real-time feedback on each individual child, making it an ideal home learning school.
What They’re Offering: Math, spelling and grammar practice for K-8. Currently offering free full access to all features and subjects until March 31, and extending this for schools that close.
What It Is: Printables for home.
What They’re Offering: Free learning activities and DIY projects.
What It Is: Tynker offers a complete online computer coding curriculum for students K-8. Teachers can get free lessons, projects, and more on the site.
What They’re Offering: Schools impacted by COVID-19/coronavirus can get free access to Tynker’s complete curriculum, including online professional development courses for teachers. Learn more here.
What It Is: A web-based keyboarding program that teaches students how to type and has a unique transdisciplinary Common Core and NGSS aligned content provided through its lessons.
What They’re Offering: Schools and districts closed due to the outbreak can request for a Typesy school trial. Just email rick@ereflect.com for login credentials.
What It Is: They specialize in K-8 social studies, life science, geography, and ancient civilization curriculum content. Their website has online learning videos and quizzes along with a list of the national and state Standards that the videos align with.
What They’re Offering: Teachers can send an email through the Contact Us form on the website (or email info@virtualfieldtrips.net) to request access. They are currently offering 60-day memberships and will extend if necessary.
What It Is: Vooks is a streaming library of ad-free, kid-safe animated read-aloud storybooks, trusted by teachers and enjoyed by millions of children around the world every week. It is an entire library of storybooks, brought to life, to help encourage the love of reading.
What They’re Offering: Vooks has created take-home lesson plans that can be shared with parents and guardians – built to provide children with 20 minutes a day of read-aloud time and activities. Vooks is offering a free one-year membership to all teachers and a one-month membership for parents.
What It Is: A nonprofit organization dedicated to math achievement for all with activities for achieving math fact proficiency.
What They’re Offering: Membership is always free.
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