Parent Resources
Because of the current situation, author Arree Chung is sharing the pdf version of his 5-star book Mixed for free. It is a marvelous story that encourages children to appreciate the beauty of people’s diversity and difference.
The book can be freely downloaded here:
With summer right around the corner, the team at CommonLit is thinking about how to keep students reading over the summer and prevent learning loss. That’s why our team at CommonLit is offering an online, completely free reading challenge to keep children actively reading at home this summer.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
Putting more books featuring diverse characters into the hands of all children.
OUR VISION
A world in which all children can see themselves in the pages of a book.
OUR DEFINITION OF DIVERSITY
We recognize all diverse experiences, including (but not limited to) LGBTQIA, Native, people of color, gender diversity, people with disabilities*, and ethnic, cultural, and religious minorities.
These activities are designed to be used right outside your door! Learn about and explore socio-ecological systems in your neighborhood by taking wondering walks, making observations, asking “Should We” questions, modeling data and relationships, conducting investigations, analyzing data and offering explanations, making new decisions and sharing with other families and friends. Each activity is explained in an overview document and then you can use the activity sheet to participate in the activity. If you don’t have a printer, no worries! You can easily remake the activity sheets on a blank piece of paper! Photograph parts of your activities and post them to the Learning in Places Instagram page if you are inspired to share what you are learning in your neighborhood!
Written especially for parents, Growing Readers provides monthly tips for raising strong readers and writers. (MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH)
Wide Open School (Available in Spanish)
What will parents find this summer?
These are just some of the activities families will find on Wide Open School to keep kids active and learning all summer long:
Virtual field trips to remarkable places like the Canadian tundra with Discovery Education.
Custom workouts from basketball players like the Detroit Pistons' Langston Galloway with the Jr. NBA.
Civic engagement activities, like building a presidential campaign to "Win the White House" with iCivics.
Obama Foundation
President and Mrs. Obama joined Chicago Public Library’s “Live from the Library” storytime sessions, to read “The Word Collector” by Peter Reynolds
CILC and its wonderful content providers have come together to provide core curriculum every day of the week for homebound students in grades K-6th. Beginning March 23rd we will offer, free of charge, interactive, live-streamed programs from 9:30am to 3:30pm Eastern time. The programs are delivered by our highly professional content providers.
Teachers, Child Care Providers, Children’s Librarians, and Parents! The Children's Environmental Health Committee of the American Public Health Association curated some excellent resources on how the environment affects human health just for you, whether you want to plan a book reading, an educational game or activity, or incorporate a lesson plan into your class. A number of these activities can be performed at home during school closures!
Online Resources from the CIA | Culinary Institute of America-The CIA's free online resources offer engaging tutorials that help you practice your cooking skills. Our faculty offer the how and why of cooking along with demonstrating the techniques, recipes, and processes for each topic.
30 Creative Activities for Kids- Created by Apple
Mkewithkids.com - Science Experiments
KCM- Lesley University’s Center for Mathematics Achievement in collaboration with the Kentucky Center for Mathematics have put together this resource guide for parents and caregivers to be able to support children’s mathematics learning at home during school closures for the COVID-19 outbreak
CDC Helping Kids Cope with Stress during Emergencies
CDC for families
Kids a Cooking - Follow Host (and Mom) Karen Arnold, as she leads school-age children step-by-step in preparing nutritious, delicious, but most of all, fun recipes.
Free Range Kids wants to remind parents that there's more to learning than filling out worksheets--children can bake a cake, for example, or "camp" in the backyard. Click here for their free "independence "Kit.
The Parents' Guide to Google Classroom -PDF
At Home Learning Resources from NYC Department of Education:many fun and engaging activities you can do with your children at home. This includes activities for infants, toddlers, and children who are 3 and 4 years old.
Bedtime Math: Keep your kids’ math skills sharp – without screen time!
Parenting Minutes are short videos that focus on key topics related to early childhood learning and raising children. Each video page contains shareable tips and facts, as well as links to more FREE resources and information.
Busy Kid BusyKid is the chore app where kids can earn, save, share, spend and invest real allowance
Wowzers Complete K-8 Online Math Core Curriculum Free and unlimited access for the rest of the school year
NPR COVID-19 Comic Book
Video tutorials of games you can play at home anytime:
Hands on Learning at Home
Interesting Art Installations
from Children’s Museum of the Arts: short arts and crafts videos with visual instructions and set to music so there is no language barrier.
TeachStarter_Mindfulness-Activity-Task-Cards_1763270.pdf
