At-Home Learning
Tips for At-Home Learning:
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Choose a dedicated learning area in your home to gather general school supplies for ease of access.
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If your child (or you) get frustrated, take a break from the activity, and try again later. In our classroom, we often turn the negative phrase “I can’t do it” into the positive phrase “I can’t do it, yet!”
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Consider planning intentional time for “off-screen” activities. Creative pursuits, physical challenges, exploring nature, reading, building, games, cooking, puzzles (and more!) will be just as important for your child’s overall well-being.
- Journal write about their experiences during this shelter in place order
- Count, read or show their work to someone in their household
- Take photos of their work (works for both paper and non-paper stuff)
- Record a video project, response or answer
- Complete a google slide activity
- Play a single online game or activity
- Work for a set amount of time on a web-based curriculum like happynumbers.com (free through summer 2020), raz-kids.com (free through summer 2020) or freckle.com
- Watch an educational video
- Do a familiar chart or chant (alphabet, sight words, etc.)
- Read along with a story online
- Teach flashcards to a family member, stuffed animal or toy (letter sounds, sight words, etc.)
- Create a collection of things/objects
- Do a guided drawing
- Find things in their environment (I-spy, scavenger hunt, etc.)
- Write a simple story with illustrations
- Rainbow write sight words
- Add a sentence to their work
- Do a drawing challenge
- Move, dance or sing along with an educational video
- Coolkindergarten.com has both language arts and math games for kindergarten plus a small selection of read-alouds and math videos. All items match kindergarten standards.
- Starfall.com is a classic beginning learner website. Use both the alphabet and learn to read page for the maximum benefit and a couple of the kindergarten math activities are good too.
- scholastic.com has a set of up to 20 days of remote learning resources up. It has a book, a video and related activity.
- Turtlediary.com has both reading and math games. You might find it helpful to explore their list of games.
- Brightly storytime is a quality set of read-alouds hosted on youtube.
- Storyline online has recently added some new videos and the quality of these videos is great.
- Freckle.com is a differentiation platform with built-in activities for ELA, math, social studies and science.