Resources for Kids at Home

First things first, keep an eye on the South Washington County Schools website.

MnDOT is offering their Bridge UP! curriculum. It provides free classroom resources for using bridge design and construction principles as the foundation for learning.

Scholastic has created a “Learn at Home” website that has FREE daily courses for students from Pre-kindergarten to grades 6 and higher.

Here is a Physical Education channel you can subscribe to!!

Math Fact Café – (create your own custom math worksheets) – https://www.mathfactcafe.com/          

TI (Texas Instruments) is offering their graphing calculator software for FREE for 6 months. Click HERE

Big list from Red Rock Elementary for Kindergarten Resources – https://rres.sowashco.org/students/student_resources/pre-_k_k

Red Rock Elementary 1^st Grade Resources – https://rres.sowashco.org/students/student_resources/first_grade

BookFlix – (for great fiction and non-fiction books online use your Washington County Library card to access –https://login.ezproxy.washington.lib.mn.us/login?url=https://digital.scholastic.com/site/launch/bkflix/?ucn=600020638

GoNoodle – (great movement activities we love at school) – https://family.gonoodle.com/

For Spanish Immersion students (and those of you that want to expose your kids to Spanish while at home:

Podcasts
https://podcast.duolingo.com/spanish (combination of English and Spanish)Podcasts
http://www.notesinspanish.com (various levels and topics)

XtraMath is a free website that starts with a pretest and sets up your child’s level with lessons

Here’s a fun way to get some daily news and utilize critical thinking for analyzing a story. Go to CNN10. It’s news in 10 minutes. (FYI there is no political bashing) The host appears to be working out of his home this week. Typically each show has about three segments that include anything from primary results to the newest satellites launched. Have your kids roll a dice after each segment.

1. Summarize the story
2. Ask a question
3. Make a comment
4. What was the purpose (persuade, inform or entertain)
5. What’s another perspective/ or whose story is missing
6. Free choice

40 Educational Websites to Access for Free While Schools Are Closed

1. Arcademic Skill Builders is for kids first through sixth grade with games that will improve math, geography, typing and language skills.
2. Backpack Sciences is for elementary aged students and teaches hands-on science.
3. Boardmaker is for visual learners and is especially beneficial for kids with special needs.
4. Book Creator is a great experience for parents to enjoy with their children. You can help them write and illustrate their own book!
5. BrainPop is a lesson planning tool that you can use to create content for all ages of children. There are resources for many topics including art, music, English and many more to help guide you on your lesson planning journey.
6. Breakout EDU has tons of games for children from kindergarten through high school. Tons of games are sure to keep everyone engaged!
7. Century is a website allowing parents to access their resources free for the next few weeks. This website has content for all agents and students can engage in math, science and reading activities.
8. Circletime is for babies to age six and includes singalongs, kiddos yoga and story time on an interactive website.
9. CK-12 is for children of all ages. Math, science, reading, videos and review questions will keep everyone engaged.
10. Conjuguemos is a paid site that does offer some content for free. Vocabulary, grammar and listening activities for many foreign languages are available!
11. Edu-Together is for children grades three through twelve. This site has videos that cover all academic subjects.
12. Epic! has been said to be the “leading library for kids 12 and under.” There are over 35,000 different books, videos and quizzes.
13. Fluency Matters is for all ages and you are able to access this site for free for 21 days. This site offers educational opportunities to increase foreign language skills.
14. Good2Learn is for ages seven through twelve. You can access a 14-day free trial to watch instructional videos from two to five minutes long in math or English.
15. HippoCampus is for children middle school or older. Over 7000 free videos span 13 different subjects.
16. iCompute allows kids age three through eleven access to computing and STEM courses.
17. Izzit utilizes videos to teach kindergarten and up many different subjects including math, arts, world history and more.
18. Kids Discover Online offers three months of free science and social studies coursework.
19. Kinedu has 1,800 videos for children four years and up.
20. Math Game Time is for children of all ages and offers many games that focus on counting, algebra, and many other math subjects.
21. Minecraft: Education Edition teaches children problem solving, collaboration and creativity.
22. Myseter Science is for children kindergarten through fourth grade with lessons ranging from 15 to 90 minutes.
23. NASA Kids’ Club shows children from pre-K through fourth grade the ins and outs of NASA’s missions. Hands on activities are a great way to engage, especially this age range.
24. National Geographic Kids has videos, games and activities focused on wildlife and preservation.
25. Nearpod has hundreds of classes in a variety of subjects for kindergarten through high school aged children.
26. Osmo is offering free access to their website through March 31, 2020. Seven hands on explorations for pre-K through fourth grade is sure to keep them entertained and excited.
27. PBS Learning Media is for pre-k and up and offers science, math, language arts and more!
28. PebbleGo is for children kindergarten through third grade and has ready-made activities supporting literacy for all ability levels.
29. Raddish Kids is a kids cooking subscription that is currently offering free recipes and activities in an at-home camp style curriculum. Raddish Kids will also be giving away 25,000 free cooking kits for kids ages four through fourteen!
30. Rockalingua is a Spanish learning program that focuses on music. There is a library of interactive videos like the kid famous Dora the Explorer show.
31. Scholastic offer parents and children pre-K through ninth grade almost a month’s work of “active learning journeys” that are engaging and exciting!
32. Scratch is for kids in elementary school to try coding. MIT educators have created tons of interactive projects.
33. Seneca is for younger kids to learn and practice their multiplication tables. Middle and high schoolers can practice prealgebra, Spanish and biology.
34. Sight Reading Factory is for children to practice reading music while they aren’t in school.
35. Storyline Online recruited celebrities to read children’s books for children age 4 through 7. Kids can watch these celebrities read aloud on the YouTube channel set up by Storyline.
36. Touchable Earth App allows children between eight and eleven teach one another about the world, diversity and their experiences.
37. TypingClub offers games and activities that will improve your child’s typing abilities.
38. Vroom App was created by early-childhood experts for children six and under and is full of brain-building activities.
39. The Weather Channel has science-based videos that cover rainbows, jet streams, tides and more!
40. 2Simple Purple Mash features guided reading activities for children five through eleven as well as learning opportunities for littles age two through five.

TypingClub is a great free website to help your children learn how to type

Brains On!® is a science podcast for curious kids and adults from American Public Media. Co-hosted each week by kid scientists and reporters from public radio, we ask questions and go wherever the answers take us.

ABC Mouse is offering free memberships. Try code: SCHOOL7771 or AOFLUNICEF No guarantees these work…we’ve seen multiple people who said they do. If you have additional information, please let us know!

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Local cook, mom, wife and food blogger, Molli Pletcher, has a ton of great meal ideas! Check out her blog here.

List of Twin Cities restaurants offering free lunches to students!!

Here’s a great video that has a bunch of different easy and budget friendly meal ideas!

This is crazy!! 74 inexpensive and easy meal ideas HERE

Here’s a list of 60 family dinner ideas under $10!!! Click Here

100+ Cheap and Delicious Recipes for Weeknight Dinners HERE

Here’s something we found on Facebook:
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SeaQuest Petting Zoo Aquarium in Roseville is offering free daily virtual tours on their YouTube Channel

Good Housekeeping has 50 fun activities your kids can do at home on this website.

This is a video with 10 activities to do with the kids!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nASOcLr1IM

This looks really cool!! There are 4 different Virtual Farm Tours for kids of different ages!! Click here

50 indoor activities, crafts and games. There are printable coloring pages and all kinds of other stuff here!

This is a list of 32 more fun indoor DIY activities!! Click here

PopSugar came up with a list of 35 more activities here

This is a great link!! It’s from the University of Miami and Nova Southeastern University. There are a ton of links here for museum virtual tours, zoo virtual tours, art lessons and even non-screen time activities. Click HERE

20 Educational Games and Activities Kids Can Do With Alexa Click Here

This YouTube Channel has art lessons for kids

ABC Mouse is offering free memberships. Try code: SCHOOL7771 or AOFLUNICEF No guarantees these work…we’ve seen multiple people who said they do. If you have additional information, please let us know!

Try finding a pen pal!! Have your students communicate with other children around the country or the world about how what they’re doing each day. Martha Stewart has a great resource with quite a few options. Make sure to talk with your kid about safety

The Mayo Clinic has a great website here on what to do and not to do to stay healthy

This is the Minnesota Department of Health’s website on the virus

Local company Snap Fitness is offering free access for 90 days to the virtual fitness platform FitnessOnDemand

The World Health Organization has this quick and easy video for you:

This is the CDC’s website on Coronavirus prevention

The Red Cross has a quick and easy website about what to do here to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 at cbdschool

NPR has a great comic on explaining COVID-19 to kids

Talking to Children about Covid-19 by National Association of School Psychologists

NYTimes Parenting How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus

How to wash hands properly

Peloton has extended their free trial to 90 days. A Peloton bike is not necessary .