I hope everyone has enjoyed the first week of winter break.  I hope you had some fun in the snow, had a wonderful Christmas and are having a great time with your families!

Now that we’re into the second week of the break, I thought you might be looking for some fun online activities to do, so I have put together some ideas for you, including some of our regular online activities and some new ones to try.

 

abcya

Offers online games and activities for grades K to 6 divided in to math, writing and strategy/logic. Free basic subscription offered, requires email to sign in and save work.

All the Right Type

Typing practice at each student’s individual level.  Find our school code, username and pin in your Accounts and Login Info chart in your OneNote account.

CBC Kids Curio 

CBC has create an online video platform created on a subscription basis for educators. They have temporarily made this platform available for free. It includes video content on art, social studies, technology, math, and science. This will require parental guidance and support as videos are posted with a suggested age for viewing beside each link.

EPIC

Epic is the leading digital reading platform—built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books from 250+ of the world’s best publishers—that safely fuels curiosity and reading confidence for kids 12 and under.  Find our class code, username and pin in your Accounts and Login Info chart in your OneNote account.  Note:  Free reading before 4 pm (protip: the app will not log you out if you login before 4 pm!).  There is currently a 50% off sale on memberships.

Khanacademy

Lessons and activities relating to math by grade and topic, grammar, reading comprehension and computer programming. Offering free support for parents and students.  Find our class code, username and pin in your Accounts and Login Info chart in your OneNote account.

Kids National Geographic

Environmental science based short informational videos, activities and games for kids, great place to start any research projects on animals.

Prodigy Math Game

Prodigy is a zero-cost, curriculum-aligned, adaptive, online game-based learning platform for 1st to 8th grade. With 1,400+ skills covering depth of knowledge levels one to three, it’s been proven to improve student scores and confidence! Login using our class code: C6C26D5 and set up your own account.

Scholastic – Weekly Challenges

Scholastic – Resources for Families

Scholastic has created a wide range of options for kids to explore content. They have grouped daily tasks into weekly challenges by grade groupings. The challenges include appropriately leveled-articles, videos, and quizzes kids can engage with. There is also a section entitled “Resources for families” that includes a variety of links to scholastic-created worksheets, videos, articles and more.

Scratch

Lear to use basic block coding to create games, stories and animations to share with others. Requires an email to set up an account and save projects.

Symbaloo

A website that links to 50+ other educationally relevant sites in everything from writing to science to history and more. Many of those below can also be found here.

Educational Podcasts

Brain On

For the curious who love science.  Co-hosted each week by kid scientists and reporters from public radio, we ask questions and go wherever the answers take us.

Forever Ago

For history lovers and those who like to understand where things come from. Every episode explores the origin of one thing – like sandwiches, video games and clocks – while teaching listeners to think critically about the past.

Smash Boom Best

For debate lovers. Every episode takes two cool things, smashes them together and let’s you decide which is best.

Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls

For historians. Biographies of powerful females through history told as oral stories. Also they are releasing a free digital version of our I Am A Rebel Girl journal as well as the step-by-step activities that are found at the end of our chapter books for free on this site.

 

Physical Fitness Resources

Yoga

Yoga with Adriene is a YouTube channel with 10 – 40 minute relaxing yoga classes. They can help release stress and refocus your mind while also improving your flexibility and balance.

Go Noodle

GoNoodle videos get kids moving to be their strongest, bravest, silliest, smartest, bestest selves. Over 14 million kids each month are dancing, stretching, running, jumping, deep breathing, and wiggling with GoNoodle.

 

That’s it for now, but I will continue to add as I come across any more great sites!  Feel free to e-mail me to let me know how it goes, or if you run into any snags.

Wishing you all a Happy New Year and I look forward to seeing you all in 2021!

Ms. Sarrazin