Free resources for families, teachers, and caregivers at home with babies, toddlers & preschool-aged children:
FIRST THINGS FIRST: Parenting in the time of coronavirus & social distancing: You don’t have to be perfect!
Amazing Educational Resources: An incredibly comprehensive collection of links for homeschooling, organized by grades and topics.
ART & CREATIVITY
Joe Reilly Children’s Concert: Join songwriter Joe at live streamed concerts for children and families – playful, engaging, joyful music.
TinkerLab: Art & science projects by an educator whose goal is to uncover easy and simple ways to set up a creative home.
It’s the Week of the Young Child!: Find resources for lots of fun home activities at The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
Zero to Three At-Home Activity Guide: Great ideas for play that promotes healthy development.
EDUCATIONAL GAMES
ABCya!: Designed by parents and educators for Pre-K through 6+ for fun learning of arts & music, math, language arts, social studies technology, typing and more.
Teach Your Monster to Read: Designed by educators to cover letters and sounds through reading full sentences.
MATH & SCIENCE
Eureka Math: Connects math to the real world in ways that take the fear out of math and build student confidence—helping students achieve true understanding lesson by lesson and year after year.
Math at Home Toolkit: Math in every day life with resources in Spanish and English.
All About Birds: This Cornell University site includes bird identification resources, video and audio files, live cams, K-12 Educator Resources, Learning Games, eBird (how to submit your own observations to a citizen science site), and more.
READING & WRITING
Audible.com: For as long as schools are closed, audible.com is open. Kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages (including SPANISH) that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
Early Literacy: The Five Practices: Early literacy tips for parents of youngsters.
Spanish Experiment: SPANISH children’s stories read slowly by a native Spanish speaker for learners plus free Spanish lessons.
Storyline Online: Actors reading picture books.
Talking Is Teaching: An excellent parent resource in SPANISH and English for activities with babies through preschoolers. The Indoor Activities Page provides many resources for keeping youngsters active throughout the day.
Tell Me a Story :The King-County Library System story time companion for parents and caregivers. A huge and indexed collection of rhymes, songs, felt stories that are in the public domain.
TECHNOLOGY
Common Sense Media: Reviews (of books, movies, apps & games) for what your kids want (before they dive in!).
Tips for Parents: Families & Tech During Covid-19: Different ways to socialize with Tech.