Elementary Resources for Home

Free resources for families, teachers, and caregivers at home with elementary-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.

Smithsonian Distance Learning: A huge list of resources for every subject and grade level, including SPANISH-language materials.

ART & CREATIVITY

Drawing Classes & Read Alongs:  Draw with famous illustrators and join children’s authors like Sophie Blackall (Hello, Lighthouse) for in-house readings.

Joe Reilly Children’s Concert: Join songwriter Joe at  live streamed concerts for children and families – playful, engaging, joyful music.

Kids ART Week: Clear, interactive video lessons with three artists.

San Francisco Museum of Art: Discussion questions for artworks, lesson plans, graphic organizers and worksheets, artist interviews, animations, and more by grade, subject, and theme.

TinkerLab: Art & science projects by an educator whose goal is to uncover easy and simple ways to set up a creative home.

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

DOGO News: Short and appealing current events in science, social studies, sports and more. Toggle between SPANISH & ENGLISH at the top of the screen, both print and audio. Photos, videos, learning games, and more. Fun for all ages from the WA State Library.

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.

Khan Academy: A site for any and all grades. It is amazing with tutorials and can be done all online and instantly assessed and leveled.

Math at Home Toolkit: Math in every day life with resources in SPANISH and English.

Math Learning Center: The resources provided below are for family members of students in classrooms currently using Bridges 2nd Edition. We offer them to provide guidance and suggestions for participating in your child’s learning.

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.

Amaze.org: Sexual Education resources for parents, teachers and kids of all ages.

Boeing Academy for STEM: Hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math activities for grades 3-6. Scroll down to see programs by age.

National Geographic @ Home: Inspiring Family Exploration with science experiments, videos, quizzes and more.

National Geographic Kids: Explore animals, videos, games and more on the website of the popular magazine.

NASA Kids Club: Missions, STEMonstrations (great videos!) & much more.

SeaDoc society’s Junior SeaDoctors: This site is filled with marine science videos and activities that you can easily do from your own home.

Wonderopolis: Explore wonders, ask your own questions, attend a virtual Camp Wonderopolis (music, engineering, health, science). What are you wondering?

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.

Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH): This is a Facebook page that collects videos of drag queens reading stories to children in libraries, schools, and bookstores. DQSH captures the imagination and play of the gender fluidity of childhood and gives kids glamorous, positive, and queer role models.

Early Literacy: The Five Practices: Early literacy tips for parents of youngsters.

Highlights Magazine FOR KIDS (Jokes, Games, Sharing, Podcasts & more) and For Parents (Activities & Topics by Age).

Mondays with Michelle Obama: Watch storytimes on Facebook at @PBSKids and @PenguinRandomHouse and YouTube.

Mrs. P’s Magic Library: Classic children’s stories brought to life by actress Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P. Enjoy her personal stories related to the books as well.