Tons of Resources for Schooling at Home

March 18, 2020 by Sarah White 1 Comment

There have been so many companies that have stepped up with free resources or discounted rates on services to help parents who unexpectedly have kids at home right now. Rather than try to list them all here, there’s an fantastic and regularly updated list at Amazing Educational Resources. There’s also a Facebook group with the same name if you need more information, resources or community right now.

Christie Megill has a Google Doc that is full of resources for educating from home including online learning sites, art, reading, STEM, podcasts and activity ideas.

Scholastic has great tips and activities for at-home learning for kids of all ages, which kids who get Scholastic readers at school in particular will enjoy. The Parent Tool Kit from Kiwi Crate has good tips on craft supplies you’ll want to have on hand, at-home schedules, tips from teachers, even TP roll crafts for those hoarders out there.

Let’s face it, kids are probably going to be getting more screen time while they are at home than they usually do, particularly if parents need to get work done, too. Homeschool Hideout has great recommendations for educational shows on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and YouTube.

And if you’re new to the whole homeschooling thing, worried about what your kids will actually learn while they are home, wondering how you’ll do it without going mad or the kids going feral, here’s your pep talk (with some cursing) from Australian mum and former home schooler Leonie Dawson. The short version: quarantines have happened throughout history and can be a catalyst to creativity, learning can happen everywhere, schedules are important.

Have you been using a great resource with your kids? We’d love to hear about it!

[Photo by klimkin viz Pixabay.]

Check out this article on the best STEM gifts for kids.

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jackc101 says
April 14, 2020 at 3:43 am
This is great! Thanks for sharing! It will definitely help especially with whats going on in the world right now. Add https://alldigitalschool.com/ too! They have a great community and tons of resources that might be relevant to your article.

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Easy Pen and Paper Games for Road Trips and Beyond

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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