Activities For Your Kids

Last week, I wrote about how I was going bananas, with being the at-home teacher, for e-learning with Finn.

Finn’s teachers have provided weeks worth of material, and each day, he has a series of different math, reading, and spelling courses, along with other topics.

One of the activities required him to use an app on the tablet and answer math equations while being timed. If he doesn’t answer the equation within a specific time limit, he gets the answer wrong.

That particular program wasn’t responding, kept freezing, and logging him off. Then he would have to log back in and would need to start over. This happened to him a couple of times and he became frustrated and cried.

That was one of the experiences that I had during my first week of e-learning with Finn.

The day that I posted the blog about e-learning, several of my patients, that are teachers, emailed me and provided additional learning activities that I could do with Finn.

They all let me know that I could contact them, if I had any questions. This was so wonderful.

I love our awesome community and was amazed at all the effort these folks went through, to share some ideas with me. It took a lot of effort and I wanted to share, how they volunteered, to provide activities and help:

-Virtual field trips!

-“Brain Break” activities. Try to work for about 20-25 minutes at a time and give your kid some breaks in between. A great site to use, is GoNoodle.com. You can use the “family” site. Also there is a cute dice game.

-Brookfield Zoo has some cool stuff too, right now on their site. Many zoos have live cams for their animals.

-Cincinnati Zoo live streams (and makes available for later) an animal a day with questions, etc.

-The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum does a daily lesson too.

Each of them added so many thoughts. Attached is some activity ideas and listed below, are some links with activities as well:

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Your students can visit my studio weekdays to doodle w me. Daily visits drop @ 1pm EST. Kennedy-center.ORG/education/mo-willems/

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We are committed to supporting teachers and students around the globe as they face unprecedented new learning challenges. The Smithsonian Education team is providing free, quality resources and personalized help at learninglab.si.edu/distancelearning (link in bio). Our resources focus on pre-K through 12 education, and include lesson plans tied to national learning standards and a variety of low-tech and no-tech solutions for students without reliable internet access. We worked with @dcpublicschools to curate distance-learning opportunities tied specifically to the schools’ curriculum goals, drawing on content and expertise from across our museums, research centers, and libraries. Teachers can find these recommended activities broken down by grade and subject. Caregivers can also find activities designed specifically for them to work with their children at home. The Smithsonian Learning Lab will expand its online office hours with experts to answer questions and help identify lessons and activities for specific needs. While our spaces are closed, you can explore millions of our objects and materials, from this box of crayons from 1919 in our @amhistorymuseum to whale bones to historic books at si.edu/collections. #SmithsonianEdu

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For all you folks stuck at home in the coming weeks. Starting on Monday, at 6pm GMT / 2pm EST / 11am PST I will be reading one of my books every weekday, and talking about some of the things that went into making it. We are all at home, but none of us are alone. Let’s be bored together. Also, my pal, and one of the best storybook writers in a generation @macbarnett will be doing the same with his books daily, an hour later. And the genius minds behind @kaleidoscopeire are doing a daily creative project called ‘Home Club’, also starting Monday. ADDITION: this will be made avails to watch later for those in other time zones. I will also look for someone to help with a Spanish translation (sorry to the person who requested this- I accidentally deleted your comment) Stay tuned for more details.

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Thanks Val, Kim, and Marti. I really appreciate it.

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