Guide to education and activity resources for Children
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The Washington post recently published a post that covers various online resources to assist with learning and education for children at home.
The ultimate parents’ guide to education and activity resources
The Washington post recently published a post that covers various online resources to assist with learning and education for children at home. It covers the following topics
Reading
Education
Travel
Mental wellness
Physical activity
Music
Art
Theater and dance
Languages
Entertainment
Reading
Disappearing into a good book is a welcome escape from the stress and chaos of daily life - even when there isn’t a pandemic. Reading is beneficial for people in all age groups, but it’s essential for children: It develops and strengthens vocabulary, social and emotional intelligence, curiosity, memory, concentration and brain function
“Read & Learn with Simon Kids” can be a new video series hosted on the Simon Kids YouTube channel. Parents and educators can find self-shot videos by Simon & Schuster authors and illustrators, including read-alouds, drawing tutorials and more.
“Snack & Read Live with Simon Kids” is a half-hour video series that streams live on Facebook every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern.
Story Online features actors - including Lily Tomlin, Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine and more - looking through children’s books alongside colorful illustrated videos.
Education for the following areas
- Pre-K through elementary
- Pre-K through teens
- Elementary through teens
- Tweens and teens
Travel
360 Cities is offering free access to numerous high-quality 360 images of famous panoramas and landmarks from around the world.
While Colonial Williamsburg is closed, you can learn about colonial life in America with teacher sources, live video demonstrations and virtual tours.
National Geographic’s Explorer Classroom goes live every weekday at 2 p.m. Eastern with conservationists, researchers, scientists and storytellers.
Mental wellness
On YouTube, Moovlee offers yoga and meditation exercises for kids that are led by a cartoon monkey.
The Child Mind Institute is hosting daily live streams at 10 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Eastern with therapists on its Facebook page.
GoZenOnline offers anxiety relief songs, relaxation exercises and tips for parents on its YouTube channel.
Physical activity
Healthy Kids Running Series, a national inclusive youth running experience for kids ages 2 to 14, is converting its outdoor, five-week spring series into a virtual series.
GoNoodle offers videos to get kids moving, including dancing, stretching, running, jumping and more. The channel has an app that’s recommended for kids 5 and up.
Cosmic Kids Yoga offers free yoga on YouTube for young kids ages 3 and up. There are countless classes, from three minutes to three hours, featuring brilliant colors, storytelling (themes: “Frozen,” “Moana” and “Peter Cottontail”), singing and of course yoga with a yogini Jaime Amor.
Music
Spotify’s Coronavirus Children’s Dance Party playlist features what it calls “100 kids songs that won’t drive parents crazy” (plus “Baby Shark,” which will).
Cincinnati Public Radio’s Classics for Kids is actually a classical music education website for younger kids with games, resources for parents and teachers, and more.
The Library of Congress’s concert series features live performances of classical music.
Art
Author and illustrator Mo Willems lately concluded a three-week stint as artist-in-residence at the Kennedy Center. You can find all 15 episodes of “Lunch Doodles,” along with the accompanying downloadable activities, archived on the organization’s website.
Nikon is offering free on line camera classes - best suited for teenagers. Even if you don’t have a fancy camera, basic lessons on portraiture, landscape photography and more can be adapted to other camera models.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers MetKids, an interactive module, to help youngsters explore the museum’s collection. Kids can navigate to educational videos and creative prompts.
Theater and dance
The Hamilton Education Program, a partnership between the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the producers of the “Hamilton” musical, is offering free access through August to EduHam at Residence, a family version of its on the net education program. Students can study primary source documents in the era, learn how Lin-Manuel Miranda used similar documents to create the musical, and create their own performance pieces based on that material. The program includes videos from “Hamilton” and its cast members, interviews with Miranda and more.
The New York City Ballet will broadcast full ballets and excerpts on YouTube, Facebook and its website, and it will host ballet-inspired movement workshops. A 20-minute, Saturday-morning Zoom workshop for kids ages 3 to 8 requires advance registration.
KIDZ BOP offers dance-along videos that can encourage the incorporation of music and movement in daily routines.
Languages
Duolingo is actually a free language learning app and website that only requires a few minutes a day, and it offers a premium service for a fee.
Gallaudet University offers free American Sign Language classes online, where you can track progress with a dashboard.
Education.com offers free printable workbook pages in Hindi, Spanish, French, Chinese, Japanese, German, Russian, Arabic and American Sign Language for kids in preschool through fifth grade
Entertainment
This origami how-to for kids features step-by-step instructions and downloadable PDFs.
Flower crowns? String art? Vegetable prints? Find all these and more - 97 more, to be exact - on this Mommy Poppins list of 100 crafts kids can do at property.
Amazon offers children’s programming, such as “Arthur” and “Mr. Bean,” free for Amazon Prime members. (Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
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