Coping during difficult and unknown times can be challenging! Please feel free to use these resources and activities to help you and your family through this time of uncertainty.
How to Manage Your Food Storage by a Registered Dietitian
Keeping Your Distance to Stay Safe by the American Psychological Association
Suggested Daily Schedule from Macaroni Kids
Suggested Schedule by Grade Level from Khan Academy
Family Lockdown Guide by The Guardian
What To Do with Your Kids When School Is Cancelled by Vox
Tips for Staying Home and Social Distancing from Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood
CAIR Center Mom's Pantry @ Mahomet-Seymour High School
- Will be taking donations on Friday, March 20th @ 9 am and between 5-7 pm
- Distribution of items on Sunday, March 22nd between 5-7 pm
Give Me 5 Food Program: donate food to be sent home with M-S students
Mahomet Helping Hands: Open Saturday, March 21 between 9:00-11:30 for their monthly distribution
COVID-19 Emergency Rules from Illinois Department of Unemployment Security
ACTIVITIES FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES
Amazing Educational Resources: list of resources compiled by teachers and librarians
Enrichment Activities for Children while Parents Are Working Remotely
Read, Wonder, and Learn: Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere
Free Resources for Teaching Remotely compiled by a high school librarian
Google Arts & Culture Virtual Tours
- Try: Travel & Leisure's Museum Picks
- Try: Explore Yellowstone
- Try: Mesa Verde in 3D
- Try: Field in Focus: Predicting Pandemic from Smithsonian National Zoological Park
- Try: Explore Street Art
- Try: Women in Culture
National Park Virtual Tours on Google Earth
Cincinnati Zoo "Home Safari": animal visits every day at 3 pm on Facebook
Children's Book Authors with Facebook Live/YouTube Events
Author Oliver Jeffers: livestream reading and discussing his books
Google Calendar with Virtual KidLit Author Events
Storyline Online: actors reading picture books
Worksheets and Activities: based on Click Clack Moo Book Series
Saturday Story Time (Starting 3/21): Josh Funk Books
Ken Burns in the Classroom: videos and printable supplementary materials/ discussion questions for Burns' documentaries; baseball currently streaming for free
Math in Music series with Dr. Eugenia Cheng on WFMT
Miss Megan's Camp Kindergarten Morning Meeting: 9 am on Facebook Live
Serial Disruptor: 2 pm CT Livefeed
Spanish Immersion Classes for Elementary Students
10 Great Documentaries for Kids
Online Synthesizers from Moog and Korg
Mystery Science: at home experiments
Ivy League Free Online Classes
Scholastic Learn-At-Home (free for 20 days)
Scratch: block-based computer programming
Art Lessons with No Corner Suns
Artsonia After School Art Club: mainly uses materials you already have!
Draw Every Day with JJK (Lunchlady and Hey, Kiddo author Jarret J Krosoczka)
Daily Facebook Live Arts and Crafts Lessons
Kids' Cooking Lessons: noon CST by $5 Dinner via Facebook Live (will be reposted on YouTube)
Supercharged School: free lessons with hands-on/ paperwork and experiments, ages 7-14
Keep Dancing: free online dance classes for all ages
Exercise Classes by Zoom: broken up by grade range (PreK-1, 2-4, 5-8)
Fluency & Fitness (free for 21 days)
An Educator's Guide to "Stamped: Antiracism and You" by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi
Engineering Activity Bingo: use supplies you have on hand!
Finish the Comic (and blank comic book panel printables)
Collection of Activities and Strategies by MyKidList
National Park Junior Ranger Books: Printable and Request by Mail
Paper Roller Coasters: $20 to download all of the templates to build, also requires printer, cardstock, a ruler, scissors, and tape
Print & Play Tabletop Games by Manuel Corriea (for older kids and adults)
Raddish Kids Cooking Camp Kits
#WriteToAnAuthor: Twitter thread with authors listing their address; all promise to write back
Writing Prompts Every Day from the New York Times
*Many of the above resources were taken from an original post by Heather Booth (Heather.Booth.mls@gmail.com)