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Free and Cheap Online Options for Bored Kids (And Tired Parents!)
Contributed by Leslie Campos Wellparents.com
We all know that children should not be overexposed to the screens on their devices, but that does not mean a complete technology ban. And as almost any parent can tell you, sometimes, buying yourself 30 minutes of quiet time with a videogame or television show is a lifesaver. It is okay to let your children indulge (within reason) as long as your most common response to boredom is the tried-and-true, “go outside and play.”
Knowing that you’ll need to turn to technology at least once in a while, it pays to be familiar with the many different free and low-cost options available for children of all ages. But first, you should know that you may have to invest in a new computer if yours is more than a few years old. Because technology changes so often, your current PC may not have the power to run multiple programs at once nor the memory to allow for more than one or two game downloads. If you are on a budget, look for a Lenovo coupon or promo code, which can help you tone down your spending.
Thinking Like a Teacher
Before you let your kids loose online, bookmark a few of the websites that teachers use when determining what’s appropriate for their classrooms. Scholastic recommends Common Sense Media for reviews on programs, tools, and educational apps. An added perk of this website is that you can easily see parent and child reviews of television shows and movies so you can make a more informed decision on which media is appropriate for your kids.
Games and More
When you are looking for online video games for your kids, think in terms of games that can actually reinforce their classroom lessons. There are many online games that teach math, which is a subject many children find intimidating. By reframing things like multiplication and subtraction as something fun and necessary for adventure, the kids can pick up difficult concepts with ease. Math Blaster and Prodigy are two online math games appropriate for elementary school students. Middle and high school students may better enjoy an escape game, which can help with critical-thinking skills.
Books for the Eyes and Ears
If your kids are more into literature, you don’t have to invest in expensive books that they will probably lose after they read anyway. Instead of spending cash here, check out the Kindle Lending Library or any of the sources for free audiobooks recommended by Book Riot.
A Treasury of Information
One of the most overlooked online resources is the Internet Archive. This free website is run by a 501(c)(3) nonprofit whose mission is to provide universal access to all knowledge for everyone. It is an exceedingly valuable resource, particularly for middle and high school-aged children (or those that simply love to learn) and features more than 23 million texts, 2 million television shows, and more than 5.6 million videos from the Getty Research Institute, the San Francisco Public Library, PopTech, and thousands of other sources.
Educate Remotely
Other free and low-cost resources for educational activities are sites like Coursera, Udemy, and Academic Earth; these are best suited to tweens and teens. Similarly, you can reach out to your child’s elementary school to ask if they have any online workshops, ebooks, or accounts (such as Study Island) that children have access to outside of school hours.
Again, children should not be given unlimited access to the internet, no matter how educational their usage may be. However, there is no shame in giving yourself a few minutes of quiet time by sitting the kids at their computer. After all, they are growing up in the digital age, and this is just a new tool for parents and children alike.
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School To Home Connect
Year Long Homework Bundle
This parent involvement resource will help strengthen the school-home connection as students practice essential preschool skills.
These January to December packets consists of simple games and activities that are fun and easy for the parent and child to complete together, returning only a checklist if you choose. Extend the learning at home by sending home monthly homework packets that are strategically linked to the Common Core Standards. Your students and parents alike will love the easy to use formats, engaging activities, and ease of homework management.
Contents Include
This packet includes contains all 16 Packets in our
Kindergarten Series. And ALL 16 packets have two versions, English and Spanish Translation.
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December. Plus, three bonus packets: Fall Intervention Packet, Winter Intervention Packet, Spring Intervention Packet are included.
January
The Snowman: A book to read together
Snowy Lotto: An alphabet game
Winter Delivery: A sight word activity
Color Match Snowmen: A color word activity
A Winter Wonderland: A blending game
Snowflake Swirl: A counting on activity
Snowman Clock: A math activity
January Calendar: A number handwriting activity
February
"Little Valentine's" A book to read together
Heart Bingo: Flash Hearts--Sight word activities
Don't Break My Heart: A word segmenting game
My Valentine's: Using Valentines to extend learning
Dragon Dance: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Number Games: Math Activities
February Calendar: A number handwriting Activity
March
Guided Reader: Out In Space
Mr. Spaceman: Conventions of Print
Letter Blast Off: Alphabet Letter Sound Naming Automaticity
Race Through Space: Alphabet Letter Naming Automaticity
Skip Counting: Counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's
Alien Planet: Segmenting Words Into Individual Phonemes
Decode it-Defeat it: Reading CVC Words
Alien Snap: Counting From Any Given Number
April
The Pond: A Sight word/Decodable Reader
Slithering Snakes: Alphabet sound fluency
Frogger: A Decoding game
Turtle Lotto: A sight word game
Family of Ducks: Word families
April Calendar: Number writing
Frog Eggs: Composing numbers
Spring Basket: Plus and minus
May
The Jungle: A guided reader (available in two levels)
ROAR!: A decoding game
Safari Sights: A sight word game
The Jungle: A writing activity
Around the Zoo: A sentence game
At the Zoo: A comprehension activity
The Zoo Parade: An addition game
Gorillas in Cages: A subtraction game
June
Capture the Butterfly: A word family game
Mosquito Slap: A sight word game
Flower Garden: A sentence game
I Can Be a Scientist: A decodable book
Lilypad Leap: A number line game
Ladybug Addition: An addition activity
Dragonfly Subtraction: A subtraction activity
Across the Curriculum: A collection of fun learning activities
July
Guided Reader: The Beach (Level C)
Sand Castles: A sight word game
Summer Celebration: A sentence game
Diving for Letters: Alphabet recognition
Shell Addition: An addition activity
Beach Ball Subtraction: A subtraction activity
The Number Swim: Writing numbers
August
Rhyme Book: A mini book of rhymes
My ABC's: An alphabet activity
A Ride to the Park: A color recognition game
The Shape of Things: Shape recognition
Number Flashcards: Number recognition
Name Writing: A handwriting activity
All About ME: Community-building activity
September
The Game: A book to read together
Football Flashcards: A capital letter review
Kick Off ABC Game: An alphabet game
Name Cheer: Letter recognition
Football Rhymes: A rhyming game
The Team: A number game
Huddle Up: Number activity
October (Also includes Non-Halloween Option)
Haunted House: A syllable game
Boo to You: An alphabet game
Spider Race: An alphabet activity
Monster Cookies: A beginning sound activity
Dark Woods Math: A number game
No Tricks, Just Treats: A sort and graph activity
November
My Bear: A Guided Reading Book
Time to Hibernate: An Alphabet Game
Star Gazing: A Letter Sound Game
A Walk In the Woods: An Ending Sounds Game
Letter Trace: Handwriting Activity
Bear Math: Variety of Math Activities
Number Bears: A Flashcard Activity
December
Christmas Time: A Guided Reading Book
Christmas Tree ABC: An Alphabet Game
To the North Pole: A Rhyming Game
Christmas Sounds: A Phoneme Isolation Game
Sound Train: Alphabet Sound Fluency
Christmas Memory: A Number Game
Letter Cookies: A Handwriting Activity
Additional Bonus of Strategic Intervention Packets: Offer concrete help to parents as you build a bridge between school and home, by offering this Intervention Packet as a way for parents to extend the learning at home. These great family games will not only provide additional teaching opportunities for kindergarten skills, they will also give parents opportunity to become familiar with academic concepts and their child's academic strength and weaknesses first hand.
Fall RTI
I like Books: Guided Reader
Alphabet Flashcards
Capital Shake: An Alphabet Game
My Letters: A Fluency Activity
Sound Isolation: Beginning Sounds Game
Rhyming Memory: Rhyming Game
A-Z Handwriting: Handwriting Practice
Number Trace: Number Formation
Winter RTI
Planes: An alphabet sound game
Letter/Sound Fluency: Two fluency practice sheets
Matching Middles: A phonemic awareness activity
Find the Picture: A blending/segmenting game
Letter Writing: Handwriting practice
Sight Word Study: A sight word activity
Color The Shape: A math activity
Number Bingo: A 0-20 game.
Spring RTI
The Early Bird: Alphabet Fluency
The Hungry Lamb: Sound Fluency
Spring Rhymes: Producing Rhyming
Rain, Rain, Go Away: A Decoding Game
Flower Garden: A Sight Word Activity
Bunny Hop: A Segmenting Game
Word Riddles: Phonemic Awareness
Number Hunt: Number Recognition
Baby Lambs: Addition
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Three levels are available for all 12 months of the year.
For your convenience, each activity is strategically linked to Core Standards.
This is also great product for parents looking to enrich learning, or homeschool parents that maintain a year round schedule
Note: All of our homework packets are available at three levels, Pre-K, Kindergarten and 1st Grade.
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Kindergarten Summer Review Packet Distance Learning. Yes! You may share with your classroom students via protected google docs. or directly with pdf.
Make sure your child is ready for 1st grade! Prevent the Summer Slide. Or use as your summer school kindergarten curriculum! All activities are correlated to Core Standards.
This is the perfect “Hands-on” learning review of kindergarten skills. All of the activities are created for practice in crucial early reading skills that a kindergartner needs to master to be successful with 1st grade curriculum.
These activities are created in game format — because that is how a child’s brain learns best, through active play. Your child will be begging to practice early learning skills because the games are fun, and the quality time with a caring adult is priceless!
Twenty-four activities are included with a suggested learning time-line. However, the use of these activities are flexible, use them in a way that best fits your family circumstance. If when playing a game, you see that the skill is not mastered. Practice that skill again and again so that important learning gaps do not occur in your child’s educational experience.
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Week One
Lesson 1. Beach Day: Blending Sounds to Make Words
Lesson 2. Speedy Delivery: Reading Sight Words
Lesson 3: Rain Rain Go Away: Decoding Words
Lesson 4: Sticks and Curves: Handwriting and Sorting Letter Shapes
Week Two
Lesson 5: Baseball: Segmenting Words in Phonemes
Lesson 6: Roller Coster Run: Alphabet Fluency
Lesson 7: Beach Ball Color Match: Reading Color Words
Lesson 8: Trip To Space: Handwriting Lowercase Letters
Week Three
Lesson 9: Riddle Me: Manipulating Phonemes to Make New Words
Lesson 10: Space Walk: Decoding Words
Lesson 11: Turtle Talk: Reading Sight Words Fluently
Lesson 12: Catch a Wave: Handwriting Simple Sentences
Week Four
Lesson 13: Farmyard Rhymes: Generating Rhyming Words
Lesson 14: Frogger: Decoding Words
Lesson 15: Sand Castles: Reading Sight Words
Lesson 16: Rodeo Round-Up: Writing Letter Sounds
Week Five
Lesson 17: Parade Announcer: Identifying Medial Sounds
Lesson 18: Summer Celebration: Reading Simple Sentences
Lesson 19: Diving For the Alphabet: Ordering Alphabet Letters
Lesson 20: Kid Camp: Writing CVC Words
Week Six
Lesson 21: Lantern Race: Alphabet Letter Sound Fluency
Lesson 22: Mosquito Slap: Decoding Words
Lesson 23: Flower Garden Sentences: Simple Sentences
Lesson 24: At The Pond: Building Comprehension Skills
© Kathy Crane
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