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Activities for Families Staying at Home

3/17/2020

 
Staying home with the kids? (rhetorical question). Below are some resources to help pass the time. Learning, playing, and some just for sanity’s sake:

  •  Learning Without Tears offers writing and keyboarding tools for the K-Gr5 set. They have just opened up some of their resources for free during this time. 
  •  Easy Science for Kids
  •  Jump Math
  •  Kahn Academy
  •  Virtual Museum Tours
  •  CBC kids
  •  Zone Jeunesse  (Radio Canada Kids)
  •  Marble World Championships - in case you are in need of sports!
  • CBC Podcasts - there are so many!! A few shout outs from  Tai, Asks Why  and  The Secret Life of Canada  got any favourites??
  •  Master Class - ok, this one costs some money, but maybe they will take pity on us and offer a deal shortly - PLEEZE (I want to know how to be a boss/master chef/movie director/basketball player/chess master!!)
  • Virtual Field Trips
  • Mo Williams is posting Lunch Doodles every day at 1pm. The site seems to be overwhelmed at the moment, but they can be view on YouTube
  • Collage Collage is selling  craft kits that can be picked up  11am to 2pm
  • Netflix - Ok, we all know this one, but most of the shows have a version Français tool that you can turn on. I did this ONE DAY for my 8 year old when she was home sick and it made a huge difference in her French. Honest. I’ve heard Downton Abbey is a good series to watch + there are loads of actual French movies too.
  • Common Sense Media has recommendations for age appropriate movies and apps
  • Learn a First Nations language. Anyone have any good sites for this? Here is one about the weather in Cree
  •  DIY hand sanitizer - I’ll let you google that as there are a lot of choices
  •  How to talk to your kids about COVID-19 from CBC  
  •  Several mediation apps offer free trials. Try Calm, Headspace or many others
  •  I have a few spiritual free sites, if anyone is in need of some soul juice. I know this is a very personal area, so please email me if you’d like me to share. ([email protected]) I lean towards the new-age. 
  • Many fitness apps also offer free trials. There are so many good ones, but if you have zero equipment in your house, try this one: The Be Coming Project
  • Lego! The 30 day lego challenge.
    Learn Hul’q’umi’num’ (Halkamelam), which is one of the Coast Salish languages spoken hereabouts, including by the Musqueam. web.uvic.ca/hrd/hulq/index.htm
 
Have some ideas to share? Please send them to [email protected] and we’ll post them for everyone. Check back in with the blog to see what’s new, or let us know what your are doing at home and we can post that too! Happy social distancing!
Angela
3/17/2020 10:47:43 am

Thank you very much for this post! Really appreciated right now :)

Mari
3/17/2020 02:39:10 pm

Amazing! Can't wait to do virtual museum tours! Thank you!

Lori Velisek
3/17/2020 10:12:36 pm

Great ideas! Thanks for sharing.
One of my kids is making a google doc to challenge his team mates to work out challenges. They have daily exercises to do so he's gonna ramp it up and get kids to sign up an be accountable. Cool.

My daughter is learning to whittle! There are some great online tutorials if you have the knives and safety gloves to get kids going.

Rebecca
3/19/2020 11:53:59 am

Thanks so much for sharing these great ideas! We really appreciate it!


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    • Before/After School Care
    • Hot Lunch Program
    • Student Health >
      • Head Lice
      • Fruit and Veg Program
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Helpful Websites
    • Lost & Found
    • History
  • Quebec Trips
  • Tiger Spirit
    • Tiger Spirit Wear
    • Tiger Spirit at School
    • Clubs
    • Sports >
      • Cross Country Club
      • Track and Field Club
      • Volleyball
    • PAC-Led Events >
      • Welcome Back BBQ
      • Halloween Howl
      • Winterfest
      • Spring Fling
      • Sports Day
    • Tenny Logos and Website Photos
  • News Blog