PLAY! No Screen Required!
PLAY!: Screen Required
Brought to you by the Youth Services librarian at Peters Township
Public Library in McMurray, PA.
New Hobbies!
Here’s an easy YouTube video. If you get ‘hooked’ there’s plenty more
there!
Learn how to grow celery, potatoes, carrots and so much more!
Cooking!
Offering free cooking classes for kids and adults.
Exercise!
From Yoga to T’ai Chi to Bootcamp.
YouTube videos by Koo Koo Roo.
Resources Galore!
We have been working
steadily to provide a variety of enriching activities to engage everyone at
home. As always, take advantage of our digital media available
through our online resources, always available from your
home computer, tablet, or phone. Overdrive eBooks and eAudios are
available in the Libby app. Freegal music can be streamed through the Freegal
app. Hoopla movies
and TV shows can be streamed through the Hoopla app.
Literacy!
This is a Youtube
Channel created and run by children's book writers and illustrators. On this
channel, you'll find workshops, readings, activities, art projects, writing
games, writing advice, and more. We hope that we can offer you some fun, some
distraction, and a creative outlet for any feelings that might come up during
this time. More videos will be coming soon, and if there's any topic we haven't
covered that you want to see, please let us know!
Create art + stories
with the Greater Boston Illustrators Group
More read-aloud
choices!
Astronauts read
alouds!
Interactive
read-alouds via social media. It is a google document that gets updated.
Free audio books
available during school closures.
Free and for all ages:
eBooks, audiobooks and lessons
Fan of Pete the Cat books written by James Dean?
You can write to him! Mr. Dean likes to receive fan mail and does
reply.
Pete the Cat
2126 East Victory Drive #112
Savannah, GA 31404
Activities and more!
Author of more than
three dozen books
Author of children’s
picture books
Reading from her I
Survived: The Sinking of the Titanic, 1912
Author of the Mr.
Lemoncello books
A Virtual Scholastic
Book Festival With R.L. Stine & More!
A variety of resources for parents and teachers from publishers.
Drawing with Illustrators!
Mo Willems invites YOU
into his studio every day at 1pm for his LUNCH DOODLE.
Catch up with the
author & illustrator of the Lunch Lady series of graphic
novels!
Spiderwick Chronicles +
more!
Acclaimed picture books
illustrator.
Sci-fi comic activities.
Children’s author and illustrator gives drawing lessons.
Local
Author/Illustrator via the Palmer Public Library
Music!
A concert on Facebook every Tuesday and
Thursday.
Speech &
Language Therapy!
Languages!
Well-known children’s
stories are translated and read in Spanish.
Children’s books in print & read aloud in French.
Science!
20 easy experiments in 5 minutes or less.
A place to play games
and learn about NASA.
Free STEAM activities.
STEAM enrichment.
Snoopy science!
Families welcome a
scientist virtually into their living room.
Museums, Libraries, Art & Culture!
Free STEM activities for kids ages 4-11
YouTube choices of opera and ballet.
Animals!
Travel!
Map quiz games
Movies!
Over 200 indigenous-made films provided free from the NFB
Printables!
Teens Too!
Groups of resources!
One stop shopping for
a great variety of options, some of which are repeats of sites I have already
highlighted.
Additional access to ebooks & audiobooks.
Early Childhood
Partners
A comprehensive list of
resources, both digital and many activities that do not require any
devices.
CommonSenseMedia.org
Online Events and Activities for Kids at Home
A variety of online
support.
Online Learning!
Scholastic Learn At
Home
Scholastic has created
a free 20-day online learning resource. Learn
at Home uses Book Flix and Watch &
Learn Library; if prompted to login to either, just enter the following:
username: Learning20 |
password: Clifford
Enjoy learning at home
with:
·
Video Tutorials
·
Distance Learning
Resources for Parents
·
Remote Learning Ideas
for Schools
·
Learn & Play with
World Book Online
·
Fun Lessons (all ages)
If asked, please use this sign in information:
Username: wbsupport Password: distancelearn
Gale Databases
Miss Humblebee's Academy - an
interactive kindergarten-readiness program that introduces children ages three
to six to key concepts in math, science, social studies, language and literacy,
art, and music. It’s as challenging as it is fun!
If you get asked for a password for any of
these resources, use “open” (no quotes). The end date of access to these
resources is unknown at this time.
Learning media for
students.
Free, trusted digital
resources that span disciplines for grades PreK-12, are aligned to national and
state standards, and include videos, comprehensive lessons, and other
activities.
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I am always adding. Stay
healthy!
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