If teachers or parents are looking for ways to engage students in offline learning activities at home, check out this choice board. It is composed of activities that encourage students to think critically and creatively, document their learning, reflect on these unconventional learning experiences, and share what they’ve worked on with their peers.

This Canada Day, show off your Canadian pride with this take on the most Canadian song, made with the most Canadian condiment, French's ketchup. It will be sure to bring a smile to your face!

Farmer's almanac for kids... Date, weather, moon phases, night sky, jokes and fun, time travel, animal lovers, weather watch and more. There are free stories and cool activities to explore.

Free use of this fabulous site is extended (again!) through the 2022-2023 school year.

Here's how it works:
- Click on on any book cover offered to begin reading.
- Use the book’s homework button to open a downloadable homework packet.
- Use the book's SMART Board button to download SMART Board files that are designed to assist you in the delivery of Flyleaf’s Foundational Skill and Close Reading Guide instruction.

Table of Contents:
- Emergent Reader Series - Part 1: VC, CVC Words
- Part 2: CCVCC Words (Blends)
- Part 3: Compound Words
- Part 4: Multisyllabic Words
- Part 5: Words with Endings
- Reading Series One - Part 6: Foundational Skills Consolidation
- Reading Series Two - Part 7: Consonant Digraphs
- Part 8: Long Vowels with Silent e
- Part 9: Single Long Vowels & Patterns & Soft c and g
- Part 10: r - Controlled Vowels
- Reading Series Three - Part 11: Vowel Digraphs
- Part 12: Variant Vowel Digraphs
- Part 13: Diphthongs
- Part 14: Advanced Letter-Sound Correspondences

Lalilo is an online tool for K, 1st and 2nd grade teachers and students. The Lalilo website is accessible on tablets, iPads and computers. Lalilo works in school environments or in a distance learning setting.

Through personalized exercises students work on adaptive exercises in phonics, word recognition, and comprehension.

Lalilo creates a playful, interactive world where students journey through different worlds, collecting badges and unlocking stories. The vocabulary-rich stories teach students about nature and animals in engaging and fun ways.

The site also offers data at-a-glance. Teachers can track whole class and individual progress. They can also assign specific lessons.

This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.

Orca Book Publishers Canada has compiled a number of online resources that can be used from home or in the classroom. You'll find links to free teacher guides and activities, ebooks and audiobooks, as well as information about Orca's dedicated language arts program and digital subscriptions.
This site gives information on:
Distance Learning - including information on the Story Ninja program, accessing digital subscriptions and Orca titles
Free Downloads - offers access to Orca Classroom Connections (a quarterly teacher resource with free lesson plans and activities for elementary, middle-school and high-school classrooms) and downloadable teacher guides for many titles
RESOURCE WEBSITES - including the Lucy Tries Sports website;, online resources about sustainability, environmental responsibility, and about the Great Bear Rainforest; Speaking Our Truth: A Journey of Reconciliation; and Seven (the Series): 3 SERIES. 21 BOOKS. 7 AUTHORS
AUTHORS READ - Watch videos of Orca authors reading from their books and learn more about the Read Aloud Canadian Books Program.

Making a birthday party plan using a chart and brainstorming

-games you can play, food to serve, decorations

-how other countries celebrate

library2go helps keep students reading. Students can access ebooks and audiobooks from the provincial library system if they have a library card. This is an opportune time for students to develop fluency and stamina for reading independently. Invite them to explore titles in different genres and to find nonfiction titles that build on their interests. If students don’t have a library card, they can check out their regional library’s membership tab. Many libraries have an online application option so that students can gain a temporary library card number to borrow materials

Great games and activities for reading and math for kids aged 3 to 11. This site is targeted at parents and children, and can easily be used for free at home.

Find fun online games for kids featuring PBS KIDS characters. Students can find printables, coloring pages, online games and more.

This site offers math videos for students in the following areas:
Counting and Cardinality
Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Number & Operations in Base Ten
Geometry
Measurement & Data
Number & Operations—Fractions
Ratios & Proportional Systems
Statistics & Probability
The Number System
Expressions & Equations
Functions

PBS has created and shared tons of media rich, engaging, digital lessons for a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.

Find FREE videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers like you. Choose from lots of filters that will customize your search so you can find exactly what you're looking for.

"Physical and Health Education Canada (PHE Canada) champions healthy, active kids by promoting and advancing quality health and physical education opportunities and healthy learning environments. Supporting community champions with quality programs, professional development services, and community activation initiatives, PHE Canada inspires all to live healthy, physically active lives."

This site offers free online dictionary and text translation.

PROMT Online Translator does not offer as many languages as other translators. The list is limited to about 22 languages so far. But it does have other nice features. For instance, it makes use of automatic language detection and even choose a topic for the translation.

You can then copy, paste, check the spelling, or access a dictionary. There is also a virtual keyboard so if you are using the site on a tablet, for example, popping in your words or sentences is simple. PROMT also offers translation software that you can purchase and download. Interestingly, free online website translator is also available as an Apple or Android app.

Watch world-renowned storyteller Robert Munsch perform The Paper Bag Princess in this You Tube video.

Click "Start Writing Now" to let the games begin.

Students can create paragraphs right on the site using the writing prompts provided. They are then guided through: Introduction | Topic | Pre-Writing | Writing-Topic Sentence | More Pre-Writing | Writing--Body | Organizing | Writing--Conclusion | Revising--Overview: Style, Sentence Structure, Grammar, Proofreading | Publishing

There are also a ton of great writing prompts available. This is a great low pressure way to get kids writing!

Series of lessons and family activities to help students make sense of the pandemic & support their well-being.

"Peekaville is a small town nestled within lovely forests where humans and animals live and play in harmony. Peekaville oozes warmth and c reat i v it y. Peekaville is home to Leo the Hedgehog, Cody, Menka and the rest of the Peekapak Pals.In Peekaville, creativity and creation reign. It’s a world where kids have their own interests and talents that extend into architecture and electrical engineering, and robotics and programming.Peekaville’s mix of animals and humans, as well as different interests and talents, provide an accessible way for children to learn about diversity, respect differences and value the uniqueness of every being. Kids of all kinds, human and hedgehog alike, learn from one another.With such diversity around them, the kids of Peekaville must develop and hone crucial skills, like empathy, respect, kindness, and teamwork so everyone lives together harmoniously."

Pet Bingo is a whimsical mathematical world for everyone! Come watch your child’s understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division grow with their very own pets! Feed your pets and your child’s minds!

Pet Bingo features the following K-4 math skills:
ADDITION & SUBTRACTION:
– Add and subtract up to 10, 20, 100, 1000 and more
– Add up to four digit numbers
– Add and subtract multi-digit whole numbers
MULTIPLICATION & DIVISION:
– Practice times tables 1 to 12
– Multiply and divide by 100
– Multiply whole numbers by 10
MEASUREMENT/GEOMETRY:
– Represent whole numbers on an equally spaced numberline
– Understand concepts of area and relation to multiplication and addition