This site offers kids songs, shows, crafts, recipes, activities, resources for teachers & parents. The resource section (Free Printables tab) includes free flashcards, coloring pages, worksheets, and other resources for children, teachers, and parents.
Daily lessons and educational activities that kids can do on their own . Topics include reading, writing, science and math, health, language, art, music, fun and games.
This site offers workout videos and exercises that kids can do to keep them fit and healthy. Choose the category and activity, set the time you want to do it for and you're set! Categories include:
Strength for Kids
Agility for Kids
Flexibility and Balance for Kids
Warm-Up for Kids
Cool down for Kids
Stand Up and Move for Kids
Grab these free syllable clip cards today! Great for preschoolers and early readers.
The good reasons this skill of counting syllables has shifted down to pre-readers as they begin to make sense of the world of literacy:
- When kids can chunk words into syllables, they can read longer words more quickly, accurately, and fluently.
- Beginning spellers do better when they can break words into pieces.
One of Ditch That Textbook's newest resources is called TEACHFLIX
TEACHFLIX offers tons of great YouTube videos for your class all in one place. It's quite a collection! Check it out!
You'll find sections on: 360 Videos, Computer Science, Elementary History, Middle & High School History, Elementary Mathematics, Middle School Mathematics, High School Mathematics, Elementary Science, Middle School Science, High School Science, Read Alouds, and Virtual Field Trips
You can browse by elementary, middle school and high school OR by content area!
Games and many other resources based on TVO for Preschool and School Age kids!
Give Boredom Busters under school age a peek for some great ideas.
Many parents and teachers are wondering what to say to kids during these extraordinary times. We don’t want to scare kids, but we must be truthful and find ways to talk to them honestly and hopefully about COVID-19.
Dr Phil McRae of the Alberta Teachers’ Association invited his friend and colleague, Dr Michael Rich—Pediatrician at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor at Harvard Medical School and School of Public Health—to discuss how parents and teachers can get through this together with our kids.
The resulting interactive PDF and online resource provide suggestions on what might be said to children and youth during the pandemic, what can be done to support our public health care system, and how we will get through this together.
This site offers readable, teachable news that students in grades 2-8 would be interested in. Teaching Kids News posts weekly news articles, written by professional journalists. It’s free to read and use in the classroom. Please also use TKN’s Search feature to search the more than 1,000 articles in our archives. There are sections on news, arts and entertainment, science (technology, environment, animals, health), sports, politics, and even "Fake News Resources". Read about how to talk to kids about difficult news as well. There are also tips on how to use the site for parents, teachers and students.
Families can take math estimation challenges in a wide variety of fun ways.
This is a phenomenal website full of super useful information for students and teachers!
There are articles and resources for:
Science, Technology & Math
Humanities
Art, Music, Recreation
Anything and everything is available here from how to understand percentile scores - to writing a solid argumentative essay - to grade 2 writing prompts.
Click the menu in the top left corner to sort resources for students & parents, educators or adult learners!
This site offers tons of information on a whole bunch of current and relevant topics of interest for students K-6.
A book about social distancing from author Kim St. Lawrence.
Tinkergarten offers play-based outdoor activities that suit a wide range of ages. These activities are purposefully designed to bring 3, 4, and 5 year olds together with their families to bond while developing problem solving and emotional skills, as well as learning how teamwork can be integral to group activities. Activities can be sorted by age, grade level, or by learning domain/content. Many of these activities align with the philosophy and beliefs in the Play and Exploration document, as well as the Essential Experiences documents from the Ministry. The activities themselves are not technology based, so instructions could be printed off and sent home for families with limited technology resources at home, while still allowing them to participate in supplemental learning with their child
From bringing you closer as you share stories to having a special time together at the end of the day, reading aloud to your children has many benefits. Reading isn’t just a part of the school day but a lifelong practice you can reinforce and celebrate at home. You can share favorite books, explore new titles, and read aloud together.
What does it look like to read aloud to your children? A child who might not read independently can sit with you side-by-side as they listen to you read a picture book. Independent readers might take turns reading aloud a chapter book with you as you explore a favorite book from your childhood. The possibilities are endless!
In this blog post, Monica Burns has nine tips for reading aloud to your children. Reading aloud can happen at any age.
Toy Theater playfully teaches conceptual foundations with online interactive games and activities that have real educational value. Find resources for math, reading, art, music, puzzles and games.
Lamarr Oksasikewiyin provides traditional games for developing number sense with early learners. Lamarr created a series of Facebook videos with a focus on number games, number concepts, and traditional ways of knowing. A Facebook account is not required to view.
These Ministry of Education Treaty Education Learning Resource Guides outline:
Treaty Education - Key Questions for K-4, 5-9
Treaty Education Outcomes and Indicators
Inquiry Questions for each grade
Teacher Background Information
Suggested Resources
This Saskatchewan Ministry of Education documents outlines all of the Treaty Education outcome and indicators for Kindergarten to Grade 12.
This site offers Fun Educational and Online Games for Kids in PreK - 5. It introduce kids to new, exciting ways of learning with the help of fun online games, videos, experiments, puzzles, coloring sheets, and more!
This site is full of free (and paid) resources to help teachers and students.You can filter by age, grade, subject, and more.Search everything from back to school, orange shirt day, and subject specific topics to find great resources.