Resources for At Home Learning
As I researched the resources this week, I found that I kept coming back to Wide Open School. I found this resource easy to navigate, easy to use that has a variety of resources for Prek+. I particularly like the way the resources are categorized by educator & family, by grade level and by content area. This categorization helps to make this resource easy to use and reference. Educators and parents can easily navigate to resources based on the content area being studied and grade level of the child.
Wide Open School offers a variety of content areas for students from social/emotional learning, math & science to language arts, social studies and life skills. They also provide virtual field trip experiences for students and have a section on using different platforms from which to set up virtual classrooms.
Creating Preschool Resources
Like in the past several weeks, I wanted to create a resource to send out to my students and families that would provide activities and experiences for them that would encourage them to continue learning at home. I have received feedback from several of my students who like the variety of activities and experiences that a choice board offers. Some parents have mentioned they would like to have extension ideas to keep their children engaged and a way for them to be a part of their learning. The Wide Open School resource has made this easy to do. I created a virtual choice board, in a Hyperdoc format, using the resources from Wide Open School where families can do an activity online and then complete an extension activity if they choose.
I have previously expressed the importance on educating parents and families as well as the student. To do this, I put a section for the content area and resource on the choice board so parents know what content the activity is focused on and where I found the resource. Also, by including an extension activity parents will get to see how they too can come up with short activities that keep their child engaged and learning.
When creating the choice board I focused on 5 content areas: Social/emotional, math, science, literacy and movement. I focused on activities that would be easy to do at home, uses materials that are easily accessible and that are fun, engaging and interesting for students.
Singing in the Rain! That will be a good one for this week! Finding Resources that can answer an immediate need is a good thing, finding them all in one spot is a great thing. The choice board appears to have meet the need for resources as well as extension activities. The kids aren't the only ones learning!
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