Spring into School-Mode with these Free Resources for Elementary Students

Spring into School-mode with these Free Resources for your Little Learners!

Everything Elementary

• National Geographic Kids
  Find fun fill in the blanks for your children to create their own stories! This Nat Geo site provides quizzes, amazing animal videos, science experiments, and educational explorations like US states, science, and space.
• PBS Kids
  Bold and bright curriculum-based entertainment for your little ones in elementary school. Free educational games, videos, and stories.
• Sesame Street
  Sesame Street saves the day with family fun activities, games, videos, storytime, sing-alongs, and coloring worksheets.
• tinkergarten
  At-home weekly activities to promote active learning, thinking, and social and emotional skills for kids zero to eight.
• Funbrain
  Free worksheets, videos, and games for grades pre-K –8.
• Scholastic Learn at Home
  Scholastic is helping you take things one day at a time with daily lessons, and thought-provoking activities and articles, among other resources for grades pre-K-9.

Math

• Math Games
  Test your children’s math skills with free, interactive games, and worksheets made for each elementary grade level.
• Bedtime Math
  Engaging math activities to keep your kids learning and active at home.

Language Arts

• ReadWriteThink
  Age-appropriate after school, classroom, and parent resources geared towards reading and language arts.
• Biblionasium
  A safe, fun, free social reading community for ages 6-13; think book club for kids (but better).

Art

• Jarrett J. Krosoczka—author & illustrator
  NY Times best-selling author and illustrator teaches children stuck inside an introduction to illustration and family-friendly cartoon drawing.
• Common Sense Media Best Documentaries
  Explore cultures, issues, and stories that will inspire you in this list of family-friendly documentaries broken down by age groups 5-13+.

Science

• Metropolitan Museum of Art Kids
  Explore 5,000 years of art around the world. Find hidden treasures, fun facts, Q & A videos, and hop in the time machine to learn geography and art from different eras.
• Mystery Science
  Full and mini science lessons for your elementary school-aged children. Digital and hands-on activities for grades K -5. Topics range from “why do woodpeckers peck wood to “How do things glow in the dark?”
• Crash Course Kids
  Fifth-grade science videos gone virtual (and viral).

Well-being 

• Calm
  Children ages 3-17 can learn meditation techniques to help keep them calm.
• Cosmic Kids Yoga
  Your young ones can learn yoga and mindfulness while going on interactive adventures for an indoor workout.
• 29 books to read your kids if you want them to be kind and brave
  Twenty-nine book suggestions when you need to read to your children about bravery and kindness.

 

We hope you find these free resources helpful and that you enjoy your virtual visits!