School @ Home — Term 2

With your children set to start online classrooms before phasing in days at school, we hope these free resources complement classes and are useful for your family even after restrictions are lifted.

Scholastic Learn at Home

“Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking and growing”

The Editors of Scholastic Classroom Magazine have a great website to guide you with home schooling lessons for:

PreK and Kindergarten
Grades 1 and 2
Grades 3-5
Grades 6+

MAPPEN Home Learning

MAPPEN, an online curriculum solution with lesson plans from prep to grade 6, will be offering adapted lessons for free to all primary schools and their students across Australia to support continued learning in the home.

“As a response to the increasing likelihood of widespread school closures, we are in the process of modifying our learning sequences to be used as home learning for students in Years 3 to 6.”

Wild Life Sydney Virtual Zoo

“Bringing Wild Life Sydney Zoo to your home”

Follow their live streams with colouring in pages and activity sheets.

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Sea Life Sydney Virtual Aquarium

“Bringing SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium to you with 24/7 live streams of our most beautiful sea creatures.” Check out SEA LIFE’s YouTube Channel for their library of past live streams.

By @msrachelyoung on Twitter

As discussed on Breakfast with Sam & Duncan

We’re gearing up keep our kids (ages 2 and 5) at home when the schools close. We work full time and honestly don’t know what’s next. I put together a list of projects that don’t rely on screens for learning. In no particular order.?
— Rachel Young (@msrachelyoung) March 13, 2020

By @LovingEarthParenting on Facebook

Here are some sanity-saving tips and some connection- and joy-building tricks to give your ‘lock-in’ a chance of being a fun-in:

What ideas would you add? What are your go-to fun family games, activities or ways to keep the kids and the whole family happy for long stretches at home?

Disclaimer: it won’t always be easy with rainbows and unicorns. Be kind and forgiving of yourself along the way…!

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