Thank you to Nicole Wilson for sharing these amazing ideas she has created for the students and families in her class. All activities have a social emotional lens, which is more important to focus on now, more than ever!

Click Here for SEL Four Week Challenge

What is Social Emotional Learning?

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.  https://casel.org/

The Circle of Viewpoints activity helps students consider different and diverse perspectives involved in and around a topic. Understanding that people may think and feel differently about things is important learning for our students.  This work is inspired by Miriam Miller and also Project Zero.  This is a template that might work for learners at home.   They could choose text they have at home, or online, and write about the different perspectives students have in a book or article.

circle of viewpoints

Thank you Kristine Mraz, who thoughtfully created some learning activities children can engage in at home, with their family members.

Play Packet for Families – Click here

Thanks very much to Gail Boushey, co author of Daily 5, who has created some short videos to support parents in encouraging their kids to read at home!

Click here to view

Heart Maps are a beautiful way for students to reflect on the things that are the most special to them.  These can then be used as prompts for writing.  This could be something that could be sent to students learning at home.

Here are some picture books that would be a lovely addition to heart maps!

In My Heart – A Book of Feelings

My Map Book – Click here

My heart map – Click here

I am a big fan of  the book “Disrupting Thinking” by Kylene Beers and Robert Probst.   This book is a guide for changing the way we think about teaching kids to become the thoughtful, skillful, attentive, and responsive readers we want them to be.

I have created templates that match the “book head heart” framework.  These templates can be used with a variety of texts, and will support a wide range of learners in your classroom.  We can change the complexity of text, but keep the templates the same for all learners.

These templates might support your remote learning, as students could use these to respond to books they have at home, online books, and articles.

book response- click here

heart response – click here

head response – click here

I love double entry journals because they can be used over and over again, and we just change the text students use.  They decrease students’ anxiety, because learners become familiar with the template.  Double entry journals are also inclusive.  We can change the complexity of texts to meet all learners’ needs, but the template is the same for everyone.  We see different responses from all learners, and when we have our conferences , we can talk about areas they did well, and goals for future learning.  These would be great to use for remote learning, as students could use them over and over again.  They could use text from various subject areas, online texts, or even books they have at home.

Click below for your copy.  I  was inspired by Faye Brownlie’s use of double entry journals in her book “Grand Conversations”.

Double Entry Journal – Click Here

Hello everyone,

Here is a list of on line literacy opportunities that I hope will support you and your students.  I wish you all the best during this journey.  Thank you to Stephanie Good, Angela Meredith, Teresa Toth, and Jennifer Araujo for your support with this list!

Scholastic Digital Resources

http://scholastic.ca/education/free_digital_resources/

PebbleGo for K-Grade 3 – independent research (Animals, Sciences, Social Studies)  click here for direct access.

Capstone Interactive for K – Grade 8 (Non Fiction, Fiction, Graphic Novels and more) Click here for Capstone

Teen Cloud: 

https://www.teenbookcloud.com/autologin.aspx?U=tumble2020&P=A3b5c6

Audiobook Cloud:

http://www.audiobookcloud.com/autologin.aspx?U=tumble2020&P=A3b5c6&categoryID=33

Burnaby Public Library

BPL offers online resources, including e-books and audiobooks that can be accessed from home. Log in using your library card number and PIN.

https://www.bpl.bc.ca/news/covid19

KidLitTV

KidLitTV allows children to explore a variety of literacy experience from author and illustrator interviews and read alouds to book trailers and crafts.  There is so much to explore in children’s literature on this site.

Time For Kids

Time for Kids magazine provides:

• Age-appropriate stories kids are excited about

• Information just for kids that explains the world around them

• High-quality, trusted TIME journalism that teaches news literacy

Time for Kids

We Are Teachers

Nothing is more engaging for children than visits from authors and you can do so virtually on We Are Teachers and Storyline Online sites.  A variety of authors and well-known personalities read stories aloud.  There are also a variety of other activities!

Story Time from Space

Astronauts read stories from space!

https://storytimefromspace.com/

National Geographic Kids 

Here you will find games, videos and articles on so many interesting topics.

https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/

Audible

Audible is offering free audio books until the end of the school year

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Scholastic Learn at Home

There are so many learning opportunities on this site.  Activities range from pre K through to Grade 9!

https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome.html

Raz Kids

Raz Kids provides leveled books that students can read, listen to, and also answer comprehension questions.

https://www.raz-kids.com/

Epic

Epic offers thousands of engaging books for children.

https://www.getepic.com/

Tumblebooks

https://www.tumblebooks.com/

Burnaby School District has a license for Tumblebooks.   Go to your school homepage, and choose “Web Resources”  under the library tab.  Then a new page will come up  and at the top of it, you will see the Tumblebooks icon on the left hand corner.

Vooks

https://www.vooks.com/

Vooks brings children’s books to life with animated illustrations, read-a-long text and narrated story.

alphabet flash cards – click here

MrPrintables.com