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Incorporating Explicit Instruction While Teaching Remotely

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Explicit Instruction Online Series — The Magic Is in the INSTRUCTION, Part 2

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A Message from Heggerty PA: COVID-19 Resources

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Speech-to-Print Literacy at Home: Tips and Tools for Parents
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Why Spelling Really Does Matter And What Parents Can Do to Help

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Home / Professional Development / Webinars / Why Spelling Really Does Matter And What Parents Can Do to Help $69 - $84 Speech-to-Print Literacy at Home: Tips and Tools for Parents Webinar registration for one person. See course description. Includes access to the recorded webinar for 30 days from date of purchase.

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With many educators turning to live remote instruction out of necessity, we've decided to offer several opportunities to participate in online trainings for the Zoom teleconferencing platform. Participants will learn how to set up their account; how to schedule meetings; how to adhere to best practices for successful teaching experiences; and a time for questions and answers.

Don't forget to download and install the Zoom client in advance!

Webinar Links

Monday, March 23

Tuesday, March 24

We have also created a free resource page where you can find on-demand trainings and self-paced tutorials. Look for the Zoom Crash Course or Video Tutorial Playlist at the link below:
http://coronavirus.greenbush.org/support/solutions/folders/43000567026
If you have any questions, reach out to Ronnie Williams.

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2020 Fox Reading Conference - Structured Literacy: All Children Can Read

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2020 Fox Reading Conference - presented by the Tom & Elizabeth Fox Endowment for Reading. Saturday, March 21, 2020, 8:00am-3:30pm. McWherter Learning Resource Center, Middle Tennessee State University. Structured Literacy integrates instruction in phonology, sound-symbol relationships, syllables, morphology, grammatical and text structure, and word and text meaning to support reading comprehension.

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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done.

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Colorado Dept. of Ed.- OD-Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties 

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Colorado Education Learning Management System

This site provides free courses developed by the Colorado Department of Education (CDE) for educators and other K-12 professionals.

Here's what's happening!

Join an active community of users and choose from a large selection of courses on a variety of education-related topics.

FAQ

Please search for a course you are interested in and then reach out to the CDE course contact listed; that person can assist you with creating an account and enrolling in a course. We don't currently allow self-registration.

While some courses offer a self-enrollment option, most do not. Please reach out to the CDE course contact listed on the course and that person can assist you with the enrollment process. If you don't yet have an account on this site, they can also help you with registering.

If you need support within a course, please reach out to the CDE contact listed for the course. If you don't see a contact, or need additional help, please contact CDE here.

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CORE 2019-2020 – On Demand, Free, Professional Learning Webinars

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Louisa Moats – Speech to Print: Language Essentials for Teaching Reading

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The Early Literacy Trifecta: Language, Print and Executive Function in African American Students.

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AIM will be closed Monday, March 23 - Friday, March 27 for Spring Break. The AIM campus continues to be closed during this time per Governor Wolf's mandate.

For Current Families: Remote learning for AIM students will restart following Spring Break on Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 3.

Register to Join our Virtual Open House - Friday, April 3 at 9:00 am - Families interested in AIM are encouraged to join us for a virtual open house to learn more about AIM, meet our division heads and ask questions. Register Here or contact our Admissions department for more information.

For Educators seeking Professional Development: Our AIM Institute staff and AIM Pathways facilitators are working remotely during this campus closure and can assist you.

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Early Literacy Trifecta Webinar - AIM Institute for Learning & Research

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5 Tips Every Teacher Must Know About Google Classroom

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Join a live Q&A session with the Instructional Coaching Group's Jim Knight! Jim will be answering coaching questions that he's received over the past few days. If you have questions about virtual coaching, distance learning, or other educational topics prompted by these unsettling times, please join us on ICGs Facebook page this Thursday at 2pm Pacific / 3pm Mountain / 4pm Central / 5pm Eastern. Hope to see you there!

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Welcome to the Brave New World...

Over the last two weeks I've had the pleasure of running online webinars with teachers called Techniques and Principles for Remote Learning.

My team's goal in designing this webinar was to:

share valuable techniques teachers can use;

study video of teachers applying them in real-world conditions;

demonstrate the techniques we're talking about so participants can "live the learning" and feel what it's like to be a student.

That required us to run our webinars on the small side. There were waitlists and people who missed them so and we've spent the last few days putting together a recorded version of the webinar.

Topics we talked about:

balancing synchronous and asynchronous instructional methods

including 'pause points' to allow students to interact and engage in content-in both forms of learning-and to ensure healthy accountability

using procedures and routines to build efficiency and to help students succeed

dissolving the screen to make students feel more connected

We've divided the recording into sections to make them easier to watch and navigate, and edited each section down to the key points because, honestly, if you're not engaged actively, recorded online learning can be brutal.

So with special thanks to John Costello and Rob Richard, the brains behind all of our video work, here are links to a recorded version our webinar:
Side note: please contact our team at tlac@uncommonschools.org if you'd be interested in our running a live and interactive (i.e. 'synchronous') version of the workshop for your organization.
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Our Webinar on Remote Teaching: Recorded Version - Teach Like a Champion

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Over the last two weeks I've had the pleasure of running online webinars with teachers called Techniques and Principles for Remote Learning. My team's goal in designing this webinar was to: share valuable techniques teachers can use; study video of teachers applying them in real-world conditions; demonstrate the techniques we're talking about so participants can "live...

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7 BEST Websites and Apps for Distance Learning

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Making Online Read Alouds Interactive-Elementary Example

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Like an audiobook...only a whole lot better

As many of you know, Read Alouds have always been a crucial part of our curriculum and literacy work. Reading aloud breathes life into a text, and when a text comes to life it doesn't just connect students to the act of reading, it connects them to one another. The words come alive; we share a story and the humor or tragedy of its narrative. A story is first and foremost an age-old means of building shared culture. Now as reminders of shared culture we left behind, those stories, read aloud can be doubly important-compelling and engaging at exactly the time we need to engage students online. In this post Team TLAC's Beth Verrilli reflects on two very different-but equally masterful-read alouds by Jen Rugani and Sean Reap. Beth writes:

The bonds a text creates among readers and listeners are palpable in two masterful online Read Alouds we want to share with you-both from asynchronous lessons. The first is our colleague Jen Rugani reading Dr. DeSoto, William Steig's story of a clever mouse dentist. Jen models shifts in mood and highlights crucial words so students build vocabulary. It's like an audible book with vocab support. And her joy and pleasure in the tale help her surmount the added challenge in an on-line world: maintaining students focus. How will Jen keep her students engaged? Not only through the story, but through the reading process itself.

OL-26RuganiFluencyTracking from TLAC Blog on Vimeo.

We remind you that Jen is reading Dr. DeSoto alone in her living room with just her laptop for company. Impossible, you say. It feels like we are in the room with her. We are connected. But Jen also helps 'dissolve the screen' (a concept Jen coined that we'll define in a future post) by managing her young listeners' attention-telling them what to pay attention to and where to put their eyes as they toggle between the words and pictures of the text and her screen presence. She makes sure they are reading as much as listening. She starts by explicitly telling her students to focus on the word "One." After a moment's pause, Jen is off, reading through two pages of text at a gallop... or maybe a canter. It's critical to read the text slowly enough to let students process and feel every word. Her pauses are as rich as her reading. Suddenly, Jen interrupts the text with an excited, "Oooh, readers!" and the directions to "Put your eyes on me." How can students not follow through, when Jen is so excited to remind her listeners of the clues they are accumulating to analyze Dr. DeSoto's choices?

Jen sustains and directs student attention throughout her Read Aloud. Her reading mimics the voices of characters, shouting, whispering, and weeping as needed. Her voice layers in meaning, punching each word in the DeSoto's risky decisions to "let the fox in" or exhaling in relief when the fox reveals that he was "just joking" as he snapped his jaws shut. Jen makes her students feel like they are sitting in a circle with her and reading together in real time.

We see much of the same happening in Sean Reap's 8 th grade English class. Yes, you can still read aloud to students at that age! Yes, they will still love it. Yes, it will help them to hear and internalize the book's narrative voice when they read on their own. And, yes, it will all be even better if you can set up the reading with the joyful, easy air of anticipation Sean creates at the outset of his video. As with Jen, his energy 'dissolves the screen.' It's hard to imagine he is just sitting alone in a room with his laptop. He has made a leap of faith and the results are compelling.

OL-38ReapReadAloud from TLAC Blog on Vimeo.

Older students may need fewer reminders to track, but they still benefit from hearing challenging texts come alive. In this section of To Kill a Mockingbird, Sean tackles the narrative voice of Scout Finch in subtle yet skillful ways. His reading of "hearty" sounds hearty, and he pauses at each comma to model how complex syntax should sound. As Scout recounts her treatment of Dill-she "beat him up, but it did no good"-Sean nails Scout's plaintive tone, and his pronunciation of "day" is drawn out to give us a sense of the endless loneliness Scout feels in her isolation from the boys. Finally, he knows that he has tasked his students to characterize Miss Maudie, so when her name appears in the text for the first time - notice the infinitesimal pause around the phrase "sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson"-he is drawing students' attention to the character's introduction without needing to break their enjoyment of the text.

Sean can send his mature readers off to finish reading on their own, set up for success through his initial Read Aloud. In a moment in time where screens loom large, we are glad that they can capture the voices of our teacher-readers.

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Is Reading Aloud Relevant in an Online Classroom? Yes! These Videos Prove It. - Teach Like a Champion

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As many of you know, Read Alouds have always been a crucial part of our curriculum and literacy work. Reading aloud breathes life into a text, and when a text comes to life it doesn't just connect students to the act of reading, it connects them to one another.

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There are two areas of the site, one for Students and one for Instructors. Materials are organized by our Foundational Skills Scope & Sequence, and can be quickly navigated using the Menu at the top of the page.

If you would like more information about Flyleaf products, please visit flyleafpublishing.com.

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Worksheet Improvements for Distance Learning

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Making Online Read Alouds Interactive-Middle School Example

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Last week Beth Verrilli shared a thought-provoking post about the power of Read Alouds in an online setting. Beth noted how the two videos we shared both helped students to understand how to read a given text independently and also connected them to reading and to the classroom community.

I found myself thinking about that when I watched Emily Badillo modeling a read aloud from The Giver as part of a project to develop materials for our Reading curriculum. It struck me that a good online read aloud has the power of an audiobook, but also does something more-it's like a book come to life but annotated and targeted specifically to a class of students.

Here's a clip of Emily reading and some highlights, small moments when Emily subtly embeds targeted support and enrichment without eroding the pleasure of the reading.

Notice that:

At :27 Emily very subtly emphasizes the word 'ritual.' She's just told them to pay attention to the family's rituals and this helps cue kids in... but just a little. She doesn't over do it and take away students' opportunity to notice the word. She just inflects it slightly to make it more likely they'll decide themselves to be doubly alert.

At :39 Emily makes a very brief observation that the word Sevens-for a group of seven-year-old children-is capitalized.... and has been throughout the book. She doesn't pause here to drive the point home. She is merely helping students to perceive something without telling them how to interpret it. She is prioritizing without crowding out their ability to interpret.

She's pre-taught the word "defiant" because it's critical to the book and as she comes upon it at :57 she notes that it's there and circles it... modeling for them how to respond to vocabulary and making sure they attend to and learn from its use, but again in a subtle manner.

At 1:30 she lingers on a sentence where Jonas and Lilly use the word 'animals' but don't understand what the word refers to. Later we will come to understand that animals no longer exits but again Emily wants to the book to take its time to unfold. She wants to give students some space to discover for themselves. She reads the sentence again. Remarks that it is odd and that she will come back to it but doesn't say why. She proceeds again with her vibrant reading. There's a theme here. She communicates over "this is important" but not always"this is important because"; she wants the story to flow and come to life. She wants students to still get to put the pieces together themselves.

at 2:31 she drops in a vocabulary definition "a spouse is a husband or wife" and then goes back and rereads the critical and revealing sentence containing it. Great catch that the word 'spouse' could be a barrier to understanding. She offers a tiny "hmm" but resists the urge to say "Here's why I re-read that." The mystery is theirs to wrestle with for the time being.

Later they will pause and discuss, but for now she lets some breadcrumbs tumble down and accumulate before students try to analyze. The book comes to life, and when they do pause to analyze the discussion will be more interesting.

Anyway, I loved the balance. Emily's read aloud still has all the benefits of an audiobook-the story richly told by a reader with impeccable expression-but she's annotating for them, adding bits of knowledge and emphasis to make the book more accessible and help students attend to critical moments while preserving their autonomy.

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More Thoughts-and Another Video-About Online Read Aloud - Teach Like a Champion

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Building Long-term Memory Online

As you can tell from reading this blog, our team has been furiously watching footage of online instruction. We've been inspired by the enthusiasm and humility of teachers as they take on sudden new challenges in the name of remote instruction. Last week we watched several teachers doing Retrieval Practice as part of their online lessons. We were struck, first, by how important and valuable Retrieval Practice was as an online activity and also how well it lent itself to asynchronous instruction especially. As a result we decided to test some ideas out ourselves, as Erica Woolway describes in this post:
We've been toying over the last week or so with trying to make some sample videos for schools that might be adapting ELA Curriculum in an online setting, so we decided to take some of the best ideas we'd seen in online Retrieval Practice and put them all together in a series of test videos that we watched and discussed internally.

The first one we studied was of Emily Badillo, (you saw her expertly reading aloud a few blog posts ago). This time we asked her to model Retrieval Practice using content from the Knowledge Organizer to our Animal Farm unit. This model is a bit longer than our typical videos (coming in just under 7 minutes) but we think it's worth a watch because there are so many things to adapt and steal. It focuses on ways we can support students in consolidating knowledge from their working memory into long term memory, something that becomes doubly important in remote learning.

Our favorite aspects of Emily's model include:

1. Emily's establishment of strong Systems and Routines for remote learning. She is clear about what students should expect and what materials they will need for the session.

2. Throughout the video, Emily 'Dissolves the Screen,' creating both a feeling of connection as well as accountability for students, despite the fact that she is neither in-person nor doing this synchronously with students.

3. She creates a game-like atmosphere, using the timer and countdowns to add a playful urgency to the exercise. We're really struck by the potential for the game-i-fication of Retrieval Practice in settings like this. We've talked about the importance of Pause Points in online instruction, and we love how Emily adapts this idea - keeping the pause points "live" and therefore more a bit more engaging.

4. As always, her Retrieval Practice is Knowledge Based. We think that this is particularly important in today's remote environment. It's a time when we can't teach everything, so we find ourselves having to prioritize in a way we've never had to before. We think it's the perfect time to invest in building lasting knowledge that will serve our students in the long run.

5. And perhaps what is most challenging in both synchronous and asynchronous instruction, Emily adds an Accountability Loop to this exercise. Not only does she ask students to self-score, but she asks students to text her a picture of their work. A participant on our webinar yesterday chatted a suggestion to take this even a step further - in tomorrow's lesson she could do a remote Show Call by sharing the strongest student samples.

So it's with continued gratitude and awe that we continue to learn from you all and try our hand as well.

Thanks to Emily for this model to share with others!

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Video: Retrieval Practice in Asynchronous Instruction - Teach Like a Champion

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Quick, 30-minute webinars from the Kentucky Center for Mathematics! For ALL levels--Elementary through High School.

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Teaching Routines and Expectations for Remote Learning

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How to set up clear procedures and routines for online teaching!

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Clear procedures help students succeed and signal 'this is still a classroom...'

Having strong procedures and routines is one of the most important things you can do to support learning in a bricks and mortar classroom. Ensuring that students to know how to do frequently recurring tasks well is a driver of focus and efficiency. It helps us as teachers make the endeavor of school feel productive and important.

One thing that watching examples of online teaching has taught us is that virtual classrooms often have more in common with the real thing than you might suspect, and the importance of procedures and routines is a good example.

With that in mind here's a video of two teachers from Uncommon Schools' math team- Alonzo Hall and Linda Fraser -starting their lessons. They're both great examples of teachers who instill and reinforce clear procedures. And the similarities between them show the benefit of consistent school wide approach-even in a virtual world.

Some things we loved here on Team TLAC:

Both teachers do a great job of helping students start off organized. These are both asynchronous lessons. Students watch the videos on their own at a time of their choosing. But both videos remind students of the tools they need to be successful in a brand new context where they may not have build those habits yet.

Neither teacher rushes the set-up. Not only do they take time to explain the procedures clearly and to emphasize 'this is how we'll do it every day,' but they encourage students to use the pause bar to take their time and make sure they're ready. Their pacing shows set-up procedures matter as much as their words. And just because it's asynchronous doesn't mean you can be intentional about letting students control and take responsibility for the pace: you can and should always pause to make sure you're ready.

Both teachers are diligent about making it part of their systems that important directions are not only given BOTH verbally and visually but that they are highlighted in yellow so students notice them. Alonzo even makes this transparent to students: "Whenever the yellow highlight comes across our page it is simply a reminder that you can/should pause the video to copy the notes from the page." Linda reminds students of the importance of her visuals by saying: "Please pause to make your paper look like mine."

Both teachers are organized and efficient themselves-they're clear on what they want to get done; they are not going to waste anyone's time-but they also have a warmth to them. Linda's smile is steady and reassuring. Alonzo says "Whenever you press play i will be the voice that you see here."

There are even "purpose, not power" moments. Alonzo, for example, makes it clear that you need a pencil, not a pen, because that's how great mathematicians do it.

Hopefully one of the other takeaways is the power of shared systems across teachers.... just like in a school. The more familiar the more consistent the procedures are the more students will get used to them and the more successful they will be. The consistency of their approach says: We are still a school; we're still connected.

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Elementary students can record experiences with a free COVID-19 Time Capsule Workbook

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We're making this version available until life begins to return to normal and schools are open and operating again.

Please contact us if you find errors, problems, or have suggestions for making this edition more useful.
If you are new to Reading for All Learners please spend a few minutes reviewing the Instructor Guide. The Instructor Guide is a very quick read and following this guide is vital!
If you are new to teaching reading take a look at the pronunciation guide to make use you are modeling sounds accurately. If you aren't sure which books to start with please consider running our free placement assessment series. Also you can find a correlation to leveled readers which can be useful in determining a starting point. Finally, visit the Reading For All Learners resources page to find progress tracking sheets, completion certificates and lots more.

Thanks for all you are doing to help kids learn during this challenging time. We are grateful for the opportunity to be able to support your efforts. Please help us with this effort by sharing this resource. As always, feel free to reach out to us using any of the methods found at the bottom of this page with any questions or concerns.

Sincerely,

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Lessons plans organized by science discipline, aligned to NGSS. Most use EVERY DAY materials that can be found at home.

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Free science lesson plans designed to engage students through hands-on experiments and activities. Chemistry, life sciences, physics, engineering and more, for elementary, middle and high school teachers.

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Come back every weekday at 10am for a new activity!

Each week, we'll focus on a new theme. Explore with us while you're Stuck at Home!

Welcome to Stuck at Home Science! When you're stuck at home, come here to continue your child's science learning with our easy to follow activities. This space is designed for families to explore, investigate and have fun learning together without leaving home. All activities use easy to find household supplies, and are appropriate for a variety of ages.

Daily Activities for April 20 - 24

Big Lab Scientist
Cientifico del Laboratorio Grande

Science happens everywhere! Join us this week as we take you through our Big Lab at the California Science Center and help you explore fun ways to learn how science is happening in your own home. Not all science labs are the same, but what matters is what scientists do inside the labs!

¡La ciencia sucede en todas partes! Acompáñenos esta semana mientras lo llevamos por nuestro Laboratorio Grande en el California Science Center y lo ayudamos a explorar formas divertidas de aprender cómo está sucediendo la ciencia en su propio hogar. No todos los laboratorios de ciencia son igual, ¡pero lo que importa es lo que hacen los científicos dentro de los laboratorios!

Daily Activities for April 13 - 17

Know your problem, gather your materials, and let's "BUILD IT"! Join us this week as we venture into different problems where you can be the engineer that designs, builds, and tests solutions! Get creative in the Engineering Design Process as you build your own traps, cars, toys, and more to share with family and friends.

¡Conozca su problema, reúna sus materiales y "CONSTRÚYELO"! ¡Acompáñenos esta semana, mientras aventuramos en diferentes problemas en los que usted puede ser el ingeniero que diseña, construye y prueba soluciones! Sea creativo en el Proceso de Diseño de Ingeniería a medida que construya sus propias trampas, autos, juguetes y más para compartir con familiares y amigos.

Daily Activities for April 6 - 10

Ooze-rageous
El Ataque del Ooze

Join us as we create sticky mucus, noisy flatulence, bird droppings, and more! Each day this week, we will feature a new Stuck at Home Science activity focused on gross science.

¡Acompáñenos mientras creamos mucosidad pegajosa, flatulencia ruidosa, excremento de pájaro y más! Cada día de esta semana, presentaremos una nueva actividad de Stuck at Home Science enfocada en la ciencia asquerosa.

Daily Activities for March 30 - April 3

All Cooked Up!
¡Todo Cocinado!

Join us in the kitchen to whip up perfect pancakes, homemade ice cream, candy, and more! Each day this week, we will feature a new Stuck at Home Science activity focused on culinary science.

¡Acompáñenos en la cocina para preparar panqueques perfectos, helados hechos en casa, dulces y más! Cada día de esta semana, presentaremos una nueva actividad de Stuck at Home Science centrada en la ciencia culinaria.

Daily Activities for March 23-27

3, 2, 1, Blast Off!
¡3, 2, 1, Despega!

Join us as we explore rockets, projectiles, gliders and more! Each day this week, we will feature a new Stuck at Home Science activity focused on flight and/or rocketry.

¡Acompáñenos mientras exploramos cohetes, proyectiles, planeadores y más! Cada día de esta semana, presentaremos una nueva actividad de Stuck at Home Science enfocada en vuelo y / o cohetes.

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Mattecentrum, established in 2008 within Sweden, is a non-profit membership organization. It has been dedicated to offering complimentary assistance in mathematics for all individuals engaged in mathematical studies, for free. The primary goal of Mattecentrum revolves around fostering equitable access to knowledge while also fostering greater interest and proficiency in mathematics and other STEM-related disciplines. The organization's membership spans ages 6 to 26.

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My name is Jorene Cook, EdD. I am an Early Literacy Coach and Adjunct Instructor in CNY. As they say, hindsight is 20/20. If only I knew that explicit phonol...