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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted.
Below will find: Blank Comic Book Pages, "Finish This Comic!" Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts.
More activities are being added to this page regularly, so make sure to check back for more!
Click on the numbers below to find a variety of different blank comic book pages. Each number corresponds to a different arrangement of panels on the page. Print out a few of each, or a bunch of one kind, and make your own comic!

"Finish This Comic!" Comics

Below you will find a collection of comics that are incomplete. Look closely at the pictures, then figure out what you need to add to complete the comic!

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Drawing/Writing Prompts

Below you will find some drawing prompt activity sheets. Completed drawings can also be used as creative writing prompts.

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The activities below are available for free download, and are to be used in educational and/or private settings. They may not be used elsewhere or for other purposes (such as for profit) unless explicit permission is granted. Below will find: Blank Comic Book Pages, "Finish This Comic!" Comics, and Drawing/Writing Prompts.

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COVID-19 At Home Learning Activities Cards - Wakelet

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The great educators in the Twitterverse have been posting activities cards with different themes - ELA, STEM, Art, PE, LEGOS. This Wakelet will continually be updated.

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The Daily Decks combine Newsela’s curated news articles with Pear Deck’s unique student engagement platform

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How to Use the Templates

The Daily Decks combine Newsela's curated news articles with Pear Deck's unique student engagement platform. When sharing with students, they will read the Newsela article directly in the Pear Deck session eliminating the need to direct students to a new tab or type in a URL.

The Decks are organized into a simple sequence of activities. To begin, select a topic from the gallery above. Note that you and your students will need to create a free Newsela account to set text levels and use the annotation features.

Step 1 . Login to Newsela and assign the article to your class. Make sure students are logged in, too!

Step 2 . Open the Daily Deck and launch your Pear Deck Session

Step 3 . Students will read and annotate the article, reflect and discuss

This simple instructional pattern makes it easy to practice literacy while building critical thinking skills and global awareness. Feel free to make these templates your own by editing the prompts or adding slides with links to other relevant articles!

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Newsela and Pear Deck teamed up to create daily activities that will help students explore current events while practicing their literacy, critical thinking, and communication skills. Each deck is paired with an article from Newsela's expertly curated news content and designed to get classroom conve

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NASA STEM @ Home for Students -- Find crafting ideas, science experiments with household items and videos to watch as a family.

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OER Project is a family of free, online social studies curricula. Aligned to state standards and easily adaptable.

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(Tummee Reference Yoga Sequence)

Below yoga sequence should be used as a guide by yoga teachers to create their own yoga class plans

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Yoga Sequence for Teenagers: Yoga For High School Students: Yoga Poses, Cues, Steps, and Breathing instructions

Yoga Sequence Builder for Yoga Teachers: Plan your yoga classes, build yoga sequencing foundation with sequence guides, and get yoga sequencing ideas with daily yoga sequences and reference cues. Learn more at www.tummee.com

Note: Above yoga sequence is for educational purposes only. Please consult a medical professional and/or a licensed yoga teacher or yoga therapist before starting any exercise regime, including yoga.

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Yoga Sequence for Teenagers: Yoga For High School Students

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Yoga Sequence For Teenagers: Yoga For High School Students Teen years can be difficult with bodily changes, mood swings and increased stress levels. Teens today get exposure to a lot of information early on, causing excitement, fear, and anxiety. Peer pressure, wanting to experiment with harmful substances, and self-esteem issues can be difficult to manage.

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Literary Resources Students Can Use From Home

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Literary Resources Students Can Use From Home

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Here are some links to literary resources that students can use from home.

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A free online platform for science education from Harvard University

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TED-Ed lessons on all subjects. TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big ideas.

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A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown

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As more festivals, performances and concerts are canceled due to the coronavirus shutdown, musicians of all stripes and sizes are taking to social and streaming platforms to play live for their fans.

NPR Music is compiling a list of live audio and video streams from around the world, categorized by date and genre, with links out to streaming platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. Some will require registration or a subscription, but most will be free, often with digital tip jars and opportunities to directly support artists by buying music and merchandise.

Some artists are planning daily streams - like Ben Gibbard and Christine and the Queens - and will be noted below as information becomes available.

This is a living document, updated every day until it's no longer needed. An archive of concerts that are available on demand can be found at the bottom of the page.

March 17

R&B/soul

Rock

Ben Gibbard: Live from Home
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Links: YouTube / Facebook

Classical

Metropolitan Opera: Puccini's Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera

Americana

March 18

Americana

Classical

March 19

Classical

Metropolitan Opera: Verdi's Il TrovatoreTime: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera

Americana

March 20

Electronic

Classical

Metropolitan Opera: Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment
Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
Link: Met Opera

Rock

Ben Gibbard: Live from Home
Time: 7 p.m. ET
Links: YouTube / Facebook

Americana

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Americana

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March 22

Classical

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March 23

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March 24

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March 25

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March 26

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March 27

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March 28

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March 30

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March 31

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April 3

Indie

Rick Maguire from Pile
Times: 8:30 p.m. ET
Links: Instagram / Facebook

April 11

Classical

7 Deaths of Maria Callas
Time: 12:30 p.m. ET
Link: Bavariand Staatsoper

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Code Orange
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A List Of Live Virtual Concerts To Watch During The Coronavirus Shutdown

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Cleveland Inner City Ballet to launchVirtual Online Ballet Instruction Program

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Industry News

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Free Resources: Ed Tech Companies Step Up During Coronavirus Outbreak

Quizlet is offering nothing special; but as usual the company continues to make many services available free, including its classroom games and flashcard study guides. https://quizlet.com/

RoboKind, which produces "advanced social robots," has made a virtual coding course from it robots4STEM Avatar Version for elementary and middle school students available through Jun. 30, 2020. The software uses an online avatar that students program rather than programming a physical robot. https://www.robokind.com/robots4stem/home

Top Hat has made its education platform free of charge for the rest of the semester to support educators transitioning to remote teaching and learning. Be forewarned: For those who sign up, the company will put an education specialist "in touch" within one to three business days "to help you get set up." https://tophat.com/covid-19-response/

Wiley has made WileyPLUS, Knewton Alta and zBooks available through the Spring 2020 term. Also, the company has made more than 5,000 COVID-19-related articles freely available on a Wiley Online Library site. https://secure.wiley.com/COVID19OpenWPAccess, https://www.zybooks.com/, https://novel-coronavirus.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

Zoom has lifted the 40-minute meeting limit on its free basic accounts for K-12 and teamed up with Clever to make Zoom accessible to Clever districts that experiencing closures. Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes, has made available free remote teacher training webinars demonstrating how to adapt teaching practices and curriculum to a live video chat classroom. https://blog.zoom.us/wordpress/2020/03/13/how-to-use-zoom-for-online-learning/

About the Author

Dian Schaffhauser is a senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter @schaffhauser.

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Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari Resources + LiveStream

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Story Time From Space | T2 Science & Math Education Consultants

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Watch live video of gorillas at the Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education Center (GRACE) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa. Watch as the gorilla's pass through, graze on vegetation, and make their nest for their overnight slumber

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If there is a silver lining to COVID-19 closings, it's that our favorite children's book authors are now doing virtual storytimes!

Mo Willems - in conjunction with The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts - is offering a daily Lunch Doodle from 1 PM - 1:20 PM through March 27. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo's studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together.

Author Mac Barnett is also reading a different book every day at 3 PM ET via Instagram Live.

Other authors are grabbing their favorite books and phone and are recording themselves reading - thanks to a new online series organized by Romper. Search the hashtag #OperationStoryTime on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to find a beloved author or discover a new one! Here are some of our favorites:

Love the books you're listening to or want to explore more books by the authors? Call our friends at The Ivy Bookshop (Lake Roland/Mt. Washington), The Children's Bookstore (Lauraville), Capricho's Books (Bel Air), or Greedy Reads (Fells Point). They can offer delivery in some cases and can definitely provide curbside service.

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#OperationStoryTime | Your Favorite Authors Host Story Time Online! - (cool) progeny

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If there is a silver lining to COVID-19 closings, it's that our favorite children's book authors are now doing virtual storytimes! Mo Willems - in conjunction with The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts - is offering a daily Lunch Doodle from 1 PM - 1:20 PM through March 27.

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Are you wondering what you're going to do with the kids' home now that schools are closed due to Coronavirus (Covid-19)? Maybe you're a little uneasy about getting the kids to do their schoolwork at home, or maybe you just need something fun and different to look at with them. Kidding Around's Melanie has gathered together many of the online resources the kids use regularly at school, plus some additional educational programs you can use to supplement and keep things rolling. She's also included a list of fun virtual field trips to places like Yellowstone National Park that you can take right from your computer. This article includes:

Online Programs Upstate Kids Use at School
More Educational Websites

Brain Pop - Video-based lessons with companion quizzes, for several different subjects. Free access for students through school accounts, or subscription-based for the public.

Epic - Digital library of books. Students can access this site for free through their student account. Families can subscribe, and a free trial is offered.

Extra Math - A free online math learning resource that is available to everyone.

Khan Academy - Short lessons in the form of videos for English and math. These lessons are available online, free of charge to anyone.

Quizlet - Teachers create study guides and practice tests for the current curriculum being studied. This is not available to the general public.

There are more resources included on Clever, the online portal that students use, but these are the most commonly used. Staying Active Indoors If you are looking for ways to supplement their schoolwork, there are lots of online options. We've listed some of the more affordable and popular options.

Miacademy Learning - Lessons for multiple subjects offered. Subscription-based with a $1.99 first month trial.

ABC Mouse - Math, art, science, reading & color lessons for ages 2-8. FREE access during the school closures by using code - SCHOOL7771

Adventure Academy - Math, art, science & reading for ages 8-13.. FREE access during the school closures by using code - SCHOOL7771

Amazing Virtual Field Trips
Internet Access for Those in Need

Kinder Art - Art lessons for grades PreK - 8th grade. Free and fee-based lessons available online.
Helping Kids Cope

Cosmic Kids Yoga - Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation for kids 3 and over.

Go Noodle - Kid-friendly videos to get your kids up and moving around.

Dr. Jean and Friends - Song about math, reading and more that your kids can sing and dance to.

Looking for more? Visit our Coronavirus in Upstate, SC Guide for the local response, resources, healthcare options, telehealth options, things to do, school help, grocery delivery and more.

Programs and Websites Students Use at School

Yellowstone National Park

Have you become an unintentional homeschooling family? Take a deep breath, we can do this. Your child's normal online curriculum, supplemented with online learning activities and hands-on fun will keep them on track for when they go back to school.

Plenty of families do this all year round, and they've survived. Together - we can get through this.

Your child's school-supplied laptop will be preloaded with access to the online learning programs they regularly use. Let's talk about a few of them, so you know what to expect when you see their assignments.

Reach out to classmates families for virtual playdates using facetime

Create a private classroom Youtube channel for students & to use for taking turns making story time videos to share with classmates.

Practice the old fashioned art of having a pen-pal.

Check out How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus

More Educational Websites You Can Use at Home

Multiple Subject Resources

ELA Resources
Is there a way we can help you? Please let us know!
Math Resources

Science Resources

Related Arts Resources

Staying Active

Virtual Field Trips

Take an exciting trip to a faraway place, even while you need to stay home. These virtual field trips can be something the whole family can enjoy together.

Internet Access Options for Those in Need

Charter Communications is offering free access to Spectrum broadband and WIFI for 2 months, for homes with Kindergarten through 12th-grade students, and college students. Installation fees will be waived for new student households. To enroll call 844.488.8395.

Helping Your Kids Get Through This Unexpected Vacation From Friends

Kidding Around will still be the place for fun. We will just be tweaking the type of fun we cover for a few weeks.

If you don't already subscribe to our newsletter, it's the best way to stay up to date with what we are covering.

We will be working on some fun things to keep your kids "Kidding Around" during all of this, so stay tuned.

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Virtual Educational Programming, Field Trips and Fun Things to Do!

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Are you wondering what you're going to do with the kids' home now that schools are closed due to Coronavirus (Covid-19)? Maybe you're a little uneasy about getting the kids to do their schoolwork at home, or maybe you just need something fun and different to look at with them.

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Spring is the time for school field trips and outdoor activities - but maybe not this year. How to replace those favorite activities for the kids while they're on their extra-long "spring break"?

One idea comes from zoos around the country.

Kids can take a virtual animal safari via various zoos' animal cameras and participate in their online animal activities.

Start close to home with the penguin and cheetah webcams provided by the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, and then move on to offerings from zoos around the country:

Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden

While the grounds are closed temporarily, zoo patrons can stay connected to their favorite animals through Home Safari Facebook Live sessions, to be offered 3-5 p.m. weekdays starting today. Each session will highlight an animal and provide an activity to do at home.

The first safari will feature the zoo's popular hippo, Fiona.

Details: cincinnatizoo.org or Facebook

Georgia Aquarium

The Atlanta facility is home to a variety of animals whose homes are in the water, from alligators to whale sharks. The website features webcams offering a live look at beluga whales, California sea lions, jellyfish, piranhas, puffins, sea otters, an Indo-Pacific barrier reef and the ocean floor.

Houston Zoo

You can go big or very small with the live cameras at the second-most visited zoo in the United States. Live cameras are trained on tiny leafcutter ants as they go about their work and at the elephants as they roam their expansive yard. Also on view are the chimpanzees, gorillas, giraffes and rhinos.

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Monterey, Calif., the aquarium offers 10 live-streaming cameras from both inside the facility and in the nearby ocean waters. Take a look at resident African penguins, sharks and other fishes, jellyfish, sea otters and aviary birds. Other cameras are trained on the open sea, a coral reef and a kelp forest.

San Diego Zoo

The Southern California animal park has a website just for kids, featuring animal profiles, fun facts, stories, videos, activities, games and conservation information. Among current features is "A Tall Tale: Giraffe BFFs," a story about two young male giraffes. Both were born with health problems, but with special care, they've grown up strong and healthy and are thriving in the larger zoo population. Craft activities include instructions for making sock puppets, animal figures, a pinata and more.

Zoo Atlanta

Roly-poly pandas and their antics are a perennial animal-lover favorite. The zoo website has a panda page with a live camera, information on a panda keeper's job and regular panda news updates - like behaviors, the differences between red pandas and giant pandas and how keepers tell individual pandas apart.

Shirley McMarlin is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Shirley at 724-836-5750, smcmarlin@triblive.com or via Twitter .

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Eric Carle Reads the Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Cincinnati Zoo Home Safari Resources + Live Stream

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Interested in knowing more about art?
These videos are for you.

The videos are divided into four categories: Explore, Create, Connect, and Discover. Each video has an art project you can make at home. Click on the links below for videos and activities about art, artists, and architecture

ArtQuest on NPT is made possible by the generous support of The Frist Foundation.

GIFT SHOP IS NOW OPEN!

If you are thinking about joining the Frist Art Museum, there couldn't be a better time.
Anyone who purchases a Frist Art Museum membership on site at the museum will receive a special 20% discount on items purchased in the gift shop the day that membership is purchased.

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Paris Museums Put 100,000 ImagesOnline for Unrestricted Public Use

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Paris Musées, a collection of 14 museums in Paris have recently made high-res digital copies of 100,000 artworks freely available to the public on their collections website. Artists with works in the archive include Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Cézanne, and thousands of others. From Hyperallergic:

Paris Musées is a public entity that oversees the 14 municipal museums of Paris, including the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Petit Palais, and the Catacombs. Users can download a file that contains a high definition (300 DPI) image, a document with details about the selected work, and a guide of best practices for using and citing the sources of the image.

"Making this data available guarantees that our digital files can be freely accessed and reused by anyone or everyone, without any technical, legal or financial restraints, whether for commercial use or not," reads a press release shared by Paris Musées.

What a treasure trove this is. I was particularly happy to see a bunch of work in here from Eugène Atget, chronicler of Parisian streets, architecture, and residents and one of my favorite photographers.

(via @john_overholt)

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Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts (not gonna lie, it's a great resource for

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Have you always thought that you could get really into opera if it were more easily accessible? Well, thanks to the coronavirus, now is your chance. OperaWire has reported that the Metropolitan Opera will host "Nightly Met Opera Streams" on its official website in an attempt to continue providing opera to its audience members. "We'd like to provide some grand opera solace to opera lovers in these extraordinarily difficult times," said Met general manager Peter Gelb in a press release. "Every night, we'll be offering a different complete operatic gem from our collection of HD presentations from the past 14 years."

The stream will be free and will present encores of The Met's acclaimed Live in HD series. The performances will begin at 7:30 p.m. EST and will be available to stream for 20 hours. The first week's schedule, outlined below, will be featuring timeless classics as Carmen, La Bohème, and La Traviata. If your only familiarity with Carmen is the film Carmen: A Hip Hopera starring a young Beyoncé, and the closest you've come to watching La Bohème is watching , this is a great way to expand your horizons.

Monday, March 16 - Bizet's Carmen

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna. Transmitted live on January 16, 2010.

Tuesday, March 17 - Puccini's La Bohème

Conducted by Nicola Luisotti, starring Angela Gheorghiu and Ramón Vargas. Transmitted live on April 5, 2008.

Wednesday, March 18 - Verdi's Il Trovatore

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Dolora Zajick, Yonghoon Lee, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on October 3, 2015.

Thursday, March 19 - Verdi's La Traviata

Conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, starring Diana Damrau, Juan Diego Flórez, and Quinn Kelsey. Transmitted live on December 15, 2018.

Friday, March 20 - Donizetti's La Fille du Régiment

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Natalie Dessay and Juan Diego Flórez. Transmitted live on April 26, 2008.

Saturday, March 21 - Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor

Conducted by Marco Armiliato, starring Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczała, and Mariusz Kwiecien. Transmitted live on February 7, 2009.

Sunday, March 22 - Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Conducted by Valery Gergiev, starring Renée Fleming, Ramón Vargas, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Transmitted live on February 24, 2007.

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The Metropolitan Opera Will Stream Operas for Free in Wake of Coronavirus

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Have you always thought that you could get really into opera if it were more easily accessible? Well, thanks to the coronavirus, now is your chance. OperaWire has reported that the Metropolitan Opera will host "Nightly Met Opera Streams" on its official website in an attempt to continue providing opera to its audience members.

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Augmented Reality Tour

powered by ECPI and Life Preserve

The Virginia Zoo's Augmented Reality Tour powered by ECPI and Life Preserve was created to give Zoo visitors insider information about our animals here at the Virginia Zoo and their counterparts in the wild. The tour features 12 stops around the Zoo and offers visitors the opportunity to learn about our animal residents, conservation efforts for the species, watch behind-the-scenes videos and more!
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The Virginia Zoo's YouTube brings the Zoo right to your living room! Watch our award-winning Animeals blogs, meet and hear our Zoo Keepers talk about the animals they have the privilege of working with every day, see the latest cute baby, re-watch our virtual classrooms with Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants and more!

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Virtual Voyage - Virginia Zoo in Norfolk

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Augmented Reality Tour powered by ECPI and Life Preserve The Virginia Zoo's Augmented Reality Tour powered by ECPI and Life Preserve was created to give Zoo visitors insider information about our animals here at the Virginia Zoo and their counterparts in the wild.

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Author and Illustrator Mo Willems has been awarded the American Library Association’s Caldecott Honor three times for his picture book illustration. Additionally, he is the recipient of two Theodor Geisel Medals and five Geisel Honors for his Elephant & Piggie early readers. Mo began his career as a writer and animator on Sesame Street, where he garnered six Emmy Awards. His work has been exhibited around the world, including solo retrospectives at the High Museum in Atlanta and the New-York Historical Society. Over the last decade, Mo has written three musical theater works based on his books, two of which were commissioned and toured by the Kennedy Center.

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The Knowre Success Score (KSS) provides teachers with rich, textured data about student learning that goes far beyond correct or incorrect, because that is the space where learning truly happens.

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The Knowre Math Targeted 10 is an alogrithmically-generated question set providing individualized, data-driven math practice on teacher-selected topic areas. These questions focus directly on filling unique learning gaps.

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An online core math supplement for grades 1-12 helping teachers personalize learning for students because students don't hate math, they hate being frustrated.

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A Listening Care Package for Uncertain Times

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A collection of podcasts and poetry for however you’re

processing or experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic

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Deliver equity for every learner with content that goes beyond how students access the materials and ensures the materials themselves are accessible.

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Newsela has become a K-12 staple for our school district, before our district's closure but especially now during this time.

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Newsela is a great fit into our district-wide initiatives since it brings in content that is relevant and individualized. ELA, Social Studies, and Science curricular supports are easily integrated with lessons. Since Newsela is adaptive, it gives our district the opportunity to maximize learning and develop content that reaches all learners and meets their needs.

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Giant List of Ideas for Being Home with Kids

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Reading access for elementary educators/students

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In recent weeks, COVID-19 has dramatically impacted schools, teachers, students and families around the globe. With schools experiencing closures, thousands of educators have been working tirelessly to support their students and keep them reading and learning at home.

Epic wants to help. We are offering FREE worldwide Remote Student Access to Epic through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation - no credit card required. Families only need an invitation from their teacher to get started. Students will have anywhere, anytime access to the full Epic library on all devices (including web browsers, the iOS app and the Android app), and teachers can stay connected to their students by assigning books and collections and tracking reading activity and progress.

Sounds great! Can anyone get Remote Student Access??
Remote Student Access is only available by invitation from an educator. Individual families are not eligible for this offer if a child's teacher is not using Epic. The good news? Epic is always free to educators and educators can sign up for their free account in a matter of minutes by following the instructions below.

Educators must send each students' parent or guardian an invitation from the student roster page.

HOW TO GET STARTED
If you're already an active teacher on Epic:
Invite your families to sign up for free Remote Student Access from the roster page. Students should not use your class code to log in as they normally would. [ Please follow these detailed instructions.]

If you are a teacher not currently active on Epic, but already have an Epic account:
1. Sign in to your account. If you have forgotten your password, you can request a reset to be sent to the email associated with the account

2. Set up your student roster. It's easy to add your students via Google Classroom, or one by one. (See Instructions for adding students to your roster here.)

3. Invite your families from the student roster page. [ Detailed instructions here]

If you are a teacher new to Epic:
1. Open your account at https://www.getepic.com/educators . It's 100% free; all you need is a valid educator email

2. Sign in to your account

3. Set up your student roster. It's easy to add your students via Google Classroom, or one by one. (See Instructions for adding students to your roster here.)

4. Invite your families from the student roster page. [ Detailed instructions here]

What to expect after inviting student families:
1. Parents will receive an email, set up their account, and request permission to link to your classroom. You can track each student's access status and approve family linking requests on your roster page

2. You will receive an email confirmation once the family account is successfully linked

What does the Remote Student Access Experience include? Students can log on via a web browser on a desktop or laptop computer, or the Epic app on iOS or Android. The apps are free to download from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.

Students can access the full library of over 40,000 e-books, audiobooks, learning videos, and quizzes that is available to them in class. (Materials in Spanish, French and Chinese, too!)

Educators can assign a book, or collections of books, to individual students or to the entire class. Educators can monitor their students' reading activity via their student reading logs.
Additional resources and step-by-step instructions:
Do you know any educators who may be interested? Free access to Epic through June 30th, 2020 is available for all educators and their students. Feel free to share this blog post with them, or point them directly to https://www.getepic.com/educators .

As we navigate this situation together, we know that reading and consistency for students is incredibly important. As always, we're here for our community of educators. Join the conversation on our Facebook Educator page or via Twitter @epic4kids.

Be well and keep reading!
The Epic Team

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In response to widespread school closures associated with COVID-19, Epic is offering FREE worldwide Remote Student Access through the end of the school year (June 30th, 2020), by teacher invitation - no credit card required. Families only need an invitation from their teacher to get started.

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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KhanAcademy Daily Learning Schedule (and resources) for all grade levels

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KhanAcademy Daily Learning Schedule (and resources) for all grade levels

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A really great start for families exploring how to make home learning work

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Looking for ideas for remote learning? Each week The Learning Network offers a dozen new ways for students to practice reading, writing and thinking using Times journalism - all free.

Each week we round up the best comments on our writing prompts in our Current Events Conversation. These are images from that collection.

Note: High school students and teachers in the United States can register to get free digital access to nytimes.com.
Schools around the country have closed their doors and switched to remote learning in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. If you are a teacher or parent looking for ways to keep your students reading, writing and thinking critically during these uncertain times, The Learning Network offers a dozen new writing prompts each week, all based on Times articles, photographs, illustrations, videos and graphs, about a wide array of issues, including internet memes, climate change, the #MeToo movement, racism, the 2020 election and healthy habits. All of these activities are completely free for everyone.

Here is how to get started.

Students can create a free account by pressing the "Log In" button on the top right-hand corner of the screen. They will be taken to a sign-in page that looks like this:

Please note: Students must be 13 years or older to use any part of nytimes.com in the United States and the United Kingdom, and 16 years or older anywhere else. If students are less than 18 years of age and would like to create an account, they must ask a parent or legal guardian to review and agree to the Times Terms of Service before registering.
Students can click on the link "Create one." Then they can click on "Continue without subscribing." When students make their first comment, they will be asked to enter a name and a location.

Examples of names include: Amy, Emilia AOSE, Payton L and Mrs. Miller's 3rd period class.

Examples of locations include: Ohio,Milbank, SD, and Hoggard High School in Wilmington, N.C.

While students don't need to have a New York Times account to access the Learning Network's many activities, they will need one if they want to submit a comment.

Students can comment via desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. To submit a comment, they should click on the comment bubble at the top of the article or the comment button at the bottom. Either way will bring them to a box where they can share their thoughts, as well as reply to other student commenters from across their school or around the world.

We encourage young people to have a civil dialogue about all sorts of topics, but if students cross a line - for example, if they use offensive language or are disrespectful to other commenters - we will reject those comments.

We follow Times commenting standards as we moderate, but we also allow for the reality that many students don't have perfect spelling or grammar or are still learning English. Our comment section is intended to be a rehearsal space - a safe place for students to practice writing and to share their ideas.

We moderate comments regularly during weekday work hours, but during other times, like nights and weekends, approval can sometimes take several hours.

We invite students to share their opinions and analysis about all sorts of issues and types of media on The Learning Network. In our Student Opinionfeature, we ask questions like: " Should Blowouts Be Allowed in Youth Sports?" and " Should the Adults in Your Life Be Worried by How Much You Use Your Phone? " About half of our questions help students develop their argument skills, and the other half invite them to share experiences and observations from their own lives. All of these prompts are inspired by Times articles.

We also invite students to respond to the many photographs and illustrations in The Times. In our Picture Prompt feature, we use a daily image to inspire four types of student writing: storytelling, argument writing, personal writing and analysis. Similarly, our What's Going On in This Picture? feature asks students to look closely at an intriguing photo and share what they see and what details support their interpretation. On Mondays, our partner organization Visual Thinking Strategies provides live moderation for this activity to strengthen students' visual literacy skills. Both of these features can be great for any student, but they're especially accessible for younger students and students who struggle with reading.

We also use other types of Times multimedia to encourage student writing and thinking. Our Film Club showcases a short documentary film from The Times - often under 10 minutes - and asks students to think about themes like race and gender identity, technology and society, and artistic and scientific exploration. And, What's Going On in This Graph? asks students to notice and wonder about a Times graph, map or chart. On Wednesdays, our partners at the American Statistical Association facilitate a live conversation for this activity to strengthen students' data literacy skills.

Finally, we also offer contests for students all year long. Right now students can submit 450-word editorials. Next month they can submit five-minute podcasts. During the summer they can participate in our 10-week-long Summer Reading Contest.

All of these activities and contests are free. They've always been.

Learning Network prompts can be used in any number of ways as a teaching tool at school or from home. Teachers often let students choose the prompts they want to respond to based on the topics they find most interesting. Other times they assign a specific prompt: for example, if they are studying a theme, like friendship, or a topic, like slavery.

Many teachers use our prompts as a standing homework assignment every night or each week. Other teachers use the prompts as a class activity to complete together. For example, in the tweet below, Adriana Diaz shares images of her class doing a What's Going On in This Picture? activity.

Since we offer so many ways for students to read, write and think, teachers can differentiate as they see fit. They might ask some students to get started with our image-based prompts, while suggesting others comment on our Student Opinion questions.

And, while we appreciate when teachers assign students to comment directly on The Learning Network, we also understand that many teachers prefer to have their students respond to our prompts in a classroom space like Google Classroom or Schoology. We want teachers to have the freedom to use our resources in the way that works best for them.

Not only do we moderate comments, but we also select comments to spotlight in a weekly roundup from our two daily writing prompts: Student Opinion questions and Picture Prompts. Teachers tell us they and their students get excited when they see their classmates' names published in The New York Times.

Here is an example of a weekly roundup: " What Students Are Saying About Fact-Checking Facebook, Making Small Talk and Being Alone."

Teachers naturally want to know what their students are saying in our online forums. The easiest way to hold students accountable is to instruct them to forward the confirmation emails they automatically receive. To do this, students need to make sure that the box "Email me when my comment is published" is checked underneath the comment box. (The check appears when students begin typing.)

For our contests, students also receive confirmation emails, which they can easily forward to teachers. And, since we celebrate many winners, runners-up and honorable mentions with each of our contests, teachers get to send out their own emails, tweets and messages when one or more of their students are selected as finalists.

At The Learning Network, we want students to have a civil discussion about the issues of our day. We want them to have an authentic audience for their writing and ideas. We believe student voice matters. Our comment section and regular contests are our way to make this happen. We hope you'll invite your students to join our community of learners.

If you have any questions about how to get your class started using The Learning Network, please use the comment section or email us at LNFeedback@nytimes.com.

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Play a live game of Kahoot! with students joining from home. Share your screen with an online video conferencing tool (for example. Google Hangouts Meet, Skype or Zoom) to facilitate this.

Guide to playing Kahoot! over video | Distance learning toolkit

Extend learning beyond live games and encourage accuracy over speed with student-paced games in challenge mode. Students play at home at their own pace with questions and answers on their screens, while a teacher sees their progress in real time. Many teachers find this way to play Kahoot! helpful for content review, exam prep, and homework assignments.

Another powerful way to engage students at home is to encourage them to create their own kahoots based on learning content and host it live or assign as a challenge. This is a powerful activity for project-based learning that helps students develop from learners to leaders.

In addition to learning impact, playing Kahoot! also helps students get to know each other better and bond, which is especially important in an online classroom setting. For example, language teacher Carol Salva uses student-led kahoots as a way to connect in a classroom with diverse cultural backgrounds.

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Play a live game of Kahoot! with students joining from home. Share your screen with an online video conferencing tool (for example. Google Hangouts Meet, Skype or Zoom) to facilitate this. Guide to playing Kahoot! over video | Distance learning toolkit Extend learning beyond live games and encourage accuracy over speed with student-paced games in challenge mode.

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Carnegie Mellon University: Free Computer Science Academy Courses

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If you have balloons, straws and string, you can send a balloon rocket shooting up a string to watch Newton's third law of motion in action. As the air escapes the balloon in one direction, it sends the balloon rocket in the opposite direction! Art lovers will have fun making beautiful evaporation rings using vinegar, food coloring and cornstarch, and if you're into engineering, order a small motor and some alligator clips to make a bristle robot!

Here are some fun projects you can do using dry ice! Dry is is frozen carbon dioxide, and you can use it to carbonate drinks, make fizzy fruit, or even blow giant bubbles!

This summer, get off screens and get outside with this fun project from my book Kitchen Science Lab for Kids!

Here's how to make water rockets.

From surface tension to evaporation, science come into play every time you blow a bubble. Here's some bubble science, along with a recipe for making giant bubbles from my book Outdoor Science Lab for Kids!

Water molecules like to stick to each other , and scientists call this sticky, elastic tendency "surface tension." Soap molecules, have a hydrophobic (water-hating) end and (hydrophilic) a water-loving end and can lower the surface tension of water. When you blow a bubble, you create a thin film of water molecules sandwiched between two layers of soap molecules, with their water-loving ends pointing toward the water, and their water-hating ends pointing out into the air.

As you might guess, the air pressure inside the elastic soapy sandwich layers of a bubble is slightly higher than the air pressure outside the bubble. Bubbles strive to be round, since the forces of surface tension rearrange their molecular structure to make them have the least amount of surface area possible, and of all three dimensional shapes, a sphere has the lowest surface area. Other forces, like your moving breath or a breeze can affect the shape of bubbles as well.

The thickness of the water/soap molecule is always changing slightly as the water layer evaporates, and light is hitting the soap layers from many angles, causing light waves to bounce around and interfere with each other, giving the bubble a multitude of colors.

Try making these giant bubbles at home this summer! They're a blast! (It works best a day when it's not too windy, and bubbles love humid days!)

To make your own giant bubble wand, you'll need:

-Around 54 inches of cotton kitchen twine

-two sticks 1-3 feet long

-a metal washer

1. Tie string to the end of one stick.

2. Put a washer on the string and tie it to the end of the other stick so the washer is hanging in-between on around 36 inches of string. (See photo.) Tie remaining 18 inches of string to the end of the first stick. See photo!

For the bubbles:

-6 cups distilled or purified water

-1/2 cup cornstarch

-1 Tbs. baking powder

-1 Tbs. glycerine (Optional. Available at most pharmacies.)

-1/2 cup blue Dawn. The type of detergent can literally make or break your giant bubbles. Dawn Ultra (not concentrated) or Dawn Pro are highly recommended. We used Dawn Ultra, which is available at Target.
1. Mix water and cornstarch. Add remaining ingredients and mix well without whipping up tiny bubbles. Use immediately, or stir again and use after an hour or so. 2. With the two sticks parallel and together, dip bubble wand into mixture, immersing all the string completely. 3. Pull the string up out of the bubble mix and pull them apart slowly so that you form a string triangle with bubble in the middle. 4. Move the wands or blow bubbles with your breath. You can "close" the bubbles by moving the sticks together to close the gap between strings. What else could you try?-Make another wand with longer or shorter string. How does it affect your bubbles?-Try different recipes to see if you can improve the bubbles. Do other dish soaps work as well?-Can you add scent to the bubbles, like vanilla or peppermint, or will it interfere with the surface tension?-Can you figure out how to make a bubble inside another bubble?

Here's a fun video from Kaleigh demonstrating a project from my book "Star Wars Maker Lab!" Grab a magnifying glass and a balloon, head outdoors and try it! (Click here for a link to order the book.)

Thank you, Tom Gross (fromcoffeewithkenobi.com) and Kaleigh!

Here's a segment I did for TV last week, featuring of projects from Chemistry for Kids, which pairs the story of 25 scientists with hands-on projects related to their work! In the clip, I demonstrate how to collect essential oils from flowers, citrus or herbs using a crock pot and how to do a precipitation experiment similar to one Marie Curie used to extract radium from mining waste.

I joined the hosts of Twin Cities Live yesterday to show off three projects from my newest book! Chemistry for Kids is available everywhere books are sold!

Physics! Biology! Chemistry! Yeah!

Great job staying isolated to help keep everyone safe! Keep up the good work! Scientists and medical workers are busy testing anti-viral drugs and creating vaccines that will help us to help get life back to normal as soon as humanly possible. They are the superheroes we need right now!

ClickHERE for45 Watch-and-Do Videos for Kids. Some, like cornstarch goo and tie-dye milk are perfect for the younger crowd, while older kids can tackle the tougher projects.

For more detailed instructions, go to kitchenpantryscientist.com and search for the experiment in the search box! You can also order my books online wherever books are sold.

Marker Tie-Dye (KitchenPantryScientist.com)

Made corn starch frescoes from my book "Outdoor Science Lab for Kids" on @fox9morning today! Mix 2 parts cornstarch with 1 part water, pour out on baking sheet or sidewalk and paint with watercolors or food coloring! (Wear old clothes if painting with food coloring) Let frescoes dry, or wash away with a garden hose.

Wednesday, April 22nd is Earth Day, but there's no reason we can't celebrate all month long. Besides hiking and exploring, here are some of our favorite environmental science projects. Just click on the experiment names for directions and photos. You can find more fun outdoor experiments in my books "Kitchen Science Lab for Kids" and "Outdoor Science Lab for Kids" (Quarry Books.)

Homemade S weep Nets: Make a sweep net from a pillowcase and a hanger to see what arthropods are hanging out in your favorite outdoor spaces.

Window Sprouts: Plant a bean in a plastic baggie with a damp paper towel to see how plants need only water and air to sprout roots and leaves. Here's a short video demonstrating how to make a window garden.

Homemade Solar Oven: Using a pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, and newspaper, you can harness the sun's energy to cook your own S'mores!

Nature Walk Bracelets : Wrap some duct tape around your wrist (inside out) and take a walk, sticking interesting natural objects like leaves and flowers to your bracelet. It's a great way to get outdoors and engage with nature. Bring a bag along so you can pick up any trash you find.

Carbon Dioxide and Ocean Acidity : See for yourself how the carbon dioxide in your own breath can make a water-based solution more acidic. The project illustrates why adding too much carbon dioxide to Earth's atmosphere can be harmful to ocean creatures.

Plant Transpiration: See how trees "sweat" in this survival science experiment.

Earthworm Experiment: Do you know what kind of earthworms are living in your back yard?

Composting : Be a composting detective. Bury some things in your back yard (away from power cables) and dig them up in a few months to see how they look. Composting reduces methane gas emissions (a greenhouse gas) from dumps.

Diffusion and Osmosis : See for yourself how the chemicals we add to water, put on our streets to melt ice, and spray on our lawns and crops can move into our soil, ground water, rivers, lakes and oceans.

Solar Water Purification : This project illustrates the greenhouse effect and is a fun "survival science" experiment. Requires hot sun and some patience!

Citizen Science: Don't forget about all the real environmental research projects you can participate in through Citizen Science programs all around the world!

For mores activities and games, check out NASA's Climate Kids website , to see a kid-friendly diagram of the water cycle, click here , or just get outside and enjoy the beautiful planet that sustains and nurtures us.

It's fun to create colorful, swirling marbled designs on eggs, and there's science behind the fun! Here's a brief description of each. Click on the blue titles for more instructions and science explanations.

Olive Oil Marbling : You'll need hard boiled eggs, olive oil, vinegar, and food coloring. We used green, yellow and brown food coloring to make robin's egg colors.

Whipped Cream Faux Marbling: You'll need hard boiled eggs, a shallow container, cool whip or whipped cream, food coloring, and a toothpick. (Project from Star Wars Maker Lab -DK Books)

: Dye eggs with cabbage juice and use lemon juice and backing soda to "paint" pink and blue designs on the purple eggs. ( Lemon-Painted Eggs Project from STEAM Lab for Kids- Quarry Books)

Natural Dyes: Experiment with fruit, coffee, tea, spices, veggies and even onion skins to create beautiful, natural egg dyes.

Nail Polish Marbling: This one is obviously inedible, but it's a fun craft project! You'll need eggs with the yolks and whites blown out, a container that can be thrown away, nail polish in two or more colors, and water. (Project from STEAM Lab for Kids-Quarry Books )

The science behind the marbling fun: Egg dyes and food coloring require an acidic environment to form bonds. That's why you add vinegar (also called acetic acid) to water and dye when coloring eggs. Things that are less dense than water, like olive oil and nail polish, float on top of water, allowing you to create designs that can be transferred onto your eggs.

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Center for Puppetry Arts Live Streaming Shows

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Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts is closed, but as it notes on its homepage, it's "digitally open."

That includes livestreaming performances and an expanded lineup of digital learning activities and workshops, which are all available for free online.

" RELATED: For people isolated amid coronavirus, Atlanta bookstores offer delivery

"All you need is an internet connection to join us in our Zoom room. We'll make it easy, we promise," the center says on its website.

On Wednesday, the center will start the day with a live stream performance of its show "Little Ren Hen."

While the performances are free to tune into, the center is asking people to consider donating.

"If you enjoy your FREE program, we ask that you consider supporting the Center for Puppetry Arts with a donation to help us through these difficult times," a post on the center's website reads.

A full list of online programming available from the Center for Puppetry Arts this week can be found here.

" RELATED: Mo Willems will host daily live stream doodle for kids home from school

Author and illustrator Mo Willems is also trying to help parents keep kids engaged, entertained and educated amid coronavirus. He is hosting daily livestream doodle session for kids stuck at home.

Author James Dean, who writes the popular "Pete the Cat" series, has also taken to social media to help keep kids entertained. He hosted a reading of his book on Instagram for kids at home.

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Center for Puppetry Arts to livestream performances for free

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Amid the coronavirus outbreak, Atlanta's Center for Puppetry Arts is closed, but as it notes on its homepage, it's "digitally open." That includes livestreaming performances and an expanded lineup of digital learning activities and workshops, which are all available for free online.

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Indigenous educators are volunteering their time to help educate students online as schools in many provinces and territories are closing in efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19.

"I wanted to offer these online Facebook, social media classes for parents who are at home with their kids, just so they can connect with their learning," said Chris Scribe.

Scribe has been a teacher since 2005 and is the director of the University of Saskatchewan's Indian Teacher Education Program (ITEP). He is also the director and founder of Think Indigenous, a conference that brings together Indigenous educators from across western Canada.

On Tuesday, Scribe and other educators took turns going "live" on their Facebook pages, offering lessons geared toward different grade levels. One of the goals of the online classrooms is to hopefully take children away from their cellphones and Playstations during the school closures, according to Scribe.

"My passion is to include Indigenous knowledge in everything that we do," said Scribe.

"All of these courses, we are asking people to include as much Indigenous knowledge as possible."

In his first lesson aimed at Grade 4 students, Scribe talked about storytelling and encouraged the viewers to think about their own family and community stories.

"We tend to think that the only place that we can learn is at school, when that is not the case," he said.

"The best place to learn Indigenous knowledge is in our stories and in our communities, this is a cool time for that to happen."

On the first day of the virtual classrooms, there were eight certified teachers signed up to present. One of the teachers talked about an Indigenous perspective of bacteria, the history of it, and what it means in today's context.

Talking about stress

Another teacher, Curtis Vinish, is Métis and Filipino and recently graduated from the Saskatchewan Urban Native Education Program (SUNTEP). He works at St. Frances Cree Bilingual School in Saskatoon, developing and teaching an urban, Nehiyaw language and land-based curriculum.

His target audience was middle school students.

"My lesson was 20 minutes ...I wanted to share some lessons and teachings that I've had on stress management," said Vinish.

"We have never faced a situation like this before in modern society. I think it's important to talk about mental health issues in our communities, especially with self isolation being recommended."

He administers the Think Indigenous - Online Indigenous Education K-8 Facebook page. He said the plan is to try and keep the virtual classrooms operating on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, with potential assignments distributed on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

There are no high school classes scheduled yet, but Vinish said they might add some in the future.

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Indigenous educators are volunteering their time to help educate students online as schools in many provinces and territories are closing in efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. "I wanted to offer these online Facebook, social media classes for parents who are at home with their kids, just so they can connect with their learning," said Chris Scribe.

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All you need is a library card.

There's good news for all the New York City-based e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library has an app that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to "borrow" any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.

It's called SimplyE and will allow you to read books on your phone, but beware, there might be a waitlist for some popular titles like Becoming by Michelle Obama and Normal People by Sally Rooney. (Obviously, you should check out the Harry Potter books, quick!)
RECOMMENDED: These were the NYPL's most popular books of 2020
To gain access, NYPL'sfree e-reader app, SimplyE, can be downloaded for iPhoneor Android. Books are automatically returned at the end of the lending period, and you can request to renew a digital checkout if no one else has a hold on the title.

You can also search the library's collection of 800,000 digitized items, including historic prints, photographs, maps, and manuscripts and check out Mango Languagesand Career Cruising with your New York City library card.

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Coding for Kids: Free Classes, Websites, Apps

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It's easy to imagine a kid learning coding being stuck in front of a computer for the rest of their lives. However, that doesn't have to be the case! In fact, coding experience can open up many opportunities and make your child more marketable when they start applying for awards, scholarships, and even jobs! In the digital age, there are plenty of ways for kids to learn coding, free.

Coding also allows your kid to creatively express him or herself. Your child has an idea for a game? They should make it! Your child has an idea for a website? They should design it! The possibilities are endless when it comes to coding and there are FREE apps, websites, and activities available to kids of all ages.

Free Coding Apps for Kids

Students can learn to sequence with this app by choosing the preset actions of their robotic arm and putting them in the right order. These challenges can help students to think concisely and find the simplest solution to a given problem.

Free Coding Websites for Kids

Free Coding Activities & More for Kids

Thank you for reading this article and I hope that you take this advice to heart and give your kiddo the opportunity to explore a potential passion and find his or her reason for coding. If anything from this list caught your interest and you wish to further pursue programming, feel free to check out the classes that we offer here at CodeWizardsHQ. Happy coding!

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Coding For Kids: Free Classes, Websites, and Apps | Ages 8-18

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It's easy to imagine a kid learning coding being stuck in front of a computer for the rest of their lives. However, that doesn't have to be the case! In fact, coding experience can open up many opportunities and make your child more marketable when they start applying for awards, scholarships, and even jobs!

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It's easy to imagine a kid learning coding being stuck in front of a computer for the rest of their lives. However, that doesn't have to be the case! In fact, coding experience can open up many opportunities and make your child more marketable when they start applying for awards, scholarships, and even jobs! In the digital age, there are plenty of ways for kids to learn coding, free.

Coding also allows your kid to creatively express him or herself. Your child has an idea for a game? They should make it! Your child has an idea for a website? They should design it! The possibilities are endless when it comes to coding and there are FREE apps, websites, and activities available to kids of all ages.

Free Coding Apps for Kids

Students can learn to sequence with this app by choosing the preset actions of their robotic arm and putting them in the right order. These challenges can help students to think concisely and find the simplest solution to a given problem.

Free Coding Websites for Kids

Free Coding Activities & More for Kids

Thank you for reading this article and I hope that you take this advice to heart and give your kiddo the opportunity to explore a potential passion and find his or her reason for coding. If anything from this list caught your interest and you wish to further pursue programming, feel free to check out the classes that we offer here at CodeWizardsHQ. Happy coding!

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Coding For Kids: Free Classes, Websites, and Apps | Ages 8-18

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It's easy to imagine a kid learning coding being stuck in front of a computer for the rest of their lives. However, that doesn't have to be the case! In fact, coding experience can open up many opportunities and make your child more marketable when they start applying for awards, scholarships, and even jobs!

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Virtual Icebreakers and Connection Activities

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I will admit that Virtual Team Building activities stretch me. I really want to be intentional with the time I have with a group, and I don't want to fill it with anything that is hokey or just a time filler. In a virtual world keeping people connected is critical and making time for Connection Before diving into Content helps individuals feel less isolated and part of a team. Here are a few ideas for a few Virtual Icebreakers and Connection Activities:

1. Take a Picture Of: Everyone has a unique workspace and environment. Have them share a photo of something unique to them but similar to everyone else on the team. Here are a few prompts to start with:

Your current workspace

Something unique on your desk

Your socks or footwear of choice today

Your favorite spot in your home

Your pet, favorite plant or other living organism you help keep alive

2. Use Online Polling platforms for instant answers to questions. I recently discovered www.PollingEverywhere.com and have enjoyed using this with both live and virtual audiences. Create questions that will give you a barometer of how people are feeling. Here's an example:

Dicebreakers! An Icebreaker Activity using Dice. Most people will have access to a pair of dice. Raid a pair from a board game or look in that junk drawer of life! Request that they have one available during your online meeting and have each person roll the dice and answer the corresponding question to the number on the die.

Remote Lunch and Learns

Have everyone read the same book and join a Google Hangout or Zoom meeting and answer discussion questions. Make sure one person is the moderator and has a list of questions prepared ahead of time.

Story Stones or Picture Cards

Show a photo of Story Stones or Picture Cards of some kind and ask participants to share a response to their chosen image. Questions could revolve around feelings, goals, or anything you choose.

Tiny Campfire
Who doesn't love a good campfire? Create a virtual campfire by having everyone bring a candle and their favorite S'mores ingredients and share a reflection while making and eating a fun snack.

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Virtual Icebreakers and Connection Activities I will admit that Virtual Team Building activities stretch me. I really want to be intentional with the time I have with a group, and I don't want to fill it with anything that is hokey or just a time filler.

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Amazing resources- he shared his curric. online- from @weareallatree (Jay Sacks)

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Audible Offers Free Audiobooks for Students

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Audible announced today the launch of Audible Stories, a new service through which the company will be providing free audiobooks for small children and teens for the duration of the coronavirus () pandemic.

"For as long as schools are closed, we're open," Audible said.

"Starting today, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids," the company said.

The Audible Stories service is already live and available through web browsers or the company's official desktop and mobile apps.

The Stories portal currently lists hundreds of audiobooks, from folk tales to small children's books, and from elementary school reading material to literary classics.

Select titles include the likes of Mary Shelley's " Frankenstein," Herman Melville's " Moby Dick," Jack London's " White Fang," William Shakespeare's " Hamlet," and A.A. Milne's " Winnie the Pooh."

The Amazon-owned company said all titles were carefully selected by Audible editors to "offer a mix of education, entertainment, and general-interest titles."

Audiobooks are available in six languages -- English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Japanese.

The company's offer has been already very well-received by the many parents who, in the midst of today's coronavirus outbreak, have to work from home and babysit at the same time.

"We hope that Audible Stories will offer children-and everyone-some respite during these unsettling times," the company said in a press release announcing the new service.

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Audible announced today the launch of Audible Stories, a new service through which the company will be providing free audiobooks for small children and teens for the duration of the coronavirus () pandemic. "For as long as schools are closed, we're open," Audible said.

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Stream Shakespeare Plays Recorded At The Globe Theatre

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You Can Stream Shakespeare Plays Recorded At The Globe Theatre, Online
The South Bank's Globe Theatre has closed its doors for now, but it also has an online catalogue of filmed performances to feast on.
Globe Player has paid-for recordings of many of the theatre's Shakespeare adaptations spanning more than 10 years, including Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry in Twelfth Night; Jonathan Pryce as the Merchant of Venice; Emma Rice's naughty telling of A Midsummer Night's Dream; Adetomiwa Edun and Ellie Kendrick in the 2009 production of Romeo and Juliet; and Lucy Bailey's bloodthirsty Titus Andronicus.

Watching one of these for your sofa is probably more comfortable than being a groundling at the theatre itself, although you'll pay roughly the same to rent, as you usually would for the cheapest tickets in the house.

If you're particularly barmy about the Bard, bundles of nine different seasons at the Globe are also available to buy.

Free content on Globe Player is admittedly limited, although there's some interesting behind-the-scenes content to check out.
Keep up to date on all the latest London coronavirus news here.

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Click any bird to hear the sounds they make! Click a second time to pause the sound.

Click any bird to hear the sounds they make! Click a second time to pause the sound.

Use our quick, clickable guide for identifying backyard birds by the sounds they make! Chose any of these popular species to hear its typical bird sounds, from vocalizations of parrots to the chirping of songbirds. As you?re gardening in your backyard or wandering in the woods, you might be able to use our guide to identify a few distinctive bird calls. Identification of songbird sounds has a rich history; in the past, it was fairly complicated and frequently required mnemonics. For instance, the blue jay is recognized for singing ?queedle, queedle, queedle,? and the mourning dove sound can be written as ?hooo-ah hoo-hoo-hoo.? The northern flicker sounds like ?squeechu-squeechu-squeechu,? which might be easy to confuse with ?queedle? unless you?ve heard it in the wild yourself! It?s also helpful to consider where you are when you?re trying to identify birds; check out the maps to see if a particular bird is actually found in your area.

Today, identification is easier when you can listen to birds singing in short sound clips. Click a bird to hear birds tweeting their ?language.? Note that some of these birds have different sounds based on the situation, too. For instance, many songbirds have an ?alarm? noise along with its normal tittering that can sound a little different. Tweets can also have a different tune than full calls. But this list of 50 birds should certainly be able to get you started!

There are plenty more migratory bird sounds to discover, too. If you really want to become a pro bird-sound-identifier, you'll want to learn more about the pitch, rhythm, and repetition of birdsong!

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Building a multilingual home library can be costly and challenging for non-native overseas families. Thankfully, in this digital era, many websites and apps offer stories for kids in Chinese, Korean, English, French, Spanish, and other languages!

This article highlights some of the best websites and apps with free multilingual books for children.

The first 5 multilingual book resources are available in numerous languages; the last 8 are free Chinese books for kids.

Free Multilingual books for Kids

1. Mutilingual books from Unite for Literacy

Website: uniteforliteracy.com

This is a wonderful resource for beginner language learners who need listening practice.

The books introduce vocabulary and simple sentence structures about common everyday topics through simple stories as well as questions and answers.

Almost all images are clear photographs, which is my preference over the typical cartoon.

The downside is that the text is in English only.

Available languages: Arabic, Burmese, Chinese, Cup'ik, Danish, French, German, Greek (Ελληνικά), Hindi (हिंदी), Karenni, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Vietnamese
Related: 5 Reasons Books are the Best Gifts for Multilingual Kids
2. Multilingual Books from Storybooks Canada

Website: storybookscanada.ca

Storybooks Canada has dozens of stories from the African Storybook with text and audio in the most widely spoken languages of Canada.

Available languages: Arabic, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin), English, German, Korean, French, Italian, Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Somali, Spanish, Tagalog, Turkish, and Urdu!

For families learning Chinese, you'll be happy to know that both simplified and traditional Chinese are offered as well as Mandarin and Cantonese.

Cantonese for Families gives a detailed overview of the Chinese options from Storybooks in this review.

3. Multilingual Books from World Stories

Website: worldstories.org.uk

World Stories offers a growing collection of multilingual books in the most common languages in the United Kingdom. Registration is free but required for access to stories.

While I like that the focus is on the audio narration due to the lack of animation and minimal illustrations, I found the website to be a bit slow and confusing. I had to click around a bit to figure out how to listen to audio and was stuck on music for a while.

However, I do think this website has great potential to help many multilingual families.
Related: 5 Ways My Child and I Learn Chinese from Audiobooks
Available languages: Akan, Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, English, Filipino, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Kannada, Mandarin, Manx, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Scots, Scots Doric, Scottish Gaelic, Somali, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu, Welsh, Yoruba, Zulu

4. Bible App for Kids

The Bible App for Kids has animated bible stories in numerous languages.

We have explored this app in the past but have not really used it as generally read the Bible as a family in English. However, this is an excellent resource for those who wish to learn the Bible in minority languages.

In our experience, the downside would be the distracting animation and games. Each page allows for "exploration" of the image through touch.

Once my daughter discovered this feature, she no longer focused on listening and just wanted to touch everything on the screen. The games are also not useful for reinforcing Biblical concepts in the target language.

While we prefer to use a regular children's bible for our family, I think this could be helpful for families who need more minority language exposure and don't have a physical bible.
Website: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen
Available languages: Afrikaans, Arabic, Belarusian, Bengali, Cantonese, Chinese (Mandarin - Simplified & Traditional Chinese), Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Farsi, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hindi, Indonesia, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portugese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Zulu
Related: How I Taught My Child 1000+ Chinese Characters as a Non-Fluent Speaker
5. Audible

Audible is an Amazon company that streams stories in 6 different language on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Available languages: Japanese, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. Sadly no Chinese.

Apps with Free Mandarin Chinese books for Kids

1. Ximalaya FM

This is hands-down my favorite resource for free Chinese audiobooks. They have thousands of Chinese stories and even free Chinese music, and I can find stories easily by searching the title.

Ximalaya requires basic Chinese listening comprehension skills. If you are just starting to learn Chinese, the narration will be too advanced, and you should start with one of the above resources instead.
Related: 20+ Educational Chinese Apps
To learn more about Ximalaya, please check out the following articles:

2. 凯叔讲故事

凯叔讲故事 has numerous free Chinese stories for children in Mandarin Chinese! What's unique about is that many stories are narrated by a gentleman in contrast to most children's stories which are narrated by women. This is important for kids like ours who have only really spoken Chinese with females due to lack of diversity in our local community.

This app has a wealth of free Chinese stories and songs in Mandarin Chinese! The Chinese audiobooks are best suited for preschool and early elementary school-aged children.

4. 糖果姐姐說故事

App: 糖果姐姐說故事 on iTunes and Google Play

糖果姐姐說故事 (Candy Sister Telling Stories) is an app with narrated Bible stories as well as other stories. The narrator's voice is pleasant and easy to understand, but the content may more suitable for elementary school kids and up. You can read Mandarin Mama's review of the 糖果姐姐 CD for more information.
Website: learningchinesethroughstories.com
5. 咔哒故事-儿童睡前故事大全

This is one of the first apps that we used when we were first learning how to speak Chinese. The app features many popular stories with simplified Chinese text. Some stories are free while others require a subscription fee.

Websites with Free Mandarin Chinese Books for Kids

1. Learning Chinese Through Stories
Website: chinese.littlefox.com
Learning Chinese through stories is one of my favorite audio resources!

Their Mandarin podcasts have 3 major proficiency levels:

Each proficiency level has sublevels of high, middle and low.

The podcasters teach common Chinese vocabulary and idioms in the context of stories. The stories have definitions of key words with Pinyin and English translations.

2. Little Fox Chinese

Little fox Chinese is a free language learning curriculum that offers 5 levels of reading practice.

Level one begins with pinyin, basic words, and daily expressions and progresses to longer sentences through animated stories. The program offers hundreds and stories and songs through their website, app, and YouTube channel.

If you're trying to minimize screen time like our family, you can print out the books and add them to your home library!

When we first started to learn Chinese a few years ago, I wish I knew of this program! It looks like fantastic option for beginner learners.

For more details, Polygot Kiddos has a review of Little Fox Chinese and how her kids are learning with the curriculum.

3. Huayu World

Website: http://biweekly.huayuworld.org/

Huayu World is a Taiwan-based website with numerous free Chinese stories for children that cover a wide variety of topics, including everyday life, Chinese idioms, Chinese festivals, and fiction.

The website is entirely in traditional Chinese, and the stories have Zhuyin next to the traditional Chinese characters.

When viewing the Chinese stories, you can choose to have either the illustrations or the Chinese words enlarged.

4. Stories for Teaching Chinese
Website: http://childrensbook.pct.org.tw/
Website: wp.nyu.edu/steinhardt-startalk

The New York University StarTalk Immersion Training Program for Teachers has several narrated and beautifully illustrated stories in Mandarin Chinese.

Native families will recognize familiar traditional folktales, such as 司马光砸缸 (Si Ma Guang Breaks a Jar).

Please note that some stories discuss relatively mature content, such as the history of opium in China. Parents should first preview the stories and consider deferring some topics for elementary school-aged children and older.

Teachers and parents may also appreciate the lesson plan breakdown and options to print the PDF files of each story or view the audiobook on iBooks.

5. 美好腳蹤系列有聲繪本

Taiwan Presbyterian Church offers free Bible-based audio books on their websites in 3 language versions: Mandarin, Taiwanese and English. The website also has Chinese Christian music, cartoons, printable lessons from preschool through high school. The website is in traditional Chinese.

Which free multilingual books are the best?

For those who are just starting to learn a minority language, I recommend exploring Unite for Literacy and Storybooks Canada. In addition, beginner Chinese learners will find Little Fox Chinese to be a valuable resource.

As your child's proficiency improves, the other resources will help expand your child's comprehension skills, vocabulary, and grammar while cultivating love and appreciation for the minority language!

Of course, many other websites and apps offer multilingual stories beyond this list. However, I have elected not to make this an exhaustive list of everything that's available. We all reach a point where we have too many resources and not enough time!

Chinese audiobooks has been a big help for improving our Mandarin fluency and literacy. Personally, we use only Ximalaya regularly, because it has most of my children's favorite stories. Learning Chinese Through Stories is my other favorite source for studying new vocabularly.

Have you used any of these multilingual book resources?

If there is a truly superb resource that I have neglected to include here, please let leave a comment below so that other families can learn from it, too!

WHERE TO BUY CHINESE BOOKS FOR KIDS

Whenever feasible, physical books are preferred over digital books, especially for young children.

For more book recommendations, please explore our favorite Chinese books for kids!

If you're wondering where to buy Chinese books for children, please click here for a list of the most popular online bookstores!

Tips on creating a multilingual learning environment at home

Happy reading and learning, friends!

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Christopher Walken Reads "Where The Wild Things Are" 

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Christopher Walken Reads "Where The Wild Things Are" 

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Christopher Walken is an American actor best known for movies such as The Deer Hunter and Pulp Fiction.

His diverse and eccentric style makes Walken a cult icon amongst film fans, and his voice has been imitated any times but nothing is as good as the original. Never one to shy away from an interesting role, Walken is considered one of the most diverse actors of his generation. His sense of humour lends itself well to spoof and parodies, and has been known to mock his own work and style for comedic effect.

He has in the past recorded himself reading poetry or stories, such as Edgar Allan Poe, The Three Little Pigs, and now Where The Wild Things Are. As there aren't many words, but there are many pictures, we get an extra treat with Walken describing the images in his own unique way...

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Christopher Walken reads Where The Wild Things Are - For Reading Addicts

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Christopher Walken is an American actor best known for movies such as The Deer Hunter and Pulp Fiction. His diverse and eccentric style makes Walken a cult icon amongst film fans, and his voice has been imitated any times but nothing is as good as the original.

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National Theater to stream play every Thursday night

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National Theater to stream play every Thursday night

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As numerous theatrical institutions across the world have opened up their archives in response to increasing lockdown restrictions, all eyes have remained on one organisation: the National Theatre in London, which has the greatest archive of cinema-quality recordings of stage plays of any theatre on the planet, thanks to its formidable NT Live programme. It's designed to beam productions from the NT into cinemas across the country, but there are of course no cinemas in operation at present. So the NT is switching to its YouTube channel. From April 2, under the banner of National Theatre at Home, every Thursday (7pm GMT/2pm EST) will see a new National Theatre play released - free to watch for one week - along with bonus content including cast and creative Q&As and post-stream talks.

There's a definite emphasis on family-friendly good cheer for the line-up so far, which kicks off with a big hitter: Richard Bean's beloved farce 'One Man, Two Guvnors', starring a pre-chat-show-days James Corden. Over the next few weeks you can expect a string of family-friendly titles, though naturally there will be those hoping for some of the real NT Live blockbusters, notably 'Hamlet' and 'Frankenstein' starring Benedict Cumberbatch and 'Coriolanus' starring Tom Hiddleston.

The initial programme is:

April 2 'One Man, Two Guvnors' by Richard Bean, starring James Corden. Read our review.

April 9 'Jane Eyre', adapted by Sally Cookson. Read our review.

April 16 'Treasure Island', adapted by Bryony Lavery. Read our review.

April 23 'Twelfth Night' by William Shakespeare, starring Tamsin Greig. Read our review.

Additionally, the National Theatre will be rolling out National Theatre Collection study resources to pupils now learning at home.

The NT has also confirmed that live performances won't restart until at least July.
For more information on National Theatre at Home, click here. For other ways you can watch plays while London's in lockdown, clickhere.

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The National Theatre is going to stream a free play every Thursday night

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As numerous theatrical institutions across the world have opened up their archives in response to increasing lockdown restrictions, all eyes have remained on one organisation: the National Theatre in London, which has the greatest archive of cinema-quality recordings of stage plays of any theatre on the planet, thanks to its formidable NT Live programme.

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