Learning At Home During Coronavirus School Closures

Is your school closed because of Coronavirus? Are your kids now learning at home during coronavirus school closures?

Yeah, mine too. The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting many areas of life, but as parents and teachers supporting parents, we can do a lot to keep things as normal and calm for our students and children as possible. I have gathered a long list of activities that you can do at home during the Coronavirus outbreak during school closures that don’t require too many classroom supplies. Parents can print things out and play. These are not work-sheets they are hands-on activities with STEP by STEP instructions to help parents feel like they can do this, because they can!

Additionally, I am offering my Spring thematic unit bundle for FREE. Click here and use coupon code 100 for 100% off. Teachers can feel free to download and share, replicate, etc… with their students. Please do not replicate for sale, that’s some seriously bad karma.

Also, if you need guidance about how to talk to your child about COVID-19 this article from Seattle Children’s Hospital is excellent. 

 

Learning Areas

This post is not meant to be a substitution for school work; it is a resource. As your teachers may ask you to work on specific skills, I have tried to organize this list to match up with some of those skills like “sight words,” “rhyming,” or “shapes.” Each activity has an age range next to it. This is just a general range. I a not adding in too many photos because this is a long list, and I want you to get the info you need, without too much fuss. Oh, and everything listed is FREE.

 

 

Book Suggestions

Click here for my library of book lists
(all my book lists include affiliate links to Amazon, so it’s easy to buy even during this coronavirus pandemic).

 

Rhyming

Printable Rhyming Board Game Prek- Grade 2

Rhyming Tag Preschool-Grade 2

Spelling & Name Recognition

Name Recognition Activities Preschool-Kindergarten

Spelling Games These are for kindergarten – Grade 2

Alphabet and Letter Recognition Activities

Missing Letter Game – Preschool-Kindergarten

Alphabet Activities – Preschool-Kindergarten

Letter Sound Activities

Giant Letter Sounds Puzzle ( using what you have at home) – Preschool-Grade 2

Letter Sound Matching 

Hands-on Letter Sounds 

Sidewalk Chalk Letter Sounds 

Sight Words

These activities are perfect to use with whatever sight word list you might be sent home with.

Sight Word Activities

Printable Puzzles for Visual Discrimination

Brown Bear Brown Bear Printable Puzzles – Toddlers – Preschool

Visual Discrimination Puzzles – Toddlers – Preschool

 

Storytelling & Writing

Telling Stories with Family Photos Toddlers – Grade 3

Sentance Scavenger Hunt Kindergarten-Grade 2

Family Origami House – Preschool-Grade 3

Writing Activities  – preschool – Grade 3

Subitizing, Addition, and Subtraction

Roll & Cover Game – all free printables. Preschool-Grade 1

Tally Mark Dominoes – PreKindergarten – Grade 2

Pop The Pig with Subtraction  Kindergarten-Grade 2

 

 

Number Recognition and Counting

Walk & Count – counting in nature Toddler – Kindergarten

Dinosaur sequence puzzle – free printable.  Preschool-Kindergarten

Counting Around The House – perfect when you are stuck at home. Preschool-Kindergarten

Roll & Bead 

Lego Roll & Build 

Shapes

Roll a Shape Game – Free printable for Preschool – Kindergarten

Shape Hunt – with free printable   Preschool-grade 1

 

Fractions & Money

Fractions with Connect 4   Grade 2-4

Money Math – Grade 1 – 4

Science

STEM challenge with flashlights preschool – Grade 4

Constellation Cookies – Toddler – Grade 4

Cloud in A Jar – Preschool-Grade 4

Butterfly Lifecycle ( this requires buying the kit, but it’s worth it especially if schools are closed for long) Toddlers – Grade 4

Germs Around The House ( also needs a kit but this would be amazing!) Prek – Grade 4

Which food will rot first? Preschool-Grade 4

 

Arts & Crafts

Painting without a paintbrush – ways to explore outside the box 

Homemade Finger Paint 

Kindness Rocks 

I have so many more ideas for all sorts of things to do while you are stuck at home because of coronavirus – use the search on the left and see! How are you learning at home during coronavirus school closures? Let us know in the comments!