Resources shared during MORNING MEETING all on ONE PAGE

Creative Challenges
To join a creative challenge, click on the week to find the padlet where you can share your creations!

• Week 1
  • #RoundTheWorld_ChainReaction
  • Design a virtual field trip for us to go on!
  • Share a Doodle
  • Share Yoga Pose
• Week 2
  • Share your favorite tongue twister with family, friends and us!
  • Do something from the principal's list and share a pic!
  • Finish the comic and share it!
  • Make a song and share it!
  • Build a house of cards and share it!
• Week 3
  • #HackYourWindow challenge
  • My Robotic Friend
  • If Dog Man had to do school work at home, what would his desk look like? from Dav Pilkey at home
  • Create and record our new sign-off - winner gets to be a guest on the show!
• Week 4
  • Wastepaper basket collage challenge inspired by Austin Kleon
  • Draw something with Silk
  • Binary creations
  • Building the setting of your movie or story with household items
•  Week 5 
  • Send an e-card to a lonely patient or anyone who needs a pick me up! 
  • Dyson foundation challenge cards
  • UnSelfie Idea Challenge
  • VDM @ Home
• Week 6
  • Blindfold challenge with 5 objects from nature
  • Share your dream playground with Bennett’s Village (Bennett’s Village website)
  • Make a mask
  • Book spine poetry/story challenge
• Week 7
  • PBS Design Squad Stuff Spinner challenge: input what you have lying around the house and do a challenge.
  • Create a nature mandala
  • Choose an activity from the Virtual STEM Guide
  • Create a robot zine
• Week 8
  • Watch an episode of The Daily Creature to help inspire your own animal creation
  • Creepy Pair of Underwear readaloud and then remix Project UNDERWEAR!
  • Create a soundscape
  • Bitsbox challenge for Girls’ Geek Day
    
• Week 9
  • Paint and share a rock in Bennett’s memory
  • Introduce your favorite character to the world
  • Draw what your DREAM backpack looks like
    
  • COVID-19 and Loneliness SOS
    
• Week 10
  
  • Brainstorm solutions for a real-world problem.
    
  • Set a tech creation goal for this summer
    
  • Fresh Films video challenge
    
  • Emoji Summer Reading challenge
    

For Health Literacy

• 31 Unorganized Sports You Should Teach Your Kid This Summer
• A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus
• A visual guide for washing your hands correctly
• Answering kids questions about Coronavirus, in free picture books
• Charlottesville Community Resources
• Cosmic Kids Yoga on YouTube
• Covid19 Health Literacy Project
• Girls Talk Tech: COVID-19
• Go Viral resources
  
• How let your children be upset
  
• Mask patterns from Cville Craft Aid
•  PBS News Hour: Child Psychiatrist Takes Parent Questions Regarding Kids and Coronavirus
• PE with Joe
• Pleasant Event calendar activity
• Programming Cells
• Sew and no sew instructions from CDC
• SuperBetter Stay-at-Home Scavenger Hunt
• Talking to kids about coronavirus.
• What is a Pandemic? From Naomi O’Brien at Read like a Rockstar
• Your Only Goal Is to Arrive

For Learning

• 50 virtual field trips
• Amazing rock projects for kids
• Amazon future engineer - free CS courses
• Architecture from Home from Foster and Partners
• Are you a Kidpreneur? from Wagilabs
• Audacity Editing for Beginners: 16 Tips
• Binary Bookmarks
• Bootup Scratch Challenges
  
• Code with an athlete
  
• Code with AR
  
• Computer Science Unplugged
• Create your own digital breakout
• Creativity Matters - Around the World Chain Reaction
• Daily STEM Activities for Families
• Dav Pilkey at home
• DK findout
• Draw Everyday with JJK
• Finish the comic and share it!
• Gender Spectrum
• Hot Shots / Hot Jobs
  
• How Journaling Benefits Your Child
  
• iNaturalist city  nature challenge
• Kim’s interview on #CSK8 podcast
• Learning Plus TV from VPM
• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
• Mouse open projects
• My Robotic Friend
• National Geographic Kids (We love the animal research tools!)
• OK Go Sandbox
• Robot Petting Zoo with CodeJoy
• Scholastic Learn at Home
• Sneaky Science Education
• Sonic Pi
• Starting Your Podcast: A Guide For Students
  
• Summer STEM Guide for Cville
  
• Teaching Tolerance
• The Conscious Kid
• The Cornell Lab: Bird Academy Play Lab
• The Daily Creature from IX Art Park
• The Gender Wheel
• The Trevor Project
  
• Varsity Tutors
  
• VDM @ Home
• Viruses and Us from the Exploratorium
• Virtual Field Trips
• Virtual STEM Guide
• VPM's Science Matters
• Wide Open School from Common Sense Media
  
• Why Parents Need to Let Their Children Fail
  
• Young voices for the planet
• Young activists leading the fight

Cool Tools

• Adobe Sketchbook (free download, drawing) 
• Audacity (free, open source, audio editing)
  
• Bitsbox (free, online coding platform)
  
• Chrome music lab
• GIMP (free, open source, photoshop-like editor)
• Scratch (block-based coding platform from MIT)
• Silk (interactive generative art)
• Sketchpad (online drawing)
• Sumopaint (online drawing)

For Readers

• Authors everywhere YouTube channel: book talks, activities, writing workshops
• Book spine poetry gallery
• CeceBell and the inside story of El Deafo
• Celebrities read James and the Giant Peach
• Daniel Radcliffe reads Harry Potter
• Engaging readers with audiobooks
• Jason Reynolds Write. Right. Rite. prompts
  
• KidLitPride at home
  
• Lauren Tarshis I survived COVID-19 challenge
• Library interns best books recommendations
• Ms. Fitz reads The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
• Storytime with Michelle Obama
• The Princess in Black and the Case of the Coronavirus