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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
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    • Chapter Forty
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    • Chapter Thirty-eight
    • Chapter Thirty-seven
    • Chapter Thirty-six
    • Chapter Thirty-five
    • Chapter Thirty-four
    • Chapter Thirty-three
    • Chapter Thirty-two
    • Chapter Thirty-one
    • Chapter Thirty
    • Chapter Twenty-nine
    • Chapter Twenty-eight
    • Chapter Twenty-seven
    • Chapter Twenty-six
    • Chapter Twenty-five
    • Chapter Twenty-four
    • Chapter Twenty-three
    • Chapter Twenty-two
    • Chapter Twenty-one
    • Chapter Twenty
    • Chapter Nineteen
    • Chapter Eighteen
    • Chapter Seventeen
    • Chapter Sixteen
    • Chapter Fifteen
    • Chapter Fourteen
    • Chapter Thirteen
    • Chapter Twelve
    • Chapter Eleven
    • Chapter Ten
    • Chapter Nine
    • Chapter Eight
    • Chapter Seven
    • Chapter Six
    • Chapter Five
    • Chapter Four
    • Chapter Three
    • Chapter Two
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