Learning Resources + Ideas

Ideas

  • Make a list of friends and family we’re thinking of and write a letter to one a day

  • Have each kid pick a topic they'd like to learn about and spend 30 mins each day on that topic

  • Nature journaling in your yard or even your house (or further if that’s appropriate for your situation) 

  • Games

    • Boggle

    • Scrabble

    • Yahtzee

    • Dixit

    • Rat-a-tat-cat

    • CodeNames

    • Sleeping Queens

  • Knitting kit from we are knitters

  • Have your kid choose something they’d like to teach (a craft, read a book, cook something) and then write a script and make a video to share. 

  • Start a virtual book club 

  • Slime! (I know, I know)

Books we love

  • Race to the Sun

  • Harry Potter (alldaylong)

  • The Girl Who Drank the Moon

  • Secret Garden

  • Crenshaw

  • Wishtree

  • The One and Only Ivan

  • Little House (lovely in many ways and can be a great conversation starter in regards to racism and sexism)

  • Box Car Children

  • Santa Claus a Biography

  • Land of Stories

  • Tum Tum + Nutmeg

  • Barefoot Collection of Stories (Grandmother Tales are one of my favorites, but they’re mostly all great)

  • Peter Cottontail

  • Gwinna

  • Mary Poppins

  • the Percy Jackson series

Movies

I’m kinda uptight about what my kid watches, but I’m also a bit of a weirdo. I don’t mind swear words, but I do care deeply about the types of role models and messages my kid takes in. You can count on my movie suggestions to have thought behind them, but you can’t count on me to be particularly reverent in a mainstream sort of way. 

  • Troop Zero

  • Harry Potter (TBH I really love the 1st one and a few others, some of them are way dark for me but my girl is Harry Potter alldaylong and I’ve decided to trust that there’s stuff she’s working out through these stories). 

  • A League of their Own

  • Frozen 2

  • Playing with Fire

  • Spiderman - into the Spiderverse 

  • Enchanted

  • Spies in Disguise

  • Jane (Jane Goodall documentary)

  • Wonder

  • Princess Bride

  • School of Rock

Apps/software/websites

*please check back for additional resources; I will be adding more over the next several days. Please click here to schedule a call with me if you need to chat.

Danielle