Building Connections while Cooking with Kids
There are opportunities for learning in everything you do during this time of uncertainty. Preparing meals and snacks with your children is an excellent way to teach a variety of skills while combatting a must-do task (lunchtime, snacks, etc.). This blog post suggests some ways you can engage your child(ren) in meaningful conversation as you cook with them.
Day-by-Day Projects to Keep Kids Reading, Thinking, and Growing
Here are some great projects and activities for keeping learning going from home for all age groups. Scholastic Learn at Home frequently updates the website with more ideas, so you don’t run out!
Explaining coronavirus to young children
Author Manuela Molina created this short book for families and educators to support and reassure children under the age of 7, regarding COVID-19. This is a tool based on fantasy to help children process emotions through repetitive play and stories read multiple times. The book is available via with downloadable pdfs in several different languages and the author recommends printing this material so children can draw on it like they would a coloring book.
Pandemic 2020: Stuck at Home Guide to Food, Fun and Conversation
As families everywhere find themselves following stay-at-home advice to help slow the coronavirus pandemic, the need for fresh activity ideas grows. Getting a little closer to our loved ones might be one of the only silver linings of a very stressful and scary situation. This article by the Family Dinner Project shares some of their best ideas for keeping busy during the pandemic.
Right Now, I am Fine
A free illustrated book and coloring books for children on coping with COVID-19 based on mindfulness and CBT strategies by Daniela Owen, PhD, an Assistant Professor in the Clinical Sciences Program at the University of California, Berkeley, and an alumna of Stony Brook University.
Tips to Keep Children Occupied during the COVID_19 Pandemic
A featured perspective by Jill Cioffi, MD, FAAP, Medical Director of Ambulatory Primary Care Pediatrics, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, on what parents can do to keep their children engaged during the COVID-19 crisis without going into public.