Online and printable activities for extended closings

Whew! That was a week. It was definitely difficult. I am sure that my week mirrored your week. I was dealing with making plans for my own students and then BAM! My son’s school decided to cancel for Friday. At 11:30 PM. After telling us earlier in the evening that they wouldn’t cancel on Friday. I am lucky that my own school had their after care open, and my head of school is amazing and welcomed my son- and personally checked on him as well. But still. That stress is real. I want to share as much as I can while still making sure that I am serving my own students and helping as many teachers as I can.

My older post is good for general guidelines, but I wanted to share a separate page that was just a dumping place for resources. I will share it now, and update it when I have a chance (and find more resources- HA!)

First, here are some other resources that I have found from various people:

• Edited to add: Martina and I have been working on making three free coronavirus articles in El Mundo en Tus Manos. This also has activities to do online like Quizziz and EdPuzzle.
• @profehyman shared this choice board online that is a compilation of a few different ones. This is appropriate for middle school and has a mixture of online and offline activities.
• Leslie Grahn shared this choice board that is not language specific! It also doesn’t require any paid subscriptions or teacher prep.
• Noemi also shared this generic reading log last week on my blog post. I moved it here to the collection.
• Señor Wooly is also working on some resources and offering a free PRO subscription as well.
• Julie also shared some great activities for younger students! I know my colleague who teaches second grade is using some of her ideas.
• Emily shared some great ideas for continuing to work on the interpretive mode.

For my early childhood (prek/kindergarten and first grade) students, I included these books that I had already made. I plan on making a video for them to watch to make sure that they can do them together.

• I made this book to summarize the year about feelings and animals for students to illustrate.
• This book is about colors with cognates.
• This book is about numbers.
• This book is a simpler version about animals and colors.

For my third and fourth grade students, I gave them an edition of Qué Tal magazine and a copy of the new FVR book from the Señor Wooly website for Diego. Then, I made this choice board for them.

I shared this on the last post- but in case you missed it, I organized my EdPuzzle videos by level and theme for both middle and high school.

If you have access to PearDeck to assign students:

• Clothes practice
• Introduction to Costa Rica (for level 1 or possibly 2)
• Birthday celebrations (for level 1 and level 2)
• Sports GIFs (I just turned this into a PearDeck activity)
• An older Cuba presentation that I switched into a PearDeck activity for level 4+

For a couple of interpretive reading activities, I used Google Drawings. It can be leveled as well.

• I used this infographic to talk about lucha libre in Mexico.
• I used this infographic to discuss Colombia and the FARC.
• This infographic is about the beach. I used this in level 2.
• Finally, this infographic is about tourism in Mexico. I used this in level 2.