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The Wild Animal Park
Located on 12 acres just north of Chittenango, The Wild Animal Park is now open for Drive-Thru only & provides a unique opportunity for visitors to learn about a variety of animals. With a wide range of domestic and exotics animals from all over the world, it’s a great place for adventure, learning, and hours of family fun!
National Board For Professional Teacher Standards
The the definitive source for improved teaching, leading, and learning. Get Teaching tips where the teachers get them!
Virtual Field Trip To Seattle Aquarium
Tutor.com
Get a tutor 24/7 in 40+ subjects including Math, Science and English. We help thousands of students get better grades every day. Get an expert tutor now.
UnSchoolRules
UnSchoolRules.com is The Ultimate Guide To Homeschooling For Working Parents. Homeschooling for working Parents IS possible. … With those points in mind, here are some resources to help you make sure that (a) learning is really happening
Learn About Volcanos
The U.S. Geological Survey monitors volcanoes in the United States. Their interactive map allows you to click on and learn about any volcano in the country.
Virtual Art Classes
CNY’s BB Designs is offering a week’s worth of Virtual Art Classes. Everything from Mickey to Resist Painting. This is something that the entire family can take part in.
FunBrain
Funbrain the #1 site for online educational games for kids of all ages. funbrain.com offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving and literacy.
Including Music In Home Schooling When You’re Not Musically Inclined
It’s a dilemma shared by so many homeschool parents. You want to give your children a well-rounded education, and, of course, that includes music. But how can you include music in your homeschool when you aren’t musical yourself? Well, it is possible! Here are eight great ways to include music in your homeschool:
Field Trip to A local Farm
The Oneida County Sheriff’s Dept have started to do Virtual Field Trips on their Facebook page. Last week they visited The Simon’s Family Farm. They took a tour of the grounds & learned about Slow Moving Vehicle Safety.
IXL
IXL.com is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner.
Newsela
Newsela is an educational website that promotes literacy using news stories. Each article is adjusted to five different reading and maturity levels, so students of all ages can practice literacy skills while becoming informed citizens. The entire service is free for the remainder of the school year
Tumblebooks
This website is purely for reading activities. Students or parents can search up specific books and authors and have book read aloud to them from story tellers. Sometimes there is the option to add follow up comprehension questions to complete or discuss at the end of the book as well.
Virtual Tour Of The Boston Children’s Museum
Powered by Google Maps, this virtual field trip is pretty close to the real deal. Virtual visitors can “step” through the museum’s three levels and even walk through the queue, but you won’t find any lines here. They have also provided resources to play and learn at home while you can’t venture out to the museum.
Printable Mazes
This website is a collection of free printable mazes for kids will help your children or students develop their fine motor skills and strengthen their problem-solving skills – and they’ll have a blast doing it!
Veterinarian Day
Yesterday was Veterinarian Day. So to celebrate let’s visit with the Veterinarians at the Utica Zoo to see what it’s like!
History Of Woolworth’s
F.W. Woolworth’s was once one of largest department store chains in the world. Did you know that the company has its roots in Oneida County? Founder Frank W. Woolworth started his career as a stock boy in a Watertown general store and opened his first Woolworth’s store on Bleecker St in Utica. Hear the full story on Hidden History Woolworths from CNYhomepage, created in cooperation with the Oneida County History Center.
Freckle
Freckle is a practice website (and app) for grades K–12 that addresses standards-based skills and concepts in core subject areas.
King Musical Theater Workshop
To commemorate the 18th anniversary of the North American tour of Disney’s The Lion King, which is currently on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, the musical will offer a day of free live virtual content today starting at 12:30pm on the Disney on Broadway’s Instagram. Disney teaching artist will lead a musical theatre workshop, offering fans a chance to learn music and choreography from the Tony-winning musical.
A Pop Pop Boat
Xtra Math
XtraMath.org is a Seattle-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to math achievement for all kids. Everywhere. For free and without advertising.
Tour The White House
Take a virtual tour of The White House, hosted by President & Michelle Obama
Broadway Utica
Broadway Utica is offering two educational opportunities this week on the Broadway Utica FB Page:
1- Mini-Concert w/ Michael Mott (Today at 7pm)a CNY native who is also is a critically acclaimed Musical Theater Composer & Lyricist
2- Painting w/ BB Designs (Wed at 3pm) with a Funny Girl themed mixed media project
Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is offering Free Online Art Classes
See Phantom Of The Opera for FREE
Musical maker Andrew Lloyd Webber will stream his 25th Anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera on his new YouTube channel from 7pm Friday 4/17, and will be available for 24hrs
Storyline Online
Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
This online exhibit is where you will learn everything you wanted to learn about the bee, and more!
IXL.com is personalized learning! Explore 8,000+ math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish skills for K-12.
Flocabulary
Can hip-hop help us learn? Flocabulary thinks so. Flocabulary is a learning program for all grades that uses educational hip-hop music to engage students and increase achievement across the curriculum. Teachers at 20,000 schools use Flocabulary
Nikon Photography Classes
Nikon, is offering Free Online Classes for the month of April! Each class is taught by a professional photographer and provides in-depth lessons to help you get better at taking photos. Some courses cover Nikon-specific products, but many of them teach you the fundamentals of photography, such as a course that teaches you how to photograph your children or pets or the basics of making a music video. So even if you don’t own a Nikon camera, many of these classes might still be worth a watch
Scholastic
Scholastic, The company that we’ve use for book fairs has an amazing online resource to help teach your children. They’re offering Day-by-Day Projects to keep kids reading, thinking, & growing for grades K-9
Fun Brain
FunBrain is an educational browser game website for children Grades k-8 and adults. Offering Games, Video Books & More! It was on this site that Diary of a Wimpy Kid was first published before being turned into a successful book series and movie franchise.
Utica Zoo
The Utica Zoo is offering new digital content each weekday, they call it Uti-kaZoo. content includes everything from spider monkey videos, to lessons & activities about pets vs wild. PLUS it’s local!
Reading & Arts Center
Located in NY Mills. The store is closed. However you can order books, educational materials online & they will ship or curbside deliver your order.
It’s a local spot that has a lot to offer so DEF check out their Facebook or website for more
Great Wall Of China
Go On A Virtual Tour of The Great Wall Of China! Across 3,000 miles of the Great Wall of China without even having to stop to catch your breath with this virtual tour. You can explore some of the more famous sections of the wall, & you don’t have to push past huge tourist groups for the best views!
Cool Math
CoolMath.com is a free website that is loaded with strictly math games for all elementary levels. It has skill and drill activities like fluency facts, and also have other games for number sense and foundational skills
Write Think
ReadWriteThink.org is a reading and writing based website for children to use. The focus is on a multitude of different genres including fiction, non-fiction, realistic fictions, news, biographies, etc. Not very “game-like”, but very educational and good to keep critical thinking and reading skills up to par while out of school.
Science For Kids
Science For Kids is a Free online science network. The website is packed with articles, worksheets, & even a quiz on each section. You’ll find cool games, videos, worksheets, & lots more to help you understand the many different topics
PBS Kids
PBSKids.org This website is free to use. An account is not needed. This website is more for “fun” things. It has educational games, videos, book read aloud, and shows that are on the PBS network.
Learn To Play Guitar
With everything happening in the world, music has the power to connect us. Fender, the company behind everyone’s favorite guitars is offering 3 months of guitar, bass or ukulele lessons to the first 100,000 people who sign up for “Fender Play”. Click Here for more.
Online Art Class:
The Folks at BB Designs in New Hartford are taking care of art class for you! Each day they offer a new online painting class through their facebook page. This week, they’re offering, Trolls, Fortnight, Baby Yoda & More. They post all the supplies you’ll need in advance & it’s a great for both Parents & Kids. Visit BB Designs on fb for more info.
Starfall:
This is a website & an app that allows children have fun while they learn. Specializing in reading, phonics & math – educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-3 PLUS It’s free!visit starfall.com or search StarFall in the app store
Elementary Relief Pack:
Not sure what to cover with your elementary student? HaveFunTeaching.com is giving away free “relief packs” for grade K-5. Each pack will cover Writing, Phonics, Science, Math, Reading, English & Social Studies. Just choose the grade, download the zip file, & open the pdf
Virtual Family Learning at The Utica Zoo:
What Describe’s A Bird? A Mammal? What’s the difference between a Reptile & an Amphibian? The Utica Zoo can help with “Virtual Family Learning” online at UticaZoo.org
