PCM Newsletter
May 2020
THANK YOU!
Weekly Wellness
HIGH INTEREST READING AT HOME OR SCHOOL WITH EBOOKS
Heartland AEA has created some ebook reading guides that can be used at school or home.
Choose your adventure! (elementary)
It’s a mystery! (elementary)
Graphic Novels (middle school)
Sports and Recreation #1 and Sports and Recreation #2 (middle school)
Each guide includes book covers so students can browse the titles and choose the ones that jump off the shelf! There is a thumbs-up and down feature for each book.
The guide can be downloaded and printed. Or, keep it as a download and then click the thumbs-up and down—it’s a fillable PDF.
And, there’s a book review form linked to the elementary guides so students can practice their writing. Download to print or download and use as a fillable PDF.
There is a message for parents to sit with their child to choose the titles that best meet the child’s interest and reading level, and subject.
Check out more resources from the AEA here: https://www.smore.com/69fza4
K-12 FREE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Elementary
Go Noodle- Good Energy: App offering free movement, exercise, yoga, mindfulness, and educational videos.
Math Playground: Free educational games, puzzles, and videos. (K-6)
Fun Brain Jr.: Free games, stories, and printables for a variety of subjects.
PBS Kids: Free educational games, videos, and daily activities.
ABCya: Wide variety of educational games and videos. (K-6)
Magic School Bus: Ideas of science experiments and printables related to Magic School bus books and science topics.
Fluency and Fitness (Free for 21 days) Exersizing our brains and bodies, K-2
Starfall: Some free content for K-3rd grade. Literacy, math, music, etc.
National Geographic Kids: Wide variety of science and social studies content. (games, videos)
Study Jams: Math and science topics, including experiments, videos, lesson ideas, extension activities, and more!
Fun Fonix: Free phonics worksheets, printable phonics workbooks, worksheet maker, and printable game templates. Reading skills broken down by phonics rules, and embeds spelling and writing skills too.
Grid Club: Fun interactive learning games and videos for kids. Lots of material on English and math, science, history, languages, geography, health, art, music and more.
Tvokids: Free educational games and shows for ages preschool-5th grade.
Prodigy
IXL
ABCmouse.com (Free 30 Day Trial) https://www.abcmouse.com/
Online Enrichment for Learning at Home Everything! : )
Middle School
Learn how to Draw something cool - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmzjCPQv3y8
Practice your Social Studies, Math, ELA and Science skills and maybe try something new - learn some Spanish! https://www.ixl.com/
Explore the world around you! https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
Play some Math games - https://play.prodigygame.com/
This one requires signup https://www.khanacademy.org/signup
Maybe you love Science and Technology? Try these:
https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
https://www.discoverymindblown.com/
Go on a virtual museum tour -
https://britishmuseum.withgoogle.com/
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Looking for ideas on how to spend your day?
https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-12.html
Interested in how the government works? https://www.icivics.org/games
Love History? This is a website that allows you to react to the past.
https://www.mission-us.org/
Looking for short, quick reads?
This one requires signup - https://www.readworks.org/
This one also might require signup https://newsela.com/
Interactive eBooks-science https://www.nsta.org/ebooks/Grades6-12/
Collections (6-8 ELA curriculum) nonfiction articles https://hmhfyi.com/6-12/
High School
Khan Academy (K-12): Tutorials/lessons in math, science, history, programming, art history, economics and more https://www.khanacademy.org
PCM 2020-21 PRESCHOOL REGISTRATION
Four Year Old Program: Your child must be 4 on or before Sept. 15, 2020 to join our preschool programs at PCM. Classes meet 4 days per week, T-F, 3 hours in the morning (8:00-11:00) or 3 hours in the afternoon (12-3:00). There is no preschool on Mondays. If your child will be attending preschool, please go online to the school website www.pcmschools.org.
Click on the Schools Tab
Click on neighborhood school tab (Monroe Elementary or Prairie City Elementary)
Select Preschool and then a link for Preschool Registration
Click on 20-21 Preschool Registration Survey
Complete each question for your child’s information
Monroe Elementary 641-259-2314
Prairie City Elementary 515-994-2377