RCAS Whole Child/FACE Resources
September 15, 2020
How Families Can Help Their Child Transition to Online Learning
The following are ways that families can support successful virtual learning for their children:
- Create a designated workspace - consider your child's individual needs and personality when setting up their workspace. Make sure they have easy access to all materials and supplies.
- Implement a schedule - write a weekly schedule with your children and keep it posted.
- Have designated break times - encourage movement breaks and use timers or alarms if necessary.
- Become familiar with online platforms - check out the parent portals and utilize your child's teacher to help you learn the platform.
- Remain in communication with teachers - keep open communication with teachers and encourage your children to keep communicating with their teachers by asking questions, etc.
Black Hills Farmers Market BH Farmers Market has now increased the limit on its Double Up Food Bucks program to $40 per market day! Customers can visit the information booth to process their EBT card and receive double the tokens to shop for more fresh fruits and vegetables throughout the farmers market. Click on the picture for more information. | 211 HELPLINE - RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND ESSENTIALS This is the site that lists all of the available food and essential needs resources for our Black Hills community. Click on the picture to access the updated weekly resources. | RCAS COVID-19 RESOURCE GUIDE This is an updated version of the resource guide for Rapid City Area School District families. Click on the picture to see the guide and make sure to check out each tab at the bottom of the document. Resources for health, mental health, food, utilities, and summer. |
Black Hills Farmers Market
211 HELPLINE - RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND ESSENTIALS
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Grid Club Ages 5-12 Grid Club offers a vast variety of games, activities, and other interactive features including math, literacy, science, geography, and so much more. Click the photo to get started. | 15 Weather STEM Activities for Kids STEM activities can be intimidating, but it can also be simple and educationally interactive using items from your own home! Living in South Dakota, our weather is constantly changing. Learn more about the different variations of weather with these awesome activity ideas. Click the photo to view the instructions for each activity. | Connect Four Spelling Materials Needed:
Description of Steps: 1. Decide which words your child knows or needs help with. You can also use sight words. Write the letters of those words on stickers and place the stickers on the game pieces. 2. Practice building the words and then creating a sentence with those words! 3. Have fun! |
Grid Club
Grid Club offers a vast variety of games, activities, and other interactive features including math, literacy, science, geography, and so much more.
Click the photo to get started.
15 Weather STEM Activities for Kids
Living in South Dakota, our weather is constantly changing. Learn more about the different variations of weather with these awesome activity ideas.
Click the photo to view the instructions for each activity.
Connect Four Spelling
- Connect Four Game
- White sticker or garage sale stickers
- Pen
- Scissors
- Sharpie
Description of Steps:
1. Decide which words your child knows or needs help with. You can also use sight words. Write the letters of those words on stickers and place the stickers on the game pieces.
2. Practice building the words and then creating a sentence with those words!
3. Have fun!
Kindness Bingo Life is currently high stress and we are all feeling the effects of it. Taking time out of your day to show random acts of kindness not only helps others, but it can also boost serotonin in the brain, which increases your sense of well-being. Click the photo to view and play "Kindness Bingo" with your children. You may just make someone's day! | Veteran's Resource Fair September 22, 2020 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn parking lot 505 North 5th Street Free to all veterans Providing vital items for Veterans to survive winter, such as clothing, boots, gloves, etc. Mobile health units and mental health units will also be there. Please assist a veteran to attend. 605-431-3809 Click on photo to bring to the website | Things for Teens to do While in Quarantine When you are tired of seeing your kid staring at a screen,--or gasp!!-- they actually get tired of it themselves, here is a list of non-screen pastimes to pass the time. Click on the photo to see 83 ideas |
Kindness Bingo
Click the photo to view and play "Kindness Bingo" with your children. You may just make someone's day!
Veteran's Resource Fair
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Rushmore Plaza Holiday Inn parking lot
505 North 5th Street
Free to all veterans
Providing vital items for Veterans to survive winter, such as clothing, boots, gloves, etc. Mobile health units and mental health units will also be there.
Please assist a veteran to attend.
605-431-3809
Click on photo to bring to the website
10 Cool Meditations for Teens Children can benefit greatly from meditation. Children over the age of nine start to have more of an awareness fo their thoughts, and that is when we can start exploring meditations which involve being aware of your mind and changing your thoughts. Click on the photo to begin. | Hogwarts Digital Escape Room Welcome to the Harry Potter-themed Digital Escape Room. You can complete this escape room as a group or as an individual. You can compete against friends and try it multiple times. If you are accessing this through a social media app, we recommend opening this escape room in a separate browser so you do not lose progress when clicking on necessary links. Click on the photo to get started. | i Tunes U i Tunes U is a vast learning resource offering free educational content that users can download from Apple's i Tunes Store straight to your computer or mobile device. This features over 280 albums with content from more than 136 courses. |
10 Cool Meditations for Teens
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Hogwarts Digital Escape Room
If you are accessing this through a social media app, we recommend opening this escape room in a separate browser so you do not lose progress when clicking on necessary links.
Click on the photo to get started.