Parenting
Making Sense of Trauma Storybook for children
Big Feelings Come and Go is a storybook we hope will be a resource to help families and caregivers have conversations with kids about freeze, flight, and fight and learn some basic self-regulation skills. We wanted to help create a book for kids to help them better understand how and why their bodies respond the way they do when they are stressed, worried or have experienced a trauma. We have learned that when kids and adults have the words to name how they are feeling this helps in their healing process. English French
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Teach.com
How to balance children’s screen time during the pandemic.
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Circle Of Security During A Pandemic
Helping Children feel safe by being bigger, stronger, wiser and kind.
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Child Mind Institute
Support for families during COVID-19. Videochat, consultation and tips.
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Self Reg Parenting
By Dr. Stewart Shanker. Shanker Self-Reg® is a process for enhancing selfregulation by understanding and dealing with stress. In Self-Reg we consider both our responses to stress and our underlying state of energy and tension when we encounter a stress
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FirstAidForFeelings_Eng
Scholastic Workbook to help kids cope during the coronavirus pandemic.
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National Child Tramatic Stress Network (PDF)
Parent/Caregiver guide to Helping Families Cope with COVID-19.
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130 Activities with Common Household Items
Choose a fun activity to do with your children at home using common household items.
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Learning at Home
Junior Handyman’s Toolkit: Classroom Projects, Essentials and Checklists
Woodworking projects, STEM, Computer building, Encouraging creative kids!
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Association of Native, Child and Family Service Agencies of Ontario
Cultural Resources for Families. Includes Family Wellness, Story Time and excellent activities.
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Brains On
Podcast for Kids – Understanding Coronavirus and how Germs Spread.
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CBC Kids
Justin Trudeau answers Kids’ questions about the Coronavirus.
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Cora and the Corona
Cora and the Corona: One Little Girls Journey to Healing in Quarantine. Download your FREE colouring book or order a copy online. Free copies for mental health essential services interested in distributing it.
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Children’s Therapy Centre
Music at Home to provide Bonding, Development and Learning
Everybody Worries – A picture book for children who are worried about Coronavirus
The Story of the Oyster and the Butterfly
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Entertain Kids on a Dime
100 Activities to do at home doing school closures.
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Fun Learning for Kids
Printable Games and activities.
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Google Classroom
List of sites to use while school is closed.
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GreatSchools.org
Printable worksheets.
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Homeschooling During COVID-19:
7 Stress-free Ways to Keep Your Child On
Track
By Anne Dolin, M.Ed
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Lego Justin Trudeau (Video)
VERY CUTE!! Justin Trudeau’s message to children done in a Lego Video.
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Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Ancestry Library Edition from Home – For a limited time, Ancestry Library Edition is now available for you to try at home! Our Genealogy Librarian explains how to get started in her series of videos.
Virtual Storytime Express – Storytime Express will bring a taste of our favourite children’s programs to you by video each week. Register to receive a link each week.
Cloud Library– Library card carriers can access books with your favorite device.
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Limestone District School Board
Online resources to support students learning and wellbeing.
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LiveScience
Activities and resources for homebound kids.
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Melt and Freeze
Body relaxation for young children. Helps to learn how to melt when we freeze!!! Youtube Video
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Mindheart
A book that parents can print and read to their children (includes pages that child can fill out) reassuring them about the virus and encouraging them to discuss the full range of emotions relating to it. Available in many languages.
Hello, My name is Coronavirus. Book for Children
Je m’appelle Coronavirus. Book for children
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Motherly
Tips and resources for homeschooling your children.
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MPR News
Just for Kids – A comic exploring coronavirus.
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Ontario
Find supplementary resources for elementary and secondary students to practice math and literacy skills and learn at home.
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Parent Map
Education Resources for families during COVID-19.
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Prodigy
Free curriculum-alligned math platform.
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Raising Our Kids
Dot to Dot worksheets.
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Reading Rockets
Spelling Word Lists (by grade).
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Social Distancing Social Story
Educational book for children by Jessica Askew, MS
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Toybox Tools
Dance Mat Typing Program.
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TVO Teach Ontario
Resources for educators. Designed for teachers but can be used by parents as well!
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Wash Your Lyrics
EXCELLENT!! – Choose your child’s favourite song, enter the song name and artist, then click ‘generate’. A poster will be generated pictures of each stage of hand washing along timed to the lyrics of the song.
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Youtube – Art for Kids (Videos)
How to draw a Health Hero.
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Youtube – Beginner Painting (Video)
How to draw a tree with acrylic paint.
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Physical Activity
Jigga Jump (Videos)
Judy & David, Canada’s beloved children’s singers, are combining their spectacular music with fantasy adventure to inspire children to get physically active in this new TV show.
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UIC
Healthy Games and Activities for Kids.
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Youtube (Video)
Kids workout for beginners.
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Youtube (Video)
Animal Exercises for kids.
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Entertainment
Audible
For as long as schools are closed, we’re open. Right now, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.
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Google Arts & Culture
Visit hundreds of museums around the world virtually, all from the comfort of your own home.
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Kingston Frontenac Public Library
Borrow eBooks, audiobooks, movies, magazines from the Kingston Frontenac Public Library.
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Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera will be hosting free online streams. May not be suitable content for younger children.
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Scribd
Read e-books for free without limits for 30 days.
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VidAngel
Free services and content during the outbreak. No credit card required. Skip objectionable content on Netflix and Amazon shows, Access to “Family Night Out” titles for the family, Free access to the show “The Chosen.” Access to Dry Bar Comedy episodes.
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Big Life Kids Podcast
Big Life Kids podcast teaches children to stay resilient, believe in themselves, and face life’s challenges with confidence for kids ages 5 to 10.
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We Are Teachers
Free Read-Aloud Books by their authors.
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Art
ArtBabble
The YouTube of Arts.
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Arts Edge
Art’s Education Resources.
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Google Arts & Culture
Explore Artwork.
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Hello Kids
Colouring Pages.
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National Gallery of Art
NGA Images is a repository of digital images of the collections of the National Gallery of Art. On this website you can search, browse, share, and download images. A standards-based reproduction guide and a help section provide advice for both novices and experts.
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Process Art
Process art is a contemporary artistic movement recognized within the world’s art communities. The Guggenheim states “process art emphasizes the ‘process’ of making art”. The MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) points out that “in process art, the means count for more than the ends.”
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The Art of Education University
Art Education and the Coronavirus.
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The Kitchen Table Classroom
Printable Crafts and Instructions.
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The Met
Five decades of Met publications on art history available to read/download and/or search for free.
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Music
The Kingston Symphony
The Kingston Symphony has launched a new digital series created for children called Harmon in Space. The main character of the series, a puppet, named Harmon the Hound needs the Kingston Symphony’s help to complete her space mission. She is stuck in space and needs to play the correct piece of music into her computer in order to land on Earth. The orchestra is asked, one musician at a time, to help bring Harmon home. Each episode highlights a different instrument in the orchestra by featuring music performed by the Kingston Symphony. With limited music available in schools, especially now, and with children learning from home, The Kingston Symphony felt it was important more than ever to offer this seriesYou can watch this episode below, or by clicking here