Extra Learning Opportunities
Below you will find a list of resources or ideas to work on if you are wanting to do more than what is currently being assigned.
Challenge Your Math Skills
Explore Books
Practice your French and Other Languages
Refine Your Fine Arts Skills
Advance Your A.D.S.T. Knowledge
Indoor Physical Education
Become a Science Specialist
Museum Social Studies
Challenge Your Math Skills
- IXL is an individualized guidance program for Math and/or Language Arts
- Prodigy is a self-pacing app or online Mathematic program www.prodigygame.com
- CEMC Problem of the Week features math problems designed to provide students with an ongoing opportunity to solve mathematical problems. See archived ones at https://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/resources/potw.php
- if you have a printer and want a hard math challenge, print out previous Gauss Contests at https://www.cemc.uwaterloo.ca/contests/past_contests.html
- email me to ask me to create a free Mathletics account for you https://login.mathletics.com/
Explore Books
- Audible for Kids - online books for students to listen to (some books are available to stream for free)
- Hillcrest's library catalogue with ebooks can be found here: library.sd36.bc.ca/cataloging/servlet/
- explore the world of Harry Potter including free audio recordings https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home
- Teen Book Cloud (Tumble Books) has ebooks https://www.teenbookcloud.com/home.aspx Username: Hillcrest
Password: login
Practice your French and Other Languages
- Duolingo is an app for French. Mme Leeks has instructions for setting it up here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KYodtqrKAN6u0qGFqR1V7i4FWJO-yW__/view?usp=sharing
- you can leaner other languages on this app too
- learn some sign language at http://www.signlanguage101.com/
Refine Your Fine Arts Skills
- band students practice your instruments
- follow along with direct drawing on on Art Hub for Kids https://www.youtube.com/user/ArtforKidsHub
- if you have the supplies, paint with Bob Ross at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxcnsr1R5Ge_fbTu5ajt8DQ
- Disney fan? Try #DrawWithDisneyAnimation https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list
- I'm Batman. Well, I'm not but maybe you can learn to draw him at https://www.dccomics.com/tags/art-tutorial
- Team Marvel? Then like to draw their characters at https://www.youtube.com/playlistor https://www.youtube.com/user/cartooning4kids
- enjoy looking at art? take a tour of well know museums like MoMA at https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/moma-the-museum-of-modern-art, the Musee d'Orsay https://artsandculture.google.com/streetview/, the Getty at https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-j-paul-getty-museum?hl=en or The Google Art Project at https://artsandculture.google.com/
Advance Your A.D.S.T. Knowledge
- practice your Scratch coding at https://scratch.mit.edu/
- practice coding at https://code.org/learn
- if you have access to a keyboard, now is a great time to practice typing at https://www.typingclub.com/
Indoor Physical Education
- follow along with any of the PE with Joe YouTube videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zGzJdPB-1A
- Just Dance to YouTube videos on https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIjW4BWKLqpojTrS_tX0mg
Become a Science Specialist
- do a STEM or Science experiment or activity from https://www.sciencebuddies.org/
- is magic science? Learn a new trick and decide for yourself http://magictricksforkids.org/
- explore NASA through virtual tours at https://oh.larc.nasa.gov/oh/
Museum Social Studies
- learn about an early civilization like the Ancient Mayans with a virtual tour at https://artsandculture.google.com/exhibit/the-ancient-maya-at-the-british-museum/ or the early First Peoples of Canada at https://www.historymuseum.ca/history-hall/virtual-tour/