Choice Boards for Year 2-6

With distance learning, it is important to give students some choice in their learning. When students have a choice they are more likely to engage.  
One way of doing this is to provide some type of choice board this could sit alongside your core programme. The example below has been take from a US classroom. If you are interested in using this template or ideas from it, link to Choice Boards Year 2-6  and make a copy for yourself.

Year 3 Choice Board
Reading	Writing	Math	Inquiry	Fun	Other
Curl up in a comfy spot and dive into a great book! Have someone snap a photo, post it on Seesaw!	Write about a fun day you had with your family.	Use a toy or another object to measure 5 different things in your house.	Use books or kiddle to research something you are interested in.  Write down three new things you learned.	Create something using recycled materials.	Draw the most fantastic and fun water park you can imagine!
Find a book or magazine. Can you find any sight words in the book or magazine? Write them down on a piece of paper. Take a picture of the paper and post on Seesaw.	Write 10 words that describe you.  Ask your family to write 3 words about you, do they have the same words?	Go on a 3D shape hunt. What shapes can you find around your house? Take some pictures, post one on Seesaw and describe the shape. How many sides? How many points? How many edges?	Watch a BrainPop video on something that interests you. (the login in information on our website)	Choose a song and make up a dance! Perform the dance for your family. Teach them some of the moves. Record the dance and post it on Seesaw.	Draw yourself wearing a sneaky disguise.
Listen to a story. What was your favorite part? Retell the story to your family.	Write a note to your friend.	Write 3 word problems: 1 addition, 1 subtraction, and 1 money.  Use the note option and add them to Seesaw.	Create a picture book to share your knowledge about something you are an expert on.	Try and learn origami http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-for-kids.html	Go outside and create an image from found objects like grass, leaves, and sticks. Post a picture on Seesaw.
Listen to a book on https://www.storylineonline.net/	Write a short story from the point of view of a piece of litter.	Create a Slides or use Seesaw to show 10 examples of patterns found in nature (ie flowers, insects, animals). Describe the pattern you can see.	Using paper, string (or yarn, pipe cleaners, or more paper) can you create a parachute for one of your toys?  Take a video of you dropping your toy and post it on Seesaw.	Plan a picnic with your family.  Place a blanket on the floor and enjoy your family picnic!	Ask a family member to create a random line on a piece of paper.  Then draw a picture using that line. What can you create?
Reading	Writing	Math	Inquiry	Fun	Other
Read to your pet or your teddy.  Have someone snap a photo, post it on Seesaw!	Read two books about animals and write about how they are different and the same.	Design and create a game using addition and/or subtraction. Include the game rules, question cards, and an answer key. Be creative!	Invent your own game.  What are the rules? How do you play?	Play a card game with your family.	Have someone describe an animal to you without telling you the name, then draw their description.
Record yourself reading on Seesaw.	Use some of your sight words to write 1 paragraph.	Create your skip-counting pattern.  Record yourself on Seesaw reciting the pattern.	Design a bookmark for a non-fiction book you read.  Include some facts from the book.	Create a comic strip. Take pictures and share it on Seesaw.	Set a timer, how long can you balance on one foot for? ________ seconds
Have a sibling or a parent read to you.	Describe your favorite toy or game.	Make a schedule for your day.  Write down the times you will do each thing in your schedule.  What takes the most time? What takes the least amount of time?	Try to code with Kodable. https://www.kodable.com/	Ask an adult to cook or bake with you.	Create a new cover for a book you love.  Take a picture and post it on Seesaw.
Reread your favorite book.	Write a how-to book for a first grader about something you can do or make.	Make flashcards for addition and subtraction. Write the equation on the front (12 + 8) and the answer on the back (20).  Have someone ask you the questions.	Interview a family member about their favorites. Food, Colour, Snack Animal, Number, Activity, Game, something else?	Make a cootie catcher and fill it will questions for your family to answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZKv_PVcn0	Set a timer for 1 minute.  Hop on one foot. Can you last 1 minute? 2 minutes? 3 minutes?
Draw a picture of your favorite character in the book. Write some character traits around him/her.	Make a list of your favorite foods starting with your number 1.	Draw some base-ten blocks.  What number did you draw? Take a picture and post it on Seesaw.	Use books or kiddle to research how someone celebrates their birthday in a different country.	Play a board game with your family.	Complete one of the GoNoodles from Poppin’ Spring Break

Common Sense Media - Wide Open School

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A curation of educational websites to support distance learning form the editors of Common Sense Media and their partners. 

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We hope that Wide Open School helps make learning from home an experience that inspires kids, supports teachers, relieves families, and restores community.

This site was built in a matter of days on a shared vision. We plan to keep building until things get back to normal. A group of more than 25 organizations came together and raised their hands to help, and many more are joining on a daily basis. Watch for new features and content partners frequently.

Wide Open School is a free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. There is so much good happening, and we are here to gather great stuff and organize it so teachers and families can easily find it and plan each day. 

This crisis has reminded us of our deep appreciation for the work teachers do every day in their classrooms. At Wide Open School, we celebrate teachers—and parents—as they take on this new challenge. We'll discover and highlight teachers who are figuring out how to light up an online classroom and invite them to share their tips and wisdom to help blend home and school. Wide Open School can only fulfill its mission if all kids and families can access it. We know that millions of kids are without home broadband and/or computers, leaving them without access to critical learning and support services. We will persistently highlight the need to connect all kids, and we won't rest until we have played our part in closing the digital divide. As we do so, Wide Open School will offer many resources that can be completed offline and on smartphones, as well as bilingual and English-language learner resources.

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While we have tried to favor sites that don't require a login, some do require registration. The provided resources include links to external websites or applications that are governed by their own privacy policies or information collection practices, which may be substantially different from those of Common Sense. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and information collection practices of any external websites and apps before using them with children. Many organizations have stepped up and made their resources free for kids during this critical time.

We welcome your suggestions and contributions. We hope to provide great free learning experiences, resources, and social services for teachers, parents, and kids.

 —The team at Wide Open School

Teach from Home with Google

Google has set up a temporary hub of information and tools to help teachers during the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

https://teachfromhome.google/intl/en/

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