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SEE Guide to Make Your Home Stay Most Enjoyable (1)


Mon 30 Mar 2020 | 03:26 PM
Yassmine Elsayed

Are you forced to stay home, as perhaps billions of people worldwide amid fears over coronavirus spread? Well, this will not be boring any more, if you really think of making something new and, maybe, do all that you previously wished to do but you did not have time.

Now, the stay at homes offers us a lot of time, that many of us were desperately in need to. But, remember, if you choose to spend your free time as you always did, surfing the internet and getting online at social media sites, this is going to be the most boring home stay ever.

SEE gathered for you a lot of suggestions to help you having the most fun and enjoyable times at home.

We will share with you on regular basis suggestions in this regard.

And today, we will start by how to make the home stay beneficial for your kids, but also develop their learning skills and help them never to forget what they have learned in schools or nurseries.

Thinking this way will lessen, too, any kind of bad behavior which they might develop while having so much free time. Look at these:

Scholastic launched a Learn at Home website with daily lessons that combine videos, stories and prompts for drawing and writing activities. Grade levels include pre-K and kindergarten, grades 1 and 2, grades 3 to 5, and grades 6 and up.

Khan Academy, a free online learning resource offering lessons, exercises and quizzes, has daily schedules for organizing at-home learning for students ages 4 to 18 years. On weekdays, Khan Academy is also offering daily livestreams on FacebookYouTube and Twitter to help parents and educators best utilize the website's tools and resources.

Crash Course is a YouTube channel offering engaging educational videos suitable for high school students. The channel features a wide range of subjects, from anatomy to world history.

ABCmouse.com is offering a free 30-day trial of its comprehensive early learning academy for children aged 2-8 and includes educational games and activities designed by teachers.

In response to school closures, dozens of companies that produce educational materials have made their resources available as free subscriptions; you can find links on the Kids Activities website. Links to free K-12 educational resources such as audiobooks, e-books, videos, multimedia materials and more are also available on the Open Culture website.

PBS KIDS and PBS LearningMedia are offering tools to help support learning at home, including educational videos and games from favorite series, and related skill-building offline activities.

Subscribe to Time Magazine's Time for Kids for elementary and middle school students, digital subscriptions are free for the duration of the school year. This is the first time that the magazine is fully accessible at home.