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Mindfulness + Meditation

As our world becomes a bit less predictable day by day, children need continued reassurance, support and encouragement. Working toward heightened mindfulness and meditation can help children to maintain focus, calm, and resilience.

www.greatergood.berkeley.edu has a guide to well being and other resources

www.Mindful.org

30 day mindfulness program called “Find Calm and Nourish Resilience” with a variety of topic based mindfulness meditations
On their Facebook page at Mindful@home, Mindful.org has weekly Monday/Wednesday/Friday 3pm ET live meditations.
In addition, Mindful.org has many great articles (ie. Befriending our emotions, meditations to foster deep gratitude, sparking joy, a kindness practice for families)

5 Free mindfulness meditation apps: operate on ios, android and web (see descriptions on Mindful.org “Free Mindfulness apps Worthy of Your Attention)

1. Smiling Mind has teen resources with specific mindfulness areas of meditation (sleep, relationships, etc.)

2. UCLA Mindful is a resource based in the science of mindfulness

3. Stop, Breath, Think- explore “all sessions” to access free meditations

4. 10% Happier- a relatable, no-nonsense way to learn mindfulness (1 week free)

5. Insight Timer– free trial under “the basics”

Sites for Mindfulness Quotes:

www.positivepsychology.com (76 most Powerful Mindfulness Quotes: Your Daily Dose of Inspiration) Download the Three Mindfulness Exercises Pack and 12 Mindfulness Quotes for Quotes for the Day)

Mindfulness Activities for Teens:

info@mindbe-education.com 30 Mindfulness daily activities, which promote a balanced life.

The Magic of Math Competition

“I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magic of numbers” – Sir Thomas Browne, 1605 – 1682

Every summer, thousands of mathematics students engage in highly competitive and challenging mathematics programs and prepare for fall mathematics competitions. Math summers and competitions are not only enriching but enjoyable and an excellent opportunity for talented mathematicians to connect to their tribe! Here, we share some of the most exciting math resources, practice tests, comics, funny videos, summer programs, and competitions for students grades 7-12.

Fun Math Websites

https://math.hmc.edu/funfacts/

https://primes.utm.edu/

The Great Internet Mersenne Primes Search

Magic Squares

Geometry Junkyard

Wolfram Mathworld

Great Graphing Resources (Grades 1-8)

https://www.startlocal.com.au/articles/educational_graphs.html

Rose Hulman Math Journal

https://scholar.rose-hulman.edu/rhumj/

20 minute clips on exciting math topics

https://icerm.brown.edu/mathbytes/

Math comics

Big Blue Boo

Tipping Point Math on Youtube

Competitions and more math resources

Summer Literacy Tips and Tools for Children!

Research conducted with children who have missed out on reading over summer or long vacation breaks has shown us that the missed opportunity to read and strengthen literacy skills over summer creates long-term, adverse impacts for children. That’s why Peered is more committed than ever to helping every student across the country to keep reading. Peered tutors love reading with children of all ages, and we often host reading hours to share our love of reading with the elementary and middle schoolers with whom we work.

There are many ways to model literacy and encourage children to read. Here are just a few that can help your child develop stronger reading comprehension and vocabulary:

1.Reading out loud to your child can provide healthy models of fluency in reading.

2. Reading books a grade level above your child’s grade out loud can help him/her build vocabulary.

3.. Having children listen to a pre-recorded audio story through Alexa or another tech device while reading along can be helpful in teaching them to identify words.

4. Playing games with words like rhyming games with sight words, word bingo, reading tic-tac-toe, or memory guessing games to strengthen sight reading.

5. Recreating scenes from a book as a tableau or 1 act play brings books to life for children who learn through movement.

6. Find a “Reading Buddy” for your child. Peered tutors often serve as reading buddies. Get paired with one of our peer reading buddies today!

We have compiled a list of resources and literacy website for children and parents to help get you started.

Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets is a literacy initiative that offers parents and children resources on learning to read, book lists, summer reading ideas, and much much more!

Raz Kids, Epic!, IRead

Raz Kids, Epic!, and IRead all offer children an endless supply of digital book at varying levels of difficulty online. Raz Kids is offering their eBooks to children and families for free during the pandemic. Epic and IRead have similar programs.

Storyline Online

Developed by The Screen Actors Guild Foundation, Storyline Online features accomplished actors and actresses reading some of their favorite children’s books. Each story comes with a free Activity Guide and can be viewed on YouTube or SchoolTube. Rainbow Fish, Wilfrid Gordon Macdonald Partridge, and To Be a Drum are just a few of the books available.

The International Children’s Digital Library

The International Children’s Digital Library has the goal of building a collection of books that represent children, cultures and languages from all over the world. The aspiration is to offer children and families the opportunity to be represented in the books they are reading and also to appreciate other cultures.

Online Summer Programs for Teens

AI Scholars Live Online is a 10 session (25-hour) program that exposes high school students to fundamental AI concepts and guides them to build a socially impactful project. Taught by our team of graduate students from Stanford University, students receive a personalized learning experience in small groups with a student-teacher ratio of 4:1. Application Deadline: May 1, 2020

jGirls Magazine invites self-identifying Jewish teenage girls ages 13-19 across the world tHaro submit creative content (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, art, photography, music) on the subject of their choice for consideration for publication in our online magazine. We accept submissions on an ongoing basis. Writers and artists are paid for published content.

Teen Life online/virtual summer programs – 43 current programs; application dates vary by program

Pioneer Academics Research Program is a virtual research institute for outstanding high school students with the highest standards in selectivity and academic rigor. It is the world’s only online credit-bearing research program for high school students, offering STEM, social sciences and humanities. In Pioneer’s rigorous academic system, students work one-on-one with university professors in advanced study and research of a topic of their interest, culminating in a full-length research paper. Application deadline: April 26, 2020

Pharmacy Summer Institute for High School and College Students–The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences 2020 Pharmacy Summer Institute is still scheduled to occur but will move to a virtual format with the schedule to be finalized in the coming months. The Pharmacy Summer Institute will be free for 2020. Applications are due June 1.

http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org Concordia Language Villages is offering in-person programs in Minnesota starting July 27. Earlier sessions have been canceled. It’s also offering week-long online programs for several foreign languages throughout the summer and online four-week high school credit programs with 180 hours of instruction.

Varied Course Offering

Summer Institute for the Gifted

https://sce.cornell.edu/precollege/program/online

Online Creative Writing Programs