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The Greater Ridgewood Youth Council, Inc.

Serving Youth and Families Since 1980

Remote Learning

Here is a list of resources to use in your remote learning toolbox. Please feel free to recommend more. There are different levels of access and offerings are changing daily, so please take that into consideration when planning your daily activities.

Extra Pre-K resources

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Museum Tours

Here is a list of museums from Hello Giggles that offer virtual field trips!

Netflix Vids

Check out my blog article for tips on customizing your Netflix watch list and click HERE to watch remotely with friends!!

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Metropolitan Opera

Performances are cancelled through March 31st, but you can check out updates here.

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Chess.com

Work towards mastery through practice. Lessons and puzzles available too!

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Karaoke

Smule is connecting the world through music. Check out the site here and rock on.

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Go To Mars

The surface of Mars recorded by NASA's Curiosity Rover is now available in your browser!

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YouTube Channels

Take MIT classes or learn to make the perfect paper airplane. 50+ channels we like for learning. (check for age-appropriateness

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Lunch Doodles

Art lessons with Mo Willems!

These will be updated weekly, so add this to the calendar!

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YOGA and Stories

Cosmic Kids has some yoga videos and an app that you can download in addition to the site.

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Scholastic At Home

Grade-specific activities offered by a company that has been helping kids learn for decades.

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Zoos & Aquariums

Here is a list of zoos that have live feeds of different enclosures.

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Broadway Shows

7-day free trial and then you can decide if you'd like to subscribe.

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Make a Podcast

Pineapple Street Studios has a cool step-by-step for starting a podcast. Check it out!

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Oliver Jeffers

The main link is for his book readings, but you can click here for downloadable activities too.

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Legends of Learning

Gamification of learning is always a plus. This company does it right.

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Create a view a customized storybook with your child's name and avatar. No purchase required...

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Daily Dose of Science!

Museum of Life and Science, North Carolina

Great ideas for hands-on projects, interavctive Q&A, videos, and you can even make requests for new content!!

Mystery Doug

Free Until June!!!

Setting up ZOOM

Don't let setup issues keep your child out of the loop. Here's a simple tutorial

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