Educational Resources
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While our teachers will be working hard to provide lessons and materials to students during this extended school closure, we wanted to provide additional resources that families may find helpful. We will continue to add to this list, so check back often.
General Educational Resources
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WGBH Distance Learning Resources
WGBH — in partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, the Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, WGBY/New England Public Media, and The Basics — has gathered free, trusted digital resources from PBS LearningMedia and its award-winning educational preschool programming. PBS LearningMedia resources span disciplines for grades PreK-12, are aligned to national and state standards, and include videos, comprehensive lessons, and other activities. Family Activities support learning and development for children ages 0 to 8.
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HES Summer 2020 Learning Guide
HES staff has curated free, high quality summer resources for preschool though fourth grade students to enjoy throughout the summer vacation.
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Common Sense Latino YouTube Channel
The Common Sense Media Latino YouTube channel offeres a variety of videos in Spanish for families.
El canal de YouTube Common Sense Media Latino ofrece una variedad de videos en español para familias.
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One Tough Job Resources for Families
The Children's Trust Program offers a list of carefully selected, up-to-date resources for Massachusetts parents
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Wide Open School
PBS Learning Media and Common Sense Media have teamed up to create Wide Open School -- a platform of teaching and wellness resources for teachers and families.
Literacy/Language Arts
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Monomoy Shark Tales
Live Google Meet storytime sessions featuring Monomoy's elementary principals
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Free ebooks, audiobook, and author readings
A compilation of resources from MRHS Librarian Sarah Wheaton
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Unite For Literacy
Great for ELL students - offers free digital access to picture books in various languages
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Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Shark Story Hour
Facebook Live every day starting 3/16/20 at 10AM (EST) for Shark Story Hour - reading a shark themed book followed by a shark Q/A session
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Storyline Online
SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s children’s literacy website that streams videos featuring actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations
STEM
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Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Wildlife Cam: White sharks off Cape Cod
Welcome to our wildlife cam! Watch and observe some videos we have taken of white sharks off the Cape Cod coastline!
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Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Aquarium Cam: Meet our chain dogfish family!
Welcome to our aquarium cam! Watch and observe some videos we have taken of our chain dogfish and chain dogfish pups.
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Museum of Science #MOSatHome
This new digital Museum experience includes content from all familiar areas of the Museum with multiple live presentations throughout the day, creative engineering projects, podcasts, kid-friendly activities, virtual exhibits, and more
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Energy activities and lessons
Cape Light Compact partnered with the National Energy Education Development Project (NEED) to offer fun, energy-focused activities for study-at-home learners.
The Arts
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Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day at 1 p.m. ET
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Nightly Met Opera Streams
Beginning 3/16/20 and continuing each day for the duration of the Met’s closure, an encore presentation from the company’s Live in HD series will be made available from 7:30 p.m. EDT until 3:30 p.m. the following day.
World Languages
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Salsa
Georgia Public Broadcasting's award-winning Spanish language series for young learners in kindergarten through the third grade.
Movement/Physical Education
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Virtual ballet lessons
Cleveland Inner City Ballet offers free Virtual Online Ballet Instruction Program
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Cosmic Kids Yoga
Yoga, mindfulness, and relaxation for kids with interactive adventures to build strength, balance, and confidence
Technology Resources
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The Monomoy team is committed to ensuring that all students are able to access educational materials and lessons remotely.
- If you do not have access to equipment or the internet at home, please contact your student's principal directly.
- CES -- Robin Millen
- HES -- Mary Oldach
- MRMS -- Adam O'Shea
- MRHS -- Jennifer Police
- If you have trouble logging in to specific programs or sites, or have issues with a school-provided device, please email help@monomoy.edu with the details.
Emergency Broadband Benefit Program
The Emergency Broadband Benefit Program is a Federal Communications Commission program that provides a temporary discount on monthly broadband bills for qualifying low-income households. If your household is eligible, you can receive up to a $50/month discount on your broadband service and associated equipment rentals and a one-time discount of up to $100 for a laptop, tablet, or desktop computer. Check eligibility and sign up at https://getemergencybroadband.org.
Comcast
Comcast is offering internet services for $9.95 per month after that if you qualify. In order to qualify to pay just $9.95 per month, you must be eligible for public assistance programs such as National School Lunch Program, Housing Assistance, Medicaid, SNAP, SSI, and others.
Please read more at this link: https://www.internetessentials.com/
Other Providers and their Offers
- If you do not have access to equipment or the internet at home, please contact your student's principal directly.