English Language Arts and Literature
Calgary Public Library Literacy Resources for K-3
Curated resources for K-3 students including Wordplay, Puns and Puzzles, links to picture book collections, and Treaty 7 Language Books videos.
Calgary Public Library Digital Library - Kids Digital resources and audiobooks including links to Bookflix, e-books, Encyclopedias, Libby, Solaro, and TumbleBook Library. Access with free CPL Library card. For Tumblebooks: CBE Username: calgarypl, CBE Password: sd19
Mathematics
Number of the Day Daily number activity sheet.
Math Fact FluencyPracticing flexibility with numbers through basic fact games for targeted operations.
Solve Me Mobile Puzzles
A collection of interactive online puzzles that use a balanced mobile as a metaphor to teach operational and algebraic reasoning and problem-solving skills.
French
Language
Arts
French Language Resources - TwinklActivities and learning tasks. Requires account registration.
Calgary Public Library Digital books, articles and resources in French and Spanish
Tumblebooks (French, Spanish) Digital books, articles and resources in French and Spanish. For Tumblebooks: CBE Username: calgarypl, CBE Password: sd19
Boukili (French) Digital books and articles. Requires account registration.
Duolingo Online resource for oral, listening, reading and writing language acquisition activities.
Lalilo Phonics and reading comprehension. Requires account registration - CBE French immersion K-2 students have login information.
Zone des petits (CBC) Resource for young learners without needing to decode in the target language.
Reading A-Z (French, Spanish) Online books at a variety of levels.
Zone jeunesse (CBC) Digital books, games and interactive activities.
Il était une histoire
Online books in a variety of genres
Science
Scratch Jr. Scratch is a block-based coding platform. Free sign-up required to save projects.
CS Unplugged Unpulgged coding activities, no technology required.
SciShow Kids Science videos for kids.
National Geographic Kids
Science experiments, videos, articles and more.
Social Studies
TVO Kids My Home Life Videos explore social studies themes.
Calgary Public Library Curated resources that help young learners understand themselves, others and their community. Free access with a CPL Library card.
Wellness / Health / Life Skills
Physical Education and Wellness Curriculum Games Monday-ready games and activities to help you teach the Alberta K-6 Physical Education and Wellness outcomes in an engaging, active and intentional way.
The Compassion ProjectPromotes personal well-being through positive relationships and practicing skills like communication, collaboration, empathy, and respect through engaging, real-life online scenarios.
Healthier Me - Healthy Eating
Build a strong foundation of healthy eating and wellness-focused decision making.
Grade K-6 Offline Activities
- Go for a wonder walk down your street or in a naturalized area along the way you can:
- Go for a nature scavenger hunt, how many plants, birds, trees, winter berries, animals, manmade or natural items can you find?
- Take the outside in with your 5 senses. What are 5 things you can hear, 4 things you can see, 3 things you can feel, 2 things you smell, and 1 thing you can taste?
- Create a fort outside out of large parts such as tarps, ropes, wood, outdoor furniture, snow and other found items
- Create an obstacle course with found and recycled objects. Think about low, medium and high levels, forward, sideways, diagonal and wavy pathways, and slow and purposeful and fast speeds. Challenge family members to complete the course.
- Choose a favourite or interesting object and draw from different angles/perspectives using a medium of choice
- Examine a family photograph or heirloom and share why it is special
- Read in a spooky, robot, or animal voice
- Pretend you are a teacher and tell a story to your “class", your pet, or your stuffy
- Listen to Your Child Read
- Look at the cover, title, pictures and talk about what the book might be about
- Talk about the story so far and what might happen next
- Talk about the pictures and how they add meaning to the text
- Take turns when reading a harder book
- Determine and chart the times that different liquids turn solid in the freezer.
- Measure, Count and Record – for example, ask your child
- How far can you throw a ball? Take a guess, then throw the ball as far as you can and measure the distance.
- How many jumping jacks can you do in a minute? Try it!
- How many times can you jump rope or bounce a ball without missing? Count and see.
- Build Something Together – for example, ask your child
- How high can you build that stack of Legos?
- How many Legos do you need to stack to reach as high as the coffee table?
- Can you make a square? A rectangle? Other shapes? Talk about the shapes of whatever your child has created.
