13 Creative Ways to Keep Students Engaged as Schools Remain Closed During the COVID-19 Crisis

It’s likely that millions of students won’t be returning to school this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, many parents, guardians, and educators are concerned that some students will regress as a result of no longer being in the traditional classroom setting. And children have concerns of their own. But there are creative ways to keep students engaged.

While parents and educators alike adapt to this new normal, they are also working around the clock in the house and from their home offices to make sure that young people have the support they need.

Related: Crittenton Services is Supporting Underserved Black and Brown Girls and Their Families During the COVID-19 Crisis

With more time on our hands than usual, here are some activities that parents and guardians can keep young people engaged and on track as schools remain closed during the COVID-19 crisis.

13 Creative Ways to Keep Students Engaged

 

1. Have family reading time.
2. Create a schedule for your student’s day and stick to that routine to create a sense of normalcy while in the house.
3. Create traceable worksheets to keep students learning new words and letters.
4. Make up and remix songs by their favorite artists to help them memorize important facts and lessons.
5. Google fun homemade science projects that are kitchen and carpet friendly!
6. Watch five minutes of the news with your child and recap the current events.
7. Share a family and or cultural history lesson or create a family tree.
8. Research or create financial literacy exercises as an alternative to regular math lessons.
9. Stay active in the house using fitness mobile apps.
10. Meditate with your child.
11. Prepare meals together for fun, to bond, and implement science lessons.
12. Create educational and fun social media content.
13. Work on a business plan that the family can collaborate on (even if you don’t plan on launching it). They just might find entrepreneurship exciting!

 

Making the most out of this time with young people can teach them a number of lessons about ingenuity, perseverance, social and emotional learning, and the importance of working together.

As the nation adapts to the new normal, be sure to stay in the loop on how COVID-19 is impacting the black community. Click here for all the coronavirus news you need.

 

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13 Creative Ways to Keep Students Engaged as Schools Remain Closed During the COVID-19 Crisis

It’s likely that millions of students won’t be returning to school this year due to the COVID-19 crisis. As a result, many parents, guardians, and educators are concerned that some students will regress as a result of no longer being in the traditional classroom setting. And children have concerns of their own. But there are creative ways to keep students engaged.

While parents and educators alike adapt to this new normal, they are also working around the clock in the house and from their home offices to make sure that young people have the support they need.

Related: Crittenton Services is Supporting Underserved Black and Brown Girls and Their Families During the COVID-19 Crisis

With more time on our hands than usual, here are some activities that parents and guardians can keep young people engaged and on track as schools remain closed during the COVID-19 crisis.

13 Creative Ways to Keep Students Engaged

 

1. Have family reading time.
2. Create a schedule for your student’s day and stick to that routine to create a sense of normalcy while in the house.
3. Create traceable worksheets to keep students learning new words and letters.
4. Make up and remix songs by their favorite artists to help them memorize important facts and lessons.
5. Google fun homemade science projects that are kitchen and carpet friendly!
6. Watch five minutes of the news with your child and recap the current events.
7. Share a family and or cultural history lesson or create a family tree.
8. Research or create financial literacy exercises as an alternative to regular math lessons.
9. Stay active in the house using fitness mobile apps.
10. Meditate with your child.
11. Prepare meals together for fun, to bond, and implement science lessons.
12. Create educational and fun social media content.
13. Work on a business plan that the family can collaborate on (even if you don’t plan on launching it). They just might find entrepreneurship exciting!

 

Making the most out of this time with young people can teach them a number of lessons about ingenuity, perseverance, social and emotional learning, and the importance of working together.

As the nation adapts to the new normal, be sure to stay in the loop on how COVID-19 is impacting the black community. Click here for all the coronavirus news you need.

 

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Netflix shows ‘Nailed It’ and ‘#blackAF’ worth binging in April

Netflix has been a saving grace in more ways than once ever since the coronavirus pandemic brought Hollywood (and the world) to an abrupt stop. We can’t wait to help pass the time with some of the new content coming to the streamer in April.

Aside from new projects, Netflix will also be bringing a few classics into the mix this month. Let yourself laugh at Player’s Club, revisit Beyoncé playing Etta James in Cadillac Records, relive your college days with School Daze, and see how Snoop Dogg has changed since Soul Plane. 

READ MORE: Ava DuVernay and Netflix win dismissal of ‘When They See Us’ defamation lawsuit

Nailed It! (Season 4) 

Premiere Date: April 1

Description: The hosts you love, the hot messes you crave. Welcome back to the Nailed It! kitchens, where anyone — like, literally, anyone — can win. This series is especially entertaining while we have all the time in the world to try out our own skills in the kitchen.

Coffee & Kareem

Premiere Date: April 3

Description: While police officer James Coffee (Ed Helms) enjoys his new relationship with Vanessa Manning (Taraji P. Henson), her beloved 12-year-old son Kareem (Terrence Little Gardenhigh) plots their break-up. Attempting to scare away his mom’s boyfriend for good, Kareem tries to hire criminal fugitives to take him out but accidentally exposes a secret network of criminal activity, making his family its latest target. To protect Vanessa, Kareem teams up with Coffee — the partner he never wanted — for a dangerous chase across Detroit. From director Michael Dowse, this film is an action-comedy about forging unexpected bonds, one four-letter insult at a time. 

LA Originals

Premiere Date: April 10

Description: An exploration of the culture and landmarks of the Chicano and street art movement that cemented Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol’s status as behind-the-scenes hip hop legends.

Sprinter

Premiere date: April 15

Description: Another can’t miss flick is 2018 ABFF favorite, Sprinter. Produced by Will and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Overbrook Entertainment, it’s an inspiring story set in Jamaica that’s about an athlete with tons of heart. The all-star cast includes Lorraine Toussaint and David Alan Grier and directed by Storm Saulter. 

READ MORE: Kelis announces new cannabis cooking show on Netflix

#blackAF

Premiere date: April 17

Description: From Kenya Barris, the Emmy nominated creator of black-ish, comes #blackAF. Loosely inspired by Barris’ irreverent, highly flawed, unbelievably honest approach to parenting, relationships, race, and culture, #blackAF flips the script on what we’ve come to expect a family comedy series to be.

Pulling back the curtain, #blackAF uncovers the messy, unfiltered and often hilarious world of what it means to be a “new money” black family trying to get it right in a modern world where “right” is no longer a fixed concept. 

The Netflix original series stars Barris as a fictionalized version of himself and Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca) as his wife Joya. Kenya and Joya’s children are played by Genneya Walton (Xtant), Iman Benson (Suits), Scarlet Spencer (Bright), Justin Claiborne (Reverie), Ravi Cabot-Conyers (The Resident) and Richard Gardenhire Jr. #blackAF is executive produced by Barris, Jones, and Hale Rothstein.

The Innocence Files

Premiere date: April 15

Description: The Innocence Files shines a light on the untold personal stories behind eight cases of wrongful conviction that the nonprofit organization the Innocence Project and organizations within the Innocence Network have uncovered and worked tirelessly to overturn.

The nine-episode series is composed of three compelling parts – The Evidence, The Witness and The Prosecution. These stories expose difficult truths about the state of America’s deeply flawed criminal justice system while showing when the innocent are convicted, it is not just one life that is irreparably damaged forever: families, victims of crime and trust in the system are also broken in the process.

 

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Amazon To Deploy Face Masks, Temperature Checks By Next Week

The retail giant Amazon has announced that it will roll out temperature checks and face masks for staff at all its U.S. and European warehouses plus Whole Foods stores by early next week.

According to Reuters, Amazon said it would start testing hundreds of thousands of employees a day for fevers using forehead thermometers. Anyone registering more than 100.4 Fahrenheit will be sent home. Additionally, all locations will have surgical masks available by early next week.

Amazon said the mask rollout and temperature scans have begun at facilities near its Seattle headquarters and in New York. Workers from at least 19 warehouses have tested positive for the novel coronavirus since the outbreak began. Employees also held walkouts in New York and near Detroit this week.

The company will also use machine-learning software to monitor building cameras and determine whether employees are staying at safe distances during their shifts.

Workers who record a high temperature will be forced to stay home for three days without a fever before they can return. Unions and elected officials have criticized Amazon’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, with some even saying the retail company should close.

Dave Clark, Amazon’s senior vice president of worldwide operations, said the company has changed more than 150 processes to promote social distancing. Clark added Amazon has begun to stagger warehouse work start times and ended stand-up meetings during shifts.

“Nothing is more important to us than making sure that we protect the health of our teams,” Clark said.

Walmart also announced it would begin taking temperature checks and providing masks to its employees. Both companies have increased their hiring process during the coronavirus outbreak as online orders have skyrocketed due to quarantine orders across the country. Amazon has announced that it has hired 80,000 workers across the country and reported a full and part-time workforce of 798,000 as of Dec. 31.

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Susan Rice Defends Yamiche Alcindor Against Trump on Twitter

Former National Security Advisor Susan Rice is the latest to go at President Trump. The president was recently criticized for how he attacked and berated PBS correspondent Yamiche Alcindor in a White House coronavirus media briefing. President Trump told Alcindor at the meeting to “be nice” and to not be “threatening” in response to a question about Trump’s claim that state governors were requesting supplies to fight the coronavirus pandemic that they didn’t actually need. In a firestorm of tweets, Rice condemned Trump over his inappropriate behavior and defended Alcindor.

“President Trump today at the White House said to me: ‘Be nice. Don’t be threatening.’ I’m not the first human being, woman, black person or journalist to be told that while doing a job,” Alcindor wrote on Twitter and later retweeted by Rice. “My take: Be steady. Stay focused. Remember your purpose. And, always press forward.” Rice accused Trump of feeling insecure in the face of an intelligent black woman as this comes in a repeated pattern of the president attacking black female journalists.

“He has a particular problem, it seems, with black women, but as was pointed out in your earlier segment, it’s a problem that applies to women with strong personalities and a willingness to stand up for themselves and their beliefs across the board, said Rice to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

The White House has not responded to a request for comment.

“It’s a sad thing. It’s a reflection of one’s own insecurity. It’s not a reflection of the talent or the capacities of the women we’re talking about,” she continued. “And I hope very much that we can move beyond that. It’s so unbecoming in the context of a national crisis for the president to lash out at individuals, whether the governor of Michigan or the speaker of the House or a reporter who asked a very fair, tough question.”

You go, girl. Pathetic when insecure men can’t stomach strong black women. https://t.co/ExjC9z5p1J

— Susan Rice (@AmbassadorRice) March 30, 2020

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