The information below is free for families and our community that might need learning resources or at-home activities.  Please check back frequently as this page will be updated.  If you have questions, please reach out to your teachers, or the school office.  PARENTS:  We appreciate you and see what an amazing job you are doing!  We can do this together!

 

 

 

St. Francis of Assisi Parish:  Connect with Fr. Hayatsu via the Parish website.

  Parish Facebook page can be found HERE.  See Holy Week masses HERE on the Parish YouTube channel.

 

Formed.org:  The Catholic Faith on Demand.  

  Sponsored by our St. Francis of Assisi Parish.  FREE - please use the zip code 98062 to locate our parish.  

  Offers daily reflections, teachings, movie reviews and more.

 

CRS Rice Bowl:  https://www.crsricebowl.org/families

  The Lenten program of Catholic Relief Service, the official relief and development agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Wonderful site with Family Resources, Stories of Hope, Stations of the Cross and recipes to cook at home.  

 

Stations of the Cross:  Courtesy of Busted Halo, faith shared joyfully, thoughtful blogs, videos, prayers

 

 

 

 

Here's the community names and addresses for the Merrill Gardens Communities -- all of these wonderful people could use your love!  Questions can be directed to Erica Gower at ericag@merrillgardens.com.   If you'd like to send pictures of your letters and work, we'll post it and tag #stfoa!  

 

 

#DoGoodFromHome Challenge.  Use compassion and creativity to do acts of good from home.  Unique ideas for each day of the week.

 

 

KIDS FOR PEACE:  Gratitude Gifts and ideas for those working around us to keep things working.  Working on uplifting our world through love and action.  

 

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS FOUNDATION:  Kindness is a powerful tool. Let’s use it.  Tons of resources and ideas here.

 

 

 

NASP:  Helping Children Cope With Changes

 

CDC SITE:  When and Where to Wash Your Hands

 

JUST FOR KIDS (NPR):  A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus

 

FREE MEALS:  Meals and resources available to all Highline district families and children.  

 

 

 

Our daily lives have changed in many ways over the last 8 weeks and will continue to evolve.  We want to offer you, your family and students resources to help navigate being housebound.

Pastoral Care during the Corona virus (and the Self Care infographic ) https://mycatholicschool.org/2020/03/31/pastoral-care-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak/

Coronavirus Mental Health Resources - English - Archdiocese of Seattle

Coronavirus Mental Health Resources - Spanish - Archdicese of Seattle

ARTICLE: Why Working From Home Is So Exhausting—And How To Reinvigorate Click HERE.  

 

ACTION: Consider seeking out an accountability buddy aka: (Prayer buddy or Easter Buddy) who helps hold you accountable for self-care with daily or weekly check ins. We are now on information overload. How can we take action to show our love and compassion for each other by prioritizing time for ourselves for self-care? What it looks like to take care of ourselves physically, emotionally, spiritually, socially and psychologically?  Can we intentionally walk with our neighbor? Who is YOUR buddy? Who is YOUR neighbor? Let's model and practice the 4 M’s for Self-Care: Mindfulness, Meditation, Movement, and Meaningful Relationships. It is a time for HOPE and TRUST IN THE LORD.  Visit My Catholic School for more news and information.  

Find us on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/seattle.catholic.schools/

 

 

 

 

  HUGE site split into "Educator" and "Family", also by grades and activity.  Subjects range from setting a daily schedule, to math, science, reading, to field trips, English as a second language, and life skills.

 

Online Free Resources:  Provided by Tech & Learning:

  https://www.techlearning.com/resources/free-online-learning-resources-for-schools-affected-by-coronaviruscovid-19

 

  What Willie Wonka might have designed as his own classroom.

  Reading, math, videos -- for K-2nd grade.  FREE if sign up by Friday, March 27th!

 

Bedtime Math - Cabin Fever Math:  Without the screen!  Bedtime Math

 

XtraMath:  Free web program helping kids master basic math facts.

 

  Treasure trove for preschool through high school, subjects like English, Math, Science, Current Events, Social Studies, ELA & Music

 

 

 

Mystery Science:  Free, Easy Science for Remote Learning.

  Recommended by our 2nd grade teacher, Ms. Riedeman. 

 

Coronavirus Fact Sheet:  Courtesy of the Seattle Times 

  Our 8th graders are studying the Coronavirus and infectious diseases - this is a good visual tool 

 

 

Youtube:  Why Wash Your Hands?

  And why for 20 seconds?  Good biology lesson.

 

Virtual Zoo Trips & Animal Cams:  Provided by Ms. Goetz, 2nd grade

All Birds Webcam: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/cams/

Eagle Webcam: https://www.eagles.org/what-we-do/educate/live-hd-nest-cams/

Eagle Webcam:  https://explore.org/livecams/bald-eagles/decorah-eagles-north-nest

Eagle Webcam: https://naeaglecam.org/ 

Smithsonian's National Zoo https://nationalzoo.si.edu/webcams

San Diego Zoo  https://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams 

Museum of Flight:  At Home Student Activities

  Downloadable activities from the Museum Educators

 

 

 

 

#NationalFieldDay:  May 8th, 2020!  Check out the OPEN National Field Day site for details and videos.  Ms. Tesch has St. Francis students participating in 4 different events:  Tennis Shoe Tower, Towel Flip Challenge, Water Bottle Trap, and Paper Plane Corn Hole.  BUT DON'T STOP THERE!  Check out the other "events" and let us know how you do -- tag us @StFrancisofAssisisea and #stfoa and we'll share too!   There's prizes and a Torch Run - check out the videos HERE.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  Google Arts & Culture: Meet our Ancestors

 

National Parks Virtual Tours:  Courtesy of Totally the Bomb