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KSPS PBS At-Home Learning Newsletter
(PreK-6)
Week of September 20th, 2021
KSPS is here to support your at-home and distance learning needs with our weekly set of FREE educational resources.
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13 Children’s Books for Celebrating Fall
Cool weather, festive pumpkins, and colorful leaves — it's finally fall! 🍁 Share the wonders of the season with these autumn-themed children's books.
New PBS KIDS Series Alma's Way
Meet Alma Rivera, a confident 6-year-old Puerto Rican girl who lives in the Bronx! In the all-new animated show "Alma's Way," Alma empowers kids to "think things through." Stream it for free Monday, October 4 on PBS KIDS!
Teach Your Way: September | PBS KIDS
Teach your way with this calendar filled with resources aligned to monthly themes and skills for PreK-2 students.
Theme: Literacy
Lessons & Activities
George Washington Video | Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Yadina has a problem: she doesn’t know how to be a good leader. So, she meets up with George Washington, the first president of the United States, to see how he leads other people.
The Powers of Government
In this interactive lesson supporting literacy skills, students learn about the three branches of the United States government. Students develop their literacy skills as they explore a social studies focus on the powers that the Constitution assigns to each branch—legislative, executive, and judicial—and how the three branches work together.
Practice Long "E" | Let's Learn
Read words with the long "e" sound with NYCDOE Universal Literacy Reading Coach Anna Stretching-Cole. Students will blend words and read words with a specific focus on the long "e" sound (ee, ea).