Resources For K-8th Grade Children to Support Care, Action, and Learning During These Important Times

On June 16, 2020, the faculty and students at Community Roots took a Day of Care, Action, and Learning.  Each stakeholder could choose for themselves how they wished to spend the day.  The following resources were compiled by Jillian Pereg, Jayne Sohn, and John McCann Doyle, a group of faculty at the school, to support the community in this work.  


The resources are broken up by grade level K-2, 3-5, and 6-8, and we hope that they are helpful as you continue conversations, learning, action, and care with your own families. 

K-2 RESOURCES FOR...


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Here are some resources around taking care of ourselves while we engage in our ongoing work and activism. Feel free to add to this list as there are many more sources and websites to choose from when it comes to self-care and compassion.

Calm Down Cards: printable cards with multiple suggestions for breaks and calming activities

Make a mindfulness glitter jar

Social-Emotional Learning Activities (can filter by grade)

GoNoodle: has guided breathing, dancing, yoga!

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Here are some ways that people are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with some inevitably flawed and incomplete resources and websites.

Feel free to add to this list.

Attend an event:

These two lists of events, protest and marches in support of Black Lives Matters are updated daily:

Justiceforgeorgenyc instagram

#kids4blacklives on instagram


Support people and communities

Fundraising


Create and Communicate

Posters, banners, and signs

Drawings and paintings

Sidewalk chalk

Design T-shirts

letters and conversations

Put posters up in your neighborhood


Grow together

observe, read, discuss, act, repeat

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Here are some stories that honor Black lives; describe the fight for justice; and show how you can be an ally.

Click on a book title and watch the read aloud!

A is for Activistby Innosanto Nagara

Amazing Grace, by Mary Hoffman, Caroline Binch

The Day You Begin, by Jacquiline Woodson

Get Up, Stand Up, by Cedelia Marley

I Am Enough, by Grace Byers

ISLANDBORN, by Junot Díaz

Hair Love, by Matthew A. Cherry

Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Javaka Steptoe

Michelle, by Deborah Hopkinson

Say Something!, by Peter H. Reynolds

The Skin You Live In, by Michael Tyler

You Matter, by Christian Robinson





For the resources below, we recommend that a parent/family member watch the resource with their child and have a discussion to support their learning.

CNN/Sesame Street Racism Town Hall

3-5 RESOURCES FOR...

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Here are some resources around taking care of ourselves while we engage in our ongoing work and activism. Feel free to add to this list as there are many more sources and websites to choose from when it comes to self-care and compassion.

Calm Down Cards: printable cards with multiple suggestions for breaks and calming activities

Make a mindfulness glitter jar

Social-Emotional Learning Activities (can filter by grade)

GoNoodle: has guided breathing, dancing, yoga!

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Here are some ways that people are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with some inevitably flawed and incomplete resources and websites. Feel free to add to this list.

Attend an event

These two lists of events, protest and marches in support of Black Lives Matters are updated daily:

Justiceforgeorgenyc instagram

Bushwick Daily Updated Protest Schedule

#kids4blacklives on instagram

Support people and communities

Fundraising

Create art and Communicate

Posters, banners, and signs

Drawings and paintings

Sidewalk chalk

Design T-shirts

letters and conversations

Put posters up in your neighborhood

Grow together

observe, read, discuss, act, repeat

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Here are some resources to help you learn more about the Black Lives Matter Movement and policing. If it helps, as you read/listen/watch, think about some of the following:

What surprises me?

What is interesting to me?

What is troubling to me?

What questions do I have?

RESOURCES:

ARTICLE: ACLU - How Black Lives Matter Changed the Way Americans Fight for Freedom

ARTICLE: NEWSELA - “I'm Black before I'm anything else": A police officer's passionate exchange with protesters

VIDEOArtists Paint Black Lives Matter Mural Down Brooklyn Street

VIDEODC artists paint massive "Black Lives Matter" street art near White House

6-8 RESOURCES FOR…

Here are some resources around taking care of ourselves while we engage in our ongoing work and activism. Feel free to add to this list as there are many more sources and websites to choose from when it comes to self-care and compassion.

Make a mindfulness glitter jar

Meditation and exercise resources

Stress and anxiety toolkit

Social-Emotional Learning Activities (can filter by grade)

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Here are some ways that people are supporting the Black Lives Matter movement. Along with some inevitably flawed and incomplete resources and websites.

Feel free to add to this list.

Attend an event

These two lists of events, protest and marches in support of Black Lives Matters are updated daily:

Justiceforgeorgenyc instagram

Bushwick Daily Updated Protest Schedule

Know your rights


Join an organization or start a club

Donate money to groups and organizations

The Movement for Black Lives

Know Your Rights Camp

Support people and communities

Fundraising

Create art and Communicate

Posters, banners, and signs

Drawings and paintings

Sidewalk chalk

Design T-shirts

letters and conversations

Put posters up in your neighborhood

Sign Petitions and support legislation

Create or join a book club or study group

Grow together

observe, read, discuss, act, repeat



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