Hello everyone,

We hope you’ve all made it through this first week safe and healthy and are hanging in there!  We’ve rounded up a few more ideas and articles that we hope will be helpful or fun or at least give you a moment to breathe.  And we’re always looking for more — please feel free to send anything you think we could share here to secretary@lepto.org!

Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems, where the author/artist of the Elephant and Piggie books gives a daily drawing lesson; these are are a delightful break (and a great art class, too!).

The New England Aquarium is posting Virtual Visits, presentations, and activities to try from home.

Cosmic Kids Yoga is a fun, playful introduction to yoga for little ones, with a ton of videos available online.

The Smithsonian has a page of great stuff for kids, including live animal cams from the zoo, games, apps, and video presentations.

KiwiCo (the makers of KiwiCrate) also has a page of resources and ideas you can do from home…

…and so does the Boston Children’s Museum!

Here’s a list of educational shows on Netflix that your kids might enjoy (while learning something!).

Also, for our LE community in particular, there is a Little Free Library on Pearl St., across from the corner with Emerson St.  It looks like a small red house on a pillar, and you can open the front door of it to find books inside.

The idea is to take books for free if you need them or leave books if you have any to give.  If you’re decluttering some of your books right now and could leave some there for friends and neighbors, that would be very lovely — and if you’re missing our local and school libraries and need more books to read, stop by and see what you can find!  (Just please make sure to wash your hands before and after!)

A useful resource (for grown-ups) for scientific, fact-based answers about COVID-19:  Ask a Scientist

For anyone who is feeling a lot of stress about how to teach our kids at home, I found this article and its message (don’t stress!) very reassuring:  Advice from a Homeschooling Mom

And finally, for anyone else who needs a laugh (and might find it reassuring that Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda are also facing some work-at-home-with-kids challenges):

The Tonight Show: At Home Edition with Jimmy Fallon and Lin-Manuel Miranda

That’s all for this week — we miss all our teachers and school friends!

Sending love and hope and light to all of you,
The Lincoln-Eliot PTO