Kindermusik Savannah with 88 Keys Piano offers virtual, real-time classes for ages 0-7.

Interact with the teacher and all the other students from the safety of your home!

Kindermusik Savannah is currently offering unlimited weekly attendance for all enrolled (they offer 6 classes per week, and you can attend them ALL during this time!) and 25% off their regular tuition costs.

Your first class is free if you’re new – text VIRTUAL to 912-432-5885.

Kindermusik…a good beginning never ends. Join today.

Visit kindermusikwith88keys.com

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SouthCoast Health pediatricians are now offering Virtual Visits as well as Virtual Urgent Care for existing patients.

Here are just a few benefits of virtual visits:

• • They’re convenient. With adequate connection, virtual visits can be performed anywhere you are.
  • They’re an easy way to manage chronic illnesses like ADHD, Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, Anxiety, and Depression.
  • They’re a safe way to treat acute illnesses like sore throats, rashes, and sinus infections.
  • They allow you to still see your same wonderful pediatric providers that you trust!

Learn more and schedule here.

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On April 14, Elmo will star in a half-hour Sesame Street special designed to look like a video conference.

Sesame Street: Elmo’s Playdate, which is a half-hour special featuring celebs like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Anne Hathaway and Tracee Ellis Ross as part of Sesame Street‘s new Caring for Each Other initiative.

Elmo’s Playdate will air Tues. April 14 at 7PMET, and will be available on all WarnerMedia Networks: HBO, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, TBS, TNT, truTV and PBS KIDS. Learn more here. 

St. Peter the Apostle School on Wilmington Island in Savannah welcomes all students from Pre-K3 to 8th grade for a full-day academic program in an innovative, loving environment where tradition meets tomorrow.

St. Peter the Apostle School is now enrolling for the 2020-2021 school year. Please call and let St. Peter the Apostle School welcome your student TOGETHER! Call 912.897.5224.

Location

The school is easily accessible from Whitemarsh Island, the Truman Parkway, mid-town Savannah and Tybee Island. It is located just off Highway 80 East (Victory Drive), not far from Thunderbolt.

St. Peter the Apostle School
7020 Concord Rd.
Savannah, GA 31410
912-897-5224

For more information, visit www.school.saintpetertheapostle.com

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Georgia Historical Society Resources to Support At-Home Learning 

The Georgia Historical Society invites you to explore the wide variety of online resources available through the GHS website and then join them on social media for updates and highlighted content.

Also, sign up for Headlines, their in-house newsletter thats mailed weekly throughout this national emergency. Resources are updated regularly. Educators are invited to contact GHS Education Coordinator, Lisa Landers, to get connected to more student-focused resources and join their education network.

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Family Friendly Historical Marker Resources

Roadside historical markers can be found throughout the State of Georgia. Erected over the past seventy years, Georgia’s markers reflect a variety of topics as well as a variety of authors. Typically around 130 words (excluding titles and “erected by” language) markers allow visitors and residents to learn about a person, place, or event that helped shape Georgia’s history.

The Georgia Historical Marker Program consists of over 2,100 historical markers across the state. You can explore all markers in the Georgia Historical Marker Program through GHS’s online marker database. By following this link, you can search by marker program, subject, location, time period, and more. 

Beyond the Text: Using Historical Markers to Explore Georgia History

Create Your Own Georgia Historical Marker!

Marker Monday: World Record Bass

Online Georgia Historical Marker Scavenger Hunt: Georgia’s Recreational Pastimes

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Free Digital Resources for Georgia’s Students:

Digital Education for Georgia’s Students: Newspapers in Education resources explore topics that are timely and relevant to Georgia and American history.  

Digital Resources for Georgia’s Students: Featured Historical Figures pages explore the stories of individuals from Georgia’s past.

Digital Resources for Georgia’s Students: Today in Georgia History is an award-winning educational project that focuses on an historical event or person associated with a particular day in Georgia history

Digital Resources for Georgia’s Students: Georgia History Webquest is a resource for students, teachers, or anyone who just wants to brush up on your Georgia history. This Webquest makes for an engaging learning opportunity.

UPDATE: According to this site, this event is now canceled.

Join Hamilton cast members for a #HamAtHome singalong of the entire Original Broadway Cast Album at 8PM this Fri. April 10 2020.

The singalong will be streamed live on YouTube here.

Follow the #HamAtHome hashtag here.

Staff at YMCA of Coastal Georgia have a creative way to keep your kids fit during quarantine: Word Workout.

Every day on the YMCA of Coastal Georgia Facebook page ,they post a new word. To participate, spell the word & complete the exercise for each letter.

Show YMCA of Coastal Georgia your workout via social media. Stay active & get moving. #healthyliving #familyworkout

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Homeschooling and online schooling is hard.

Let Savannah Area Language & Culture Exchange  help.

Savannah Area Language & Culture Exchange  has added an additional tutoring program at a discounted rate exclusively for high school and college students and their parents who are looking for help getting through this new schooling system.

In real-time through videocall, they will help your student with their Spanish or ESL school work or they will help you understand it so that you can support them better.

Advanced reservations are highly recommended as Savannah Area Language & Culture Exchange  limits the number of students each day to only 10 so the each one can receive the very best instruction.

You can reserve your seat here.

No one expects you to do it all alone.   Savannah Area Language & Culture Exchange to support our community through this difficult time.

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Academic Support Coaches at Savannah Educational Consultants

If you and your children are struggling to balance schoolwork requirements and family life during the coronavirus crisis– let Savannah Educational Consultants’ Academic Support Coaches help!

Savannah Educational Consultants is now offering all services though online platforms. They can meet with your children, virtually, to supplement e-learning and develop strategies for success!

For more information, please call 912-238-9552 or send an email to info@savannaheducationalconsultants.

Savannah Educational Consultants
130 Tibet Ave.
Suite 103
Savannah, GA 31406

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All Savannah-Chatham County public school middle school students are invited to enter Quarantine: A Middle School (Digital) Talent Showcase.

Entries due April 17 2020.

This a chance for SCCPSS middle school students to showcase their amazing talents and creativity with their classmates and friends not just at their schools, but countywide.

Please click here to find the talent showcase details and rules. Students can submit projects by joining Google Classroom using code: vf3elzv.

Questions? Email:
Hannah Glass at hannah.glass@sccpss.com
Maryann Lamberth at maryann.lamberth@sccpss.com
Stephen Routh at stephen.routh@sccpss.com

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Find more of our new free online things to do at home here. 

Have your quarantined kids check out some of SouthernMamas.com favorite live streaming nature Webcams. Kids can follow Savannah’s own nesting osprey waiting for their three eggs to hatch, South African elephants and baboons, Georgia Aquarium sea lions, sea otters, beluga whales and penguins, as well as web cams worldwide that follow gray wolves,  gorillas, hummingbirds, butterflies, river otters, sharks, owls and bald eagles.

Wild Osprey Pair Webcam via The Landings Bird Cam on Skidaway Is. in Savannah  here.

Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa here. 

Bald Eagle WebCam @ The Raptor Resource Project in Iowa here. 

Newly Hatched Eaglets via Bald Eagle Webcam @ The Raptor Resource Project in Iowa here. 

Sea Lions Webcam @ Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta here. 

Gray Wolves Webcam @ International Wolf Center in Minnesota here. 

African Penguin Webcam @ Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta here. 

Baboon Family on Olifants River Webcam in South Africa here.

Gorillas Webcam @ GRACE Center here. 

Farrollon Islands National Wildlife Refuge (seabirds, seals & sea lions.) Webcam here.

Hummingbird Nest Webcam in La Verne, Calif. here.  

Shark Lagoon WebCam @ Long Beach, Calif. here. 

Great Horned Owls @ Montana here. 

River Otter Webcam @ Tennessee Aquarium here. 

Southern Sea Otters Webcam @ Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta here. 

Beluga Whale Webcam @ Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta here. 

Underwater Puffin Webcam @ Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta here. 

Butterfly Garden Webcam @ San Diego Zoo here. 

(In May, check out the Puffin cam on Maine’s Seal Island here. )

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Find more of our new free online things to do at home here. 

Kindermusik Savannah with 88 Keys Piano is providing parent and me Kindermusik classes for ages 0-7, and private music lessons for ages 6+, all done virtually, from the safety of your home.

All new Kindermusik families get a free trial class, and Kindermusik Savannah also offers a free 15 minute trial lesson one-on-one, with your teacher, for instrument lessons for ages 6+.

Make the most of your child’s time at home- have them learn a skill which will stay with them for life.

Text 912-432-5885 today or visit kindermusikwith88keys.com

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Here’s something kids can do from home – including on weekends.

Georgia Sea Turtle Center’s Scute’s School program includes daily online lessons that provide a learning resource for parents, teachers and anyone looking to learn more about coastal wildlife.

It’s live every day at 1PM on Georgia Sea Turtle Center’s Facebook page.

The live sessions include interactive learning through a variety of resources including, printable/digital activities (wildlife bingo), craft projects, book readings, 360º field trips to Georgia Sea Turtle Center’s coastal habitats and more. Programming will even include some physical activities like turtle yoga, inspired by the center’s sea turtle patients.

Kids will also see updates on the rehabilitation of the center’s current sea turtle patients, behind-the-scenes looks at treatment rooms and enjoy some up-close views of the sea turtles.

Scute’s School also offers additional online materials that can be accessed at any time.  Find it all here. 

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Find more things for Savannah-area kids to do at home here. 

Being Pregnant In This Pandemic

This week’s SouthernMamas.com weekly newspaper column takes a look at what it’s like to be pregnant during this pandemic by sharing a Pooler mom’s story.

Read it here.

In the column, Brandy Zinn, a licensed professional counselor at Low Country Counseling and part of The Maternal Mental Health Collective of Savannah, shares three online Savannah support groups for moms. Find meeting details here.

• A group for expectant women who are seeking support around managing a pregnancy during this pandemic. Online at 7 p.m. Mondays starting Monday, April 6.

• A group for new moms seeking connection during baby’s first year. Online at noon Saturdays starting Saturday, April 4.

Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is closed temporarily due to COVID-19, but is offering virtual Field Trip Fridays live on the Georgia Aquarium Facebook page and has several webcams so you can watch the animals from home.

Georgia Aquarium’s new At-Home Learning Page features: live sea otther, penguin, barrier reef, sea lion, piranha, beluga whale, puffins and jellies webcams; deep sea learning videos; animal facts & figures; tools for learning including lesson plans; The Aquarium TV show.

Learn more here.  

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More Webcams

20 Best Live Nature Webcams here. 

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Find more things for Savannah-area kids to do at home here. 

Every Friday, Bike Walk Savannah will release a new virtual bike ride route for you to check out, ranging from 3-20 miles. Try to fit that week’s ride into your schedule.

The new bike ride route info will be posted each Friday on Bike Walk Savannah’s Facebook page here. 

If you go on the ride, share your pictures on social media and tag Bike Walk Savannah and #BikeWalkSAV. Your pictures may appear on Bike Walk Savannah’s Web site and be reposted on their social media.

While riding, you are encouraged to follow safe cycling best-practices. That means wearing a helmet, using your hand signals, and stopping at stop signs and traffic signals.

Find more information on Safe Cycling during COVID-19 tips here.

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Find more things for Savannah-area kids to do at home here. 

Telfair Museums in Savannah will remain closed due to COVID-19.

But museum staff created a new special hub where you can explore Telfair Museums’ collection, watch videos, enjoy kids’ activities and more: TELFAIR TODAY.

The site will be updated weekly. Follow Telfair Museums on social media for additional content!

Visit TELFAIR TODAY.

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Find more things for Savannah-area kids to do at home here. 

Common Sense launched of a new site – Wide Open School – which includes the top education & tech sites/programs to support families and educators who are transitioning to remote learning as a result of the pandemic.

Wide Open School is a a free online resource.

Find it here.

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