Are you looking for a story time? Would you like to make something? Are you interested in making a new discovery through STEAM? We're here for you! Explore and learn from home! Follow the links below.

Home Instruction aka Homeschooling

• Home Instruction Office of Talbot County Public Schools - Home Instruction Coordinator, Jennifer Vogel, 410-822-0330
• FAQ for Home Instruction in Maryland, published by Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE)
• Maryland Home Education Association, MHEA - Maryland's first homeschooling association. Features: How-to-Start, suggested reading list, and relevant legislation.
• Hand in Hand Education
• Homeschool Legal Defense Association, Maryland - Explore, find community, and discover homeschool groups in your county.
• Digital Resources for Students and Families - PDF

Stories

• Timothy Young Author Blog - Connect with Tim Young, and join LIVE story reading and drawing events on Facebook!
• Storyline Online - Celebrities reading picture books!
• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems, children's author and illustrator. - Join children's author and illustrator for daily doodle fun!
• Reading Connects Us - A blog celebrating the power of literacy, full of links to lessons and activities that children's authors are sharing.
• Picture Book Read Alouds - Author and teacher's blog includes extensive list of sources for picture book read-along videos and lessons for use at home.
• Authors Everywhere - A YouTube channel with authors sharing their books and work, will also, hopefully, host panels and other discussions.
• Jarrett Lerner's Activities Page - Children's book author and illustrator shares free downloadable content of printouts and activities that encourage creativity and story creation.
• Maryland Day By Day Calendar - Daily reading, singing and talking activities for children birth - five years old.
• Wide Open School from CommonSenseMedia - Instructional support for families with children at home, all ages! Great source of brand new LIVE events!
• At-Home Learning, Maryland Public Television - Connect activities with our daily PBS KIDS. Help turn Viewing to Doing.

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)

• STEAM Activities You Can Do at Home
• Smithsonian at Home
• Norman Rockwell Curriculum Museum
• Maryland Science Center for Kids
• Pickering Creek for Kids! - New theme each week! plus...DIY activities and content from Audubon's editors.
• Make and create art together - Bethan, Educator at the National Gallery in Great Britain, explores the idea of collaboration, with a little help from her friends.
• Explore NASA STEM - Home resources and activities you can do together, for all grade levels.

Movement, Music, and Rhyme

• Free Virtual Concerts - Stay-at-Home online music festival and events calendar
• Playtime Playlist - Celebrating contemporary children's music for younger audiences
• Beachbody Kids Workout on Vimeo
• Poem-a-Day - Selection of poems, essays and recommended reading lists for teens.
• Family Friend Poems - our place for loving and healing poems for all ages.

We hope you enjoy these creative home activities we've found for you and your kids. We also want to remind you that the library's eResources like Overdrive, Hoopla, and BookFlix continue to provide ebooks, audiobooks, movies, and more for use by library card holders of all ages, at no charge to you, even while our branches are closed. To access these and other eResources, use the Find menu in the upper right-hand corner of any page of our website, and click eResources. If you don't already have a library card with us, you can sign up for a temporary one online while we're closed.