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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does your kid have any experience with online classes?  My rising 1st grader needed a lot of supervision during his online classes.  I wouldn't expect a rising kindergartner to follow along for 1-2 hours without parent help.

Virtual activities are not a great babysitter for this age, at least with my kids. [/quote]

I guess I was thinking modest parent support.  So me sitting next to him, offering a little assistance here and there while I work too. But now me participating 100% in the activity. [/quote]
What I'm doing for my (somewhat older) child is going to the web sites of various science museums and seeing if they are offering virtual camps. (The science museum in Boston has 1-hour live-streamed science talks that are geared towards kids, but no classes.)  I haven't gotten too far in this approach but I think it would yield some good choices and you can also be using your $ to support an institution that is far away and one that has a large overhead to maintain (e.g. a building). These museums usually employ professional museum educators so I imagine that it is likely you can find one where these are the people leading the classes. My child is more interested in things like animals and oceans so I've found some in an aquarium and I expect some zoos will have some too. Closer to home, I believe TIC/Camp Optimistic had some STEM-oriented options for younger elementary.[/quote]

thanks for the good ideas! [/quote]

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