RESOURCES
ENRICHMENT IN NYC
Brooklyn Museum, New York Transit Museum, Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Lefferts Historic House, Old Stone House of Brooklyn, The Wyckoff House Museum, New York Aquarium, Fraunces Tavern, National Museum of the American Indian New York, 9/11 Memorial and Museum, South Street Seaport, Tenement Museum, The New Museum, Chinatown & Little Italy, Museum at Eldridge Street, Museum of Chinese in America, Center for Architecture, Merchant's House Museum, Museum of Illusions, Chelsea Market, High Line, The Whitney, The Intrepid, National Museum of Mathematics, Madison Park, Empire State Building, Grand Central Terminal, Times Square, The Morgan Library and Museum, Frick Madison, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Natural History, Central Park, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Rubin Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, The Cloisters, Bronx Zoo, New York Botanical Garden, Wave Hill, New York Hall of Science, Museum of the Moving Image, and MoMA PS1.
GAMES & BOOKS
Spatial/Maze/Puzzle/Building Games: Labyrinth, Roller Coaster Challenge, Juxtabo Game, IQ Fit, Dog Pile, Gravity Maze, ShapeOmetry, Knot So Fast, Block Building Architecture, Architecto
Strategy Games: Camelot Jr., Quirkle, Othello, Mancala, Q-Bitz, Pandemic, Pyramix, Dragonwood, Risk, Battleship, Dungeons and Dragons, Isle of Skye, Ticket to Ride, Iota
Logic Games: SET, Rush Hour Traffic Jam and Logic Game, Mastermind, Rat-A-Tat, Clue, Quoridor Strategy Game, Katamino, Logic Links, Logic Dots, Spot it, Blokus
Math Games: Free-Range Fractions Game, Qwixx, Math Dice Chase, Mind Your Numbers, Cross Math, Proof!, Pizza Fraction Fun Jr, Compose Yourself, Exact Change, Adsumudi
Science Games: Periodic, A Game of the Elements, Subatomic: An Atom Building Game, Snap Circuits, My First Mind Blowing Science Experiment Kit, Space Bingo, Life on Earth: Memory Matching Game, Into the Forest: Nature's Food Chain Game, Professor Noggin Games, Ion: A Compound Building Game
Word/Memory/Matching/Drama/Language Games: Spelligator, Chunks, 3 Letter Word Puzzle Cards, Rhyming: Fun to Know Puzzles, Sentence Building Carson Dellosa, That's It, Don't Say It!, Bananagrams, Word Play, Charades for Kids, Scattergories, Fishing for Words, Big Boggle, Guesstures, Rollick!, Scrabble, Up Words
Strategy/Classic/Trivia/Card Games:
Trivial Pursuit, Planet, Spy Alley, Race Across the USA, Sushi GO!, What Do You Know Bingo, Totem, Tournament at Camelot, Scrambled States of America Game, Baby Yaga, Chess, Apples to Apples, Checkers, Connect Four, Monopoly
Pre-K/Kindergarten/First Grade Favorite Books: The Kissing Hand, Rap a Tap Tap, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Compost Stew, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do you See? Caps for Sale, Knuffle Bunny, The Dot, Giraffes Can't Dance, Freight Train, Swimmy, Stellaluna, Lyle Lyle Crocodile, Dragons Love Tacos, The Mitten, Inch by Inch, Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book of Months, Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, Last Stop on Market Street, Owl Moon, Knuffle Bunny, Blueberries for Sal, The Snowy Day, The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend, Waiting, They All Saw a Cat, The Day the Crayons Quit, George and Martha, Amos & Boris, Gaston, Frog and Toad, The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs, The Dot, Mercy Watson to the Rescue, A Bad Case of Stripes
Second/Third/Fourth Grade Favorite Texts: Henry and Mudge, Magic Tree House, Meet Yasmin!, Nate the Great, A-Z Mysteries, Friends and Foes: Poems About Us All, Turning Pages: My Life Story, The Wild Robot, What the Moon Saw, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, James and the Giant Peach, The Little Prince, Charlotte's Web, From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, The One and Only Ivan, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fables, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Cricket in Times Square
Fifth Grade Recommendations: Mr. Popper's Penguins, New Kid, I am Malala Yousafzai, Esperanza Rising, The Giver, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, War Horse
Sixth Grade Books: Animal Farm, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream, Of Mice and Men, To Kill A Mockingbird
Seventh Grade Texts: Things Fall Apart, Julius Caesar, Hiroshima
Eighth Grade Texts: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian, The Tempest, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Separate Peace