Resources for Adults and Seniors
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- Last Updated: Thursday, 26 March 2020 11:50
Education
Annapolis Valley Library
They have free eBooks and other services to loan with your library card.
https://www.valleylibrary.ca/download-ebooks-audiobooks
The Halifax Library is also offering free services to all Nova Scotians
https://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/online-resources/
Learn Basic Sign Language with Dr. Bill Vicars – this is a series of You Tube videos, not just one.
Dr. Vicars does a great step by step approach with printed words, signs and repetition many of the basic ASL signs and he uses them in very small sentences. His approach is extremely helpful and makes it easy to learn. (I recommend having closed captioning on so you can read what he is signing as well)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9cFqNYlV1A&list=PL6akqFwEeSphJ6rd50AtRBKNGracfavCi
Hobbies
Crossword Puzzles! Boatload Puzzles is a site with free online crossword puzzles you can do them all day long. Crosswords are great to help with memory.
https://www.boatloadpuzzles.com/playcrossword
Geni is a Genealogy site that lets you make your family tree - for free! There is a paid version as well, but the free version is great, and it will let you combine your tree with other family members who have their own family trees in progress. You can invite others to join you and work on it together and it will alert you when there are others who have matched connections.
Stargazing
Who has not looked up and gazed at the stars and wondered which is the Little Dipper? What is Orion? Here is a great way to do that with an App that will tell you what those constellations are!
https://www.terminaleleven.com/skyview/iphone/
Book Club – This is a site that makes it easy to organize a book club. While we can’t meet in person right now, we can still read and share our thoughts on great books. The local library, Halifax Library and several other sites all do online lending and of course you can order eBooks from Amazon and other major book retailers. It’s a great time to catch up on that reading list and why not do it with friends? The website is an American one, but you can use it to choose the book set up a timeline, create a meeting and a group list. It’s totally free and easy to use.
FREE Book Downloads (or read on the site) No subscription or sign up necessary. The Gutenberg project has over 45,000 titles in multiple languages and they have some great classics. Who hasn’t read Walden? It’s an amazing book! There are newer book titles as well. You can search by author, title, genre and they are constantly adding more.
Bird Watching – Spring is here, and the birds are back! Here is a Nova Scotia Bird Identification site for you to look at. How many birds can you spot?
https://inaturalist.ca/guides/3746
Birds and Bird Sounds – oh to hear the birds sing. Here is a link to a great article and a link to an infographic of the birds and the sounds they make.
http://www.natureconservancy.ca/assets/images/blog/50-bird-species-sounds-they-make-1000px.jpg
http://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/blog/50-bird-species-and-the-sound-they-make.html
Gardening is listed below under exercise keep scrolling 😊
Exercise
Tai Chi for Beginners 01 "Tai Chi Fundamentals Class” (just over 27 minutes long with instruction)
Tai Chi is a martial art, but it is used for exercise and it can be part of a meditation practice when you know the moves. It’s a wonderful way to move your body in a gentle way, it can help with balance, strength, focus and blood pressure. Dr. Daniel Hoover teaches the class in a way that is easy to follow and explains the benefit of each movement. You can turn closed captioning on if you need to.
Tai Chi for Beginners 02 “Balance and Flow”
Free Yoga for Seniors / Slow and Gentle Yoga (28 minutes long) Yoga with Adriene is great, she has a series of online classes for all ages and all levels. Closed captioning is available on the videos. Doing yoga in the morning and in the evening can help with stress, help with sleep, flexibility, balance, blood pressure. It’s a wonderful way to move your body in a gentle way.
https://yogawithadriene.com/yoga-for-seniors-slow-and-gentle-yoga/
Free Fitness Classes – Want a more energetic fitness class? Barre Body Fitness, in Vancouver has made Dozens of FREE Fitness Classes of all kinds available for you to follow right from their website or on their You Tube Channel. There must be a class that suites you in this library! Check it out!
http://www.barrefitness.com/video-library
Gardening – Here is a link to the Planting Calendar for Middleton from the Farmer’s Almanac – Gardening can go under so many headings, hobby, fitness, health, food… it’s a great way to spend your time. There is something so comforting about growing your own food and feeling the earth between your fingers. How about a plant swop with neighbors or community vegetable garden?
https://www.almanac.com/gardening/planting-calendar/NS/Middleton
Gardening Video How to! Always wanted to start a garden but weren’t sure how to do it? Here is a series of videos on how to do it. Wondering what to do with all those empty toilet paper rolls you bought at the store before Covid19 started? Here is the answer! How to start your seeds in empty toilet paper rolls. There are 6 videos in this series.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ez1LBH42YqL9tN6nSHhMw