RESOURCES FOR PARENTS TO USE WITH THEIR CHILDREN TO HELP WITH SCHOOL SKILLS
PBS Kids Find all your favorite PBS characters, each with learning games for kids to play: Clifford, Curious George, SuperWhy, The Cat in the Hat, and lots more.
Wonderopolis Discover a new wonder each day. Wonders are amazing facts and intriguing questions such as: Why are they called Lava Lamps? What Badger has a sweet tooth?
National Geographic Little Kids National Geographic Little Kids features games, crafts and recipes, science, videos, and animal information. It's perfect for the 5 and under crowd.
National Geographic Kids Games , videos, information, cool photos, and more will keep your kids engaged and learning on this educational site.
Fun Brain Math and Reading video-like games like math baseball and Mad Libs Junior.
Starfall phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.
Pottermore J.K. Rowling created this site so kids could read the books and do interactive features and games. My kids LOVE it and can't wait for all the books to be on the site.
Spatulatta Get into cooking on this kid-friendly cooking website with lots of videos and recipes.
NGA Kids This website gives users art adventures and activities from the National Gallery of Art.
Yahoo Kids This is the least educational of all the choices since the site includes both games and videos of all sorts. But, kids can find lots to learn on this interactive website like homework help, learning about science, and access to an encyclopedia.
Fun Stuff for Kids This site offers ideas and directions for lots of great activities to do with your kids. Some activities included are: tie-dye, making play dough, paper mache, Kool-Aid finger paint and recipes to name a few.
Family TLC This site suggests family activities-games, sports, crafts, music, cooking, nature and more. It includes articles on child development and hundreds of new age-appropriate child activities each month.
Monstrously Fun Activities!(Bailey School Kids) Some fun activities for some of the books in the Bailey School Kids series by Marcia Thornton Jones and Debbie Dadley.
Activities for ESL Students This site includes over 1,000 quizzes, exercises, and puzzles to help students studying English as a Second Language (ESL). The activities are contributed by teachers and include grammar and vocabulary activities.
Word Central This site is great for "cool" words. You'll find a student dictionary to help you with homework, a "daily buzzword" to expand your vocabulary, vocabulary games and more.
Reading Is Fundamental This site has many stories for Pre-K-3 students.
Story Place This site has online stories and activities, grades Pre-K-3.
Arthur, Worldgirl, Clifford, Maya & Miguel, Ruff Ruffman This site offers sequencing activities where students hear a story and put pictures in order.
Reading A-Z This is a commercial site with free books that you can download and print, for student's grades 1-4.
Kiz Club This site offers printable books for students in grades K-1.