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Useful Links for the Whole Family

Just for Kids

      Kids @ National Geographic: The National Geographic Society is the world's largest nonprofit scientific and educational organization. And our responsibility to kids and educators is a natural outcome of our mission: "the increase and diffusion of geographic knowledge."

      www.whatsupkids.com: A fun magazine geared for kids with interesting articles.  The website has some great links including: word search, animal facts, rhymes and riddles etc,

      http://www.kidsites.com/:  This link will allow your school age child to link to many child focused websites, which have been themed and previously screened to ensure appropriate content

      Billy Bear's Playground has lots of opportunities for exploring, creating, reading and writing. Good stuff for teachers here too.

      Enchanted Learning is a favorite for thematic units, preschool activities, crafts, rebus rhymes, and much more.

      Kid Grid Safe Sites has much more than just literacy activities, but it's worth exploring to mark your favorites if you've got the time.

      Learning Planet.com provides free activities for preschoolers as well as a subscription service to access many more activities. Current free activities include the alphabet, numbers, memory, sequencing and clocks.

      Literacy Center.net, sponsored by the Early Childhood Education Network, has interactive early literacy activities for young children in English, Spanish, Dutch and French.

      Little Fingers  is a site for toddler age children with games, storybooks and coloring pages.

      Mr. Roger's Neighborhood has pictures, picture videos, and a place to build a neighborhood.

      Preschool Coloring Book provides coloring pages, no-line coloring and journal pages on all sorts of subjects to facilitate practice of early literacy skills.

      Sesame Workshop includes games, stories, art, music, and mail activities for kids and a section for parents/teachers too. Don't miss this one. Sesame Street Music Station is a real treat.

      Thomas the Tank games and information about the authors

      Tot's TV from PBS accompanies the PBS television program. The Sticker Storybook is a great place to build oral language skills and vocabulary in both English and Spanish.

      Dora The Explorer: This site links to Dora The Explorer, Thomas The Tank Engine, Bob The Builder, Blues clues and many other popular kids shows.

Family Fun

      Discovery Channel School: DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and an entire store full of helpful learning products for parents to share with their children.

      Kid's Stuff: websites for children and families.

      Today's Parent:  A Popular magazine for parents………inc. 10 Little Things Good Parents Do article

      Your Social Worker Gary Direnfeld - Separation/Divorce Articles: Gary Direnfeld is a social worker with more than 20 years of experience working with parents, teens and young children.  These articles may help you with a parenting, marital or family issue.