"Arthur" Parents and Teachers Activities in Math*
Math activities for the classroom or home intended for children 4-8 years of age.
Home page: PBS Kids
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"Believe in Yourself" Activity
This website has an activity that parents can do with or for their children about believing in themselves.
Home page: PBS Kids
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"Don't Buy It" Guide for Parents
This website has a "Don’t Buy It" guide for parents and caregivers
Home page: PBS Kids
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Article on Learning Math
This website has an article on how children learn math.
Home page: Edbydesign
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Can Do!
An ability focused web site dedicated to helping all people develop a "can-do" attitude and approach to life...no matter what the obstacles.
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Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program
A program which offers services to pregnant women to ensure that they are maintaining healthy diets.
Home page: Health Canada
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Child Development
This page explains how children develop mentally, socially, physically and emotionally
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Children and Media
Information for parents on children and the media – search by age groups; includes top five tips for helping children become smart consumers of the media
Home page: PBS home
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Children's Literature and Good Sites for Kids
Resources for Librarians.
Children's Literature and Good Sites for Kids
Home page: O'Keefe Library
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Communicating with Children
Information for parents on talking with kids – practical strategies for communicating with children
Home page: PBS home
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Eat Well, Live Well
A nutrition challenge, meal planner, physical activity quiz, dietician contact information and more to help you maintain a healthy diet and have an active lifestyle.
Home page: Dieticians of Canada
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Education Place
This website offers tools to help educators, students and families to learn more easily.
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Emergency Preparedness Tips
Strategies to prevent emergencies, and cope with the unexpected effectively.
Home page: Health Canada
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Exworthy Educational Links
Educational links to resources for teachers, students, and parents
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Federal Resources for Educational Excellence
FREE makes it easier to find teaching and learning resources from the federal government. More than 1,500 federally supported teaching and learning resources are included from dozens of federal agencies.
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Getting Children Ready to Learn
This page explains how to help your children get ready to learn
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Help Your Child
This page has 15 ways that you can help your child – in school and life
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Help Your Child Learn to Listen (suggested level - preschool - grade 2)
Activities to encourage your child's development of listening skills.
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Help Your Child Learn to Use Language (suggested level - preschool - grade 2)
Tips for helping your child become comfortable with language usage.
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Helping Children to do Their Best
A list that gives parents ideas how to help their children achieve their best
Home page: Education World
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Helping with Homework*
Answers the question, "How can I help my child with his or her homework?". Strategies are suggested and online resources are provided.
This is a portion of a Frequently Asked Questions segment of <i>The Math Forum @ Drexel</i>, designed and managed by Drexel University, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Home page: The Math Forum at Drexel
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Helping Young Children Write
This webpage has an idea for parents to help their young children write stories
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Helping Your Child Learn to Write (suggested level - preschool - grade 2)
Suggestions for facilitating the development of writing skills through art, practice, and encouragement.
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Home School Resource Books
An overview of selected materials geared towards people providing home education.
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How Children Become Readers and Writers
Information for parents on how children become readers and writers and how they can help
Home page: PBS home
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How Children Learn to Read
This website has an article on learning to read
Home page: Edbydesign
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How Fathers can be Good Leaders
This webpage has an article that is directed at fathers and how they can be good leaders to their families.
Home page: Boston University, School of Education
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How People Learn Best
This page explains how people (and children) learn best
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Humpty Dumpty Sequencing Cards (suggested level - preschool - grade 2)
Pictures illustrating this nursery rhyme to cut out and arrange so that they tell a story.
Home page: Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes
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Information on Child Development
Information for parents on child development – search by age and area of development
Home page: PBS home
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Intergenerational Cultural Traditions
Children, Parents and Grandparents will learn and share together in a family literacy class.
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KidBibs Learning Tips for Parents and Teachers
KidBibs provides parents and teachers with strategies to help children become good readers, writers, and learners!
Home page: Kidbibs
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Language Development
This page explains Language Development and recommends both online and offline activities for you to do with your children
Home page: Chateau Meddybemps
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Language Development in the First Years
This site contains information about language development in the first two years of life
Home page: Katie Did and the Neon Peach
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Lavinia Mudwallow Greets The Day (suggested level - preschool - grade 2)
A story about a girl named Amanda Gray and her faithful dog Lavinia Mudwallow. The first in a series of tales about these two friends. Approximate reading time - 3 minutes.
Home page: Bedtime Story for Busy Business Parents
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Learning How to Write
This website has an article on learning to write
Home page: Edbydesign
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Learning Style Quiz
A quiz to determine your child's learning style, and ways to enhance his or her learning experiences.
Home page: Education Central
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Learning to Spell
This website has an article on learning to spell.
Home page: Edbydesign
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Let's Read Together with Talespinners
The National Film Board of Canada invites you to read with the kids. This kit is based on the award-winning Talespinners children's books and the storybooks that inspired them.
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Love Your Body
Tips on how parents can encourage their children to have a healthy body image.
Home page: La Casa De Comida/The House of Food
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Macaulay Child Development Centre - Family Literacy Training & Tools
The Macaulay Child Development Centre fosters the optimal development of children, in partnership with their family and community.
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Math Ideas for Home
This webpage has many ideas for math activities, math carnivals and math at home.
Home page: Math Cats
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Math in the Home
Activies to aid understanding of mathematical principles, for children of a variety of ages, listed by age level.
Home page: Helping Your Child Learn Math
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McGraw-Hill School Division Home Page
Publishing unit which focuses on the elementary level provides learning resources for students, educators, and parents. Find teaching tips and interactive activities.
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Medications - Make No Mistake
Tips on using prescription drugs safely and effectively.
Home page: InteliHealth
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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
This site is an initiative of the Utah State University.
There are learning activities for students from pre-kindergarten to Grade 12.
Fun and stimulating exercises are offered for numbers and operations, algebra, geometry, mesurement and data analysis and probabilities.
The french version to this website has been approved by the Department of Education, Province of New Brunswick.
Home page: National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
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Parenting and Professionalism - The Myth Of Having It All
An article which discusses the obstacles encountered by parents in balancing families and careers.
Home page: Zero To Three
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Poems for Parents
This website has poems for parents
Home page: The Pratt's Personal Bookmarks
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Prepare Children for Kindergarten and Math
A webpage for parents – how you can help your child get ready for kindergarten and math
Home page: Cool Math
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Preschool Activities and Readings
This website has online activities for parents to do with their preschool age children.
Home page: Story Place
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Racial Stereotypes
This website has an article on talking to your children about racial stereotypes.
Home page: Media Awareness
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Racial Stereotypes in Video Games
This website has an article on racial stereotyping in video games.
Home page: Media Awareness
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Raising Children with Good Character
This website has 10 tips for raising children with good character.
Home page: Boston University, School of Education
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Raising Children's Self Esteem
This website offers 20 ways to raise your child’s self esteem.
Home page: Preschool Express
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Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets is a multimedia project offering information and resources on how young kids learn to read, why so many struggle, and how caring adults can help.
Home page: Reading Rockets
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Resisting Negative Peer Pressure (suggested level - grades 7 -12)
Tips on how to help a teenager or young adult deal with social pressures.
Home page: Girls and Boys Town National Resource and Training Center
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Roots of Empathy
Roots of Empathy is an evidence-based classroom program that has shown dramatic effect in reducing levels of aggression among school children by raising social/emotional competence and increasing empathy
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Simple Things Families Can Do to Help
Some suggestions for methods of encouraging literacy development within the family.
Home page: The United States Department of Education
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Site for Parent and Child Education (SPACE) Program
The SPACE is a program offered by the Morrow Avenue Child Care Program for Families.
It is a non-profit program that exists to promote, advance and enrich the lives of children and families. They believe that each child is a unique individual with rights for love, respect and quality care in a warm and nurturing environment.
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Supervising Homework Time
An article for parents on supervising their child’s homework time
Home page: Math Goodies
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Teaching Nursery Rhymes to Pre-Readers (suggested level - preschool)
Tips on how to develop literacy skills in pre-readers by using the repetition, song and pictures common to nursery rhymes.
Home page: Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes
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The Basics - What is Science? (suggested level - grades 3 - 6)
An overview of the underlying principles of the scientific method, and tips on how to help your child understand science.
Home page: Helping Your Child Learn Science
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The Getting Started Adoption Kit
Deals with such issues as readiness for adoption, birth parents, interracial adoption and choosing an agency (based in the United States).
Home page: Parents Soup
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The Little Lame Prince (suggested level - grades 3 - 6)
The story of a prince with a disability and the obstacles he faced. Reading time - 10 chapters, approximately 20 minutes per chapter.
Home page: Bedtime Story for Busy Business Parents
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The Natural Child Project
Advice based on the belief that all children behave as well as they are treated. Includes 10 reasons why not to hit your kids.
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Tips for Families as Their Children's First Teacher
Suggestions for ways families can encourage their children to become life-long learners.
Home page: Ready*Set*Read
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WWII Activities for at home
Activities that parents can do at home with their children – about WWII
Home page: BBC Home
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