educational+websites

=Parents and teachers are always looking for great websites to support student learning. As always, remember that kids need to be supervised when they are on-line. Even better is to explore these web sites together with your child. When you use them together, adults are able to help children transfer learning. For example, "Your bedtime story has great dialouge just like what we worked on in that game tonight."=

Free sites:

 * [|sheppardsoftware.com/index.html] (games, grammar, word skills, vocabulary)
 * [|bbc.co.uk/schools/] (sentence construction and Dance Mat typing)
 * [|crickweb.co.uk/] (a great way to get science buffs reading)
 * [|readwritethink.org/] (grammar, spelling, sentences, nonfiction reading, and commenting on writing)
 * [|chompchomp.com] (grammar skills)
 * [|poissonrouge.com] (this is for the very young, so ECE, Kinder., and little siblings may love it)
 * [|starfall.com] (phonics and reading for two year olds- second grade and special education students)
 * [|Coolmath-games.com](math games)
 * [|Best Children's Books] (book recommendations by core subjects - website maintained by three teachers)

Subscription sites:
 * Many of these subscription sites have a free trial period, so go ahead and try them out
 * [|ilx.com] (all math and linked to state standards)
 * [|brainpop.com] (famous authors, grammar, and writing)
 * [|educationcity.com]
 * [|Readinga-z.com] (download and print books or interact with leveled books)
 * [|www.everydaymathonline.com] The Every Day Math games site has been updated and should be working well now. All students enrolled in Park Hill Elementary for the 2010-2011 school year has a password to play the games. These passwords are individualized, so please don't misplace them when the classroom teachers send them home. If you have lost your password, please ask your teacher for a reminder. [[file:how to sign in to EDM games.pdf]] This document tells exactly how to log in to play the games.

Park Hill School has subscriptions to Brain Pop and Reading A to Z. Brain Pop is just in the computer lab, but parents are always invited to come with their children to the lab and check things out. All teachers have the log-in information for Reading A to Z, so feel free to come to school and print off just right books for your child or better yet, your child and his guided reading group.