Websites you may want to check out with your child or just for yourself:
Many are interactive sites that will reinforce skills learned in school. Children should always have permission before going on-line.
Parent Resource for Internet
The screen actor's Guild offers stories online, where children can choose from different
books and different actors to download an audio book. Related activities are also available for each book selection.
WOW! What a great interactive math site to practice facts. Be sure to give this site a try.
Choose a story, add your own ending or read other children's stories.
Learn about the United States by learning the history behing each state quarter or learn about the new US nickel.
Learn about the ships that defended are country.
You won't believe this site! There are many, many math games for all grade levels and all types of math operations.
Visit this interactive site to make your own sentences. There are many short stories featuring short and long vowel sounds. This site is great!
This site offers interactive activities to reinforce spatial skills. These skills are very important for young children in order to master math and reading concepts.
Fun Places to Visit
Learn how water was used to grind grain or how wool was corded and spun into yarn at the Graue Mill & Museum in Oak Brook. 630.920.9720 http://www.grauemill.org/
Travel back farther in time to the Ice Age when the Wooly Mammoth and other prehistoric beast lived in the Chicago area at the Notebaert Nature Museum, Fullerton and Lake Shore
The Morton Arboretum in Lisle offers numerous activities throughout the summer.. A favorite is the Maze Garden. 630.968.0074 www.mortonarb.org
Learn about the man, the inventor and the genius named Leonardo daVinci or the many colors of frogs at the Museum of Science and Industry. 773.684.1414 http://www.msichicago.org/
Expand the learning process by having your child draw and write about the adventure, then check out books at your local library that pertain to the subject.
Power Point Viewer 2003
For people who do not have the Power Point Progam.
PowerPoint Viewer 2003 lets you view full-featured presentations created in PowerPoint 97 and later versions. You can view and print presentations, but you cannot edit them in the PowerPoint Viewer 2003. Now you can view your childrens presentation if you do not have the Power Point Program at home. You can also share your homemade Power Point Presentation with other who do not have Power Point with this link.
