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| MyPyramid.gov |
| One size doesn't fit all. MyPyramid Plan
can help you choose the foods and amounts
that are right for you. For a quick estimate
of what and how much you need to eat, enter
your age, sex, and activity level in the
MyPyramid Plan box. |
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| http://www.classroomplus.k12.pa.us/ |
| ClassroomPlus
is a $9,000,000 statewide initiative that provides
grants of up to $500 to parents of children
who are struggling in reading and math. Children
in kindergarten through ninth grade are eligible
to participate in the program if they score
at the basic level or below-basic level on
the PSSA or in the bottom half of state-approved
tests. |
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| http://www.pde.state.pa.us |
| Recognizing that parents are children’s
first and most important teachers, the PA Department
of Education plans to use this space to make
it easy for parents to find some of the most
useful resources on our web site. |
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| Helping
Your Child Become a Reader |
| Other than helping their children to grow up
healthy and happy, the most important thing that
parents can do is to help them develop their
reading skills. This booklet offers pointers
on how to build the language skills of young
children, from infancy to age 6,and provides
numerous activities to boost children’s
love of reading. It includes a list of typical
language accomplishments for different age groups,suggestions
for books children will love, and resources for
children with reading problems or learning disabilities.
(Available in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child With Homework |
| Homework can help children to develop positive
study skills and habits, improve their thinking
and memory abilities, and encourage them to use
time well, learn independently and take responsibility
for their work. This booklet helps parents of
elementary and middle school students understand
why homework is important, and pro-vides suggestions
for helping children complete assignments successfully.(Available
in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Preschool Child |
| How well children will learn and develop and
how well they will do in school depends on a
number of things, including their health and
physical well-being, social and emotional preparation,
language skills and general knowledge of the
world. This booklet highlights techniques parents
can use to encourage their children to develop
the skills necessary for success in school and
life by focusing on activities that make learning
fun. (Available in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child Through Early Adolescence |
| Learning as much as possible about the world
of early adolescents is an important step toward
helping children through the fascinating, confusing
and wonderful years from ages 10 to 14. Based
on the latest research in adolescent development
and learning, this booklet addresses questions,
provides suggestions and tackles issues that
parents of young teens generally find most challenging.(Available
in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child Become a Responsible Citizen |
| Just as children must be taught to read and
write, solve math problems and understand science
concepts and events in history, so must they
be guided in developing the qualities of character
that are valued by their families and by the
communities in which they live. This booklet
provides information about the values and skills
that make up character and good citizenship and
what parents can do to help children develop
strong character. It suggests activities that
parents and school-aged children can do to put
those values to work in their daily lives and
tips for working with teachers and schools to
ensure that they act together to promote the
basic values they want their children to learn
and use. (Available in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child Learn Mathematics |
| Our increasingly technological world demands
strong skills in math, not only in the workforce
but also in every-day life, and these demands
will only increase over the lifetimes of our
children. The major portion of this booklet is
made up of fun activities that parents can use
with children from preschool age through grade
5 to strength-en their math skills and build
strong, positive attitudes toward math.(Available
in English and Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child Learn Science |
| Every day is filled with opportunities to learn
science—without expensive chemistry sets
or books. Parents don’t need degrees in
chemistry or physics to help their children learn
science. All that is needed is a willingness
to observe and learn with them and, above all,
to make an effort and take the time to nurture
their natural curiosity.This booklet provides
parents of children ages 3 through 10 with information,
tools and activities they can use in the home
and community to help their child develop an
interest in the sciences and learn about the
world around them. (Available in English and
Spanish.) |
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| Helping
Your Child Succeed in School |
| :Every child has the power to succeed in school
and in life and every parent, family member and
caregiver can help. This booklet provides parents
with information, tools and activities they can
use in the home to help their child develop the
skills critical to academic success. (Available
in English and Spanish.) |
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| Put
Reading First:Helping Your Child Learn to Read |
| This brochure, designed for parents of young
children, describes the kinds of early literacy
activities that should take place at school and
at home to help children learn to read successfully.
It is based on the findings of the National Reading
Panel. |
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| Questions
Parents Ask About Schools |
| This publication provides answers to commonly
asked questions on topics such as getting ready
for school, monitoring school, helping with reading
and working with schools and teachers. It is
recommended for parents of elementary- and middle-school-aged
children who want to help their children learn
and succeed. This brochure suggests effective
ways parents can support their children’s
education. The research-based tips in this publication
provide both practical guidance and valuable
information about a range of topics. (This booklet
has both Spanish and English text.) |
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| Reading
Tips for Parents |
| This English/Spanish bookmark is for parents
who want to encourage their child to read. It
suggests activities to help children become effective
readers. The bookmark also provides Web addresses
for the U.S. Department of Education, and the
Department’s toll free number, 1-800-USA-LEARN. |
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| Grow
Parent Website |
Welcome to the Grow Parent Website! This fall,
parents and guardians throughout Pennsylvania
received reports about their children's recent
standardized test results in Reading and Mathematics.
On this website, you will find more information
about what you can do to help your child grow.
We hope you enjoy the Grow Parent Website.
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| Library
in the Sky |
| The Library in the Sky is a database of interesting
and useful educational Web sites for those involved
in education. Find the information you want through
the Search, User Tabs, by Department, or Materials.
Currently there are 1584 educational Web sites
listed in the Library in the Sky. Search the
entire database of resource links, or narrow
your search to those Web sites that will most
likely be of interest to you. |
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| D.A.R.E. |
| “The New D.A.R.E. program is setting
the gold standard for the future,” says
Charlie Parsons, Executive Director of D.A.R.E.
America, “Prevention inside the 21st
century school house will need to be diverse,
accountable, and mean more things to more people,
particularly with the safety issues that have
emerged since Columbine and terrorist alerts.
That’s one reason why every New D.A.R.E.
officer is also being trained as a certified
School Resource Officer (SRO).” |
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| It’s
All About U |
It’s
All About U is a campaign designed to educate
children, schools, families and the Allegheny
County community about the importance of
mental health and role stigma plays in preventing
not only treatment but simple dialog. The
campaign is being administered by the county’s
Community Connections for Families program
(CCF) and will pilot its work in five schools
throughout Allegheny County.
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| http://www.quia.com/pages/havefun.html |
Welcome,
everyone! Please enjoy my language games that
are located at the links below. They are now
organized into the following categories: Vocabulary/Word
Knowledge, Grammar, Question Forms, Comprehension,
Figurative Language,and Phonological Awareness.
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| MakeWorksheets.com |
Our
activity of the week gives nonmembers a chance
to see what they can create with Makeworksheets.com.
Members can can easily create any of these
printables for their own classes.
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| The
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation |
This
easy-to-use reference guide and workbook is
now available in a NEW edition. Jane Straus
has added 50% more material—more rules,
more exercises, more tests, and, of course,
more answers. In 112 pages that are painless
and amusing, Jane will reveal to you the mysteries
of grammar and punctuation.
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| The
Grammar Gorilla |
Our
friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need help identifying
parts of speech. If you click on the right
word in the sentence, our friends get a banana.
And you know, a gorilla with a banana is a
gorilla with appeal.
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| http://www.teach-nology.com |
TeAchnology.com
offers teachers FREE access to 27,000+ lesson
plans, 6,350+ printable worksheets, rubrics,
educational games, teaching tips, advice, education
news, teacher downloads, web quests, 256,000+
reviewed web sites and teacher tools for creating
exciting classroom instruction.
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| Some Great Places to Visit |
Please
note: The following links have all been checked,
but because of the nature of the Internet,
following a series of links may lead a child
to almost anywhere. Because of this, adults
should supervise children while they browse
the Web.
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| http://www.gamequarium.com/ |
Many
educators view the Internet and multimedia
technology as factors contributing to a reduction
in the amount of time children are engaged
in traditional learning. I say, "Get over
it!" Teaching in the Information Age requires
that educators modify their view and transform
their instructional practices to utilize technology’s
power to improve the learning process for students.
Today’s students need to be guided in
developing the ability to make use of the Internet
and multimedia technology to increase critical
literacy skills and essential knowledge.
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