| INTERNET GUIDES FOR KIDS A+ Berits Best Sites of Children |
| PARENTING RESOURCES Sesame Street Parents |
| PARENTS OF TODDLERS CHALKBOARD |
| Parents as Teachers (PAT) is a national award-winning non-profit parent education and family support organization. Through a network of local programs, the Parents as Teachers National Center develops curriculum, trains, and certifies parent educators to work with parents to provide them with parenting support and information on their developing child. The program's core components consist of personal visits, group meetings, developmental screenings and linkages to a network of community resources |
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| SITES A+ ED Pubs On-Line Ordering System (GREAT!) National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Federal Reserve System - Publication Information Catalog A+ Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Sites for Teachers Welcome to ERIC-EECE (Elementary and Early Childhood Education) Providing information since 1967 for educators, parents and families, and all of us interested in the development, education, and care of children from birth through early adolescence. |
| PRINTABLES Activity Pad offers printable preschool activities, word search puzzles, mazes, holiday activities and more to help children learn and have fun! |
| FREE SOFTWARE SITES A+ Gamequarium |
| Beginning Letter Sounds - for learning phonics Children drag pictures to the letters that make the first sounds of the word that describes the picture. Voice is used Baby Toons! This is the best one i have ever seen for young toddlers can be used and understood by chldren as young as 10 months! PC Downloads for Beginners PC Downloads for 2-5 Search for you own... with CNET |
| QUICK READ: The lnfant/Toddler Curriculum |
| BOOKMARK: ArtLex - art dictionary |
| MATH Current research indicates that the window of opportunity for math and logical learning is between birth and four years of age. This is a critical time for experience in routines, sequence of activity, in sizes and shapes, in simple mathematical concepts. The child should have activities with a beginning, a middle, and an end, should sort and classify, and do activities that support one to one correspondence. -Ann Luce Mathematical Mind: Birth to Three Early Childhood: Where Learning Begins Math Ten Daily Chores to Incorporate Logic and Math Concepts Adding It Up: Helping Children Learn Mathematics Book, full text The Mathematical Mind Coolmath4kids - An amusement park of math- ages 3 TO 5 VERY COOL includes game s and coloring book Early Childhood Mathematics First experinces in Math Here are some everyday opportunities for children to begin thinking about numbers |
| SPEECH Normal Speech Development THE GRADUAL ACQUISITION OF THE SPEECH SOUND SYSTEM Very informative and to the point article about the acquistion of different speech sounds |
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| LIBRARY School Library Media Research (ISSN: 1523-4320) is an official journal of the American Association of School Librarians |
| STORYTELLING Children's Literature - Resources for Storytellers The Enchanted Imagination: Storytelling’s Power to Entrance Listeners- Pretty techincal article, only a few practical applicaitons mentioned see Implications for Library Media Specialists and Teachers. Interesting read though, might inspire some ideas... Stories to Tell to Children: Fifty-One Stories With Some Suggestions for Telling AN AMAZING RESOURCE!!!! |
| POETRY The Academy of American Poets The Koller Collins Library Web-site |
| CHILDREN'S LITERATURE Children's Literature - Internet Discussion Groups Good Books For Good Readers Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - Reviews and teaching ideas An AMAZING SITE!!! check out the expanded Table of Contents includes indexes of subject topics (like Bullies in LIterature or Native American's or Women's History) also includes author and title indexes. |