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St. Tammany Parish District PTA


 

Mandeville Elementary School

PARENT SITES

http://www.louisianapta.org/Legislativeupdates.html - Find out what issues and bills are being considered by the Louisiana legislature.

www.ed.gov/parents - The United States Department of Education website.

www.screenit.com/index1.html - gives an unbiased, easy to use yet heavily detailed and complete look at popular entertainment your kids might see, rent or buy.

www.safekids.com - This is a site for computer safety guidelines for children, teens and their parents.

www.familyfun.go.com - Familyfun contains all sorts of family ideas – cooking, organization, arts and craft ideas, party and game ideas, travel and much more. 

www.image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/askmag.html - Ask the scientist site

KIDS SEARCH ENGINES

www.ajkids.com - Ask Jeeves for kids let you type in a question and get a list of web pages than can direct you to the answer.

www.yahooligans.com - Yahooligans is a web guide for kids with links to many other child friendly websites.

www.onekey.com -  Another great search engine for kids.

LIBRARY RESOURCES

www.awesomelibrary.org - Awesome Library Librarians volunteer to maintain this website.  It organizes the Web with 27,000 carefully reviewed resources for teachers, kids, teens, parents, librarians or college students.

www.ala.org -  This is the American Library Association.  It is a great site for kids.

www.kidinfo.com - Homework and reference resource for students, teachers and parents.

www.kids.infoplease.com - This site provides access to information on the world, us, people, word wise, math, science, sports, cool stuff games & quizzes and much more.

MATH SITES

www.aplusmath.com - This site includes math, flash cards, games, worksheets, and homework helper.

www.funbrain.com - 25 arcade-style math games, games for kids under six, homework relief center for parents

www.moneyinstructor.com - Games for learning how to work with money 

READING SITES

www.starfall.com - Where Kids Have Fun Learning to Read. Primarily designed for first grade, but also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

www.bookadventure.org -  Book Adventure is a free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8 and includes reading comprehension tests. 

www.pbs.org/readingrainbow -  Good for reading includes book summaries, games and activities.

HANDWRITING SITES

www.rhymer.com -  Great for Writing Poems.  Type in the word you want to rhyme with, a long list of one and two syllable rhyming words are displayed. 

www.kotn.ntu.ac.uk - Creative writing site for kids. Includes how to write your own  and lots of other kid’s writing posted online. 

www.kids.mysterynet.com/writing - Mystery writing for children

www.kidpub.org/kidpub -  Kidpub,the largest collection of stories by children on the internet with a database over 43,000 stories written by and for children.

SCIENCE SITES

www.nasa.gov/audienceforkids/home/index.html - NASA learning center for the young

 www.origin.mars5.jpl.nasa.gov/home - Mars photos, activities and games for children

www.ology.amnh.org -  American Museum of Natural History great tool to encourage kids to explore sciences 

www.smithsonianeducation.org/students - Smithsonian Institution showcases some of the best interactive features of the museum 

www.montereybayaquarium.org -  Live web cameras at the aquarium, games, activities careers. 

GOVERNMENT SITES

 

www.bensguide.gpo.gov - Ben Franklin's guide to the US government.