Safe Sites For Children: Make learning fun! Encourage your child to visit these safe websites either at home or at the library. They will develop their academic skills using a variety of engaging activities and games. Have them show you the sites and what they are doing. Pleasantville students should be familiar with several of these sites as they have used them in the classroom.
Resources at School/Home
Google-Use this site to access your google docs to continue working on your projects.
Story Town/Think Central-Use this site to access activities that go along with the stories that you are reading in class.
Kids Click-Search engine for kids developed by librarians. Allows children to search for their favorite topics in an easy and safe way.
Time for Kids-This website has a number of different activities for kids to use along with the magazines they have in class.
Surf Net for Kids-This website offers resources for students, parents, and teachers that can be used to learn about new websites. The website offers reviews of other websites.
Below are some websites that are a lot of fun, but educational too!
Fun Brain -This is a terrific site with lots of resources for children to play games in Reading, Math, or other topics.
PBS Kids-This site is for pre-school and kindergarten students that are beginning to play educational games. It has a number of different educational games involving their favorite PBS characters.
Starfall-Great site for pre-school/kindergarten/early elementary school children who are learning to read. Lots of fun games and activities that the children will love.
Primary Games-A fun site organized by topic of interest for students, parents, and teachers. Includes activities for all ages on different topics.
Read, Write, Think-This site offers resources for both students and teachers. The site is organized in a manner that allows teachers to sort through lessons and activities according to grade level or strand. Students can use it to access various websites for games and other resources.
Funschool-Fun and interactive website to engage children in learning. Offers activities for children ages pre-school through 6th grade.
Scholastic-Allows children to play games and read some of their favorite books. Additionally, it offers links for parents to purchase books for their children.
Game Goo-An educational game/reading site aligned with the games and activities from the Earobics program. This site has wonderful activities for younger students beginning to read.
Readquarium-This site provides links to other reading websites for students, parents, and teachers.
