Parents | Reading With Your Child, developed by the Seattle School District to provide information to parents about reading with their kids.

Reading Planet is a web site created by Reading is Fundamental, Inc. It features an annotated list of 1,000 children's books that can be browsed by age group, author or category. Students can post reviews of their favorite books or read reviews by others.

Kid Pub is a web site with collections of stories written by and for kids. Read stories published by kids or publish your own.

The Giggle Poetry website is a great place to read poetry, write poetry to publish online, critique poems written by others.

The Starfall website has free on-line stories that target specific reading skills.

Parents | Everyday Mathematics Online - This is the site where families will be able to enter their child's name and password and get access to the online tools (games, student reference book, and family letters).

Parents | Everyday Math Units: Family Letters - on-line access to the parent letters that are sent home at the beginning of each Everyday Math unit. They are particularly useful in acquiring the background necessary to assist with homework.

Parents | Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics - A useful guide for parents with tips and suggestions for helping your child understand and appreciate mathematics.

Parents | Mathematics in Today's World - Information about mathematics for parents and families.

Kids | Illuminations (the Fractions Track game is a fun way to learn to compare and combine fractions.)

Kids | NCES Kids Zone

Kids | Cool Math

Kids | Learning Planet

Kids | Virtual Manipulatives (JAVA required) - A great website that provides children with electronic versions of the manipulatives they use in class to help develop conceptual understandings of mathematics.

Kids | Math Facts - This website allows children to practice math facts by customizing problems to their skill level.

Everyday Mathematics Center is an NSF-funded center established to support educators, parents and students who are using, or will soon be using, Everyday Mathematics.

The Math Forum is a full of math resources, problems of the week, and links to other math related sites.

Math Fun Outside:
Play Hopscotch to practice reading numbers OR challenge yourself to add, subtract, or multiply each number in your head as you land on them. Create your own math sidewalk game using chalk.

Buy an inexpensive stopwatch to use for a variety of races. Time yourself, or a friend, as you swim from one end of the pool to the other or run a certain distance. Record your times on a sheet of paper. You can learn how to record the times on a spreadsheet and also look for improvement in your race times.

Go around your neighborhood or downtown to sketch 3-D shapes. Keep a sketch journal. Briefly describe your shapes using your geometry vocabulary.

Math Fun in the Car:
Change the Alphabet Game to the Number Game - what do you see one of? two of? and so on.

Think of a number between one and 100. Have other people guess the number by asking questions such as "Is it greater than 50?" "Is it between 35 and 55?" Then switch roles.

Keep a list of all the states' license plates you see this summer. Except for Washington, keep a tally of ones you see most often!  Challenge a friend to see who sees the most total states' license plates over the summer!

Add or subtract or multiply or divide the numbers you find on license plates. You can work with as many digits as you wish. For instance, you might treat the first number on a license plate as a divisor and the next three numbers as a three-digit dividend.

Keep a journal of miles traveled in the car, learn how to check the odometer!

Use a map’s scale of miles to estimate distances and travel times.

How many miles per gallon does your car average on highways? in town?

What are the highest and lowest gas prices you can find on your trip? How much money can you save by filling up your car at the lowest price?

Math Fun Around the House:
Cook something yummy.  Measure the ingredients yourself.  Can you figure out how much of each item you would need to make a double batch?  What about half a batch?  

Arrange the food on your plate as symmetrically as possible. Can you make two lines of symmetry? Which foods are asymmetrical and which are more symmetrical?

Estimate and then count the number of seeds in a watermelon at a family gathering.  About how many seeds would there be in five watermelons? Ten watermelons?  What about one hundred watermelons?

Count the M&M pieces in a bag. Then sort them by color. Count the number of green M&M's to find out what fraction of all of the candy is that color. Do the same with the other colors. Eat the results.

Use a bunch of toothpicks or straws and create a 3-D shape using marshmallows to connect the vertices. Sketch your creations in a journal.

Empty your change into a family change jar every evening.  Sort and count the change to find out how much money you have. Decide on a family treat you can buy. How much money will be left afterwards?

Keep a record of bedtimes and rising times, and calculate how long you slept each night. How does your summer sleep schedule compare to your school-year sleep schedule?

With help from a family member or friend, mark your height on a doorway and measure your height at the start and end of the summer. Did you grow? How much did you grow? Did your friends grow? Who grew most?

Follow your favorite baseball team’s statistics in the newspaper throughout the summer. You might make a graph to track changes over time. If you play a sport, try keeping track of your own statistics.

Host a book or toy exchange party. Have each guest bring along four or five used books or toys to sell; price all the books under one dollar (24 cents, 60 cents, etc.). Give each guest one dollar in play money to spend and let them sort through the selection for about 15 minutes. When it's time to pay for the books, each person can count out their money and determine whether they have any left over or have gone over their budget.

Math Fun at the Store:
Use estimation skills to predict how much the grocery bill will be.

How much do you save per ounce (or another unit) by buying in bulk?

Look at expiration dates: Which products have short shelf lives? long shelf lives? Why?

Compare clothing prices at two or more stores.

Math scavenger hunt: What is the most expensive item you can find in the entire mall? What is the cheapest item? What is the biggest item? (How large is it?) What is the smallest item? What is the size and cost of the largest TV? the smallest TV? Make up your own questions and keep exploring.

Math Fun on the Computer:
Math Maven's Mysteries: "The Math Maven is always finding herself in the middle of a fun new mystery — and she counts on her "super sleuths" to crack the case. Each mystery focuses on a particular area of math reasoning and computation and requires students to use creative thinking and sharp math skills to help her find the solution." [Math Maven's Mysteries Website]

Math Hunt: "In this highly motivating cross-curricular activity, students set out on fact-finding missions that test math skills, provide practice researching on the Web, and boost reading comprehension. In each WebQuest-style Math Hunt, students visit Web sites related to social studies or science topics. There, they must find the information they need to solve a real-world math problem that covers one of 16 skills that correlate to curriculum standards for grades 5 through 8." [Math Hunt Website]

Max's Math Adventures: "Max's Math Adventures is a math and language arts game created specifically for students in grades K-2. Each adventure focuses on one math skill integral to the K-2 math curriculum. Hosts Max and Ruthie challenge young students to solve real-world math problems by using clues embedded in a fun, rhyming poem." [Max's Math Adventures]

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families: "Figure This! demonstrates challenging middle school mathematics and emphasizes the importance of high-quality math education for all students.  Funding for the project was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Education." [Figure This! Website]

Math Fun with Games:
Dominos
Yahtzee
Card games  (War and Go Fish)
Monopoly, Pay Day, Life, other games where you earn and spend money.
Any game that requires keeping score

Ask a Scientist answers more than 7,000 science questions. Search the site by topic.

School Tours from the National Gallery of Art features 38 paintings and sculptures. Each work is accompanied by an explanation of its significance and is presented with other works related to a theme - animals, weather, mythology, etc.

The National Gallery of Art offers activities and projects for children.

The Louvre web museum.

Fun Brain has lots of games to practice reading and mathematics skills.

Maps4kids.com mission is to help children gain a greater understanding of the world through maps, geographic information and geography games. We continue to add content like Seven Wonders and this, along with many other pages, is now GoogleMaps enabled to add another dimension to Maps4Kids. Maps4Kids.com has maps and data on all of the 50 states, as well as for over 200 countries around the world. There are map puzzles and links to quizzes to help kids learn where states and countries are, and what their capitals are. Don't miss our GeoNews page, which is updated daily with interesting geographic news from around the globe.

Online dictionary - To use the dictionary, simply type a word in the blue search box that appears at the top of every page and then click the 'Search' button. This will perform a search for the word in the several dictionaries hosted on our site (see below). If you don't know how to spell the word, just guess. You will get a list of suggestions if you are wrong.

On Word Central Students can look up words in the student dictionary, build their own dictionaries, or find our the "daily buzzword".

The Biographical Dictionary is an online resource for information about 28,000 notable men and women.