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=Kid's Page=

Here are some youthful links for you to play with your children or just 'the child in you'.

This Khan's Academy gets amazing reviews. Uncle Khan designed some youtube videos to help his nephew with math and it has grown from there. Teachers love it too !

https://www.khanacademy.org/

- Kamikaze 13/11/12

Hi everyone,

I thought I'd put out a recommendation for Prodigy Math: []

It doesn't really teach the math, but is great for skills practice, and it's highly engaging for the kids. It's designed like a video game, with characters and quests and the kids get to accumulate items and level-up etc. The game is free, but has a membership option for those who would like to pay to have their kids get cooler virtual items. I think it covers grades K-8, but don't quote me on that :)

My ADHD son hates math, and usually tantrums when a math question is put in front of him, but he'll ask to go on Prodigy because the game play is so engaging.

S. from Mississauga Homeschoolers, 13/11/12

Hey everyone, check out these awesome calculus videos based on the Ontario curriculum.

If you click on the link you will find a list of the updated videos. If you go to the youtube channel and search th channel you will find videos for more chapters in the textbook. All the videos correspond with the NELSON Calculus and Vectors Textbook.

http://allthingsmathematics.teachable.com/p/mcv4u-calculus-and-vectors

(MHS 2017)

My Parks Pass - free pass to Canadian parks

http://www.myparkspass.ca/

Learn to Camp

http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/media/ltc-dlc/index.aspx


 * La Linea Episode 1**

Did you ever think that body language was 80% of communication ?

We grew up with these animations.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skb2gKR7rOk

- Carefree 13/02/26

Check out the Storybird website

storybird.com

for making your own artistically inspired child friendly short story books. First read a few stories, especially the prize winners. Then think up a short story of your own. Make your own story. Then tell us about your story on Thursday Presentation Day.

- Carefree 12/05/14

Here is a fun activity for science minded kids. The activities are high qualtity (because there are run out of the hospitals or universities) and one of the best parts is that it is free.

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Our newspaper featured an article about a non-profit called CK-12. This website provides Flexible Interactive Text Books … FOR FREE! It's awesome. Teachers can piece together chapters of different books to create their own customized text book.

Here is a link to the website: []

Here is today's article in the San Jose Mercury News: []

School House Rock
Nouns: http://www.schooltube.com/video/21001073474c19344891/

Verbs: http://www.schooltube.com/video/2f64b89f85db90e07260/

Adverbs: http://www.schooltube.com/video/054c4aca89b412d90612/

Conjunction: http://www.schooltube.com/video/9d37200dbcb55fe20cfc/

Preposition: http://www.schooltube.com/video/d177636a19e28f776d78/Grammar-Rock-Preposition

School House Rock Lyrics http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/

There's more ! ==

Ontario Educational Resource Bank
https://oerb.elearningontario.ca

== MATHEMATICS ==

Hello mathies,

We used www.mathfrog.ca online when my kids were a little younger (grades 4-6) but now I've realized there is an older version called Wired Math for grades 7 - 10. It has some nice online games and activities to help with the Ontario math curriculum for these grades and best of all, it's from an authoritative source (University of Waterloo math department) and it's free!  []  A site to help you create graphs.  __[]__  Have you heard of Life of Fred? [] We've not tried it yet (my oldest is just turning 7) but I hear absolutely amazing things from most everyone who has. It is definitely on our list for the not-too-distant future for my math-loving girl.

A relative of mine just sent me a link to a youtube site called www.mathtv.com There are many tutorial videos on different math topics. You can also find all sorts of video tutorials on Science, English and all kinds of other topics on youtube that are being done by college profs and highschool teachers. []

ENGINEERING
 Great site - animations showing how engines work  [|http://www.animated engines.com/ index.shtml]  Hi Everyone; Yamaha (yep really) is putting out free paper craft downloads for really cool items; more than just motorcycles! Check them out, they are pretty cool. []  This is a really cool site - the game my kids are playing is called "Gears". It really teaches how gears work. Kind of like "The Incredible Machine" (which of course is another really cool game that teaches mechanics). [|http://www.kongregate.com] enter "gears" in the search. []  A race from London to Edinburgh between a car a bike and a locomotive; it's broken into four parts: Top Gear S13E01 60 Years Ago - Car vs Bike vs Train - //Part// 1 **...** <[]>

**SCIENCE**

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SCOUTS CANADA
www.scouts.ca   Volunteer with your children having fun ! If you have been a part of the international scouting movement in your home country, Scouts Canada can feel like a 'home away from home'. I must admit that I do not have skills for camping in the "Tropical Jungle" like my co-leaders from Singapore, just as they have not experienced "Winter Camping" here in Ontario as I have. Yes, your teacher has slept outside in a Quincy (3 sided structure) in the dead of winter ... and there was some magic there, as one youth exclaimed "like the magical Kingdom of Narnia".  <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Build every skill imaginable, as we practice the Scout Promise, Law, Motto, and Slogan: <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="background-color: #ffffff; display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">

The Scout Promise
On my honour, I promise that I will do my best To do my duty to God and the Queen, To help other people at all times, And to carry out the spirit of the Scout Law.

The Scout Law
A Scout is: Helpful and trustworthy, Kind and cheerful, Considerate and clean, Wise in the use of all resources.

The Scout Motto
Be Prepared

The Scout Slogan
Do a Good Turn Daily

- Carefree 13/02/26

ART
This is a great website for creating posters with fancy words or even doing a collective card with names. []

I just saw this today and thought it was quite neat! Crayola.com has this new program where children can design their own coloring pages (i.e. choose background, and what items will go in it). Very cool! []

WRITERS
<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Check out the NaNoWriMo Young Writer's Program: [] The workbook resources on this site are fabulous! And while the focus of this is a Novemeber novel writing challenge, it is certainly possible to use the resources for a longer period of study. (I recently wrote about this here: [] )

Vocabulary, Hang Mouse, Word Search, Match game, etc. []

MEDIA
**//Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death//** (1969) is an anti-war <[]> science fiction <[]> novel <[]> by Kurt Vonnegut <[]> about World War II <[]> experiences and journeys through time <[]> of a soldier called Billy Pilgrim <[]>.

Here is an explanation about how to play Secret Santa game during these Christmas period. Curious, Dec12th **//Thank you Curious and Jolly for organizing the Secret Santa game. I have never played it this way before, but I think that this version was excellent for us because students had more opportunity to pay attention, talk, and listen. I will use this version again. IT was so much fun !//**
 * __Secret Santa Game Rules:__**
 * 1) Everybody should bring a gift/present to the party (in our case, it will be between 5 to 10$)
 * 2) All the gifts or present will be placed in the same area, without labels or tags.
 * 3) During the party, we will put our names in little secret papers, also we will write numbers from 1 to maximum number of players in small papers too.
 * 4) Everyone should take one paper with name and one with number, both randomly and keep it as a secret.
 * 5) Then, a first volunteer will start describing his/her secret friend in the paper, giving some details about nickname, how is dressed or any other idea. Everybody will try to guess who the person is.
 * 6) Once secret friend will be guessed, this person will choose one present or gift… It could be any of all. Then, open the present and show it to all the audience. Then, he/she will start to describe his/her secret friend … and so on. Please, at this time, we shouldn’t say our secret number yet.
 * 7) Once everybody will pick up a present, we will do a circle and show the presents to everybody.
 * 8) Then, we will start asking for the person who has the paper with number 1. That person should say if he wants to keep his actual present or he can choose between any other present for any other person. He will have only this chance to do it. You cannot choose gifts more than once.
 * 9) The person who got changed the present from other person should wait until his turn (depending on her paper number). If her number is already gone and the person chose her gift before, probably it will be his final present.
 * 10) Then, we will continue asking number by number, changing presents until the last number, who probably will have best change to get the best present.
 * //- Carefree 12/12/31//**

ONTARIO CURRICULUM
<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> [] You might be interested in the resource of the ontario_used curriculum If you sign up, then you get notices of for sale curriculum resources - see [] Here is the link for downloading the curriculum documents: []

The point of access for elementary, by subject is at []

There are many supplementary exemplars and other resources.

Hard copies of all of these can be ordered through Service Ontario. Go to to []

Some are free, others are not.

If you delight in hard work, you can use the on-line ordering process. For that you should create an account (select that item on the left of the screen) for yourself before you start ordering. Then use the "advanced search" tool (again on the left). The site does NOT allow use of meaningful search terms - at which point I gave up and use the document names (from the Min Ed website) and called the 1-800 number (416) 326-5300, for 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Monday to Friday. They are far easier than the on line agony. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> I've recently been accepted as the Canada Homeschooling Examiner at Examiner.com, an online site powered by citizen journalism. You can see my site here: [] Over time, I intend to post articles of interest to Canadian homeschoolers that include how-to pieces, curriculum reviews, information about regulations and requirements for homeschooling in Canada, profiles of Canadian homeschooling families, national and local resources, and timely news. (Did you hear that a Canadian homeschooler won the Nobel Prize for Physics? See my link above for a piece about that exciting bit of news!!)

FYI, called Gail Shotlander the E-learning representative at PDSB.

The user name is: PDSBstudent The password is: OERBS This username and password is for everyone who is enrolled in PDSB to access the 17,000 items in the OERB. PDSB apparently only has credit courses for mostly GR 11 & 12 (mostly English, Guidance, Social Science, Science when the course is offered with teacher resources).

For amusement - An enlightening article about "relative smartness" <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> see [] part of it reads "... scientists have developed a new way to evaluate the intelligence of extinct (as well as living) animals. The Encephalization Quotient, or EQ, measures the size of a creature's brain with the size of the rest of its body, and compares this ratio against other species of roughly the same size.  Part of what makes us human is the enormous size of our brains compared to our bodies; our EQ is a hefty 5. That may not seem like such a big number, so let's look at the EQs of some other creatures: on this scale, wildebeests weigh in at .68, African elephants at .63, and opossums at .39. As you might expect, monkeys have higher EQs: 1.5 for a red colobus, 2.5 for a capuchin. Dolphins are the only animals on the planet with EQs even close to those of humans; the bottlenose comes in at 3.6. (EQ scales vary considerably; some set human EQ at about 8, with the EQ of other creatures scaled proportionally.)" and more along the same lines 16. The Resource Connection at Child Development Resource Connection Peel Phone: 905-507-9360 Ext. 311 Fax: 905-890-8325 Address: #103 - 75 Watline Avenue Mississauga, ON, L4Z 3E5 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Website: [] Welcome to The Resource Connection! The Resource Connection is a leading edge and innovative service. Our mandate is to support our clients by providing a comprehensive and diverse range of quality services that support the development and well being of children and families in the Region of Peel. The Resource Connection is funded by The Ontario Trillium Foundation, Royal Bank of Canada and ING. Donations of equipment and resources have also been received from individuals, associations, foundations, and agencies. All donations and suggestions are welcome. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Please click the link to see a Virtual Tour of The Resource Connection: []