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DLTK-kids.com
If you do a search for kids’ craft ideas on just about any subject, there’s a really good chance that you will find one of the top results to be DLTK-kids.com.
Science Rendez-Vous
Every year, on a Saturday in early May, don’t miss out on participating in Science Rendez-Vous – an annual one day, free science festival where people can come play and learn in fun and unique ways. Started in 2008 in the GTA, this educational festival now has spread all across Ontario, and now is spreading across Canada. […]
Canadian Prime Ministers
Since Confederation, there have been 23 Canadian Prime Ministers. It can be hard to find resources to teach your children about the leaders of our country, so the goal of this post is to compile some quality tools to help. {IMG} Canadian Prime Ministers Reference Books: Our Great Prime Ministers from DK Books is for […]
An Old-Fashioned Education
If you are looking for classic literature and living books, you can find a list of available online versions of public domain books at An Old Fashioned Education. Best news is – they are FREE! The website has a huge and varied list of topics, subjects, and interests.
Emergency Preparedness
There’s a lot of great emergency preparedness material available from many different Canadian resources – such as the government and the Canadian Red Cross.
Teaching about Disasters
After a horrifying few days watching Japan struggle with the aftermath of their huge earthquake and resulting tsunami, dangers of a nuclear power plant, and so much more… I’ve been left wondering how exactly this can be a learning moment for our kids. I don’t want them to be scared, but we have watched bits and […]
Storyline Online
Not Canadian, but still a great resource. Thanks to the Screen Actors’ Guild, StoryLine Online features well known actors like Betty White, James Earl Jones, Sean Austin and Amanda Bynes, reading kids’ stories. You get to watch the illustrations come to life as the story is read and enjoy a great storytime!
Benefits of Homeschooling
On our Facebook page this week, a woman who is considering homeschooling her son asked this question: “Just wondering what benefits people have found to home schooling??” I’m sure that the answers for this question would be wide and varied, intensely personal and dependent on the situation. This is one of the questions that homeschooling […]
NaNoWriMo
Sorry for another non-Canadian resource this week, but this one starts soon and is very exciting! National Novel Writing Month (aka NaNoWriMo) starts on Nov.1! There are 2 main streams for this great idea – one for adults which challenges it’s participants to write a 50,000 word novel from scratch within the 30 day deadline, […]
Basic Cozy Spelling Course
If you’ve been looking for a way to develop the spelling skills of your child in the Grade 6 to 8 range, let me introduce you to the Basic Cozy Spelling course. This course is completely free – which already makes it a valuable resource, but is also Canadian – which means our children learn […]
Society for Quality Education
One of the recommendations I received was for The Society for Quality Education. Mark referred to this site as being one of his “cherish Canadian resources”. This organization was founded by a collection of teachers and parents, etc – who had children in public school that had challenges ranging from reading issues to bullying. They […]
Read Up On It
June 2013: This publication is no longer available, however the website has been archived and can still be referenced. The Department of Library and Archives Canada offers an annual publication called “Read Up On It“. Their website describes it as ” a publication that promotes Canadian children’s literature and reading. It highlights notable books on […]