Educational Websites for Parents and Kids

Here are some suggested websites that offer activities that you and your child can share together.

Website Name Description Website Address

Sesame Street

This website not only offers games, videos and your favourite Sesame Street characters, but also a parent link with tool kits, recipes, printables and craft ideas for your child and you.

www.sesamestreet.org

CBC Kids

CBC kids offers free videos and game for preschoolers based on their favourite CBC friends.

www.cbc.ca/kids

TVO Kids

TVO Kids offers educational games, videos, activities and a book club for children ages 2-5. This site also offers a parent link which provides a wide range of information about your child’s health and development, school and learning, social and emotional development as well as activities based on the Ontario school curriculum.

www.tvokids.com

Bob the Builder and Friends

Chances are your child’s favourite television characters have websites that offer educational games and activities for your child. The Bob the Builder website not only offers simply navigated games, activities, videos and projects but the site also links to some of your child’s other favourite television character sites including Thomas the Tank Engine, Barney the Friendly Dinosaur, Angelina Ballerina and Pingu in both English and French.

www.bobthebuilder.com

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Kids CBC Wonder World

This website is an excellent resource that provides opportunities for your child to develop skills in literacy, math, science and the arts through a ‘wonder-world’ The website also provides feedback for parents as progress reports are available to mark your child’s achievements. Although the site works to help prepare your child for school, there is monthly fee for full use of the site, however, there is a free 15 day trial.

www.kidscbcwonderworld.ca

IXL

This website allows your preschooler to practice recognizing shapes, counting, comparing, classifying and identifying the position of objects with just one click! IXL also provides lists of skills and also rank and score your child’s answers.

www.IXL.com

Funschool

Funschool by Kaboose is a n interactive website for you and your preschooler. There are educational games and activities to fit various skill levels, craft ideas, printable colouring pages as well activities that the family can do together.

www.funschool.com

The Best Applications for Kids

If you own an Iphone, Ipad or Android phone, then you might know about ‘apps’ or applications. This website provides you with suggestions for both free and paid educational ‘apps’ to download for preschoolers that have been tested and reviewed by parents like you.

www.bestkidsapps.com

Website Name Description Website Address

Best Start

This is a resource and support center for newborn and early childhood development.

http://www.beststart.org/

Nipissing District Developmental Screen

This site allows you to order a developmental screening tool for infants and children up to age 6 that can be completed by parents or a health care provider. This screening tool helps you identify possible delays in your child’s development.

www.Ndds.ca

One Kids Place

Visit the One Kids Place website for links, activities and games that you and your child can do together in both English and French.

www.onekidsplace.ca

Educational Websites for Parents and Kids

Here are some suggested websites that offer activities in French that you and your child can share together.

Website Name Description Website Address

Mini TFO

This site offers contests, videos colouring, puzzles, memory and

many other educational games for your preschooler, all in French.

http://www1.tfo.org/mini/

La Zone Jeunesse

This website offers games videos and activities for your child in French that practice colours,

memory, same and different and so much more!

www.radio-canada.ca/jeunesse/petits

Le Petit Velo Rouge

Games, stories, word associations

and videos in French can be found on this website perfect for

you and your child to share together.

http://petitvelorouge.free.fr/Nouveau/home.html

Cailloiu

This website offers fun games and

activities including colouring, singing, spelling, connects the dots, painting and more all in

French!

http://pbskids.org/caillou_french/index.html

École A Le Campagne

This website helps you to make rhymes and identify words that rhyme based on various French

sounds.

http://ecolealacampagne.blogspot.com/

Website Name Description Website Address

Literacy Center

This website offers preschool activities for

English and French speaking children with activities such practicing numbers,

colours, spelling, shapes and more.

http://www.literacycenter.net/

Poni

This website offers games, printouts for children and parent resources in French.

http://poni.ca/Jeux.html

Tout Petits

This website has a selection of games in

French.

http://toutpetits.telequebec.tv/

Bibliotèque public d’Ottawa

This is the Ottawa Public Library website which as a fantastic garden of reading in

both English and French for young children which practice letters, colours,

numbers and problem solving.

http://kids.biblioottawalibrary.ca/