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Here is a neat site for engaging students with math at home.

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Bedtime Math – We inspire kids to love math so they embrace and excel at it.

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Tinkercad is an online web resource where student can design in 3D at home.

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Tinkercad | From mind to design in minutes

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Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding.

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Free Ebooks for Early Years Reading. Unite4Literacy provides texts read in a variety of languages.

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Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages. Literacy is at the core of a healthy community, so we unite with partners to enable all families to read with their young children.

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How to make a homemade waterfall for kids! There are also other ideas for creating outdoor play activities at home!

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A homemade water wall is a fantastic addition to a backyard play space! With a few scraps and some recyclables, you can provide hours of learning, entertainment and water play for your toddler or preschooler!

What is a water wall?

A water wall is a structure that holds containers, tubes and funnels, and when the children pour water into a container at the top, it pours, flows and drips through the series of containers below it until it empties out into bin or bucket placed on the ground. Of all the backyard water play activities we've done over the years, our water wall remains one of our very favourites!

I first heard about water walls over at Let the Children Play, and I was so inspired by the creative contraptions there that I decided to make one for my home daycare. It's been an absolute hit with the toddlers and preschoolers here in my daycare, and it's provided countless hours of scooping and pouring fun.

Today I'm showing you how easy it is to make a homemade water wall for your own backyard!

Don't think for a minute that making a water wall is complicated. It might look like it is, but it was a really easy DIY project that came together quite quickly after I figured out what I would use for my actual "wall".

What can you use to make a water wall?

I used two pieces of an old bench which worked out really well as there are two sides for the kids to play at. Mine also folds up and tucks away at the end of the day, which is a bonus. You could also use a board, a wooden fence, a chain link fence, a piece of lattice etc.

How to make a homemade water wall for kids:

I went through the recycling bin and rummaged through our cupboards to find various bottles and containers to use. I also had an old piece of pool-hose which worked really well.

I attached the containers to the wood with a staple gun, by lining things up and pouring water through to make sure the placement was right before I stapled.

If you're using lattice or chain link fence for your wall, you can attach your containers by punching holes in them, and fastening them with zip-ties, heavy duty twist ties or florist's wire.

Reycycle that water!

To keep water consumption down, I place a couple of plastic bins at the bottom of the water wall so the water can be re-used as they play. The kids LOVED it. The first day that I introduced the water wall, the hooligans played at it for over an hour. It was a huge hit!

What are the benefits of a water wall activity for kids?

develops motor skills and strength

develops hand-eye co-ordination

language development

learning about gravity

keeps kids cool and entertained

social development when playing in a group

You can make a sand wall too!

Our water wall was so popular, I used a similar process to make a sand wall for our sandbox!

I had a piece of scrap lattice which I fastened to the sandbox/playhouse with screws, and I attached the containers by poking holes in them, and securing them to the lattice with long twist ties.

Both the water wall and the sand wall were easy to make and they provide hours of entertainment and fun!

Looking for more ways to keep the kids entertained this summer?

Here are 100 fun summer activities that kids can do at home. Print the checklist, and stick it on your fridge, and they'll never be bored again!

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How to build a water wall for kids water play - happy hooligans

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A homemade water wall is a fantastic addition to a backyard play space! With a few scraps and some recyclables, you can provide hours of learning, entertainment and water play for your toddler or preschooler! What is a water wall?

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Educational Skill Building Multi-Player Online Games. A pretty engaging tool for practicing basic skills! Might you engage your children with this learning tool at home?

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Arcademics - Math Games, Language Arts Games, and More

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Fun and free educational games for kids in K-8. Featuring multiplayer learning games, math games, language arts games, and much more!

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Here is a Ministry of Ontario Guide for Parents to support their children @ home in Reading & Writing (K - 6)

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Mathies has a section dedicated to connecting parents with digital resources for supporting their children with mathematics.

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This site is designed for Ontario K-12 students, educators and parents/guardians.

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Funbrain offers math focused number games for younger students to practice their math skills

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Math Zone combines logic and numbers with fun and challenging math games for kids online. With a huge collection of educational maths, visit Funbrain here.

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Sumdog has free interactive games that support math practice @ home for students.

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Sumdog Teacher Portal - teacher engaging for all

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We've made Sumdog to help your students love learning. By engaging them, we aim to help them grow in confidence, and encourage them to practise.

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Aplus Math - this site includes math interactives, free math games, math worksheets and math flash cards to support math practice at home.

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Cool Math has a variety of math focused games and activities. In addition to the activities, this site shares and math dictionary and resources directly for parents.

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Cool Math - free online cool math lessons, cool math games & apps, fun math activities, pre-algebra, algebra, precalculus

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Cool Math has free online cool math lessons, cool math games and fun math activities. Really clear math lessons (pre-algebra, algebra, precalculus), cool math games, online graphing calculators, geometry art, fractals, polyhedra, parents and teachers areas too.

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AAAMath has explanations of various maths broken down by grade and math subject!

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AAA Math features a comprehensive set of thousands of interactive arithmetic lessons.

There is no cost or registration required to practice your math on the AAAMath.com web site.

Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts.

A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.

Immediate feedback prevents practicing and learning incorrect methods, which is a common result of traditional homework and worksheets. Practice can continue as long as desired in a non-threatening format which helps build self-esteem and confidence.

Please feel free to try the lessons by clicking on one of the grades at the top or a topic area on the left side of the page.

Remember to add the site to your Favorite Places and please tell others about the site. It is an excellent way to learn or review math.

Note: Due to heavy traffic a page may not load properly. The same content is available at: AAAKnow.com, AAAStudy.com, 321Know.com and AAAMath.com

© Copyright 2011 J. Banfill. All Rights Reserved.Legal Notice

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AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts.

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The Khan Academy is a popular web resource for supporting children with the curriculum learning at home.

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This site has many free math interactives and activities that parents can work together with their children to solidify their understandings in mathematics!

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Challenge your children with these Fun Math Challenges @ Home

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives has a variety of math interactives and activities that can help children to practice the classroom mathematical learning at home. These are resources that you can work through together with your children.

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National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

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A digital library containing Java applets and activities for K-12 mathematics

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Here is a direct link to the TVOkids Homework Zone for Math

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Link to Learning provides access to a variety of resource across the curriculum areas that your children are learning in school. There are excellent opportunities for extra practice at home through exploration. Materials are sorted by grade and curriculum area.

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Linking you to w eb sites supporting the Ontario curriculum.

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Here is the TDSB pages with a variety of links that can support you as you support your children in both MATH & Literacy

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Math is a critical life skill that helps us to understand the world around us. It teaches you to think and reason logically, to analyze and interpret data critically and to clearly communicate your thinking. From performing everyday transactions to solving problems in the workplace, the valuable knowledge you gain prepares you for life beyond high school.

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Jump Math provides free samples of resources used to support independent practice for students in mathematics.

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Free Samples of School Resources | JUMP Math

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JUMP Math Assessment & Practice (AP) books are meant to be used in conjunction with our extensive Teacher Resources so students can practice and explore subtle variations on the lessons, and teachers can rapidly assess progress.

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TVO Parents - "Parents Toolkit" - including the "Homework Zone" andHow to Videos in your own language! Videos are on topics related to supporting students at home.

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You might use this as early prep or if your kids have older siblings. This is a Homework Help for grades 7 - 10 math. There are online tutors available at this site

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Here is a Ministry of Ontario Guide for Parents to support their children @ home in Mathematics (K - 6)

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This site has terrific resources supporting English Language Learners. This site includes a variety of resources including eBooks for students and Financial Literacy resources for parents.

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Welcome to ERGO

ERGO is the ESL/ELD Subject association for elementary and secondary teachers in Ontario. We are an organization of ESL/ELD coordinators, instructional leaders, consultants and representatives designated by boards of education, colleges and universities across Ontario. As a collective of educational leaders we are dedicated to improving educational opportunities and teaching practices for multilingual learners.

Ontario teachers can use the ERGO site to access:

Ministry of Ontario documents related to ESL/ELD policies and programs.

Resources that support teaching English language learners.

Links to professional learning resources.

Videos of international ESL/ELD educators and researchers that have presented at ERGO meetings.

Articles and blogs from ESL/ELD educators across Ontario.

Are you an ESL/ELD coordinator, instructional leader, consultant or board designate? Apply here for membership.

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observable language literacy behaviours continuum. ollb

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ERGO is the ESL/ELD Subject association for elementary and secondary teachers in Ontario. We are an organization of ESL/ELD coordinators, instructional leaders, consultants and representatives designated by boards of education, colleges and universities across Ontario. As a collective of educational leaders we are dedicated to improving educational opportunities and teaching practices for multilingual learners.

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What is Inquiry Based Learning? Here is a page that can provide you with a description or what it is. This page also has details on what parents can do at home to support inquiry based learning

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Jobs People Do - Canadian Link to Education and Career Pathway information to support your children in exploring opportunities and planning for the future.

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Your Best Link to Education and Career Information

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Here are some STEM activities that you can do at home with your children.

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Here is a link to Lego Chrome Build Academy where students can take part in Lego Engineering Challenges online at home!

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Now you can build with LEGO® bricks using Google Maps as your baseplate. Imagine. Explore. Build online in Chrome.