The following sites are for parents and children to enjoy together.  They offer parents an opportunity to explore the Internet with their children in a safe environment.  Many of the sites have an educational focus, giving parents the chance to become involved in their child's learning as they guide their online activities.  Parents often are concerned about the risks of allowing children to explore the Web.  There is no better way to provide online guidance than for parents  to enjoy family oriented sites along with their children.

Tumblebooks

http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/auto_login.asp?U=annarbor&P=libra

An interactive program for kids with a long list of books read to children online.  There is also a button for having books read in Spanish and French.

PBS For Kids

http://www.pbskids.org

PBS Kids offers links to many sites for children.  PBS is known for its high quality educational programming, and this site maintains the same standard.

Starfall

http://www.starfall.com

This site has many learning activities for young children, all relating to early literacy and beginning readers.

Reading Is Fundamental

http://rif.org

Reading Is Fundamental has provided hundreds of new books to our students  for more than five years. This site describes the goals of RIF, and also provides literacy activities for families.  Activity pages are in Spanish as well as English.

Enchanted Learning

http://enchantedlearning.com

This site offers learning activities in several languages.

Poisson Rouge

www.poissonrouge.com

A very colorful and fun site for preschool concepts, available in either English or French.  The musical games are especially engaging.

Bees and Honey, mouse skills games

http://www.tvokids.com/play/bees/bee2blueback.swf

Simple game for teaching mouse skills on the computer

ABCYa

http://www.abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htm

Simple interactive games to teach mouse skills and other concepts.

Brain POP

http://www.brainpop.com/

Highly interactive games for grades k-5 primarily.

TED Ed.

http://education.ted.com/content.php

This is a new site from the highly popular intellectual exploration site, TED, geared towards educators and students.