A Great Website!

Thanks to Mrs. Wessels, I have been introduced to a new favourite website: Eco Kids.

There is a kids area and a teachers area when you first arrive at the website. As a homeschooling parent, you can register as a "teacher" and get access to all of the neat resources available. You just need to provide an email address to use as your log in.

One of the resources that I am enjoying with my kids is the calendars. Each month has a different Eco theme, and each day has a little fact, riddle or activity related to the theme.

For example:
January - Winter Wonderlands (meets kindergarten and grade 1 learning outcomes)
February - Global Village
March - Water (meets grade 2 learning outcomes)
April - Earth Day (meets kindergarten, grades 1, 2 and 3 learning outcomes)
May - 3 R's - Recycling, Reusing, Reducing (meets kindergarten, grades 1, 2 and 3 learning outcomes)
June - Looking At What We Eat (meets grade 3 learning outcomes)

The calendars are easy to print off, hang on the fridge, and use as a new way of learning about environmental ideas.

There are also book lists available that work nicely with the environmental learning outcomes for grades 1, 2 and 3. They even have the books listed by grade level!

There is much more available on the site, so take a moment to look around at Eco Kids.