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What Parents Should Know

Safety Tips to Teach Your Children

Guidelines from the American Library Association's website.

A useful list found on the American Library Association's website.

No Child Left Behind

Tracks news articles from every state on the No Child Left Behind Act and monitors how communities are faring under the law.

A clearinghouse of information parents, other caregivers, and teachers...topics range from childcare to youth development.

Teacher's Corner

Tallahassee's Online Visitor's Guide lists local sites for school field trips and learning opportunities.

Kid's Bookshelf

The "goal is to encourage parents and caregivers to help children discover the enjoyment of reading. To encourage creativity and imagination in children through reading, writing, and drawing." Also publishes teachers' and parents' original recipes, book reviews, poems, and short stories written for children; and includes some authors' and illustrators' addresses so kids can write to them.

Promotes creative homeschooling through unique resources, teaching methods and online helps. Articles, resources and product reviews are featured here.

A homeschooling megasite!

This organization concerns itself with the legal aspects of homeschooling.

The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine.

Homeschooling magazines available online and by subscription.

A vast amount of information, selected resources based on clarity and breadth, is contained on this site. Visit it and see what I mean.

"Shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you."

An interactive homeschooling community open to any homeschooler.

Curriculum
Resources

Lesson
Plan Sites

Free
Worksheets

Preschool

• Choosing Child Care - Tips on what to look for in a child care environment for your child from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
• List of NAEYC-Accredited Schools
• List of Child Care Sites in Leon County

Elementary, Middle
and High School

• Leon County Schools web sites.
• List of Private Schools
  
  

Places to go with Children
in Tallahassee

• Family Forum Magazine Online
• Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Science
• Museum of Florida History
• Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science
• Challenger Learning Center
• St. Marks Wildlife Refuge
• Wakulla Springs
• Tallahassee's Online Visitor's Guide
• MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Club of Tallahassee -- A non-profit mother support group.  (850) 668-9671.
  

An ongoing effort to focus attention on the importance of the early years for children's learning and all aspects of development.