Links Due to the nature of the internet, adult supervision is recommended. CUSD and Don Juan Avila Elementary can not be held responsible for information contained on other sites. Parent Links www.capousd.org Provides on going communication with parents from the district throughout the year.  www.capousd.org/djaes Don Juan Avila Elementary School's main website http://www.capousd.org/campus/ Get up to date lunch menus www.NoChildLeftBehind.gov The success of Public schools will be measured by student progress towards those standards in grades 3-8 annually under the No Child Left Behind Act signed by President Bush, creating a strong school accountability system. http://familyfun.go.com/ Provides a ton of fun activities to do with your family. http://www.cde.ca.gov California http://www.ocde.k12.ca.us/ orange county http://www.ed.gov/  US http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=fa&tabindex=3&tabid=68 Find books at your child’s independent reading level http://www.ocpl.org/ Orange county public Libraries http://www.familyeducation.com/home/ A resource for parents to get advice from education experts to assist with their children education. www.ala.org/alsc/nquick.html Newbery Award winning books. http://www.charactercounts.org/acw.htm Throughout the year, we focus on a specific trait and work with the students to define and practice the character traits. Student Links Reading/ Language Arts www.starfall.com Great for primary grades http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/ Magic School Bus http://www.scholastic.com http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/ Make crossword puzzles, word searches and more! http://www.eduplace.com/ http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/ www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/kids.html  A site for kids to participant in reading, by reading and giving book reviews online. It also contains reading and writing activities. http://www.adrianbruce.com/reading/games.htm Phonics reading games http://www.primarygames.com/games.htm more reading games (primary) Math A+ Math http://www.aplusmath.com AAA Math http://www.aaamath.com/ Cool Math http://www.coolmath.com/ Cool Math for Kids http://www.coolmath4kids.com/ National Library of Virtual Manipulatives http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/topic_t_2.html Multiplication.com http://www.multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm Ask Dr. Math http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/drmath.elem.html Science NASA Kids http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html Exploratorium http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Animal Planet http://www.animal.discovery.com/ Marine Ecology http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/nceas-web/kids Earth Science http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsys.html Science Learning Network http://sln.org/ History http://www.whitehouse.gov/holiday/2006/index.html http://www.awesomelibrary.org/social http://worldatlas.com/ http://www.history.com/ States http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/stateknow/ US geography quiz http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/web_games.htm#Games   Web search Ask Jeeves For Kids http://www.ajkids.com/ Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, answers have been vetted for appropriateness. Also, if Ask Jeeves cannot answer a question, it pulls results from various search engines in its metacrawler mode. At Ask Jeeves For Kids, no site that is on the CyberPatrol block list is supposed to be listed. KidsClick! http://www.kidsclick.org/ Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories. Looksmart's Kids Directory http://search.netnanny.com/?pi=nnh3&ch=kids The Kids Directory is a listing of over 20,000 kid friendly websites that were hand picked by employees of Looksmart subsidiary Net Nanny and vetted for quality. Looksmart also offers a safe search of the entire web, using Net Nanny software to filter Wisenut search results, as well as a free toolbar that uses the same service. Yahooligans http://www.yahooligans.com/ Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children. Also, unlike normal Yahoo, searches will not bring back matched found by crawling the web, if there is no match from within the Yahooligan listings. This prevents possibly objectionable sites from slipping onto the screen. Additionally, adult-oriented banner advertising will not appear within the service. Yahooligans is the oldest major directory for children, launched in March 1996. ALA Great Web Site for Kids http://www.ala.org/greatsites An organized directory of sites selected by members of the American Library Association using rigorous evaluation guidelines to assure high quality content, authority and "strength of character." Awesome Library http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ Over 14,000 sites have been classified into a directory, specifically organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching. Diddabdoo http://www.dibdabdoo.com/ Billed as an ad free, non-commercial directory of web sites designed for child-safe searching. Education World http://www.education-world.com/ Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996. Fact Monster http://www.factmonster.com/ Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children. Family Source http://www.family-source.com/ This focused crawler-based service has indexed nearly 1 million kid-friendly URLs. FirstGov for Kids http://www.kids.gov/ From the U.S. Federal Citizen Information Center, this directory provides links to government-related kids' sites along with some of the best kids' sites from other organizations, grouped by subject. Kids Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page. SearchEdu.com http://www.searchedu.com/ Index of pages built by crawling education web sites. Teach-nology.com http://www.teach-nology.com/ Directory of web sites for teachers and educators. TekMom's Search Tools for Students http://www.tekmom.com/search/ All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources. ThinkQuest Library http://www.thinkquest.org/library/ A free educational resource featuring 5,500+ websites created by students around the world as part of a competition. Miscellaneous http://homeworkspot.com/ http://www.4kids.org/ http://dictionary.reference.com/ http://www.britannica.com/ www.funbrain.com A site for kids with academic based games www.school.discovery.com. www.kidinfo.com  A homework helper site for kids and parents to find information. Also, provides tips for parent in getting the most out of their children.

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