On-Line Resources for Parents of School Children

Doing Mathematics with your Child Kindergarten to Grade 6. A Parent Guide

Easy activities and two pages of further online resources

http://edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/parentGuideNum2012.pdf

Reading and Writing  with Your Child Kindergarten to Grade 6. A parent Guide

More activities and two pages of further online resources

http://edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/parentGuideLit2012.pdf

The Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board has a section for parents on its web site: http://www.hwdsb.on.ca/parents/  Note especially the Quick Guide.

The Hamilton Public Library also has some resources go to http://www.hpl.ca/kids/parents

abc123 videos for parents

 Helping your child improve his or her reading, writing and math skills  with new video resources, now available in English and French.ontario.ca/abc123 

Tips and Guides

There are also tip sheets and guides for parents who want to help their children improve their skills in reading, writing and math. These tips and guides are available in English and French, as well as:

Arabic Simplified and Traditional Chinese Farsi Hindi Korean Punjabi

Portuguese Spanish Tagalog Tamil Urdu Vietnamese http://www.edu.gov.onca/abc123/eng/podcast/

Newcomer Parents Guides
 Information available in 6  languages  for newcomer parents. There is an elementary and a secondary guide.

The Newcomers' Guide to Elementary Schoolshttp://www.settlement.org/site/ED/GUIDE/home.asp

Tip Sheets

A variety of tip sheets  are available for parents  in English, French, Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Tamil, Filipino, Somali, and Farsi and address common questions about the education system :

Go to  the People for Education website at: www.peopleforeducation.com.

Lots of educational resources for parents on the Learning Partnership web site, including access to latest research. visit http://www.thelearningpartnership.ca/parents