This page contains links to web pages that may be of interest. If you have
any you would like to suggest, please
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a brief description.
New Hawthorne MMSD updated webpage
The old MMSD link to Hawthorne School
Advocates for Madison Public Schools
The Hawthorne Endowment Campaign
The MMSD School Wellness Policy
Board of Education Regular Meeting Schedule
Schoolinfosystem.org
Grandparents United for Madison Public Schools
The Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools (WAES)
GreatSchools.net: This popular website allows parents to research and compare schools across a
district and a state. It also lets parents post their own reviews of schools their children attend. It won the 2007 Webby award for “Best Family and
Parenting Site.”
SchoolMatters.com: This site is a service of the famous Wall Street research firm Standard and
Poor’s, and it provides state and national government statistics on schools’ reading and math proficiency scores, as well as private research.
SchoolDataDirect.org: The State Education Data Center which created this site is a service of
the Council of Chief State School Officers, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Madison CARES is a grass roots organization dedicated to supporting public K-12
education in our community.
Kalahari Water Park Deals
Children
BottleBiology.org Learn how to explore science and the environment with soda bottles and other recyclable materials. Create Decompostion Columns to Bottle Gardens.
The Big Project
has a great list of kids and parents websites!
Enchanted Learning
has something for everyone from pages to print and color to information on
everything from ants to zebra's
Discovery Education.com homework health in Math, science, English, Social Studies and others...
Yahooligans.com A web guide for kids
Earobics.com Kids games - Game GOO -
learning that sticks from Cognitive Concepts Inc.
Brain POP
Some free learning subjects available
CoolMath.com
An amusement park of math designed for fun
The Learnign Company for KIDS
FREE Online Activities for Kids
Discovery Kids/
From the people that brings you the discovery channel.
Earth Sky
An assortment of kids articles and activities.
National Geographic.com
Wildlife and other cultures
Yahoo Test Twist rearrange letters to see how many works you can make
Book Adventure Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for
children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read,
and earn points and prizes for their literary successes
Science Videos
Top 10 Amazing Chemistry Videos plus ones from Edward Kent
Funbrain
Games and math learning
IknowThat
Several learning fun areas. Requires free macromedia plug-ins
KiddoNet is a TOTAL Internet
environment for children (ages 3-12). KiddoNet's mission is to offer kids an
on-line space with high quality content and web tools that allow them to
create, learn, play and communicate safely.
Kids-Online.net Fun and education things for children
Madison Youth Activities has links for children of different ages.
Madison area Family Friendly Events has links from Selwyn Swe family for fun children activities.
Moms in Madison Welcome to the site for Moms of babies, toddlers & preschoolers!.
Information for Parents from WEAC
National Education Association
Tips for Getting Involved in Your Child's Education from BookRenter.com
Parentstages has information on
lots of things about being a parent. The site is sponsored by Huggies.
childrensmusic.org
assorted streamed children's music
Cookie magazine Cookie is a lifestyle magazine for the modern mother, featuring an editorial mix of fashion, home décor, travel, entertainment and health for her and her family.
Teachers
Smithsonian Education The Smithsonian Institute provides lesson plans, publications, and other instructional resources in the subject areas of Art, Science, History, and Language Arts.
Enchanted Learning
has lots of diagrams, charts, picture dictionary, art and craft ideas and
language conversions. Check out what they have and I'm sure you will find the
donation will worth to get the print friendly pages.
Welcome to PreK-12 at UW-Madison! The Wisconsin Idea, which is a commitment to share the University's
resources with people throughout the state and beyond, inspired the creation of this online directory. You will find here more than 250
UW-Madison resources for PreK-12 educators, parents and students.
School Family Night ideas in creating a fun and easy way to bring families into school for a night of fun.
Things to do
Madison Visitor and Convention center for kids
has a calendar of events of things for children.
Madison Youth Activities
Dane county farmers' markets
Downtown Madison Guide
BounceU The ultimate Party and Play Place. 4009 Felland Rd., Suite 102
Money Matters
Great WI Credit Union
Thrive by 5
Asset Builders of America, Inc. _ Mostly Milwaukee area
Computer Problems
Karl Patzer has a link to where to get mostly free things to clean up your computer.