Friday+class


 * Online sites for home study:**

The Stacks (ages 8-12) Includes blog posts, games, videos and a message board. The blog includes a category called "writing prompts" to give you simple writing tasks for the comments. Family Playground (ages 3-7) Games and stories based on popular book series (I Spy, Magic School Bus, Clifford, etc.) National Geographic Kids Discovery Kids National Wildlife Foundation Kids (includes a link to story and game apps, too) San Diego Zoo Kids The Exploratorium
 * Online groups for kids**


 * Reading**

Meegenius (free books for listening and reading) Storyline Online (stories read by actors) Tarheel Readers (easy stories on many topics) National Geographic Kids (reading about animals and other topics)

Literactive Starfall Oxford Owl
 * Phonics**

Kids Spell (Select a spelling list and play games to practice the words)
 * Spelling**

Fun Brain (Word Games) Book Report Sandwich Station (how to write a book report) Xtranormal (movie maker) ToonDoo (comic maker)
 * Writing**

English Central (listening and pronunciation with videos) Most Shocking World Cup Moments (12 part documentary--each part is about 10 minutes)
 * Listening**

zui.com (safe site with videos and games) Brain Pop ESL (animated English lessons--click on Free Lessons) Brain Pop (learning about school subjects in English) Brain Pop Jr (same as Brain Pop but for kindergarten through 3rd grade)
 * More**

Ririko's blog Satoshi's blog Pomhi's blog
 * Blogs**