Off Campus Learning Centre
Retirement Celebration!
The Off Campus Learning Centre staff would like to
invite you to a retirement celebration for Judy Harder
Tuesday, June 15th
2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
at Off Campus Learning Centre
2115-20th Avenue, Bowden
Please e-mail wsevertson@chinooksedge.ab.ca if you plan to attend.
New Websites
Online Resources avaialbelf from Scholastic Education in partnership with Alberta Education
Bookflix - Grades K-3
Use this resource to access interactive fiction and non-fiction books organized according to the following themes: Animals an Nature, Earth and Sky, People and Places; ABC's and 1,2,3's, Family and Community, Music and Rhyme, Adventure Celebrations, and Imagination.
Grolier Online Kids - Grades 3-7
Use this database to locate information about animals, countries, people, sports. careers, current events, history, technology, geography, and fiction and non-fiction books in two different resources: Amazing Animals of the World and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. It also includes dictionaries and an atlas.
Access Bookflix and Grolier Online at www.learnalberta.ca
Websites
Teachers around the world use Starfall.com and Starfall high-quality educational products as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for home schooling. Be sure to visit The Starfall Store for low-cost writing journals and books that parallel this website.
http://www.starfall.com
ALBERTA EDUCATION: If you ran your school what would you do? Visit our website to share your ideas and experiences and see what others are saying. You can have a say in your future.
http://www.speakoutalberta.ca
Here is a website with many political cartoons that apply to Grade 7-9 students taking Language Arts and Social Studies. http://www.mapleleafweb.com/political-cartoons
Number Know How: Use this tool to learn about everything from number operations to ratios, fractions, measurement, money, angles and directions.
http://www.gridclub.com/subscribers/games/maths/archipelago/help/index.htm
Stange Matter: Discover the secrets of everyday stuff with a series of interactive exhibits. Just about everything you use every day - the shoes you wear, the dishes you eat from, the CD's you listen to, the bike or skateboard you ride - it's all made of different kids of stuff.
http://www.strangematterexhibit.com/
Mathway: Mathway solved your math problems with step-by-step explanations. Mathway is for students, parents, teachers and covers the following math subjects: Basic math, pre-algebra, algebra, linear algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus.
http://www.mathway.com
Purdue Online Writing Lab: Strategies to help you thoroughly revise you essay, presented in a step-by-step format.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/561/01