Westwood Elementary School

Avery Dennison Gives Back to Schools 
Avery Dennison is giving school supplies to the top ten schools with the most votes.  You can vote once each day until August 31.  Invite family and friends to vote.  You can also vote via your Facebook account.

Backpack Program
This page gives information about the Backpack Program run by our Family Resource and funded by local donations from the community. Its goal is to provide students in an economically disadvantaged household food during times they can't receive it at school, (like weekends and holidays). It has been very successful in our community, thanks to the hard work and donations.

Family.com
This is a parent resource page from Disney. It is well-organized and packed with ideas, articles, recipes, resources for parents of infants to teenagers. It includes places to visit, computing information and sounding boards for parent dialogue.

Parent News
An attractive page that has many choices for parents: homework, movie reviews (very thorough and objective), health news, book reviews, other parent web sites, tip of the week, latest news for parents. Each has an archive to past pages. This page is maintained weekly by a psychologist and is sponsored by SOLA, an optical lense company.

Partnership for Family Involvement in Education
This site comes from the US Department of Education and has as it's mission "to promote children's learning through the development of partnerships with families, schools, and the community." The PFIE has thousands of members (listed in the partner link) and resources for helping partnerships to develop within a school community.

ParenthoodWeb
If you want the latest in facts and figures or what parents are saying in surveys, try this link. The home page lists many diverse article titles to link to such as "How to get baby to sleep through the night" or "The Super Sitter- safety guidelines." This page addresses more concerns for parents with young children and for those who are pregnant. It includes a site "Ask the Pros" where you can email a question to their panel of professionals.

Resource Center
Web pages that are structured like a ready reference manual can be very useful. This one calls itself the Family Resource Center. Some places to connect with are: Dictionaries, Math, Medical, History, Geography, Weather, and What's Cookin'. Could come in handy for fast information.

Parents Handbook: Math Games
EduPlace is an educational publishers website that has many helpful suggestions for teachers, but this one is great for parents who want quick, fun, and beneficial math activities that can be done at home.

Family Education Network
The designers of this site describe it as "an online community center for parents with children up to age 18...we provide a combination of news, resources, information exchange, legislative tracking, exciting projects, health resources, and various other on- and off-line activities related to education." This is a very thorough site with a large variety of choices and it's updated daily.

The U.S. Department of Education has many parent help sites available. There are two series of sites: Learning Partners and Helping Your Child Learn. Each includes research information, additional resources, and activities to do with your children. Here are three:

• Learning Partners - Being Responsible
• Learning Partners - Getting Ready for School
• Helping Your Child Learn Math

PBS Online

Learn Spanish Online -- http://freespanish.frenchspanishonline.com
Learn French Online -- http://freefrench.frenchspanishonline.com

National
Title One Distinguished School