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Absolutely Whootie is a collection of stories and tales from around the world.The stories teach a value to the children. A great place to print out a story and ask some comprehension questions to ensure careful reading. Aesop's Fables on line is a great place to electronically read these stories. Baby-Sitters' Club Page What's happening at the Baby-Sitters' Club? Visit this site to learn about the characters and their adventures. Judy Blume's Home Page gives the reader a description of all of Judy Blume's books, an interesting biographical sketch with great pictures, and ideas of great books to come. Booklist from the ALA gives a review of books for youth and children. BookSpot is a wonderful site full of online books!! This is a wonderful site. Candlelight Stories is a terrific site that has stories, vocabulary games, and great kids' games. The Children's Literature Web Guide is a very comprehensive compilation of children literature. The site lists top award-winning books with links to stories on the web, discussion rooms, and resources for parents, teachers, writers, storytellers, and even more. Brian Cleary's Homepage has excerpts from his books and a great teacher's link for word-building lesson plans. Eduplace is the site from Houghton Mifflin that provides great ideas for children. ESL Quiz Center gives you practice on grammar, history, writing skills, and much more. Just answer the questions and submit your responses for immediate grading on-line. Giggle Poetry is such a great site for very cute poetry. Grammar 101 is an online grammar course for students from middle school through high school.. Haiku Garden provides haiku examples of all sorts. Interactive English Language Exercises gives the students six sets of exercises in language skills. The exercises are critically graded and give reasons for the grades. This is great site! The Internet Public Library is a fantastic site with links to reference sections, newspapers, magazines, and online texts. The Youth Division of the Internet Public Library has enough links to keep children and adults busy for hours at a time. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Page is a great place to spend hours learning about life in the frontier. This is a great spot for lovers of this author's work. The page shows photos of the setting for each book along with detailed information about the location. It even gives ideas for writing papers on her life and books. Just for Kids Who Love Books can take you to your favorite authors like Lynne Reid Banks, Marc Brown, Matt Christopher, Beverly Cleary, and many more. There is even a link to show how books are made. This is the most comprehensive listing of authors we have found. Just click and see for yourself! Kids @ Random House is loaded with links for children of all ages. The links will take you to The Magic Tree House books by Mary Pope Osborne, Dr. Seuss books, Random House's editors' favorites, and even links to explain why parents should read to their children. Literature and Language section of the well-known 700+ Great Sites offers choices from Winnie the Pooh to Shakespeare. You could spend weeks on this page's links. Merriam Webster has great games to expand your vocabulary. Planet Zoom has some great online stories to read. Scholastic Online for Kids provides great fun online! SelfStudy Quizzes will provide all types of helpful language exercises. T. A. Barron's site has great information on this author and "The Wings of Merlin". Teefer is an online chapter book. Tell Me a Story has several great online books to enjoy. Vocabulary Word Studies or Vocabulary.com has some off and online exercises. Welcome to Dr. Seussville where The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace. You can play games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes, find out about new Dr. Seuss books and CD-ROMs, and much, much more! What are you waiting for? Let's play! Writing Den is a terrific page to help with reading for comprehension as well as writing. There are many topics from which to choose....nature, history, science and more. Quiz yourself to see how well you comprehend what was read. Writer's Workshop is a wonderful site to help you improve your writing skills. Check it out. A+ Math is created with kids in mind. This colorful, interactive math site is educational as well as fun. Included on this site are flash cards, games, and a homework helper. Adventures of a Penny is a cute story that gives the life of a penny and links to other money stories. BasketMath Interactive Learning is a great site to increase your math knowledge through games. Cool Math has been designed for those who enjoy math. This site has a lot of cool stuff with links to other great math sites. Flash Cards for Kids lets you practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You can keep up with your score as you submit your answers. Fraction Frenzy is a great game that strengthens your math skills in the fraction area. Fun Brain. Com is an interactive site that lets you work on math and many more skills in a game format. You can work on baseball math, a change maker game, concentration games, spelling challenges, and even a wacky tales section. This is a GREAT place to learn. Math Web is a "math problem solver" that allows you to pick the format of the problem and then see how the math web solves it for you. The topics range from quadratic equation problems down to the everyday problem of figuring out a tip in a restaurant. Math Word Problems for Children gives hundreds of word problems to solve. A tremendous place to practice that important skill. Megamath is an incredible site for learning math operations and patterns and tricks to help with that learning. You need the updated version of Shockwave and then you will be ready to go. Quia! is a collection of games that provide a fun way to help students review a wide variety of topics in general subject areas of math, science, foreign languages, economics and music. Visitors can create their own java-enabled flashcard drills, matching names, concentration, and word search puzzles using a simple (and free!) editing tool. Word Problems is a great site for 5th graders and higher to practice word problems. The Challenge Zone This site gives students a choice of junior (elementary) or senior (middle school and high school) challenges. Dr. Universe is a treasure chest of questions and answers. Come in and learn about everything and anything. Entomology for Beginners If you like bugs, this is the spot for you. There are links to other sites that go to a higher level. The Great Plant Escape - a great site to learn about plants How Stuff Works is a site that will explain how almost every electronic gadget works. There are explanations for car engines to microwaves and everything in between. How the Human Body Works is a great site for learning the body systems. The Innerbody offers descriptions of all the systems of the body with animations to help in the understanding of how they work. Great spot for learning the body systems for science classes. Kids Food allows the students to take health quizzes, put health facts to work, and put together their own menus. The site even offers suggestions for recipes easy enough for children to make. The Learning Technologies Channel has so much the offer in addition to the historic flight on October 29. Look at all the information that will keep you up to date on the space shuttle flight and more. Let's Get Growing gives tips for watching seed grow to plants. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences provides great kids' fun links for online fun as well as printable color sheets. The Nine Planets is a definitive quick resource for information about our solar system. Ontario Science Center has some great sites to help children learn about the challenges of science. Learning about Photosynthesis is a great source of links for information on photosynthesis.. Planet Know has all the information you should need to make better choices about drugs and their harmful effects on your mind and body. You can view commercials aimed at children and teens who need to make the right choices. Sea World Plan your trip through the wonders of the underwater habitats. There are many rich resources here to answer any questions you have about sea life. Stay up-to-date with the 50 States is more than just capitals and states. Each state is linked to facts about that state and has great informational links about each state. HyperHistory Online makes history as clear as it gets. There are over 3,000 years of world history with synchronistic charts that allow you to see what was happening throughout the world at any given time in history. KidLink Network provides interactive projects used to connect your curriculum units of study to the world. These projects can also be used for specific content objectives. Enjoy your visit, then decide if your class would like to join one of the global projects. Scholastic is a place for kids to go and have safe links to lots of places for education and fun. Time for Kids is the electronic version of the magazine for children. Learn about the world you live in. United States e-Bug Adventure has some great Social Studies fun games. United States / States and Capitals Game is a site from Scott Foresman to help extend the knowledge of the states and their capitals. White House for Kids is a tour of the White House for children. It is a great site!!
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