Useful Links

Students use many of these links at school but they are equally available for use at home. We encourage you to browse through them. They are arranged by topic.

Reading

Starfall.com
Where Children have fun learning to read! Our books and games offer beginning readers the opportunity to explore and interact with words and the sounds that make up those words. This site contains both read along (audio) and read alone stories.
BAB Books Online
BAB Books On-Line is a portal to online stories and resources for kids. You will find visually oriented material, including books, short stories, artwork, and educational games brought to you by great writers, illustrator, teachers, and developers from around the world.
Children's Books Online
Illustrated children's stories for kids of all ages. Some animated storybooks and audio books. This site has offerings for young children to young adult.
Kidsreads.com
Kidsreads is the best place on the web for kids to find info about their favorite books, series and authors. Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors and special features on great books are our specialties. And for even more reading fun we have trivia games, word scrambles and awesome contests!
Teenreads.com
We have created what we think is the Ultimate Teen Reading List --- 250 titles that we think are perfect choices for reading and discussing.
KidsKonnect.com
...a safe Internet gateway for kids...created and maintained by educators...

Math

Math Fact Cafe
Math Fact Cafe is focused on providing the necessary tools needed to create, view, and print mathematical fact sheets as well as flashcards for the elementary grades. This site has both online and printed options.
Math Playground
Math Playground is an action packed site for students in grades K to 6.
Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun!
Honor Point
Multiplication Madness! Review, Study, Drill and Test multiplication tables 0-12. See how you compare to students around the world on your Report Card. Stepney's school code is 36.
Create a Graph!
Sometimes, complicated information is difficult to understand and needs an illustration. Graphs or charts can help impress people by getting your point across quickly and visually. This site is dedicated to creating graphs.
Full List of Math Links
AAA Math
Hundreds of pages of basic skills with explanations and interactive practice on every page. Puzzles and games as well.
Cool Math
Bored with math? Confused by math? Hate math? Yeah, Coolmath can fix that.
A+ Math
This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Visit the game room. Test your math skills with our Flashcards. Try out the Math Word Find puzzle. Create and print your own set of flashcards or worksheets to practice offline.
Fun Brain
A fun place to play. FunBrain contains both math and reading. It has many levels of math games. Check out MathCar Racing.
Fun School
Their mission is to make learning fun. The site offers more than 800 interactive games and activities for preschool through 6th grade that are fun, easy-to-use, educational activities.
Math Cats
An interactive Web site that provides math explorations, trivia, and classroom activities for all ages. It promotes open-ended and playful explorations of important math concepts.
Count On
Math games, links and resources from the University of York.
Cool Math for Kids
An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for kids and FUN, FUN, FUN!
Math Drills.com
Math-Drills.Com includes over 6000 free math worksheets with answer keys.
Math Drill
Work interactively from your home on Math problems organized into 86 levels (and increasing ) of addition, subtraction, ordering, multiplication and division, dealing with numbers and fractions, decimals, percent, algebra, geometry, time, in direct as well as more analytic word problem format.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster and its Homework Center have received national recognition for their unbeatable reference materials, fun facts and features, and individualized homework help.
Mrs. Glosser�s Math Goodies
Math Goodies is a free math help site featuring interactive lessons, puzzles and worksheets. There are more than 400 pages of activities for students, educators and parents.
Gamequarium
Gamequarium provides an easy to navigate portal to the world of online learning. Children enjoy the Multiflyer under the multiplication section.
Max�s Math Adventures
Max's Math Adventures is a math and language arts game created specifically for students in grades K-2. Each adventure focuses on one math skill integral to the K-2 math curriculum.
Math Mastery- CyberChallenge
MathMastery.com is a leading website dedicated to helping students, teachers and parents learn, practice, and understand essential math skills.
CyberChase
The Emmy Award-winning series CYBERCHASE teaches kids aged 8-12 math concepts in a fun way they can understand.

Resources for Parents

Internet for Classrooms - This page provides a multitude of links to grade level math sites and skill builder sites.
Helping Your Child Learn Math - An archived list of activities to include math fun every day. Categories include, Math at Home, Math at the Grocery Store, Math on the Go and Math for the Fun of It.
Reading.org
International Reading Association (links to parent websites)
http://users.oasisol.com/daireme/book.htm
Information about leveled books
Trealease-on-reading.com
Jim Trelease's website on importance of reading aloud to children
LazyReaders.com
This is where you go when you want to read quality books that don't take years to finish. Our mission is to increase interest in reading by providing cool, short book recommendations for all ages. From interest comes devotion.
Leveled Book List
This site was developed to help parents find books at their child's reading level.

Social Studies/Current Events

Time for Kids
This is Time Magazine's, Kids version. Current events, issues and entertainment.
Weekly Reader
The best known of Weekly Reader's publications is probably Weekly Reader, a newspaper for children in the elementary grades. Today Weekly Reader is the leading classroom periodical publisher, coming in seven grade-specific editions, and serving more than 7 million schoolchildren in 50,000 schools.

Science

National Geographic Kids!
News, games activities, homework help and links to NG Kids magazine, NG Explorer Classroom magazine, and more.
Recycle City
Welcome to Recycle City! There's lots to do here - people and places to visit and plenty of ways to explore how the city's residents recycle, reduce, and reuse waste.
FossWeb
This site has games and other fun activities that correlate to the elementary science curriculum.
Secret Worlds
View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree. Move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons.
Ask A Scientist
This is a great information service for K-12 teachers and their students. You can e-mail a question or find your answer in their vast archives.
Science News for Kids
A terrific site offering experiments, puzzles and news articles for kids.
Kids World
Science and Math around the world. This site offers a variety of links to other scientific information, fun and games sites.
Discovery Kids
Has put together a whole site about adventure and the adventures we think you should try. Ever wanted to climb a climbing wall? Ride a camel? Learn to take your own pictures? Well, here is the place to learn how.
Discovery School
Browse through our archive of amazing science facts! New Study Starters are featured weekly, so check back often.
Yahooligans
Yahooligans! is a browsable, searchable directory of Internet sites for kids. There are also a number of fun features, including Yahooligans! Games, Sports and News pages, Movies, Animals, Science and Dinosaurs, a Reference section and lots more.
NASA's Kid's Science News Network
Elementary newsbreaks and activities in the various areas of science.
Smithsonian for Kids
The Smithsonian Institute�s online site for kids

All disciplines

I Know That!
The activities at iKnowThat.com encourage exploration and learning about many topics, the arts, language arts, math, science and social science.
Enchanted Learning
This is a subscription site but much of it's information, activities and ideas are available free of charge.
KidsKonnect.com
...a safe Internet gateway for kids...created and maintained by educators...
Yahooligans
Yahooligans! is a browsable, searchable directory of Internet sites for kids. There are also a number of fun features.

Computer Skills

Mouse Skills
If you are new to using a mouse, it may take a little practice to get the hang of it. Here are some simple exercises to help you get acquainted.
Typing Skills
BBC Dance Mat Typing, is an introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years.

Kid Friendly Search Engines

Ask Jeeves for Kids
Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer.
Kids Click!
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.
Yahooligans!
The Web guide for kids.