LITERACY

Parents | Reading With Your Child, developed by the Seattle School District to provide information to parents about reading with their kids.

Reading Planet is a web site created by Reading is Fundamental, Inc. It features an annotated list of 1,000 children's books that can be browsed by age group, author or category. Students can post reviews of their favorite books or read reviews by others.

Kid Pub is a web site with collections of stories written by and for kids. Read stories published by kids or publish your own.

The Giggle Poetry website is a great place to read poetry, write poetry to publish online, critique poems written by others.

The Starfall website has free on-line stories that target specific reading skills.

Science

Ask a Scientist answers more than 7,000 science questions. Search the site by topic.

Mathematics For kids and Parents

Parents | Everyday Mathematics Online - This is the site where families will be able to enter their child's name and password and get access to the online tools (games, student reference book, and family letters).

Parents | Everyday Mathematics Parent Handbook - provides information about Everyday Math such as the vocabulary, games taught to the students, frequently asked questions, etc.

Parents | Everyday Math Units: Family Letters - on-line access to the parent letters that are sent home at the beginning of each Everyday Math unit. They are particularly useful in acquiring the background necessary to assist with homework.

Parents | Helping Your Child Learn Mathematics - A useful guide for parents with tips and suggestions for helping your child understand and appreciate mathematics.

Parents | Mathematics in Today's World - Information about mathematics for parents and families.

Kids | Illuminations (the Fractions Track game is a fun way to learn to compare and combine fractions.)

Kids | NCES Kids Zone

Kids | Cool Math

Kids | Learning Planet

Kids | Virtual Manipulatives (JAVA required) - A great website that provides children with electronic versions of the manipulatives they use in class to help develop conceptual understandings of mathematics.

Kids | Math Facts - This website allows children to practice math facts by customizing problems to their skill level.

Everyday Mathematics Center is an NSF-funded center established to support educators, parents and students who are using, or will soon be using, Everyday Mathematics.

The Math Forum is a full of math resources, problems of the week, and links to other math related sites.

Arts

School Tours from the National Gallery of Art features 38 paintings and sculptures. Each work is accompanied by an explanation of its significance and is presented with other works related to a theme - animals, weather, mythology, etc.

The National Gallery of Art offers activities and projects for children.

The Louvre web museum.

Learning Games

Fun Brain has lots of games to practice reading and mathematics skills.

Reference

Maps4kids.com mission is to help children gain a greater understanding of the world through maps, geographic information and geography games. NEW for 2007-2008! We continue to add content like Seven Wonders and this, along with many other pages, is now GoogleMaps enabled to add another dimension to Maps4Kids. Maps4Kids.com has maps and data on all of the 50 states, as well as for over 200 countries around the world. There are map puzzles and links to quizzes to help kids learn where states and countries are, and what their capitals are. Don't miss our GeoNews page, which is updated daily with interesting geographic news from around the globe.

Online dictionary - To use the dictionary, simply type a word in the blue search box that appears at the top of every page and then click the 'Search' button. This will perform a search for the word in the several dictionaries hosted on our site (see below). If you don't know how to spell the word, just guess. You will get a list of suggestions if you are wrong.

On Word Central Students can look up words in the student dictionary, build their own dictionaries, or find our the "daily buzzword".

The Biographical Dictionary is an online resource for information about 28,000 notable men and women.