Magazines and Newspapers

National Geographic Kids—A supplement Web site to the National Geographic Kids magazine

Time Magazine for Kids—Students discover the world with the online Time for Kids magazine.

Student Resources

Brain Pop and Brain Pop Jr.

MobyMax

Reference Tools

Fact Monster—An Information Please site offering information in the areas of sports, math, science, the world, states, people, and other interesting areas like homework help and movie information.

Little Explorers Picture Dictionary—An online picture dictionary for younger students

Merriam-Webster—Online dictionary, dictionary for kids, and Britannica encyclopedia

Virtual Library

Awesome Library—This site organizes the Web with reviewed resources in subjects across the curriculum. The site also provides links to authors, homework help, and games.

Louisville Free Public Library—Offers access to the automated card catalog, databases, and other research tools helpful to students

Search Engines

KidsCLick—Web search for students by librarians

Reading Sites

Accelerated Reader

Book Adventure—A free reading motivation program. Create your own book lists, take quizzes on the books you read, and earn points to obtain prizes for your success.

Kids Reads Reviews—Reviews of the newest titles, interviews with the coolest authors, and special features, including trivia games, word scrambles, and awesome contests

Tumble Books

Character Sites

Arthur Arthur—The aardvark homepage

Berenstain Bears—Official Berenstain Bears homepage

Magic School Bus—If you like Ms. Fizzle's adventures, you will like this site.

Author Web Sites

Jan Brett—Homepage of Jan Brett

Eric Carle—Official Eric Carle Web site

Kevin Henkes—Homepage of Kevin Henkes

Lemony Snickett—Official Web site of the Series of Unfortunate Events

Little Critter and Mercer Mayer—Littler Critter and Mercer Mayer Web site

Patricia Polacco—Official Web site of Patricia Polacco

Robert Munsch—Homepage of Robert Munsch

Tomie de Paola—Graphic icon Tomie de Paola's official Web site

Math

IXL Math Websitespecifically for Wheeler

A+Math—Web site developed to help students improve their math skills interactively through a game room, flashcards, and math puzzles. There are also step-by-step video explanations of math topics.

Writing Sources

Poetry4Kids.com—Kenn Nesbitt's children's poetry Web site, which includes funny children's poems, games, contests, lessons, plus a rhyming dictionary and much more