Students
STUDENT WEBSITES
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
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 ReaderBook 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
RIF Reading Planet—Search for a good book to read, write your own book reviews, join a book club, share your opinion, play fun games and activities, or write a story or a poem on this interactive site.
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 Website specifically 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