Book Recommendations

Homework help: These are a few books that are helpful resources for homework help.

Origami books: These are books for simple, easy to follow Origami.

Family Reading Club: Recommendations for family read-alouds.

Multicultural book recommendations: On this site, PBS recommends multicultural books for children from the Association for Library Services to Children, a division of the American Library Association.

 

Online Resources

Yahooligans (http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/) is a fantastic site with a ton of information and games. The site has information on science, with a particularly good page on animals. The site also has jokes, news, ecards. It even has an encyclopedia, dictionary and thesaurus. It also has its own links to great kid sites.

National Geographic for Kids (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/) has homework help, print-and-go coloring book, cartoon factory, experiments, a section for parents and more ... all in addition to the National Geographic Magazine for Kids.

Lycos has a lot of family friendly links.

Internet Public Library (http://www.ipl.org/ ) is what is sounds like. It has a ton of information in many categories.

White House for Kids (http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/) has White House history, info on the first families, White House pets, White House traditions, games, quizzes and more.

Bill Nye the Science Guy (http://www.billnye.com/) has a lot of fun, interactive stuff on science.

Funschool (http://www.funschool.com/) has a lot of engaging academic activities for each grade level. Warning: this site has a lot of kid-targeted pop-up ads.