This list of website links has been approved by me, Jody DeJong, your Canajoharie Elementary Media Specialist. Some are simply for fun, others are for help with homework and other educational pursuits. Please use this page as your starting point to find safe websites you like with the topics your interested in.

Parents

PLEASE do not allow your children unsupervised access to these sites. While they are pre-approved and have no harmful or objectionable material contained in them, internet pop-up adds do contain links to many websites you would not approve of. Many of my approved sites also contain links to other sites that may then contain links to something you may find objectionable. Thank You.

Summer Reading Suggestions

• Kindergarten

• First Grade

• Second Grade

• Third Grade

• Fourth Grade

• Fifth Grade

Homework and Research

• OPAC Online Public Access Catalog. (Search for items in the East Hill Library)
• Searchasaurus from EBSCO - Elementary online encyclopedia includes every subject you could want, pictures of flags, maps and cool sports stuff.
• Grolier Online - Mid level online encyclopedia for research.
• FactMonster - Homework help and school related information.
• Enchanted Learning - Treasury of educational information and games as well as Little Explorers, an online picture dictionary.
• MyWonderfulWorld - A National Geographic led campaign for geography education.  Giving kids the power of global knowledge.
• The World's Biomes - Information about the world's biomes by the U.C. Berkely Museum of Paleontology.
• MamaMedia - You will find a search engine designed for younger kids, fun games, and great things to do WITH your child on this great site.
• Netsmartz - Inernet Safety information, games and trivia for kids and parents.
• Yahooligans - Kid friendly search engine to help with homework. Also has information about favorite television shows, kid friendly news, games and trivia.
• EdHeads - Crash a virtual car, perform knee surgery, learn about weather and simple machines or read about some cool and interesting people.
• Math Magician - Test your math skills the fun way!

Dewey Decimal Web Games

• Dewey Concentration

• Dewey Drag and Drop Decimal Order

• Dewey Range Drag and Drop

• Dewey Decimal Video: Doin' Dewey Decimal - You will need to click on the link to the video under the picture with the pig.
• Dewey Decimal Video: Meet Melville and Dewey - You will need to click on the link to the video under the picture with the pig.

Scholastic Bookflix

• Bookflix - (You will need the username and password from school) Scholastic Bookflix builds a love of reading and learning by pairing fiction and nonfiction books so children can learn to love reading as well as build knowledge of nonfiction subjects. Have your child read along with the computer or just listen to the book read for you online. Play games, find links to other age appropriate websites, read author biographies and build your childs vocabulary with narrated definitions. Read, learn and have fun with all your favorite storybook characters.

Fun and Games

• PBS Kids - Featuring all your favorite PBS cartoon characters in games and printable coloring sheets
• LittleClickers - Links to sites by topic so kids can surf easily and safely.
• Kidspace at the Internet Public Library - Links to fun educational sites.
• Sesame Street Workshop - Fun and games from the longtime childhood favorite PBS kids show Sesame Street.
• Funbrain - The name says it all, lots of fun stuff that you might need to use your brain for.
• GigglePoetry - If you like to read and write poetry, limericks or try out tongue twisters you'll love this site.
• Poetry4Kids - Games, funny poems, poems to listen to, poetry contests and a rhyming dictionary with links to other children's poetry sites.
• Children's Museum of Indianapolis- If you love science and art this is the place for you. Try your hand at online jigsaw puzzles, design a sculpture, blow glass, learn about trains and dinosaurs or visit a haunted house, it's all here.
• America Online (aol) Kidspace's Brain Games - Word searches, concentration games, trivia questions and adventrues are all here, take a look.