Check out the following Web sites
for fun activities and information:

Poetry ideas from Scholastic

Scholastic Videos  - Check out things that happened when the Pilgrims came to the new world through these virtual field trips. 

Build your own wild self - A great site sponsored by New York Zoological Society.  Kids can create their own "wild and wacky" version of themselves and learn about the animal parts they incorporated. 

Colorapp - http://colarapp.com/ - virtual reality coloring sheets with app link for tablets or smartphones

Read, Write Think - www.readwritethink.org - great site for creating interactive activities for reading comprehension

Quia -  3rd genre games

 SHELF ELF Activity*** https://www.ischool.utexas.edu/resources/order_in_the_library_game.swf - putting the books in the correct order on shelves, for all our library helpers!

Windows 2 Universe - http://www.windows2universe.org/cool_stuff/alien/make_alien.html - fun creating your alien, for the science fiction book club

Story Place - www.storyplace.org - fun online ebooks and activities for early elementary

Scholastic Store - free ebooks for ipad or tablet and other activities to promote reading

Kidzone - http://www.kidzone.ws/  - Kidzone is full of great activities - just click on the grade level of your child and explore the possibilities

Star Fall - http://www.starfall.com/ - for the PK - 1 crowd, this site helps kids learn their letters, sounds and begin to put words and sentences together

Active Science - http://www.activescience-gsk.com/home.html - Fun science learning games to learn about habitats and other science activities

Cool Math - www.coolmath.com - reinforcing math concepts for 2 - 5th grades

Make Beliefs Comix - http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/ - make your own comic strip/graphic novel panel for 1-5 grade book clubs

IXL - http://www.ixl.com/ - math for grades PK - 5th and up

Reading ECB - http://reading.ecb.org/ - reading comprehension strategies for all ages

 Animoto - www.animoto.com - create videos from your photos

Kidtopia - http://www.kidtopia.info/ - this site is a conglomeration of cool websites for kids and teachers chosen by librarians to help with learning and planning

Infotopia - http://www.infotopia.info/comic_strip_creation_tools.html - lots of different comic strip creation tools