updated Mar. 27, 2010

Links to fun sites for Parsley students
Magazines/News/Videos l Art/Games/Puzzles, etc. l Places to Visit l Nice Things To Do

On-line Magazines/News/Videos

Kideos - Entertaining (but safe!) videos for children aged 0 - 10.

Dragonfly - A cool magazine for nature investigators of all ages

How Stuff Works - Express - A new magazine from How Stuff Works with feature articles and regular features you won't want to miss.

Kids' Castle - from Smithsonian Magazine

kidsnewsroom.org -  "Kid style news for kid style people"

Cool on-line magazine just for kids. You can (with your parent's permission) publish your art and stories. There are articles, stories, recipes, crafts, and more.

KidsPost - from the Washington Post

kidsworld - online - News pages, games, contests, puzzles, and more.

msn Kidz

National Geographic for Kids  Bookmark Factory    On-line magazine with articles, adventures, contests, and more! Creature Feature Amazing Facts Cartoon Factory GeoBee Challenge Send an e-postcard

Ranger Rick's Kids Zones On-line magazine from National Wildlife Foundation

Riddle Me This - see if you can decipher these rhyming riddles.

Scholastic - Storyworks - Many of your favorite story book characters come alive on this site.

Sports Illustrated for Kids

Stonesoup - Magazine for and by young authors and artists

Time For Kids  On-line magazine for kids. Are you a Harry Potter fan? Click here for the Potter Power page from Time For Kids.

ZuZu - Read student literary works or submit your own.

Arts, Games, Puzzles, etc.

Origami:  Diagrams This website is a database of diagrams of origami items.  Search by keyword.  Good for beginners too!

iKnowthat.com - Thinking Games Try your skills on these 'Thinking Games" grades pre-K to 6th.  You don't have to register to play... click 'maybe later'. iKnowthat.com - The Arts These arts activities are lots of fun!

EcoKids: Games and Activities Wildlife Climate Change Energy The North Waste Land Use

Activity TV - Find lots of fun activities for kids, with video instructions and printables. Selections of activities include craft ideas, games, and holiday items. Learn easy magic tricks, or try the fun and easy kid-friendly cooking recipes. Check out the simple, safe and fun science experiments or very cool paper airplanes. Other categories include cartooning, cheerleading, juggling, origami, jewelry, puppets, and more. Just follow along with the step-by-step videos.

Wild & Wacky - (from NationalGeographic.com) -  Create wild and wacky stories by supplying your own words.  This is really fun!

MouseTV.com - Fun stuff to make you smart

Kinderplanet - Internet playground for children. Online and downloadable games and activities. There are also songs you can listen to.

The Art Zone- online, interactive ways to create art such as 'PaintBox', 'Collage Machine', 'PixelFace', 'Cubits', and '3-D Twirler'.

The Artist's Toolkit - visual elements and principles

Games from kidsnewsroom.org - Mine Sweeper, Ping Pong, Magic Boxes, and much more.

Comic Creator - create your own cartoons on-line Learn to Draw Cartoons Emmet Scott's - The Secret to Drawing Cartoons Cartoon Factory Draw and Color with Uncle Fred

ClassBrain.com - If you're up for a challenge, try these games.

Maggie's Earth Adventure - These games are so fun, you'll forget you're learning!

ChiquitaKids.com - Just for fun!

FunBrain.com

Kids' Place Brain Teasers - A new Brain Teaser each Wednesday. For students in grades 3-8.

Students Classroom -  Games and Activities

Bookhooks   Bookhooks is an online book reporting toolkit for students in grades K-12. Publish stories, poems and images. Read book reviews. There are also over 200 links to authors.

Reading Planet- The Reading Planet is brought to you by RIF - Reading is Fundamental. Use this site to read or contribute a book review. There are fun activities like creating your own word puzzles and completing a story that has been started for you.

Seussville -  This is the place to go to learn about Dr. Seuss and his books.

Scholastic - Kids -  Clifford is one of many things you'll find on this site.

Kid Wizard Learn about the science behind slimy 'spells' and do some puzzles. You can even subscribe to a Kid Wizard Newsletter.

funschool.com

Get Ready to Yo-Yo Learn how to Yo-Yo! Other yo-yo sites: Duncan Yo-Yo Cosmic's Yo-Yo Tricks History of the Yo-Yo

Kid's Domain

Kids Hub Free noncommercial, Online Learning Activities for Elementary and Middle School Students. It includes games, quizzes and puzzles. Many activities require Shockwave. There is a link to a free download on the site.

The Set Daily Puzzle Like a challenge? This is for you! Complete this puzzle and you may win a prize. The puzzle changes daily.

Scribbles  Do you love art? This is the site for you! There are contests and places for you to display your art. Take an art quiz and try to win some art supplies.

PBS - Kids Elmo and Big Bird, Arthur, Clifford, Dragon Tales, and Teletubbies can all be found here. From PBS online

Picture of the Day

Harry's Fun Page  Fun games and activities for kids from Harris Teeter.

You Rule School

Places to Visit

NCPublicSchool.org - Students' Page This website has homework help, information about North Carolina and cool places to go, and ways to get involved.

Nice Things to Do

Surprise your family with these Kindness Coupons of things you offer to do for them! From FleetKids.com

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