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- Harry Potter Page This site is part of the FactMonster site, and features activities and quizzes based around the Harry Potter books.
- Dr Seuss's Seussville! This is Seussville, Dr Seuss's playground. It features the Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters. Students can play board games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes and find out about new Dr Seuss books and CD Roms.
- CBeebies story page where our little beginner readers can learn to read via effortless fun with colour, fun and sound.
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Great Maths Sites
- NZ Maths is an AWESOME website created by the New Zealand Ministry of Education and includes endless mathematics resources and teaching ideas both suitable for at school and at home.
- Visit Dr Math for help with your maths questions and some useful links. This site has maths help for all levels.
- CountOn a UK site - guaranteed to get everyone enjoying maths! Try the Sudoku page while you're there!
- Coolmath - another inspiring maths site where you will learn to love maths.
- The Maths Dictionary - you have to visit this and spend a few hours exploring it to believe it.
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- Discovery.com The discovery Channel's children's section - a wealth of entertainment and learning available here.
- Cleopatra's Palace - In Search of a Legend Cleopatra's palace, which is lying underwater in Alexandria's harbour, is being excavated. Investigate this underwater archaeological project, find out about the life and times of Cleopatra (you can listen to the story of Cleopatra online), and play the Cleopatra's World game.
- I kids and Youth Educational Page Using the web site of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), students can find out about the history and mission of the FBI. They can follow a case from start to finish as it makes its way through various units of the FBI laboratory, take the special agent challenge, follow a life in the day of an agent and play interactive games.
- Nasa Kids Club Lots of activities related to space on the NASA kids club site. Graded into ability levels.
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Environmental/Conservation Sites
- An American website, has a page called Envirofun with a message of importance to children around the world. It lets you have fun as you learn.
- Explore Environment Waikato to learn about Environmental thinking in our own region and perhaps compare it to the Auckland Version.
- Make sure you visit the Maungatautari Mountain web site where some very exciting conservation action is happening.
- Carefully read the "pests" page of our own Pirongia mountain web site, where there is some rather scary conservation information for those who love our mountain.
- Here's a quick fun way to learn an important lesson about NZ forest conservation.
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- Calfclub web site When that time of year comes round get help here with your preparation!
- Keep safe on the internet this should be the first site you visit!
- Kidsclick - a great search engine where kids can easily find what they need for fun or for study.
- Kiwiana - the great Otorohanga site
- Maori - English or English - Maori translator Do you want to find the English meaning of a Maori word or translate an English word into Maori? This is the place for you.
- NASA - a great site for children to have fun with space stuff
- Periodic Table is one of the biggest hurdles students meet in their secondary school science education. See how interesting it can be by visiting this site.
- Te Ara the wonderful online NZ encylopedia.
- WickED's great quizzes. These are lots of fun!
- Yahooligans This is another excellent children's search engine.
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- The Big Myth This amazing web site is an inspirational way to explore creation legends from around the world, including NZ. A series of flash animations with fully narrated text and amazing sound effects. This is one for all ages! but it is not NZ-made, so be prepared for some very strange interpretations of Maori pronunciation in the Maori section.
- Calfclub web site It's that time of year again. Get help here with your preparation!
- Dr Seuss's Seussville! This is Seussville, Dr Seuss's playground in cyberspace. It features the Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am, Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters. Students can play board games, chat with the Cat in the Hat, win prizes and find out about new Dr Seuss books and CD Roms.
- Keep safe on the internet
- Ready set Learn Great activities for younger children. Try the jigsaws for a start - and you can't suck the puzzle pieces up the vacuum cleaner!
- CBeebies story page where our little beginner readers can learn to read via effortless fun with colour, fun and sound.
- Fun and Learning with Peep
- The home of Sesame Street with learning experiences for the very young in the form of stories games, artwork and music among all the beloved Sesame Street characters. Not to be missed.
- You can try it yourself right here
Look for the heading that says "Try Geocities for Free" and underneath there is a clickable link saying "Sign up for a free web site." Then go for it!
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