Educational Websites

ANZAC Kids
Online Anzac GAMES, PUZZLES and ACTIVITIES
Kiwi Kids News
A great current events website to enhance your reading. Complete with articles and questions/thinking activities.
QUIZLET - MAORI FOOD
This particular Quizlet is on Maori food, but you can search Quizlets on all sorts of vocab in many many languages! A fantastic website!
Number Invaders Game
A great way to practise your basic multiplication and division!
Maths Playground
A great maths website with a range of topics, levels and activities.
Maths to try at home
This website provides some ideas for how you can raise awareness and share mathematics using everyday experiences and resources found around your home. It includes ideas for supporting your children’s learning in all areas of mathematics: geometry, measurement, statistics, algebra and number.
Tumble Books
The Hamilton City Library offers a range of online story books for kids.
Mathletics
This site has a range of Maths activities including an online challenge. To use Mathletics cost, see website for details
Storybird
This site is where children can create their own books.
GoAnimate
Make your own cartoons! You just need an email address to sign up.
Cool Maths Game
For the biggest range of Maths games around!
Reading Eggs
This site is great if your child is struggling with reading. Part of the Mathletics Family. Fees apply.
Google SketchUp
The online drawing programme. Children love designing lots of fun stuff. Google Sketch up to download. The link below shows what the programme can do.
MineCraft
Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
Brain POP
The Best Place to find out stuff! Moby and friend have made a wide range of videos on different topics. Fees apply.
National Geographic Kids
Lots of fun facts and games!
Spelling Games
Loads of free spelling games!
Reading and Spelling Games
From the CoolMaths-Games website is a range of Reading and Spelling Games.
BBC Kids
From England, ths sites has a range of games and video clips.
BBC Schools
The go to place for Schools in the UK. Covers everything at school.
Maths Chase
Maths Chase is a completely free site where you can quickly test your times tables. The site is a very simple game but I think kids will find it a really fun way to learn their times tables.
Scrabble Word Finder
Helpful for spelling practice and identifying basic vocabulary.