Links

 
 
Project Linus
http://www.projectlinus.org

 
 
Baby Name Wizard
http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager

 
 
Name Meanings
http://www.babyhold.com/

 
 
Official Name Information
http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/

 
 
This is a great website if you are looking for a new book to read!
http://nancykeane.com/rl/default.htm

 
 
This is a link to an interactive taks test. Students can take the test and 
be scored.
http://www.tea.state.tx.us/student.assessment/resources/online/2003/grade7/read.htm

 
 
Super website to take grammar/spelling quizzes to improve some skills!
http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/

 
 
Go here to find some new books to read or to take quizzes on books you have 
already read.  Don't forget to redeem your points for fun prizes!
http://www.bookadventure.com/

 
 
If you're a fan of the Scrabble board game, you'll love this one.
Enter the seven letters on your Scrabble rack, and this nifty tool
will reveal, disclose and divulge all the words that can be composed
from them.  You can even specify specific beginning and ending
letters, or ask for words of a certain length.
http://www.wordplays.com/fcgi-bin/scrabble.pl

 
 
The WriteExpress Online Rhyming Dictionary is a helpful resource for
poets and songwriters.  You can find Ending rhymes (blue/shoe), Last
syllable rhymes (timber/harbor), Double rhymes (conviction/
prediction), Beginning rhymes (physics/fizzle), or First syllable
rhymes (carrot/caring).
http://www.rhymer.com/

 
 
WordZap is a fast-paced addictive word game you can play over the Net
or against the computer.
http://wordzap.com/

 
 
StoryFun is a variant of the Mad Libs word game, created by students
at MIT who obviously don't have enough homework to do.
http://stuff.mit.edu/storyfun

 
 
Play Hangman with several different twists: Celebrity Hangman, Hang
Your Ex-Whatever, Hillbilly Hangman, and others.
http://search.yahoo.com/search/dir?p=hangman

 
 
TAKS Type Practice
http://www.tv411.org/index.shtml

 
 
RRISD Middle School Reading List
http://www.roundrockisd.org/secreading/ReadingList.asp?Parameter=School&value=Middle%20School

 
 
Online Dictionary
http://www.dictionary.com

 
 
Middle Ages for Kids
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/

 
 
Medieval Times for Kids
http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/medieval/

 
 
US Government's Earth Day site
http://www.earthday.gov/

 
 
International Earth Day
http://www.earthsite.org/

 
 
Earth Day site
http://earthday.wilderness.org/

 
 
The History of Earth Day
http://earthday.envirolink.org/history.html

 
 
For your daily dose of Snoopy and the whole Peanuts gang!
http://www.snoopy.com