For Children

e-Resources Just for Kids

Library e-Resources

• e-Books for Kids - Tumblebooks
  Interactive electronic storybooks, chapter books, nonfiction, language learning, puzzles, and games for kindergarten through sixth grades.

• Kanopy Kids
  Kanopy Kids offers enriching, educational and entertaining content. Parental Controls are available to to make sure your kids are viewing age-appropriate content on Kanopy.

• ABCmouse.com - Library Edition
  ABCmouse.com is a global education initiative whose goal is to help children build a strong foundation for future academic success by providing a comprehensive and engaging online curriculum to greatly assist early learners to succeed in pre-k, kindergarten, and early elementary school programs. ABCMouse.com can only be accessed from within a Library location.

• World Book Online Encyclopedia
  Online children's version of the renowned encyclopedia.

• Britannica e-Books
  Hundreds of full color and black and white non-fiction downloadable e-books for ages preschool to 18.

• Britannica Library
  Britannica Library provides online encyclopedias designed for children, teens, and adults consisting of articles, images, maps and a complete dictionary and atlas.

• HomeworkLouisiana
  Live Online Tutor, Skills Builder, Homework help and tutoring for K through basic college level, Writing Center, Career Center, and Adult Education Center.

Websites & Online Activities

Online Learning

• Age of Learning - Language Arts/English - Free online access ABCMouse, Adventure Academy, ReadingIQ

• Arcademics - All Subjects/Educational Games - Arcademics combines the excitement of video games with educational content to produce a high rate of learning through exciting, focused repetition that enables automaticity and fluency to be achieved quickly.

• August House/Story Cove - English/Language Arts - August House/Story Cove is the children’s book publisher August House’s YouTube Channel, full of animated folktales for kids.

• Circle Round - Language Arts/English - Circle Round is storytelling podcast for kids that comes with printable coloring sheets for each episode.

• Common Sense Media – All Subjects - Comprehensive list of online events and activities being offered by authors, artists, and musicians, as well as many more online learning resources.

• Khan Academy - STEM - Free online courses for kids in different subjects, mostly related to mathematics.

• Kids Discover - Humanities - Online non-fiction magazine for kids 6-14, offering three months of free access with code FREETHREE

• National Geographic Education - Science / Social Studies - A variety of resources from National Geographic, including activities and lessons. Use the filter tools to sort by age level and resource type.

• Prodigy Game - Math - Free online math learning game.

• Scholastic Learn at Home – Language Arts/STEM - Day-by-day projects from Scholastic to keep kids learning, thinking, growing.

• Smithsonian Learning Lab - All Subjects - Free resources and activities for a variety of ages from the Smithsonian.

• Starfall - Language Arts/Math - Free (and paid additional content) PreK- grade 3, reading and math.

• Tiny Travelers - Geography / Social Studies - Access to Tiny Travelers: Learn about the World for Elementary and Preschool Kids, and Canticos Bilingual Learning for Preschool.

• VidCode - Coding - Drop in virtual coding club with sessions every Thursday at 2 pm.

Art, Writing, and Creativity

• Coloring Pages - Free coloring pages for printing from Crayola.

• Draw Everyday with JJK - Drawing lessons posted daily with author/illustrator Jared J. Krosoczka.

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems - Art- Daily sessions of drawing with the author/illustrator, 12pm.

• Minnesota Children’s Museum - Art/Play - From the Minnesota Children’s Museum, here are some open-ended activities that are easy to do at home and spark kids learning through play and creativity.

• Museum Tours - Art - Take tours of museums around the world.

• Quarantine Art Club - Art - Daily art prompts from author/illustrator Carson Ellis.

• Read Wonder and Learn - Art/Writing - Stories, art and writing prompts, and lessons shared by favorite authors and illustrators.

• Scholastic.com Story Starters – English/Language Arts - Writing prompts for K-6th grade students.

Movement

• Cosmic Kids Yoga - Exercise/Movement - Many story-based yoga videos for kids as young as 3.

• Do Yoga With Me - Exercise/Movement - Free online yoga for two months- features ‘Yoga for Kids’ videos.

• Indoor Mom - Exercise/Movement - Gross motor activities & games with household supplies.

• Yoga Instructional Videos presented in partnership with YEAH! YOGA. In addition to instructions videos, YEAH! YOGA has provided printable resources.