Reference resources

Reference resources:
 
Almanac

a.  Information Please Almanac (http://www.infoplease.com)
b.  Guinness World Records (http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com)

Books and Reviews
a. Bookbrowse.com  (http://www.bookbrowse.com)
b. New York Times Books (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/)
c. Google Book Search (http://books.google.com/)
d. Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.co.in/)
e. Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org)

Dictionaries & Thesauri
a. Cambridge Dictionaries Online (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/)
b. Free translation.com (http://www.freetranslation.com/)
c. WordReference.com (http://wordreference.com/)
d. Cliché Site (http://www.clichesite.com/index.asp)
e. Merriam-Webster Online (http://www.merriam-webster.com/)
f.  Internet Anagram Server (http://www.wordsmith.org/anagram/)

Education
a. FreevideoLectures.com (http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
b. Online Education Database(http://freevideolectures.com/algebra.php)
c. World Resources Institute (http://earthtrends.wri.org/)

General Searches
a. Answers.com (http://www.answers.com/)
b. ChaCha (http://www.chacha.com/)
c. Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/)

d. Google Things to do (http://www.google.co.uk/landing/thingstodo/)
e. Internet Archive /Wayback machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
f.  PolyCola.com(http://www.polycola.com/)
g. Shakespeare (http://nfs.sparknotes.com/)

Language
a. Modern Language (http://www.sas.edu.sg/library/hs/modern.html)
b. BBC-Learning English(http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/)
c. BBC- Grammar & Pronunciation (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/)

Poetry
a. The Academy of American Poets(http://www.poets.org/)
b. American Verse Project(http://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/amverse/)
c. Glossary of Literary terms (http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/general/glossary.htm)

Quotations
a. Bartleby.com (http://www.bartleby.com/100/)
b. The Quote Garden (http://www.quotegarden.com/)
c. Quote World (http://www.quoteworld.org/)

Measures, Weights, Conversion
a. Convert-me.com(http://www.convert-me.com/en/)
b. Online Conversion (http://www.onlineconversion.com/index.htm)
c. Oanda.com (http://www.oanda.com/)

Weblinks to award winning books
a. American library Association-YALSA (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/booklistsawards/booklistsbook.cfm)
b. The Man Booker Prize(http://www.themanbookerprize.com/)
c. Nobel prize-Literature(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/)
d. Pultizer Prizes (http://www.pulitzer.org/)

Below is the list of some websites for your children to browse through during the holidays.

http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/i-spy/games/
http://www.kidzone.ws/math/grade1.htm
http://www.aaamath.com/grade1.html
http://www.ixl.com/
http://www.mytestbook.com/Default.aspx
http://www.learningplanet.com/index.asp
http://www.rif.org/kids/readingplanet/bookzone/read_aloud_stories.htm
http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/elementary_sites_ells_71638.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesize/
http://www.mathcats.com/storyproblems.html
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/
http://www.mathplayground.com/wordproblems.html
http://www.globalclassroom.org/2005/computerlab.html
http://www.scilinks.org/Harcourt_Hsp/HspStudentRetrieve.aspx?Code=HSP200
http://www.planetpals.com/
http://www.webdunia.com
http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/phulwari/index.htm
http://www.boloji.com/parenting/02320.htm
http://www.4to40.com
http://www.pitara.com