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Fun Links for Beavers
If you are looking for some fun activities for younger childen, look no further than Black Dog's website for Beavers
The Piano Education Page is much more than a page!! It's a bright and breezy site for piano- lovers with over 600 pages. Take a trip back in time in the Tardis to meet the composers. Great links. Great music. Click here for the KIDS section
Free manuscript paper and a limited amount of sheet music is available to download from My Sheet Music. Also offers one minute keyboard lessons.
Fundango - the experts on ten year olds!
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Fun Sites for Kids
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Some links feature 'just' games, most are educational and all are pretty great with some real stars - covers a wide variety of ages and well worth exploring.

 
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Keeping Kids Busy
 
  We've found another great FREE e-book for you. This one has been created by UK mums, Lindsay Small and Kirstie Bowen. and offers over 200 fun activities for kids. Superbly designed.
busy kids
Free download
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Stories from the web
 
 
If you're 8-11 years' old and like books and stories then come on in. You can read stories, email authors, write reviews and even write your own stories - It's all here! Provided by a partnership of UK libraries.

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All About Time
 
  The Royal Greenwich Observatory offers a bright clear site with lots of information about time, leap years, the Millennium and the history of time. Some pages have links to other websites and .pdf information leaflets designed specially for children which you can download. Good stuff, especially for Key Stage 2.

See also our main www page for Co-ordinated Universal Time and finding the 'right' time around the world.
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Wow! See the earth or moon in real time, manipulate the images, zoom in or out - compare our planet in each season of the year. An amazing resource at Earthview

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Find out all about the Chinese New Year. Did you know that the year 2000 is the Year of the Dragon? And 2001 will be the year of The Snake. Ssssss!

Talking about dragons, Joe the Dragon would like to show you his puzzles and quizzes. There are maths quizzes to test addition, subtraction and fractions. Try the tricky puzzle map of China. You can impress your friends by learning how to write numbers one to ten in Chinese!
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Ancient Egypt
With resources designed for use by younger children with their parents and teachers as they search for material on Ancient Egypt, this user friendly site may very well help you avoid all those tedious searches. And the British Museum has the domain name www.ancientegypt.co.ukall to itself with lots of 'flashy' activities!

There's more Ancient Egypt amongst five web projects designed to give children starting points for using the Internet as a learning resource. The other projects at Learning Connections are : Artists, The Human Body, The Earth and Beyond, , Tudors and Stuarts and the Victorians.
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The Motherwise Millennium Archive

The Millennium started here with links to the Millennium Dome and Sir Ranulph Fiennes' latest expedition to the North Pole.

The Guardian's on-line version of its feature '1000 years in 500 days' ended here on Day 500 with a review of what was happening that day around the world.

The 'Millennium around Europe' gave you an opportunity to practice your foreign languages as you linked to European websites.

A project about countries which lie on the Meridian line (ie 0 º longitude, the line of longitude that runs through the North and South Poles, and which passes through Greenwich) included quizzes and activities and is archived on the Oxfam site.
 
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See also our pages on Keeping Little Ones Amused, Helping your child to read and All about books and reading
The 24 hour Museum (gateway to UK museums and art galleries) has moved its kids site to
www.show.me.uk
Anyone for a smelly day out???
Fun games and music featuring favourites such as Mr. Men and Watership Down. Look out for Mozart the Musical Dragon and play your own music!

Shapes, number, colours introduced in a gentle, fun animated way at Kidstime

Good quality site currently being redesigned but games still available
Getting to grips with the Euro?
Try out the Children's Zone games on the European Central Bank's website. There you will find 'colouring in the notes' games and a brilliant game that let's you use the new notes in a vending machine that sells all sorts of domestic goods and food
Brain Pop
Thunk!
Secret messages for kids.
Paper airplanes
created by Alex
On-line jigsaws
not specifically for children but lovely photographs of birds and animals made into simple jigsaws.
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