The Sherwood School District in Sherwood, Oregon is located in the Portland Metropolitan Area. Our after school archiving club consists of ten - 6th through 8th grade students from our two middle schools, Sherwood Middle School and Laurel Ridge Middle School. The main selection criteria that was used for choosing web sites is that it be a site that the students find useful, helpful, or just plain fun and one that means something to the particular students.

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Entertainment

This is a category that includes anything that can entertain us. These websites feature movies, games, sports, books, and videos that are amusing.

• http://comics.com/luann/?DateAfter=2010-02-02&Date...
  

  This is one of my favorite comic strips, "Luann". I've been reading Luann for several years, and I love following Luann's life. The comic strip is mostly about Luann DeGroot, a High School Student, and her many friends and family. Luann leads a very dramatic yet humorous life, and I really enjoy reading about it.

• http://comics.com/pearls_before_swine/?DateAfter=2...
  

  This is one of my favorite comics, "Pearls Before Swine", which is about several houses of animals next to each other. They often have sarcastic or melodramatic debates, which always make me laugh.

• http://comics.com/pickles/?DateAfter=2010-02-02&Da...
  

  This is another one of my favorite comics. "Pickles" following the life of Earl and Opal Pickles, and their grandson. Pickles makes me laugh, because they remind me of my own grandparents.

• http://freekibblekat.com/
  

  Freekibble Kat is a website created by a local Oregonian where you go online and answer daily trivia about all things cat related. Everytime you answer a question, correctly or not, 10 pieces of freekibble will be donated to local animal shelters.

• http://www.allmyfaves.com/games/gold.html
  

  This is a game where you can mine for gold.

• http://www.clubpenguin.com/
  

  In this game, you control a penguin around and play games to earn coins for clothes. Recommened for kids aged 6-14! :D

• http://www.current.com/infomania
  

  InfoMania is a half-hour show aired on Thursday nights, where they review and mock news stories and videos. Some of their funniest segments are done by Bryan Safi and Sarah Haskins. Their segments are called "That's Gay" and "Target Women", respectively. They also have a feature called "How the @#$% is this a magazine?", where they find really weird magazines, like ones about packaging.

• http://www.edheads.org/
  

  My sister loves this site because there is surgery stuff she likes that because she wants to be an orthopedic surgeon.

• http://www.freekibble.com/
  

  Freekibble is a website created by a local Oregonian where you go online and answer daily trivia about all things dog related. Everytime you answer a question, correctly or not, 10 pieces of freekibble will be donated to local animal shelters.

• http://www.freeonlinegames.com/
  

  This is a site that is very popular with me and my friends

• http://www.freerice.com/
  

  With this website you can answer vocabulary questions, and for every one you get right the United Nations World Food Program will donate 10 grains of rice to starving people worldwide. FreeRice began on October 7, 2007, and since then they've donated over 74 billion grains of rice.

• http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/default.aspx
  

  This website is an awesome website that you can go to if you want to break a world record.It is an awesome website to go to if you want to be entertained.

• http://www.hulu.com/watch/4118/saturday-night-live-coffee-talk/
  

  Hulu.com is a website, much like Youtube, where videos are posted. Unlike Youtube, these videos are whole TV shows or clips from TV shows. So, you can enjoy your favorite TV series online! The link above is for one of my favorite skits from " Saturday Night Live" featuring comedians Mike Meyers and Rosanne Barr, and singer Madonna. Mike Meyers plays the hilarious and thick Brooklyn accented Linda Richman, who invites her friend Liz Rosenburg and her mother to be guests on her show "Coffee Talk".

• http://www.jaybrannan.com/
  

  Jay Brannan is one of my favorite contemporary musical artists. He plays acoustic guitar and lives in California.

• http://www.mcvideogame.com/
  

  On this website, you are able to operate your own vitual McDonald's restaurant.

• http://www.miniclip.com/games/en/
  

  I like this website because it has a lot of different game genres

• http://www.moshimonsters.com/
  

  I play this game ALL the time! You pick a monster to be your pet, and you can buy things for it! It’s really cool, if you are like me and love games like this!

• http://www.physicsgames.net/
  

  This is one of the few fun approved sites at our school

• http://www.punditkitchen.com/
  

  Pundit Kitchen is a hilarious website with which you can caption pictures of political figures or events. They have a huge supply of pictures available, or you can upload your own. Some people who post on Pundit Kitchen are really quite clever.

• http://www.sherwood.k12.or.us/
  

  This is the website for our school district. It contains information about the schools and teachers.

• http://www.y8.com/tags/Balloons/2
  

  This is an awesome game where you try to pop as many balloons as you can in the amount of time that is given. It si a really fun game to play when you are bored.

• http://www.y8.com/tags/Mario
  

  This website is full of awesome mario themed games! You will never be bored when you go to this website.

• http://www.youdagames.com/The+Waitress-game-1980/
  

  This is a game called The Waitress Game. You control a girl who serves customers and you ahve to bring them their order. I like playing it at school.

• http://www2.shidonni.com/
  

  This is one of my favorite computer games. In this game, you draw your own pet and play games with it. I LOVE this website!

• http://wwww.webkinz.com/us_en/
  

  I discovered this website in third grade and have loved it ever since. You buy a webkinz stuffed animal, enter it’s secret code on this website, and then you can play games to earn kinzcash, the webkinz money. Once you get enough money, you can buy all sorts of objects for your home and your yard. It’s really cool!

• http://espn.go.com/
  

• http://www.buildabearville.com/
  

  A site for the game based on the designable stuffed-bears.

Research

This is a group of websites dedicated solely to many different research topics. Ongoing studies, new developments relating to older projects, and ideas for new research topics are all here.

• http://www.britishbattles.com/
  

  This is a site I used last year in fifth grade for my Revolutuionay War battles project. It was very helpful; it has information on almost all the battles that were staged.

• http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm
  

  This website was a big help on the constellations project I had to do recently. I got a lot of backround information on pisces off this website.

• http://www.kidsastronomy.com/
  

  I have a site that I used for my astronomy homework!

• http://www.tetrahedron.org/
  

  Tetrahedron is a website featuring articles by Doctor Len Horowitz on political and medical news. They are not for those with weak stomachs; some of the pictures involving things like depleted uranium poisoning are quite graphic.

• http://www.theamericanrevolution.org/battles.asp
  

  This website was a big help to me when I was in fifth grade last year. We had to do a revolutionary war project, and this website was even more help to me than the brittish battles website. It has a LOT of detailed information, and it is also very interesting too, if you like just reading about he revolutionary war for fun. It was a HUGE help!

• http://www.unscramble.net/
  

  This website helped me out on my homework when I had a tough word to unscramble. This website not only unscrambles words, it also has a dictionary, rhymes words for you, it can help you out with crossword puzzles, and can find words based on their beginning, middle, or end. Very useful!

• http://www.easybib.com/
  

  Where you can make citations for projects.

Daily Life/Culture

This category includes things important to our community/city. It also represents things/activities that go on in our community. Some things could include festivals, significant events, and other exciting things that go on.

• http://kids.aol.com/KOL/
  

  This is a website that I use for homework! It is very useful for someone like me. You can also play a lot of awesome games.

• http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/
  

  This is where you can look to check into the life of one of my favorite authors, Scott Westerfeld.

• http://www.aap.cornell.edu/
  

  This is the college I want to go to.

• http://www.lazyjfarms.com/index.html
  

  This website is all about our sod farm so people can order sod.

• http://www.markshasha.com/mark_shasha_gallery_2007.htm
  

  Mark Shasha is an artist who paints mainly beach scenes. He also does canvas drawings.

• http://www.portlandartmuseum.org/
  

  This is the website for the Portland Art Museums, one of the most important buildings in Portland.

• http://www.portlandsaturdaymarket.com/
  

  This is the site for the Portland Saturday Market, a trading market that occurs every saturday, except for during the weekend.

• http://www.scribd.com/
  

  A website where people can share stories, poems, books, and any other writing pieces they have for others to see. We like this website, because it's nice to get feedback from other people.

• http://www.scribd.com/hatedhero/
  

  This is my Scribd account. Scribd is a website where you can post things that you write online for everyone to read. I publish stories and poems.

• http://www.sherwood.k12.or.us/
  

  Our district's website.

• http://www.sherwood.k12.or.us/?q=taxonomy/term/8
  

  This is my schools website. I use this to get to our media center, check the lunch menu, and see our teachers website when needed.

• http://www.target.com/
  

  I like using Target's website to browse on toys, books, clothes, and other items to buy.

• http://www.weather.com/weather/monthly/97140?from=tenDay_topnav_undeclared/
  

  Weather.com is a great resource where you can get quick and current updates on weather in your area. The link above is the weather for Sherwood, Oregon.

• http://www.weseed.com/
  

  WeSeed is an online "game" where you play the real stockmarket with virtual money. You can search the website to see how your favorite companies are doing in the stockmarket! Although, you do need an account to buy and sell stock. It could be weekly or monthly. Doesn't matter that much, but you know, the stock changes daily.

• http://www.wolframalpha.com/
  

  WolframAlpha is a great website where you can get help with math. Just type in a math problem you have, and it will instantly give you the answer and how it got the answer. This is a great resource for getting help on math, checking your homework or even... cheating....