Educational Games and Learning Sites

by admin on March 30, 2010

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Do you ever get tired of your kids playing video games? Lack of educational games can be frustrating, especially when our kids could spend hours playing games with little or no learning value, not to mention the fact that many of those games are extremely expensive. There are some amazing learning sites on the web that you that you and your child go visit for free to play educational games.  Many have video game type platforms which allow your child the play time they desire while learning at the same time. The websites we chose will be categorized by age group. Visit these educational game and learning sites to see which one your child enjoys the most.

Ages 3-6

Starfall.com

Bembozoo.com

Bobthebuilder.com

www.readtomelv.com/

Ages 6-10

Yahooligans.com

Funbrain.com

Pbskids.org

When you go and visit the website readtomelv.com, you can hear famous people read books aloud. You can even look at the listed books and check out the books from the library in advance to follow along.  Your child will love hearing some of their favorite books being read aloud.

Starfall.com has everything from reviewing the alphabet to reading stories. You child can also work on making the sound for each letter in the alphabet. This is a good website if you have a child in kindergarten  or 1st grade.

The websites Yahooligans and Funbrain are the most popular if you have a child in the older grades and they already enjoy video games. Funbrain has lots of educational games and activities to explore.

You can create your own fun together as a family at  www.familyfun.com which has everything from making crafts to making treats. This site also has holiday ideas that you can create things for different holidays. This site gives you plenty of ideas that you can do with your child. You can create memories as a family by doing some of the different activities.

Of course there are many educational game and learning sites that you can go to for clean family fun, we only listed a few. Go and try some of these sites and post your thoughts below.

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