Educational+Game

Educational Game Wow - it would REALLY be difficult to only pick out one good "educational" game as I use the sites below in a variety of ways when I work with my "kids"....so I decided to just put a whole bunch down there for reference.......

[|Knee Bouncers] Knee Bouncers is a great website to utlize with younger age children - both Early Intervention and Early Childhood. It incorporates visual and auditory feedback to promote ongoing participation for the young aged child. KneeBouncer games are designed to be played by simply pressing keys on your keyboard. Quickly pressing keys will advance animations and make special things happen. In this way, even the very young can enjoy interacting with the computer - learning cause and effect, but mostly just having fun!

[|Primary Games] Play free online **games** for kids on PrimaryGames. **Site** features learning **games**, action **games**, puzzles, card **games**, virtual worlds, coloring pages, and more! This site is just great for the early and mid elementary age group. There are varied games for content in math, science, social studies, etc but also cognitive skills including memory, problem solving, etc.

[|Starfall] This website is a free on-line service that helps children learn to read with phonics for preschool, kindergarten, and first graders as well as a great resource for home school programs. It includes a lot of ABC animations, animated interactive books and other reading exercises. There are also a lot of downloadable materials such as handouts for classroom use. Exciting phonics games and online interactive books. Starfall has four reading levels to teach children how to read. The first level teaches preschoolers about the ABCs. At this level, the website provides learners with all the letters of the alphabet in both upper and lower case form. In the early beginning level, learners create words through the addition of consonants to different word family. In the intermediate beginning reading level, readers can bring the books they will read to life before they read them. In the advanced beginning reading level, children can read a variety of books.

[|Earobics] This site offers a variety of games to enhance basic language skills - ie spelling, sentence structure; grammar - synonyms/antonyms/homonyms; word sounds,etc.