ABC Ya

Abcya.com is a favorite game for both kids and teachers to play on the computer! The website’s games and activities are sorted by grade level, kindergarten thru fifth grade. Approved by educators, the site’s games and activities focus on many subject areas like, math, spelling, art etc.

http://www.abcya.com

• Counting Fish this game helps kids learn how to count
• Balloon Pop Subtraction has 3 different levels for kids to practice subtraction
• Alphabet Bingo lets kids practice both lowercase and uppercase letters

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Starfall

Starfall.com has an amazing website that provides tons of computer fun for kids. This website is a free public service to teach children to read with phonics using an interactive approach. Kids love to see, hear, and interact with letters and sounds in words, sentences, and games.

http://www.starfall.com

• Learn the ABCs each group of activities focuses on a different letter
• Learn to Read a collection of simple stories, each with an activity
• Animated Nursery Rhymes has 48 songs for kids to play and sing

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BBC Dance Mat Typing

Dance Mat Typing provides a fun, solid typing introduction to kids. There are four levels, each with three stages. The first stage focuses on the home row. The next stages will add new letters to practice.  Kids will love learning to type with this creative BBC site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing

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Whizzball

Whizzball is one of the most popular games the kids play on the computer. This puzzle game is extremely fun, addicting and challenging. The main task is to get the ball to hit the target goal, using the available items. Choose levels, built by other kids, that vary in difficulty from very easy levels to very hard elaborate designs. Kids can even design their own levels and save them for others to play!

kids.discovery.com/games/puzzle-quiz/whizzball

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Fantastic Contraption 2

Fantastic Contraption 2 is a physics-based game that will challenge kids to use their brains to problem solve. Each level has the same objective, to get the wheel into the target area. Through building the contraptions, kids will learn the fundamental laws of mechanical physics!

http://www.fantasticcontraption2.net

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Spin and Spell

Spin and Spell challenges kids to spell with a fun twist. After clicking on the “Start Game” button, five categories appear. Each category has various pictures. Kids pick the picture they want, then try to spell the item using the wheel of letters.

http://www.spinandspell.com

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Puzzle Me Words

Puzzle Me Words is a great computer game for young kids to play to learn how to spell. The game reinforces letter sounds by having kids combine letters to form words that describe the pictures they see. There are two different levels, beginner and advanced for kids to choose to play. The beginner level offers only a handful of letters for kids to select. The advance level displays all 26 letters of the alphabet for kids to choose from to spell the word.

http://www.readwritethink.org

PBS Kids Play

PBS Kids Play includes dozens of education games and activities featuring kids favorite PBS stars. The games adjust to your child’s skill level and even includes a chart for tracking progress! The subscription is $9.95 a month. However, the website offers a 10 day free trial, no registration required.

http://www.pbskidsplay.org

Subscription Includes Full Access to:

• 50 Exclusive Full-screen Games
• 100s of PBS KIDS TV Episodes

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