Educational Sites For Children

Actually there are many fun and educational games over at the Sesame Street Site. However, I singled Elmo's Keyboard-O-Rama because it is excellent for toddlers to learn their alphabets.

Elmo's Keyboard O-Rama is a great place to start teaching kids the alphabet. It is so much fun for toddlers. Just open the site and let them explore on their own. You will be amazed at the number of alphabets they learn on their own through exploring.

My kids practically learned to read from Learn to Read At Starfall. Starting from Alphabets, then moving on to Learn to Read, It's fun to Read and finally graduating at I'm Reading Level. Lovely interactive stories can be found here.

This is the San Francisco Symphony Kids Webstite. Your child will have a musical blast learning about the instruments of an orchestra with a 3D view of the muscial instruments and the sounds they make. There is also a music lab for childrent explore and make music!

Kids learn not only from strictly educational sites. Children learn very well from stories, what more when the stories are interactive and magical. This is the direct link to the atoz index for all BBC- CBeebies stories. So many fun, interactive kids stories to choose from here. Your child can explore this site for a story a day.

Kids can learn alphabets, numbers, writing, shapes, colors and more at Literacy Center. Concentration games and other games aid learning. For the numbers learning, children can start with basic numbers and move up to learning numbers on a clock, both digital as well as analog.

Children can learn all about Science, Math, English, Health, Social Studies, Arts and Music here. All learning modules are organised into little movies or short video tutorials. This is a paying site. However, the link I have provided here is for the free educational videos available at Brain Pop.

Imaginative play and creative play equals to educating children. Enchanted Learning has a wide resource of online educational materials. Some of them are free, some not. This links directly to the index of learning materials. You can find almost anything here, from a dinosaur dictionary to tongue twisters and all sorts of crafts.

BBC School's Dance Mat Typing is a colourful, fun and interactive place for kids to learn typing. Forget about boring typing books. This is THE place for kids to learn how to type. Typing is an essential skill that everyone needs to know these days in order to get around really fast using the computer keyboard. This site teaches kids how to type step-by-step in a fun and interactive manner.

It has 4 levels, each level as 3 stages. That makes it 12 stages altogether. Depending on which stage you complete, kids will be rewarded with a dance and a song from the "teacher" at that stage. The "teacher" are depicted by colorful animals including an octopus, a giraffe, a goat and various other colorful characters.

My kids are born in the digital age. Right from the time when they were toddlers, they started picking up the mouse and navigating. The internet can be a good place or a bad place for kids. It is up to you. You can find many useful resources to supplement kids learning. Kids learn fast from the internet because it is interactive and fun.

Reading a book can be so much fun when you click on a character or picture and the character speaks or does something. It can be a good starting point to encourage children to read. Children learn fast from stories, songs and through play. You can find many of these wonderful educational resources for children online and quite often for free.

The only negative side is.... you have to find a way to pull your kid from the computer now that you've introduced them to it! ;) Well, that is not completely true. If you do not introduce yourself to the computer, they will learn sooner or later. So it might as well be from you. It is also a parent's job to make sure that a child learns all about internet safety and the right way to conduct oneself online etc.