Kids Learning Games and Stories
Children love to play games and hear or read stories. When games and stories are entertaining, children often don't realize they are learning. Mathematical games and those with literary activities teach children lessons and help them to develop fundamental learning skills. The Internet provides access to many learning games and traditional children's stories.
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PBS Kids
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PBS Kids is a website operated by the Public Broadcasting System. It features hundreds of fun educational games and videos. The site offers many music and coloring activities helping children learn the basic concepts of the arts. The games and activities often have tie-ins to popular "PBS Kids" cartoon television shows. Kids learn to count and spell while enjoying their favorite cartoon characters. The website's grownup section provides information for hands-on science activities, and activity guides for teachers and parents.
Learning Games For Kids
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Learning Games For Kids is a website offering numerous entertaining and challenging educational games for children. The site offers computer versions of traditional learning techniques such as flash cards and mazes. Children learn to read through phonics, vocabulary, spelling and vowel games. Ghost, monster and adventure games teach fundamental typing skills. Many fields of learning are covered with educational games relating to art and music, math, health, geography, social studies and science.
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"Aesop's Fables"
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Fairy tales and fables tell a short story teaching kids a moral or a lesson. Some of the stories such as "Aesop's Fables," date back to Classical Greek times. According to legend the stories were originally told by a Greek slave. The lesson of the story is often disguised as entertainment with many of the stories featuring talking animals. Many common sayings come from the stories, including "honesty is the best policy."
"Grimm's Fairy Tales"
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In the early 1800s the Grimm Brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published a set of Germanic folk tales geared toward children. Many of the stories tell gory, uncensored tales using their shock value to drive home the moral lesson they are teaching. Violence is often meted out as punishment to villains in the stories. Good behavior brings just rewards and the stories teach children to consider the consequences of their actions. Many of the tales use complex involved plots and character development to make their point.
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