Good educational online game

[zumbamama]

DS has been hooked on this geography game I found at www.iknowthat.com (click on Social Studies). He's been playing the map games for several months, and that sparked interest in his maps and globes. He is in Kindergarten and can map Europe, Africa, N. America and knows all the states and oceans. Awww, I'm so proud. Maybe next week he'll want to be a cartographer instead of a trashman.

[Anonymous]

I don't know about that. Cartographers (or at least the ones I know) don't read maps so well, especially road maps.

I don't really know any good online games. We purchased all of ours. We have hooked on phonics, Dora and Nemo type games. They all involve numbers and letters, and some include instruments and art.

[Anonymous]

Zumba--your son might like this site too: http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html

[Anonymous]

www.starfall.com

[Anonymous]

www.pbs.com

[Anonymous]

oops, i meant www.pbskids.org

[Anonymous]

When did people start doing online games/educations activities with their child?

[Anonymous]

The family I nannied for did online games together, in 1995.

[Anonymous]

My 4 yo likes the simplified drawing program Tux Paint (free download for the Mac, not sure if it's available for PC). He also likes to type on a word processor. I set the font size really big and let him choose the color of the letters. I think it's nice for him, because he likes to "write" but it's still a struggle for him physically.

We like starfall.com . And I've gotten a Dora game for him but he hasn't tried it yet.

And OP -- my son wants to be a truck driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The family I nannied for did online games together, in 1995.

Sorry, I meant at what age do people start doing online games with their children.

[Anonymous]

We started at around 6, and have recently begun teaching him to program.

[zumbamama]

I began teaching DS the computer at age 3. I just let him play on my design programs, and he had a ball drawing shapes and typing letters. Gradually he moved onto more complex learning games on geography and math. It didn't take him long to learn how to navigate both PC and MAC. I think it gave him a great head start on reading and computer skills, as he is in the advanced reading group in his class and is quite confident in the Kindergarten computer lab. I know, I know, not to be a braggy mom, but I think it's wonderful to watch them grow up with all this technology. As long as you monitor them of course.