Play reading, letter, number, science, math, literacy, spelling and vocabulary games at the PBS Kids website. Familiar characters from PBS shows and children's books, such as Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, Curious George, Clifford the Dog and Dr. Suess, guide kids through educational games online. Cookie Monster's Letter of the Day game, the Cat in the Hat Weather Transformer and a Curious George Count Your Chickens game are some of the games offered. Go on a virtual word hunt or play interactive games such as Surfer Girl, which highlights certain letters and sounds in an online story at the Starfall website.
Books such as "Goosebumps," "Charlotte's Web" and others come alive with virtual games at the Scholastic website. These games use book characters, plots and environments to create worlds where kids can further their adventures with their favorite books to increase their interesting in reading. Scholastic provides arcade games and virtual quizzes and polls as well as writing games to encourage children to write their own stories. Solve online Sudoku puzzles or play a virtual hangman game on Fact Monster's website, which has interactive games and quizzes in all basic subject areas.
Buzz Lightyear Returns From Space in an interactive game on the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) Kids' Club website. The site also offers a Space Lunch game, as well as other interactive activities for kids. Kids can play Stump Your Parents or solve Quiz Your Noodle quizzes about a wide variety of topics while learning about everything from geckos to weather and our circulatory system online at the National Geographic Kids website.
Choose from hundreds of online games on the Funbrain website. Flash games such as Grammar Gorillas, Scramble-Saurus, Fresh Baked Fractions, Mathcar Racing and Proton Don keep kids occupied for hours while they learn. Online logic puzzles, word problems and math games such as Math Man, which is like the classic Pac Man game, are all available at Math Playground.