Starfall is filled with educational games that will prepare 3-year-olds for kindergarten. The website also provides curriculum ideas for teachers.
The ABC Game will help children recognize capital and lowercase letters and learn the sounds they make. Your child also can watch videos that will teach him the alphabet song and the sign language alphabet.
The Gingerbread Man game will teach children about different shapes and colors as they decorate their gingerbread cookie. They will click on shapes for the cookie's eyes, nose, mouth and buttons, then choose colors for each of the shapes.
PBS Kids offers games, stories and songs featuring PBS characters familiar to children, such as Curious George, Clifford and Cat in the Hat. The PBS website also has teacher resources, including videos, TV programs and web content to support your curriculum.
PBS Kids has games for children 3 to 5 years old. The "Lovely Letter Match Up" game shows students how to match letter sounds with the beginning letters of objects. The Spelling Bee Game helps students learn the sounds of letters, then uses those sounds to spell three-letter words.
The Nick Jr. website has games, videos and an art workshop. The games feature familiar characters, such as Dora the Explorer, the Backyardigans and Blue from Blue's Clues. Nick Jr. also offers crafts, recipes, printable books and child development and family information.
The "Dora the Explorer: First Day of School" game will help your students count, find missing numbers and learn to add. This Nick Jr. game will introduce children to Spanish words. "Kai-lan's Super Apple Surprise" emphasizes counting from 1 to 5 and learning the colors yellow, red and green.
The Disney Junior website has a coloring workshop and a large number of games, videos and stories for pre-K students. The games on this website feature characters from such movies as "Cars," "Winnie the Pooh" and "Toy Story," as well as Minnie, Mickey and friends.
The "Choo, Choo Express" game will teach your students how to follow a pattern using the colors red, yellow and blue. To make this pattern, students use colored tracks from the Choo Choo Express train.
The "Mickey Treasure Hunt" game teaches children to recognize shapes and colors. They will find the hidden treasure when they complete all the steps of the game. These five steps include recognizing shapes, such as squares, stars and triangles, and the colors red, green and blue.