Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Feature #6: PBS Kids

          

          PBS Kids (https://pbskids.org/) is a simple, safe online experience for young children who are learning basic skills, and who already know many of the characters featured on the website such as Sesame Street and Curious George.  They will enjoy playing games with their favorite character for free.  PBS Kids is designed for children 4 and up.  The site features games, videos, and other activities that center on popular PBS live-action and animated show characters.  On the PBS Kids face page, there is a rotating wheel with all the different characters to choose from.  When you select a character it will take you directly to their page to play educational and fun games.

            This educational site provides basic lessons involving favorite PBS TV characters in an easy-to-use format with voice-over instructions.  There is so much to do on this site including watching TV, playing games, and activities that can be printed out to do offline. Some of the activities included on the site are letters, numbers, and shapes for primary and for the older students, they have skilled subjects such as language and reading, following directions, letters, word recognition, reading, and vocabulary.

            Another great feature about this website is that they have a free app that allows adults to monitor their child’s activity online.  The app will periodically send parents an update with the site's corresponding app, reporting all their child’s activity online.  Overall, PBS Kids is an appropriate site for children with many fun activities, games, and TV shows to keep learning ongoing and children entertained.  

*Contribution by C. Lorenzo

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