Benefits of Using Educational Learning Games For Home Schooled Children

In recent years, educational and learning games or also known as educational learning games have been used as supplementary teaching and learning tools by parents or private tutors who teach children with the use of the home schooling or home education approach of educating kindergarten and primary school age children. The educational and learning games used for home schooled children would primarily consists of two types. The first type is the traditional educational and learning games that could be bought from bookstores and toy stores. The second type is the free online resources that could be downloaded for free or for a small fee from various Internet websites that are dedicated to online resources for home educated children.

Many home education experts and advocates have stated that there are several benefits or advantages when educational learning games are simultaneously used as supplementary teaching tools by the parents or tutors in teaching lessons to the home schooled children. In addition, there are traditional and online resources for educational and learning games that would also allow the children to learn on their own or allow them to self-study.

Therefore, it is beneficial for parents and tutors if they use the educational learning games that could be used as teaching tools for the children and at the same time, those games could be used by the children for learning by themselves. Another benefit of using educational and learning games as supplementary tools in home education of children is the emotional bonding that occurs when a parent and child are playing together.

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Benefits of Educational Learning Games for Children

Educational learning games are structured plays that have been designed in teaching people especially children for learning about a specific subject and helping them in learning a particular skill during the activity of playing. The primary learning games include board games, card games and video games. Whether you are a kindergarten class teacher, or a primary school teacher, or a parent educating your child through the home education approach, it would already cross your mind that there are several benefits in using educational games for children in the classroom or at home.

You should take note that educational learning games should only serve as supplemental tools for teaching children and in helping them in learning. Those games should never replace the formal teaching tools that are used for educating children in a formal classroom, or the recommended teaching tools used under the home education approach. However, various research studies and educational experts have stated that educational games provide several benefits for children when used as supplemental teaching tools in the classroom, and if used by parents in their home education methods.

The various benefits of using educational learning games for children in the classroom and at the home include developing motor skills especially for preschool children and kindergarten students. Other benefits include the enhancement of creativity and memory skills. Board games in numbers and mathematics would require the child to regularly memorise and repeat a game, which encourages brain activity. Educational games that involve creativity would push the children in thinking of other options for finding an answer.

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Using Educational Learning Games as Teaching Tools

I am now a second year bachelor of science in education student and I have already learned specific concepts in teaching and learning such as the ideas for educational learning games that I could use when I start teaching for kindergarten and elementary school students, which is my planned specialty. Our professor told us that educational games and activities are important for kindergarten students and for first to third grade students due to several reasons. So when our instructor gave as an assignment paper on educational learning for elementary school students, I focused my paper on the importance of educational games for kindergarten and first to third grade students.

In my paper, I stated that the importance of educational learning games are based on the specific types of games and the benefits they could offer to the students. The traditional educational board and card games are still the best for children in the five to seven years old age group because they would catch the attention of the students since various board and card games show images and other colorful visuals that would attract their interests.

I also said in my paper that educational learning games of boards and cards have become effective teaching tools because they improve sensory skills on how to distinguish various colors, shapes and sizes, alphabets and numbers in a way that is fun and not boring for children in the five to seven years old age bracket. Board and card games of alphabets and numbers would also teach the children about the basic skills in reading and counting.

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