Funbrain.com is a fun website with games for kids of a variety of ages to play. Games are typically educational such as math based games or grammar based games, but also fun as well. One can play Sudoku or create your own mad libs as well. I would highly recommend this online web resource for teachers to introduce to students of all ages from k-8. Certain games are more suited for younger children while other games are more suited to a slightly older crowd. ( )

The Funbrain website is a free educational game site of kids. It provides a safe learning and gaming environment for school-aged children, more appropriate for children in first grade or above. Two main features of this website are teaching children grammar and math skills. The countless games the website has to offer includes children identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives, and solving addition, subtraction, or algebraic math equations. The games are not only educational but fun and interactive. There are arcade themes, baseball games, and even race car driving. The website also offers movies, web books and comics, and even a section for teachers to incorporate Funbrain activities into their curriculum. Funbrain is a perfect website to have available in an elementary classroom, in a school or public library, or even a fun learning activity at home. ( )

Funbrain.com features a math arcade, reading mad lib activities, and more general games where you jump over things and enter doors. In some of the games children solve clues and move forward in a variety of game formats. However, be aware when playing Poptropica in the arcade, the page might freeze. Problems might arise when creating a character and then trying to get back in the game. Directions are very limited causing children to get frustrated and quit. The math games are simple and direct. A second frustration is the amount of advertising from Amazon, Target and Best Buy. The layout reflects a store website with a large featured activity box encouraging Shrek DVD sales. Simple underlined links connect to games. A third frustration is that some of the games/activities do not feature a link so that the player can click back quickly to the home page. Some games are easy to figure out while others are not, even for an adult. Interestingly, chapters from A Diary of a Wimpy Kid Day 90 and The Callahan Cousins are featured e-books. Not recommended. Ages 5-14. ( )