Play --- An Important Part Of Learning

As the kids settle in to a new school year, it's good to remember that play is an important part of the educational process!

There are fun, even exciting, ways to help our children exercise their brains and support classroom objectives. Fortunately, specialty toy manufacturers are introducing delightful toys, games and activity sets that help students have fun, acquire skills, experience success and build self-esteem. And we have many of them!

For instance, the Think Fun Company produces a series of games that help sharpen strategy and logic skills. Three that we especially like are the Rush Hour games, Pete's Pike and Ducks in a Row.

Also on the market are educational games for math review by companies like Educational Insights and Learning Resources --- games such as Addition and Subtraction Math Keyboard, the Multiplication Math Keyboard and Pizza Fraction Fun. We also have a supply of good, old-fashioned flashcards!

Beginning reading skills can be honed with Educational Insight's Phonics Activity Sets and Inside Answers, an interactive card game that helps children build three-letter words with the answer inside.

Grammar can be fun! The Go To Press! board game helps players edit headlines and improve their skills in grammar, punctuation, capitalization, verb tense and spelling.

We have a broad selection of experiments from Thames and Kosmos, one of the nation's premier science lines for elementary and high school students, as well as science projects from Scientific Explorer and Educational Insights!

Well, you get the idea. These are just a few of the "educational and fun" toys and games we feature. So support our teachers and play school with your kids by browsing http://www.myfavtoys.com/ or, if you are within driving distance of our bricks-and-mortar store at University Mall in Carbondale (IL), come on in and see us!