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Sunday, November 2, 2008
The Counting Game:
The Counting on a cloud game by Funschool is a fun game for preschoolers who are learning basic counting skills and number recognition. The goal of this game is to teach children how to count, using pictures, numbers, and sounds. Children are required to pick the difficulty level at the top of the window. There are 2 levels to choose: 1=easy; 2=harder. If the child is playing at level 1, children would first click a picture on the left follow by clicking a number on the right. Children will see the picture they have chosen being counted out to reach the number they have picked. However if the child is playing at level 2, children would again click a picture on the left first and would have to count how many of the picture has appear and den click the correct number on the right.
This game from Funschool is a well recommended website for children to be engaged in a fun and interactive learning whereby children will be able to experience learning in a much different way. The pictures for children to click on are icons that children are familiar with and are normally exposed to such as dog, rabbit, frog, car and etc. Moreover, with its colourful and attractive pictures and animation, children will be more interested to learn counting and recognize numbers. In addition, in level 1 of the game, there is a sound whereby it counts together when the picture icon appears. Thus, children are able to verbalize the numbers and count together as they play the game. Through this game, children will no longer feel that learning to count is a boring or uninteresting matter anymore.
The Fetch and Spell game:
The Fetch and Spell game by CBeebies is a game made to help children to recognize alphabets and begin to spell words by starting with simple words such as bag, bun,dog and etc. This game is suitable for preschoolers aged 3 and above. This game is fun and interactive as children get to play the maze and fetch alphabets to form a simple word. At the same time, children also get to know how to spell words. In order to play this game, children would first pick the difficulty level followed by picking a character to play with. After which an alphabet would appear on the top right hand corner and children would have to use the arrow buttons to fetch the alphabet that is in the maze. In addition, the phonetic sound of the alphabet is produced while the child is trying to fetch the correct alphabet. Each time the correct alphabet is fetched, a “well done” sound will be heard.
This game is helpful for children who have difficulties spelling simple words and find it a difficult task for them. The pictures and sounds that produced are stimulating and educational for the children as they play this game of fetch and spell. The phonetic sound of the alphabet that is produced helps children to learn pronunciation of each alphabet and the simple maze enables children to find their way to look for the alphabet that is required to form the word. Hence, through finding the alphabet in the maze, children will be able to recognize the alphabets as well as know which alphabets are used to form a word. Thus, through this fun and interesting game, children will slowly develop an interest to learn spelling of words.
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Online games & activities for preschool
The Marelino’s letter game by UptoTen Online Games caters to children between ages 6 to 10. This activity is about finding the letter on the keyboard before the alphabet reaches the ground. Children are supposed to look out for the particular alphabet dropping down from the air. After which, children will search and hit for that letter on the keyboard before it reaches the ground. If the child is able to hit on the correct letter key, he will earn 1 point. However, if he hit on the wrong letter key, he will lose 1 point. And if the letter touches the ground, he will lose 4 points. If the child is quick enough, he will get the maximum score: 52. The game will start with 26 points.
UptoTen Online Games is a recommended website specially designated for children to be engaged in interactive and educational games and activities. The website provides various kinds of games ranging from adventurous to educational games which would help enhance children language and mathematics skills. Not only that, UptoTen Online Games also provides games which support eye-hand coordination skills which might not be available in other websites. By enhancing on all areas of the children’s developmental growth, UptoTen Online Games is definitely a trusted website that all teachers could include into their curriculum to make lessons more interesting. The instructions given are simple, precise, short and comprehensible by children. The use of pictures together with the directional arrows also makes it easier for children to comprehend the instructions better. Besides that, the layout of the website which is colourful and animated would attract the attention of the children to explore about the website. In addition, the meaningful icons which are neatly lined in a row enable children to have easy access about the website. In conclusion, UptoTen Online Games is a recommended website for children between ages 6 to 10.
Online Activity 2: BBC School-Cross the Swamp -  Cross the Swamp game by BBC school is specially designated for children between ages 4-7, 7-11 and 11-16. In this activity, the children have to help Little Ron move from log to log across the swamp. Before the start of the game, the child is required to on the game to choose the category between addition and subtraction or multiplication and division. Next, the child will need to decide on the number level which he wants to play. Upon choosing the game and the number level, the game begins. At the start of the game, the child has to click on one of the logs that is flashing which will lead Little Ron to the next log. Then, the child has to click on the correct operation sign on the calculation. When the child has got that right, he will click on the correct number on the calculator. If the child needs help, he could click on the frog and a number square will appear.
BBC school provides games and activities of various subjects such as English, Mathematics, Geography, Science, History and more. The games and activities are developmental appropriate as they are classified into 3 different age category in which the games are specifically suitable for each particular age group. As a result, the classification of the games according to its age appropriateness enables preschooler to gain a sense of independence and control to explore when they are able to accomplish and manage the game on their own without difficulty. Moving on to the layout of the website, the children would definitely be attracted to the animated pictures and the used of the colourful wallpaper. The overall displayed of the icons and the layouts are pretty simple which enables children to have easy access about the website and without getting frustrated. Besides that, the instructions which are given are clear, simple and easy for preschooler to comprehend. With the additional sounds effects, it enables children who have difficulty reading to understand the instructions clearer. As such, BBC school is a highly recommended website which preschool teachers could inculcate into their curriculum for its educational values.
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