http://www.abcya.com/kindergarten_computers.htm
ABCya! is a great find for parents looking for something extra for their children to do on the internet. It is vital that children learn to use computers at home and in classrooms, and it is equally important that students come into school having already learned how to navigate a computer screen.
The games on the page, while simple and fun, help children learn how to navigate a computer web page and more importantly, how to click, drag, and double click. The language on the web page is simplistic enough for young children on elevated reading levels to navigate without much help from an adult. As we know children should be closely monitored while using the internet. If a child were unable to read the boxes to click on, not much harm would be done by clicking randomly on the site, aside from opening a million windows. Even the ads on the boarder of the page are fairly child friendly. I love the "make a face" game. I'm going to bookmark the page on my computers at school as a fun extra turn on the computer.
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I thought it was a fun site too. Do you have smart boards at your school? If so you could use some of these games as a whole class activity to get everyone involved. The computer button game and computer vocabulary hunt would be great things to do as a class.
ReplyDeleteI don't have access to a smart board, but I agree, it would be a lot of fun to try some of these games with the whole class at one time!
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