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ABC Adventure

anne marie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:03:34 +0000

Harcourt Publishing has an ABC Adventure interactive game that teaches/reinforces the letters of the alphabet. A keyboard appears on the screen and the player uses their computer keyboard to fill in the missing letters. It has nice voice output and I like that the letters are highlighted. A very basic, effective activity. This is a great activity for students to review the alphabet and practice keyboarding skills. It presents well on the SMARTBoard and you could either have students use the computer attached to the SMARTBoard or use the SMARTBoard keyboard. ENJOY!

Alphabet

anne marie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:08:23 +0000

English Alphabet from NGfL, is a good activity for alphabet/letter review that works well with the SMARTBoard. The initial screen reviews the letters with visual and audio cues. You can then either touch each letter in the alphabet on the top of the screen or click on the arrow in the right bottom corner to advance letters. A new screen will appear with that letter on it. There is an icon box under each letter that, when clicked, will active different features: the pencil will trace the letter, the ear will sound out the letter phonetically, the speaker will say the letter and the 2 lines will stop a feature. Again- a good basic alphabet letter site that works well with the SMARTBoard- ENJOY! Oh yeah, I should perhaps mention that when speaking the letter “Z”- it is not pronounced in English.

Rhyming Words

anne marie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:26:04 +0000

I have discovered some very cool, and new to me, sites that help assist with reinforcing and reviewing rhyming that I wanted to share. The first is by Golden Books called Cat at Bat. This activity simulates a baseball game- every correct answer scores a run and every wrong answer is an out. Players read the word that appears on the bulletin board and if the pitcher throws a word that rhymes with that word they would click on the word. This activity works well on the SMART Board.

The BBC Little Animals Activity Center also has a fun activity to reinforce rhyming. It offers three difficulty levels. Players must match the rhyming words that appear on the screen. If they pick the correct answer the ground hog will digdown to the word. This activity does have audio support and works well with the SMARTBoard.

PBS has a very cute, fun short rhyming video/activity starring Grover which presents well on the SMART Board. The younger children LOVE watching this one! ENJOY!

BBC Games

anne marie — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:13:08 +0000

Want to share another great site from the BBC– KS1 Bitesize Games. This addresses two areas: Literacy and Numeracy. Both present with several subcategories including addition, multiplication, money skills under numeracy and spelling, alphabetical order, phonics under literacy. Each category has three skill level options, presents with some verbal feedback, is animated and fun! These games work well with the SMARTBoard. So if you’re searching for some fun, motivating games to reinforce literacy and numeracy skills look no more– just click on over to KS1 Bitesize Games. ENJOY!

School Time Activities and Games

anne marie — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:39:18 +0000

School Time Games is a site that offers several fun learning activities for students age 9 and older. In their own words: “We’ve selected a variety of engaging games, puzzles, and activities that are connected to major subject areas in today’s school curriculum.” The site indicates that there are 200 games. Several of these games will work well on the SMART Board- ENJOY!

The Plural Girls- double the learning fun!

anne marie — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:31:07 +0000

The Plurals Girls is a fun game on FunBrain.com that reinforces identifying plurals. “Twin sisters Pearl and Flora lost their friends in the bubble machine. Help them get their friends out by choosing the correct plural form of the given word.”With each correct answer a friend appears from the bubble machine. 8 correct answers ends the game. There are two difficulty levels for each game. The multiple choice options work well with the SMARTBoard since the game gives you two answers and you simply touch your answer. With the fill in the blank options you need to type/spell your answers. You could utilize the SMART On-Screen Keyboard to type the answers, as long as the cursor is in the answer box.

So if you need a game to reinforce/practice plurals head on over and introduce yourself to The Plural Girls, Pearl and Flora, they’re sure to make you smile- ENJOY!

Kindersite

anne marie — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:57:42 +0000

Kindersite is a great resource for educational games/activities for students ages 7-12 in the areas of Mathematics, Art and Music, Languages, Science, etc. ENJOY!

BrainPopJr Games

anne marie — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:39 +0000

I just learned that the games on BrainpopJr.com are free so I wanted to pass that information along for those of you who were unaware, like me! There are several games, for a variety of disciplines and many work very well on the SMARTBoard. ENJOY!

Game Templates

anne marie — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:37:09 +0000

Many teachers are wanting to create review games as part of the end of the year schedule so I thought I would share a site that I learned about from ateachingheart over on Twitter called Game Templates and More. This site offers a plethora of game templates created in Powerpoint. Find the template you want, plug in the information and play! Most of these games will present well on the SMART Board- ENJOY!

Meet Harry the Hamster!

anne marie — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:39:01 +0000

I stumbled across this cute little hamster while I was exlporing the website Fun4theBrain.com. If you want a little pet hamster of your own to love, here is the link! Watch Harry run on his wheel, drink water, and eat the food you feed him by clicking your mouse in the cage. Click the center of the wheel to make Harry hop back on the wheel for a run.

Now about the site Fun4theBrain.com. This site offers some great, fun math games to review and reinforce addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. It also offers games in the areas of English, Reading and Science Tutorials. In their own words-

”All games here were made by Exuberant Games. Each game goes through important information for a certain subject matter for grades Kindergarten through 6th grade. The math games are great if you need to review your math facts for addition, subtraction , or division. Be sure to check out our new games for other subjects.

English games to review parts of speech

Reading games to help learn sight words

Science tutorials and games are coming soon”

Many of these games will work wonderfully on the SMARTBoard. ENJOY!