Saturday, February 9, 2013
Who knew 4 year olds could be technologically savvy?!
While reading through this weeks class notes and things to explore, I noticed that some of the suggested websites are those my children spend time visiting each day. During my literacy block in the morning, my children rotate through centers and one that they go to each day is the computer center. When they are there they can choose to visit starfall or pbs kids. It amazes me how different the world is today. The fact that we have children in preschool who are learning how to operate computers, the keyboard and the mouse blows my mind.
I hope this screenshot helps viewers see the different activities children can participate in when they first visit the site. For some of my children who are still working on letter and sound identification, they visit the ABC's page. I have some children however who are beginning to read and some who are already reading and for them this is a great tool as well to look at different books.
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This is interesting because Starfall and PBS Kids are the 2 sites my kids use most often also.I like Starfall because so many different levels of readers can enjoy it. It's so cool that you have some beginning readers in preschool. I'd like to get them in my class!!
ReplyDeleteMy first graders also use starfall frequently. I love that they have an app for the iPad in addition to their website! This makes it more accessible to the students at home who may have an iPad or tablet as opposed to a computer.
ReplyDeleteI love this website. My kids also use it and I know that we are allowed to validate computers for the More Starfall usage, which includes a plethora of extra activities, a talking library, and nursery rhymes/sing alongs!
ReplyDeletePS. Since when did you become so Tech savvy?? How in the world do you do a screen shot? Well done!
ReplyDeleteMy class uses this as well. I literally had the kids complete a level every other day in the fall to set them up to use RAZ kids.
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