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class 676 Assignment 3 continued For classroom use:

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Teachme Kindergaten has a little mouse as the teacher who asks various questions in the subject areas of Math (adding & subtracting), Spelling, and reading and finding Dolch Sight Words. As the child gives the correct answers the child receive points. After getting enough points, the child receives a coin which they can save or spend on stickers to place on their special posters (all located virtually within the game). I had my 6 year old niece playing it. She now asks if I remembered to bring "that game" every time I come to her home. This game is great for reviewing skills and keeping them fun.

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Shape Builder Lite is a free app or you can buy the other version. Basically, it can help a child with spacial awareness skills and fine motor skills. The game gives you the outline and puzzle pieces that you slide into place and then you see what the picture really becomes. The game also reads the word as well as writes the word on the screen after the puzzle is complete.

4. [] Early Reader is basically electronic flashcards that you can have the app read to the child or turn the sound off and the child reads it to you. It may help my struggling readers by having the flashcards reading to them over and over again. Also, sometimes having a flash card that looks fun (the itouch) vs. a laminated piece of card stock makes a child try to read the words.

5. [] Feed Me! PencilBot is good for various skills such as number sequencing, shapes recognition, color recognition, matching upper & lower case letters, and other early childhood skills. I believe this would be a good way to help my lower students get "caught up" to those who had pre-school or K-4 experiences. It would be a good review for those who have these skills but wish to play too. My niece loved this game too. If you feed the little monster the wrong answer he sticks out his tongue and says yuck or turns green (supposedly sick) so even getting a wrong answer is fun in a way. If you get the answers all right, you receive a prize that is placed on your prize board.

6. [] abc Pocket Phonics is a game that has the child trace the letter while saying it's sound. The game starts off with letters of the alphabet. The game says "m says /m/ now you write and say the letter". The child then traces the letter and says the sound of the letter. The neat thing is the letters used are D'Nealian print which is what my school district uses and is hard to find within games. Then you can switch the game mode to spelling words, and the game helps the child blend the letter sounds to read and spell the word. This would be a useful tool everytime I introduce a new letter for the week. It would also help those children who just can't recall how to write the lowercase letter or remember it's sound.