Week 5 cont.

I have found learningplanet.com to be a valuable resource, it has many games designed to help children learn. The games are organized by both subject and grade level. Specifically I plan to use “Count your chickens”. It is a counting game using animated pictures of animals to help the player learn to count and to recognize the written number and associate it with the number of animals on the screen. This game has an added bonus in that it has audio on it so a player who does not yet read could still play the game. This game displays a picture of animals- for example chickens, and audibly says count your chickens and put three squares with consecutive numbers in them at the bottom of the screen. If there are three chickens on the screen the numbers on the bottom of the screen might be 3, 4, and 5. The player then chooses the number, if they are correct the program responds right and moves on, if not the game says let’s count together and verbally counts the chickens and highlights them and lets the player try again. I liked this method because it positively teaches the child how to count without making them feel bad for choosing the incorrect number. With this game I plan on using headphones so that the game can be played in a classroom with other students without distracting anyone.