Blocks from http://www.lil-fingers.com
"A great deal of the learning
in using a computer at an early age comes from the interaction
between the child and the adult, not from the interaction
with the computer. By the age of three, a child can begin
to use a computer and discovery-based software meaningfully,
with the help of an adult or older child. Remember
to plan for the important tasks of the early years before
allowing children to be distracted by too much electronic
stimulation."
From: Early
Connections:Technology in Early Childhood Education
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Letters/Sounds
Literacy
Center - the Early Childhood Education Network
http://www.literacycenter.net/lessonview_en.htm
This website has letters, numbers, colors, shapes and demonstrates how
to write letters. Click on a lesson. Click on the arrows to move or
click on the 1-2-3 to see different lessons.
Sesame
Street Workshop
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Big Bird Gets a Letter - choose 3 of 6 items that begin with
a letter.
Bumper Cars - give Oscar certain items that begin with a letter
to get a ticket.
Kangaroo
Confusion
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/pawpark/pawpark.html
Gives oral directions. Find the matching upper case letter to match
a lower case letter; no words to match.
Leo
Loves to Spell
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/leo/index.htm
Find the capital and lower case letters and move them to the box with
a picture that begins with that letter. The directions are not written
on the site.
Picture
Match
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/
No sound. Look at the picture and choose the first letter. Beginning
letters and short vowel sounds.
Alphabet
Action
http://www.learningplanet.com/act/fl/aact/index.asp
Letter exposure. Click on a letter to hear its name and see a picture
that begins with that letter.
Animated
Alphabet
http://www.pacificnet.net/%7Ecmoore/alphabet/index.htm
Letter exposure. No sound, but there is a sentence and animated picture.
Alphabet
Animals
http://www.infostuff.com/kids/a.htm
Letter exposure. No sound.
Alphabet
Puzzles
http://www.first-school.ws/theme/alphabetp13.htm
Move pieces of a puzzle to show one letter and one picture that begins
with that letter.
Identify
Animal Sounds
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/school006/school006.html
Gives oral directions. Use the mouse to click on an animal picture that
matches its sound.
Rhyming/Poems
Reggie
Loves to Rhyme
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/index.htm
Visit different places with Reggie and find words that rhyme. You can
hear the word only after you select it.
For Teachers:
Preschool
Education Music and Songs
http://www.preschooleducation.com/song.shtml
CanTeach
Songs and Poems
http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html
Preschool
Fingerplays and Poems
http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-rhymes.htm
Look on the right side panel for themes - animals, counting, self rhymes.
Sequencing/Sorting
Sesame
Street Workshop
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Zoe's Animal Shelter - sort the animals by color, size, stripes,
etc. Directions are given.
Limbo Elmo - choose the shortest
monster to limbo. Directions are given.
Zoe's Halloween Game - put eyes, clothes etc. on a witch, scarecrow
or jack-o-lantern
Elmo's Mixed-Up Farm - listen to the mixed-up animal noises and
let them switch
Crayons - Pick item with clues like alive, yellow, and live in
water to find crayons.
Lil'
Fingers Games
http://www.lil-fingers.com/games/index.html
Match-Up is a simple game with 3 shapes and colors to match to win the
game.
Which
One is Different?
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/school001/school001.html
Either point, or have your child point at the object that looks different.
You can talk about what the objects are and what makes them different.
Then click it.
Tina's
World Buggy Trails
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/tina2/tina2.html
Click on objects in the order that Tina says.
Nina's
Naming Game
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/nina/index.htm
Go to a place and choose the items that belong in that place, such as
in a home, a restaurant or the firehouse. You can hear the items named
if you click on them.
Magnetic
Poetry - Nursery Rhymes
http://www.snaithprimary.eril.net/nursery.htm
Move the words around to write the rhyme.
Vocabulary
What's
in the Bag?
http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/in_the_bag/index.html
Listen to the 3 clue words
and guess what is in the bag.
Do
2 Learn Games
http://www.dotolearn.com/games/learningames.htm
Create A Room-name items
and move them into a bedroom, living room, dining room and a kitchen
Feelings Game-choose a photo of a person with feelings
What's Different?-pick an object that doesn't fit.
What Color?
Spatial
Concepts
http://www.meddybemps.com/9.600.html
Move animals in, on, under, over different places and discuss with teacher/adult.
Cloze
Rebus
Nursery Rhymes
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Rhymes.html
Have students fill in the words of the nursery rhymes by looking at
the rebus pictures and naming them.
Books and Stories
Tina's
World Real or Make-Believe
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/games/tina/tina.html
Decide if a story is Real or Make-Believe.
Welcome
to Story - It: Story Starters and Language Art Resourcesfor Children
http://www.storyit.com
Has nursery rhymes to read and color.
The
Internet Public Library Story Hour
http://www.ipl.org/youth/StoryHour/
Children's
Storybooks Online
http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
SesameStreet
Workshop Stories
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=stories
Story-Making
Machine
http://www.communicationconnects.com/stories.asp
Find or write stories for specific speech sounds.
Lil'
Fingers Stories
http://www.lil-fingers.com/storybooks/index.html
Internet
Picture Dictionary
http://pdictionary.com/
Look up words in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish, check
meanings, spellings. There are flash cards, word scrambles and spelling
games.
MightyBook.com
http://www.mightybook.com/home.htm
This site has read-aloud stories. It was freenow costs $19.95 a year
for a single classroom, $49.95 for a school. There are 3 free sample
stories: Moogie,
the Messy Beastie, Barnyard
Babies, and When
a Baboon's Not.
Learn
to Read at Starfall - teaching comprehension and phonics
http://www.starfall.com
Interactive story books, phonics activities, and printable lessons.
You can send for free writing journals for your class - even free shipping!
Go to the site to order them.
Lists of Wordless Picture Books
* Wordless
Picture Books (Washburn University)
* Children's
Wordless Picture Books (Weber County Library)
* Wordless
Picture Books (Louisville Free Public Library)
Are you Ready to Learn Numbers?
http://www.dotolearn.com/games/howmany/index.htm
Sesame
Street Workshop
http://www.sesameworkshop.org/sesamestreet/?scrollerId=games
Walking the Dogs - help Mr. Noodle find the dogs by scrolling
left and right and clicking.
Count
to Ten
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/school003/school003.html
This activity stresses the teaching of numbers in relation to a growing
mass rather than the numerals themselves.
Shape
Finder
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/school007/school007.html
A toddler asks you to find one shape of three.
Counting
on a Cloud
http://games.funschool.com/game.php?g=1643&s=1&category=0&level=1
Level
1-choose an object and a number and it will count it out. Level 2-choose
an object and you count how many.
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Classroom Ideas and Printables
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Do2Learn Print Communication Cards
http://www.dotolearn.com/picturecards/printcards/index.htm
Theme
Lessons and printables from Enchanted Learning
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/preschool.shtml
Baby
Bumblebee
http://www.babybumblebee.com/company/freebies.cfm
abcTeach
http://www.abcteach.com/index.html
A
to Z Teacher Stuff
http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/
Search for Preschool or Themes
Crafts
for Kids - EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/
Printable
deskttapes for alphabets.
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/basics/abc_activities/desk_tapes/
Idea
Box - Early Childhood Education and Activity Resources
http://www.theideabox.com/
42
eXplore
http://eduscapes.com/42explore/
Great place to develop theme lessons and to
explore educational websites for a variety of subjects and topics.
Bank
Street Corner - Early Childhood
http://www.bankstreetcorner.com/child.shtml
Has articles. ideas, lesson plans, practical techniques, recommended
books and links.
Early
Connections:Technology In Early Childhood Education
http://www.netc.org/earlyconnections/index.html
Connecting technology with the
way young children learn: resources and information for educators and
care providers.
The
Brain and Learning Brain Teasers
http://www.brainconnection.com/teasers/
Several games/tests with research and results for evaluating reading
skills.
Kinder
Korner
http://www.kinderkorner.com/
PBS
TeacherSource - Early Childhood
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/prek2.htm
Preschool
Literacy Web Homepage
http://www.literacy.uconn.edu/pkhome.htm
Access to literacy ideas for preschool teachers.
Preschool
Education: Discover the Fun in Learning
http://www.preschooleducation.com/
Ask
The Preschool Teacher
http://www.askthepreschoolteacher.com/
Nuttin'
But Kids
http://www.nuttinbutkids.com/
Perpetual
Preschool
http://perpetualpreschool.com/
Early
Childhood
http://www.earlychildhood.com/
Early Childhood Resources
http://www.lttechno.com/links/earlychildhood.html
Scholastic
Search Engines
EduPuppy.com
Everything for Early Childhood Education Preschool - Grade 2
http://www.edupuppy.com/
KinderStart - Education/Daycare/Childcare
http://www.kinderstart.com/educationdaycarechildcare/
Game
Goo Educational Games
http://www.cogcon.com/gamegoo/gooey.html
Kangaroo Confusion - Find the matching upper case letter to match
a lower case letter.
Tina's World Real or Make-Believe - decide if a story is Real
or Make-Believe.
Tina's World Buggy Trails - click on objects in the order that
Tina says.
Difficult-Paw Park Animal Bears-put words in abc order
Difficult-Paw Park Sassy Seals-listen to sounds and choose a
word that begins with it.
Freedom
Knot
http://www.freedomknot.com
FreedomKnot is a web site designed for kids that teaches them to tie
their shoes with puzzles.
Practice
Dialing 911
http://www.totcity.com/totplaces/Activities/school004/school004.html
Kids can click the 911 buttons on a virtual phone. You can also set
any phone number to practice.
Kids PBS
http://kids.pbs.org/
Play with Arthur, Caillou, Teletubbies and all your favorite Sesame
Street characters.
Disney
http://disney.go.com/
Storyplace
Preschool Library
http://www.storyplace.org/preschool/preschool.asp
