Preschool Play Pals

Dear Parents and Teachers of K-2 students:
Are you looking for a way to show your child good steps to reading. Investigate this site with your little tykes, to enhance the reading process at home. Explore with Clifford, Telly Monster, Dora the Explorer, Kipper, Elmo, and Bear in The Big Blue House. The adventure is about to begin, with the click of your mouse!

The Tasks:

Read with Elmo.

Match with Kipper.

Play games with Clifford.

Circus Acts withTelly Monster.

Challenge your language skills with Dora the Explorer.

Balance the scales with Bear In The Big Blue House.

The Resources:

1. Play A Game With Clifford The Big Red Dog allows you to match wits using phonics skills. You can Make A Word, Match Letters and Sounds.
2. We are about to go to the circus. Telly Monster at the Circus teaches you letter recognition.Telly the conductor and his animal friends, bring letter to you. Are you ready to enter the Big Top?
3. Farmer McDonald wants you to visit him with Elmo. While on the farm Read With Elmo. You pick the ending to the story. Let's go down to the farm!
4. Match With Kipper. Kipper encourages you young reader to match wits. Move shadows to the actual pictures to learn shape cognition. Kipper tells you how smart you are!
5. Do a balancing act with Bear in The Big Blue House. Bears gives you shapes that must balance the scale.
6. "Hola!", is the Spanish word for hello. Challenge your language skills with Dora the Explorer. Dora helps you say it two ways. Mom and Dad you may pick up some new words too.

The Process:

1. Playing games are fun, especially with Clifford. Play A Game With Clifford. Clifford teaches word skills by allowing your child to make as many words as possible. The Big Red Dog allows you to match wits using phonics skills. You can Make A Word, Match Letters and Sounds.
2. Telly Monster allows your child to learn letters. You can match letters with the alphabet from Telly. Each circus animal has a different letter you must find. Click on the letter that matches. Telly Monster at the Circus brings you and your child loads of adventure.
3. Farming can be a breeze. Elmo teaches your child to read by using farm animals. Each farm animal leads you on a different path to reading. You can let Elmo read the story or you can read the story. Read With Elmo and travel the path to the farm.
4. Matching helps your child with memory coginition. This site takes you to Nick Jr. You must prompt the actual play of the game. Click on Match With Kipper to test the ability of you and your child.
5. Bear allows your child to balance a scale. Bear gives you an item on the scale. Your job is to make it equal. Bear in The Big Blue House leads you through a test of trial and error. Parents this is a good site to introduce early math skills.
6. Learning a new language can be a hard task. Children can develop the skills quickly if you start early. The activities in this site provides you with English and Spanish words. Dora shows you the correct meaning for each word. She gives your young buddy the proper way to say the word. The site helps develop oral communication and builds new vocabulary. Dora the Explorer helps you say it two ways. Mom and Dad, you may pick up some new words, too.

7. Now we have added new words to our vocabulary. Let's see how many you can match. Check out this matching quiz.

Learning Advice:

Computer generated activities are not supposed to be the only source for your child's learning. You are the key to your child's understanding. Spend time daily reading to your child. Computer activities should be used to enhance what you teach your child. Each time you go on the Internet, follow up the instruction with questions or comments. Invite your child to share with you ideas he had developed. Remember you are the best teacher.

Conclusion:

Teaching your child new ideas is important. The Internet can now help in the learning process. We have developed new avenues for you to travel. After you have linked to these sites, look for more places to search. This activity will give you and your child a time to share. The process of learning is shared by the child, the parent and the teacher. Remember, you are your child's first teacher.

This page was originally created by Tonya Joy Merriweather and last updated on May 7, 2001.
This page was written for Dr. Bruce Lewis as a requirement
in EDU 506 Computer Application in Education.