Our Classroom Computer Lab
The web sites below are games and activities that I have found to help the early computer
user. These sites reinforce mouse practice skills and early educational skills. Please let me
know if you have any problems with any of these links. You might want to click the FAVORITES
button, RIGHT NOW, (HOLD Down the Ctrl KEY AND PRESS D) and add us to your Favorites.
Please let me know if you have a favorite educational site that we could add to our site. If you have
a problem, or you find a site that does not work, please E-mail us, and let me know. I will check it
out, and remove it, if necessary.
New Addition for Phonics
Zoo Phonics Power Point Slideshows
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Still the Favorite
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Many to Choose from.
You will find our E-mail address at the bottom of this page or click this sentence. .
Room 147's Classroom Computer Links
All of these LINKS open in a separate window.
Hints
To FIT the page to your screen CLICK the box in the upper right corner of the web page.
To RETURN here just CLICK the X box in the upper right corner of the web page.
It will close that LINK and you will see our page again. Enjoy!
Sites that Offer Mouse Practice
Mousercise An excellent site to practice all types of computer clicks. Finish and win a certificate!
Find It! A site that makes you LOOK before you CLICK ! Reminds me of an easy Where's Waldo.
Kid Help
Ask for Kids A search engine for Kids...Have a question? Ask for Kids will help you answer it!
Kids Sites All approved sites for kids of all ages. Many links to other great KID sites.
National Geographics for Kids A site that takes you to all parts of the world. Science and more.
Fun Brain This site has games for all kids K-8. You can search by grade level or subject area.
Educational Games that are Fun to Play!
Kids Psych It may say kids 1-5 and 6-9, but be ready to be amazed how hard some of these games are to figure out. Kids don't seem to have those adult logic problems with it. Fun page!
Leapster World Practice different games on different Lepster products. Close window to return.
Leapster Home Page Shop for Products by Age and Items See what's NEW!
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http://www.starfall.com/ Many games and activities from Preschool ABC’s and early readers to advanced readers. Hours of entertainment and challenges for everyone!
Practice your Name Must allow Pop ups for this site. Then type in your name at the prompt. It will create a page of handwriting for you, that you can save, print out, and practice with. A neat idea!
Handwriting for Kids See what's new since My name is. A site dedicated to helping students learn to write.
More sites will be added SOON !
Please check back with us and see if we have added any NEW sites.
We are always looking for sites for special needs children.
Know of a special site? Let us know.
As the student's confidence increases, so does their learning !
We use old & new technology in our room to help us learn. We offer our students a variety of
older, hand-me-down computers to learn on. We have 1 ancient PC, My old PC and 3 I-Macs computers for them to work on, every day. We have a variety of software programs
and games that teach them how to use the computer's mouse and the keyboard first.
As our student's skills and abilities increase, they can move
up to CD roms and more educational software that will teach them basic reading & math skills.
It is exciting to see the LIGHTS go on, in our students eyes, as they begin to GET it!
V-Tech Educational Products are very similar to Leap Frog.
The bottom line is, there are many educational tools out there that can teach the skills we all
want our children to have. They are not as expensive as you might think. Check them out!
What a great gift to give your child, a video game that teaches them to read or do math.
What is the price to teach a child to read?
What is the cost, if we don't?
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New Additions to our Room
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We have added an Epson big screen projector, and an ELMO document camera to our room.
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It has changed the way we are learning in Room 147.
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We now can project anything from our Leap Frog / DVD / VCR / Samples of our Work,
to Images from my computer. Power Point Hyper Links make it fast and easy to find
those items to show the class or to let them choose from a screen with HOT BUTTONS.
We have a wireless keyboard and mouse for them to use in front of a 9 foot screen. No more,
" I can't see it ," or having too many students huddled around a computer to see what you
want them to see. We have started making PowerPoint slideshows, as a whole group lesson.
They get to choose what they want to work on, when it is their turn. I keep track of what they have worked on and urge them to try "something new," with their next turn.
We have over 50 slideshows, maybe more, displayed as buttons for them to choose.
Some can't read yet, but they remember which buttons they like and which they don't.
So no matter what they pick we are still working on what we need to work on every day in
Room 147. We practice our LETTERS, NUMBERS, COLORS and the CALENDAR.
We watch and practice a letter a day after our video tutor teaching us how!
The Computer just makes it more fun to do those activities!
Can't we have FUN and Learn too?
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You want your students or children to learn something?
Just let them help you make it on the computer. Let them pick the images and the sound effects.
You may get tired of them, but they don't. They will take ownership in the work they help make.
They learn it faster than with paper and pencil and it's alot more fun, for everyone!
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Look for future video clips here to show you what we have made together and how we do it.
Need help?
All You have to do is ask. If I can I will.
I don't get when you ask for help.
I get mad when you don't!
To get different results......you sometimes have to do it a different way!
The bottom line is, there are many educational tools out there that can teach the skills we all
want our children to have. They are not as expensive as you might think. Check them out!
What a great gift to give your child, a video game that teaches them to read or do math.
Please let us know if our web site has helped you.
Click Here to CONTACT our class by E-Mail
My name is Gary Sprecken and I am Room 147's Classroom Teacher.
(231) 720-2780
This is Room 147 at McLaughlin School.
