Engaging programs, such as this are part of what is known as the Blaster Learning Series. This is particularly designed to drill those key skills needed by kindergartners as they begin to grasp the understanding of how to read. Reading Blaster includes simple activities in an easy to use format.

In this software ‘Best friends’ Max Blaster and his alien buddy G.C. have fun as they dive down into an underwater world. Here they discover where the undisclosed treasure is hiding. Finding the treasure is simple the user must earn five stars by successfully completing reading activities. Then the race for treasure is on. To successfully complete the hunt, children have to navigate a simple maze with the aid of their underwater buddies.

In addition there are five reading activities, accompanied by a treasure room which is set up for each registered user. This room not only stores accumulated treasure, it also includes word flash cards, a kid-friendly word processor, B-mail which receives lighthearted messages from Blaster friends, stories that can be read aloud and printed, and a personalized star chart, mapping the user’s progress in the program.

Reading Blaster for Kindergarten includes five different learning activities with five distinct ability levels. Changing levels greatly influences the material covered in the activities, so that it looks like a new game each time the child moves up a level. For example, there is ‘Clamshell Scramble’ asks kids to correctly order scrambled puzzle elements. At the simplest level this involves putting the letters in the right order to spell a given word, while at th highest level, Level 5, children are required to sequence words to form complete sentences.

Other skills addressed by this particular program include letter recognition, capital and lowercase letters, alphabetical order, phonics, matching sounds to pictures and words, grouping words into categories, rhyming, simple spelling and simple sentence construction. Although many of these activities do require a good hand-eye coordination and ‘fast-twitch muscle’ skills, children are given unlimited time to complete these activities so that this aspect only rarely becomes frustrating for unskilled users.

Here is the link that allo ws u to assess this Educational software:

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/reading/7/rbkinder/merge.shtml

Also there are video links to this type of Educational software:

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/cooper-d-and-pbskids-org/dfa138ef8ed0a99e8662dfa138ef8ed0a99e8662-1713643390100

Another is:

http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/amazing-two-year-old-youtube-computer-wiz/ffc2c98ecac85321b706ffc2c98ecac85321b706-1624847286410

COME ON AND JOIN US, THE DOODLE BUGS AND FRIENDS

Children are fund of exploring the world around the use of software devices can now allow you to harness that curiosity to help them learn and understand key subjects such as math, science and creativity. Kids of the pre-school age are now able to learn anything in a fun and intriguing way.

Doodle bugs allows children of the pre-school age to let their creative juices flow. This website provides the individual child with the opportunity to select the picture they wish to colour as well as selection of colours is. Engaging tutorials and fun activities encourage learning and increase subject knowledge. Engaging activities help develop problem-solving and critical thinking skills in these children for a tender age and it facilitates greater knowledge within these children.

This is absolutely a fun-filled bug game that allows children to colour. there is an ink dropper provided for them to select which colour they want to use and then click the desired place on the picture to put that colour. Each bug picture is different and gives variety for the child. doodle bugs also has the option of printing the finished picture for the child to keep and remember what they had done. As a teacher or a parent you can even print plain outlines of the pictures to use in the classroom or at home as well. There are icons provided for printing and reset the picture that had previously been selected. The child is able to also do these functions on their own as well.

Not only are there pictures of bugs as the name may have suggested but also there are pictures of various playground scenarios. Another link allows you to access pictures of the nine planets, tools that are used in space and an astronaut and space ship too. One is given the option of printing here as well. As can be seen in the picture, this is an illustration of how the out line of the pictures from this site would look.

For furthur information on theis educational tool view the links below:

http://funschool.kaboose.com/preschool/games/game_doodle_bugs.html

http://fun4child.com/print_online/cat23.html

http://www.coloring.com/color/dress-pants