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Story maker

SPA

Make animated cartoons with dialogue, great for social stories

Retelling favourite stories, simple story construction

Interactive Reading Journey

Parts 1 and 2

Learning Co.

Progressive spelling, sentence construction, phonics

Increase sight vocabulary and word building skills

Spellmate

Sherston

Add your own word lists to be practised in 4 fun games

Learn how to spell HTW (high frequency words)

Read, Write and Type

Learning Co.

Children learn to type and spell with easy instructions

Acquire some dexterity using different fingers to type

ABC with KC

BBC

Alphabet, simple spellings and fun animations

Learn alphabet phonetically

At Home with KC

BBC

Follows on from ABC (above), spellings, listening games

Learn names of many household objects

My First Dictionary

DK

Fun definitions, stickers to collect and games to play

Learn to navigate through links.  Learn word definitions.

Interactive Maths Journey

Learning Co.

Travel through maths land solving problems, hearing stories and songs

Consolidate KS1 maths topics

Maths Factory 7-12 years

Steps

Games to support National Curriculum maths targets

Remembered properties of shapes by watching the on-screen demos

Jolly Postman/ Post Office

DK

Follow the character from the books as he sorts and delivers parcels

Adding values of stamps to make correct postage

Dr. Seuss:

The Cat in the Hat

Green Eggs and Ham

ABC

Learning Co.

Three fantastic animated storybooks with games and surprises

Learn to recognise rhyming words

Tonka:

Construction

Search and Rescue

Raceway

Hasbro

Build your own trucks, diggers and cars to carry out missions, build towns and roads and win the Tonka Grand Prix

Manipulative mouse skills and following verbal instructions

Jump Ahead Series

Knowledge Adventure

A range of multi-topic software from Baby to Discovery Tree

Jump Ahead French is ‘fun’ for under 8’s

Increase general knowledge and learned to sing songs by heart

Reader Rabbit Series

Learning Co.

A range of multi-topic software from Pre-school age.  Year 1 and Maths 6-8 are particularly good

Increase general knowledge

Mother Goose

Sierra

Collect missing objects to hear the nursery rhymes

Learned many nursery rhymes and gained confidence to explore scenes for clues

Magic School bus Series

Microsoft

Journey under the sea, to space, rainforest, inside your body

Increase general knowledge

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’s Adventure in Tinker Town

Eidos

Help the car (from the film) repair machines and solve problems with 3 helpful tool friends

Explore scenes for clues and selecting appropriate tools to mend objects

Map Detectives

Sherston

Solve mysteries by reading simple maps and plans

Learned to read London Underground tube map and use 2 figure co-ordinates