Even though I didn't post anymore on the JumpStart game, my toddler and I have been playing it a lot. He has gotten pretty good at using the mousepad on our laptop, but I plan to buy a mouse pretty soon. Thanks, Dr. Miller, for your mouse recommendation!
I was getting a little tired of playing the JumpStart game, so I decided to check out what was available online for my tike. I found some interesting games for us, which makes me happy. Variety is the spice of life, isn't that what they say? At www.fisher-price.com/us/playtime I found some enjoyable games for my two-year-old. The site has games for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. The games can be as simple as holding a baby in your lap and letting them push buttons on the keyboard. As each button is pushed for the alphabet game, the corresponding letter pops up saying the letter name, shows and says the name of an animal for the letter and gives a little animation of it. My son enjoyed the letter game. He's really been interested in the alphabet lately. He loves to read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault. It was a good game for him because I could tell him to find a letter on the keyboard and he could see if he was right automatically with reinforcement from the game.
We also tried out http://www.pbskids.org/. My son loves Curious George, but I was dissapointed in the games that I found for him. They would be suitable for an older child. My husband was even challenged by the shape game. He had to catch each shape as it came out of a machine tpye of thing. I explained that maybe he should be playing at a kid's level instead of an adult level! It did prove to adjust to the players skill level! I will post more about other PBS games when we've had a chance to play them. We plan to check out the Clifford games next, another of my son's favorites.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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