donquijote.org

My students have been learning about the Spanish alphabet lately. One of our main projects is to create a classroom power point "Spanish Alphabet Video". We are sending these videos to the younger students at each school who do not have the opportunity to take spanish. Students have been going to the donquijote.org/spanishlearning/ website to practice their spanish letters. There is an alphabet that allows you to click on each letter. A pop up box appears with a picture of the word that starts with the letter. I have enjoyed listening to my students play this game. As I walk by I can hear them say the letters and the words with perfect pronunciation. It has been a wonderful enhancement activity for them. Also on the site is a link to practice spanish numbers in the same way. The Latin Culture link is also popular, but some of the pictures of the artists are a little too provocative. I also have to warn them not to click on the youtube link while exploring the site.

Lil-Fingers Games

My son and I are still looking up new toddler games. We found some games at www.lil-fingers.com/games/. I wasn't very happy with them. Although the site was supposed to be for "little fingers" it was awfully hard for my son's little fingers to play the games! The ABC matching game had 20 tiles! That's too many for little ones to try to match! The Storybooks were a nice feature. They were animated with sound. I tried the one for numbers and the alphabet-very cute! I also liked the coloring pages. The Holidays was also a nice feature. It included thematic games, stories, and activities for various holidays and events.