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tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 7:26 pm    Post subject: Software for kids Reply with quote
    

Our eldest wants to start messing around on the PC, any downloadable edutainment type software around for 4-5 year olds?

mrsnesbitt



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Any DK stuff is great. Jolly Postman is superb. I have a couple of pals, IT teachers with their own kids.............will ask them and post here! If I get some of the stuff could pass it on. Am sending Mrutty Jolly Postmasn CD it's all parcelled up in the back of my car ready to go off tomorrow. BBC has some good links.........check out History for Kids!

Denise

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Ideally I want stuff that's downloadable, don't want any more bits of plastic to clutter up my dining room.

mrsnesbitt



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Well check out DK and BBC!

tahir



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

What you can download stuff from DK? I thought it was all on CD, I'll check it out in the morning.

Treacodactyl
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

It read this title and thought 'fair swap'.

Isn't this jema's area?

mrutty



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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

www.lego.com
www.any tv programme, lots of them have flash games that are educational

sean
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 15, 04 10:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

The BBC kids sites are good IMHO.

bagpuss



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 8:39 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

downloads.com can be quite a good search engine for things like that

this was a search for free educational games but I am not sure if their searchs are reproducible from the url do this might not work

snowball
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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Lots of stuff on the BBC sites that are very good.
Also lots of very useful revision stuff for when they are older too.
Be careful though Tahir, as soon as they get access to the PC, they will leave you behind.
Our thirteen year old is setting up web sites for all her friends

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 10:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thanks everybody I'll have a hunt around today

Bugs



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 11:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Somewhere on the Money Saving Expert website there was something by a teacher looking for free stuff for her class...pretty awful isn't it? If I come across it again I'll post it up here - although almost all my non-work browsing these days is here with the odd nose at River Cottage.

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Bugs wrote:
all my non-work browsing these days is here with the odd nose at River Cottage.


Me too, don't even look at the rugby sites anymore

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 11:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

https://www.abcteach.com/

this site has worksheets you can download and print off to do together. As others have said though BBC is probably you're best bet.

https://www.noradsanta.org/ and this one is seasonal at the moment!

tahir



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PostPosted: Thu Dec 16, 04 6:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I looked at the DK site, it's all intercative online stuff, I'm after stuff that can be downloaded and used later. I'll look through the rest tomorrow, thanks everybody.

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