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Sunday, November 9, 2008

The first online website that all the 3 of us had found relevant and useful is

UpToTen

Description:

This has been a top-rated site for children voted by many such as Yahooligans, the BBC, Berits best sites for kids and many more!

In this website, you can find many interesting activities for your kids

This website specially targets children from age 0 - 10 years.

and for children age 0 - 6, they have wonderful range of animated storybooks, songs and games specially for them. (Simply click on the "Boowa & Kwala" to explore)

Our reviews:

Ratings: 8.5/10

Recommended age group: 0 to 10 years

Navigations: Only the use of mouse is needed. It is also easy for preschoolers to navigate in this site as it comes with a picture menu accompanied with words. This way it would be easy for children to navigate around the site if they do not understand the words.

Engagement level: The site is colourful, animated and uses sound effects to captivate children's attention.

Activity: Instructions are simple and easy for preschoolers to follow too. Site provides many activities for children to explore. Children can learn new songs when playing their games or even at the song sections. (Games may require to use the keyboard arrows)

If children or teachers find the site to be too complicating or overwhelming, there's also a search engine where you can locate the type of activity that you are looking for easily!

Whats more, the site does not takes too long to load so its convenient for every one to use.

One interesting activity from this site will be

'Six music boxes. Six Dolls'

click http://www.uptoten.com/kids/boowakwala-adventures-musicbox-musicboxdance.html to link!

Simply guess which doll fit into which music box from the matching shapes and colours.

After playing the game, there will also be follow up activity at the top for you to choose such as 'Make your own music box' or even listen to the song "When you open up". There's also several other activity for you to choose from!

This game holds a large extent of expanding interest and complexity for the children.

the game is engaging as it not only capture children's attention visually but also with interesting and soothing music for children to match with.

as children get bored with playing the game after some time, they may also move on to other follow up activities which will hold the child's interest for an extended period of time. Children will at the same time develop their creativity as they design their own music box.

for this specific game, I feel that it is suitable and targeted specially for children age 4 to 6 as children start to develop matching skills at around the age of 4.


updated @12:57 AM


The Creators
Hello to all readers!
We're a group of students from Ngee Ann Technic
Currently pursuing the diploma of Early Childhood Education,
All of us are in Year 2!

Our group consists of

Puay Ling,
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Pei Shan,
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AND

Ming Xian
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