afj
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 08:49 PM |
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recomended educational software 4 year old
Are there any teachers on board, my girl is going to school in september and i need some recommendations for some pc educational software
she is 4 and a half and can do addition and subtraction with more or less any numbers up to 20 and has a basic understanding of multiplication, as in
2x4 2x6 and so on.
so what has you got
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eddie99
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 08:50 PM |
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Bluddy hell, thats pretty good for 4 year old i would have thought? maybe not nowadays????
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:00 PM |
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Do they do a soft copy of Ron's Book?
That'd be good for her education later in life 
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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tegwin
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:02 PM |
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I know this doesnt answer your question..
But I work in a school involved heavily with ICT etc...
Get her doing things OTHER than computer stuff.... get her using her hands and her brain AWAY from computers!!!!
As soon as she gets into school there will be an overload of computer based activites... being able to do non computer based stuff early on would be a
good call.. because she wont learn that at school!!!
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austin man
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:06 PM |
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youve brought her along this far without so keep up the good work. Computers lead down one road, make sure you use human interaction 80% and other
meth0ds for 20% otherwise you will just end up with one of those unsociable, telented individuals
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McLannahan
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:08 PM |
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2Simple have a nice range of software - mostly aimed at infant school and primary pupils.
It's not that cheap though....
http://www.2simple.com/programs/
and for home use...
http://www.2simple.com/home/
HTH
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owelly
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:26 PM |
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For reading http://www.oup.com/oxed/primary/oxfordreadingtree/
seems to be good and recommended by my sons grandad who is an experienced teacher.
For maths work, keep them off the puter and sit down with them to talk about scenarios involving numbers.
My son is allowed to 'play' on the Cbeebies website which has a lot of fun stuff that involves thinking. ETA here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/
is also good to 'play' with
HTH
PS My son is 4.
[Edited on 23/3/10 by owelly]
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Daddylonglegs
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 09:31 PM |
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Being serious though, I agree with austin man, you can't beat interaction with other people. My boys both loved the games and books when they
were little and I think if I'm honest, I enjoyed the Thomas the Tank Engine books more than they did lol!
It looks like the Midget is winning at the moment......
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 23/3/10 at 11:36 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Daddylonglegs
Being serious though, I agree with austin man, you can't beat interaction with other people. My boys both loved the games and books when they
were little and I think if I'm honest, I enjoyed the Thomas the Tank Engine books more than they did lol!
CINDERS AND ASHES! 
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snakebelly
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| posted on 24/3/10 at 08:26 AM |
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We do subcontract work for the UK's biggest supplier of IT in schools and i would agree with the previous comments, your daughter will be
introduced to computers early enough, get her reading those paper things most kids dont use enough nowadays and spend your money on educational toys
such as a till and plastic money? rather than expensive educational software that will be redundant in a very short space of time as they progress so
quickly at that age.
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iank
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| posted on 24/3/10 at 09:46 AM |
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If you want to do some quizzes do a search on "KS1 maths", no point spending money on what is generally pretty limited software IMO.
e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/
But I'd echo the above, if you push too hard this early you'll potentially start causing problems for both her and the school.
If she's a year or two ahead of the rest of the class then differentiating will be hard for the teacher and she'll probably end up being
really bored and disengaged with education for the time the teacher has to spend with the other kids.
Gifted and Talented (G&T) kids are the unrecognised end of special/additional needs and a lot of schools struggle to deal with them as they get
bored and can start to disrupt the lessons.
My eldest is in Yr4 and they have put him in with Yr5 for numeracy/literacy purely so he gets appropriate level work, but it's not ideal
socially for him.
[Edited on 24/3/10 by iank]
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tegwin
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| posted on 24/3/10 at 10:39 AM |
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Something else worth considering .... does she play a musical instrument.... if not... its a good place to learn patterns and can, believe it or not
help with maths...
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afj
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| posted on 25/3/10 at 08:40 AM |
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THANKS EVERYONE the bbc schools ks1 stuff is great
also the stange thing is im not pushing her, she actualy asks me or mrs afj for some maths homework strange kid
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gingerprince
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| posted on 26/3/10 at 01:28 PM |
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Can't beat magnetic numbers/letters and a whiteboard. My lad's just gone 3 and can do basic addition i.e. pick 2 numbers up, join them
with a + and an =, then count other magnetic letters into piles of counters, count the lot and complete the sum.
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James
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| posted on 27/3/10 at 12:35 AM |
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My Mum's been teaching primary for nearly 40 years. Last 10 or so has been special needs (both advanced and less abled).
The one thing she says to parents to help their kids is to read to or with them!
She has parents moaning at parent's evening that: "little Jonny is sooo bright and intelligent, why isn't he top of the
class". She points out that if they spent just 5 minutes a day with the kid reading, he would be much further ahead than he is!!!
Cheers,
James
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