![]() ![]() Thanks for all your kindnesses May, I’m thinking of you. As a full of himself young adult she always looked for my best qualities. They wound up emigrating to Canada and marrying a couple of brothers from the Port. Aunt May and my mother were the best of friends growing up as young women in Greenock, Scotland. This post is in memory of my Aunt May who passed away yesterday on Mother’s Day. Starfall was the first Internet site to be recognized by Children’s Software and New Media Review as the highest rated product in their Early Elementary category, Spring 2004.” In 2005 and again in 2008, recognized Starfall as one of their top five educational websites. The Reading Teacher named one of “Five Internet sites too good to miss” (May 2006). “Starfall is recognized and highly rated by experts. Color cards include colored crayons with the color name clearly. Number cards include the number and representation of that number with objects. Alphabet cards include upper- and lower-case letters and a photograph of a word that starts with that letter. She just made it all the way to ‘Z’ for the first time. ABCs, Numbers and Colors Wall Cards are an essential part of Starfall's Pre-K Curriculum. The program, provided by the Starfall Education Foundation. Lila at 18 months is the latest aficionado. Starfall ABCs is a must-have app for children learning their letters, letter sounds, and beginning reading skills. kids will learn all about the alphabet and practice sight words, word families. Our guys have never tired of this activity and neither have I. It takes approximately 20 – 25 minutes to run through the entire alphabet without playing the accompanying games. They include in no particular order ‘boy’, ‘girl’, ‘horse’, ‘cat’, ‘jellybean’, ‘bear’, ‘tiger’, ‘taxi’, ‘helicopter’ and the list goes on. ![]() Both our kids have several favourites in terms of words. Over 60 words are introduced and for older tots it’s also a good point and click learning tool to move from one word and letter to the next. All three of our kids – aged 5 1/2, 3 1/2 and 18 months have been entranced and entertained by this imaginative approach to the alphabet. This is an absolutely marvellous animated ABC learning tool complete with games, sound and first class visuals. In the event that you have pre-schoolers at home and haven’t yet come across it, Starfall ABCs is one site not to miss. Today’s post is about play with words and letters. I hope all will pique your interest in what they have to offer and further your own possibilities for playfulness. Some of the people and places may be household names in the world of play and playgrounds, others not so much. The Starfall alphabet will aid with the development of basic word components as well as reading, writing, and spelling skills in children. Think of this as a very slow stumble upon, an invitation to relish something new or to revisit an old friend. Starfalls books, games, movies, and songs follow a research-based method of. Even if you’ve seen the selection before, take a moment and check to see what content has been added recently. The Starfall ABCs FREE app is made possible by the member supporters of, a publicly supported nonprofit. Each printout has a letter of the alphabet in a giant, block format with. I hope that readers will dive in and explore. A couple of Mondays per month, PlayGroundology will screenshot a cyberspot that focuses on playgrounds, or play. ![]()
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