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Storymaker

The children can create stories using stamps, sprites, backgrounds, movements, animations and text to speech. There are at least 15 preliminary taught lessons before the children create freely. Tutorial available.
Wordshark (continued)

Numbershark

Clicker (continued)

Larger grids can be constructed. Stories can be created from grids. Grids can be printed and used for redrafting back in the class.

Paint (continued)

Preliminary digital paint utility. The children are taught how to use the free hand pencil, the straight-line pencil, the rectangular tool, the circle tool, spray can, fill can and eraser. The children are also shown how to use the select tool in order to cut and move bits of their work. Copy and paste are now taught. The resultant works of art can be printed in landscape.

Starspell can now be used to good effect.

Microsoft Paint
Internet Yahooligans home page.  Use search engine for simple searches. Direct children to pre selected sites .  Copy and paste pictures into Paint. Use back button and homepage button.
Circus 1(continued)
Circus 2(continued)
Interactive informal maths problem solving. Sequential levels of difficulty, good programming.
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