Owl and mouse is an educational software for children ages five to thirteen. This software includes reading, medieval history , maps and crafts.

Parents and teachers can use this software to encourage students to learn to read. This software makes it fun to learn reading and the colours will certainly attract their eyes.

This software can also allow students to familiarize themselves with other countries and which part of the world they are located using the online atlas.

There are also educational games such as building towns,castles, making farms and projects that can help in children's cognitive development.

According to Jean Piaget , children learn through concrete operation and using this software students will certainly be able to understand real world operations.

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http://www.yourchildlearns.com/owlmouse.htm

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http://funschool.kaboose.com/

Educational Software 2

The I.B.G. Phonic programme is one which develops students' literacy. It has mainly two categories I.B.G reading and I.B.G. writing. This product has proven to be effective by many parents including myself. It speeds up the process in which your child learns to read, thus making learning much simpler.

This product contains C.Ds that helps children with phonics. There are also charts and exercise books included for the child to work with.

The programme has been highly successful over the past fourteen years since its inception with users achieving a 98% success rate.

According to educational theorist Lev Vygotsky, children learn through internalizing and this program is about the repetition of phonics and through this repetition students will surely internalize this information.

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http://www.quiz-tree.com/Sight-Words_main.html

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Learning Maths

http://www.ixl.com/math/practice/

IXL MATH:

This software is for kids of different ages. It starts at the level of Pre- kindergarten and goes up to sixth grade. These stages in Trinidad and Tobago will be from Kindergarten to Standard Four.

At the first levels (pre-kindergarten) kids are allowed to:

Counting dots, inside and outside, and more. This includes forty one skills.

At the second level(kindergarten) kids are allowed to:

Identifying shapes, counting money, and more. This includes one hundred and three skills.

At the third level(first year) kids are allowed to:

Bar graphs, addition word problems, and more. This stage includes one hundred and forty skills.

At the forth level (second year) kids are allowed to:

Place-value models, identifying fractions, and more. This step includes one hundred and ninety five skills.

The Fifth stage(standard one)kids are allowed to:

Multiplication facts, adding and subtracting decimals, and more. This level inludes one hundred and seventy four skills.

The sixth stage(standard two) allows kids to:

Adding mixed numbers, calculating probabilities, and more. This level includes one hundred and ninety two skills.

The seventh stage (standard three) allows kids to:

Multiplying decimals, finding percentages, and more. This level includes two hundred and forty seven skills.

The eight stage (standard four) allows kids to:

Variable expressions, exponents, permutations, and more. This level includes two hundred and forty one skills.

Other intersting link for educational software:

http://www.smartkidssoftware.com

http://www.softwareforkids.com

http://www.kidsclick.com/schools.htm