Category Archives: Language Arts

Funland


Funland is a fun English language learning game with a fairground theme, aimed at young learners age 7-12. English vocabulary and grammar are learned through gameplay with listening skills being practised through an amusing audio game. There are 4 mini games in total with each one consisting of 9 levels. The difficulty level increases through the mini games from easy to more challenging. The users progress is stored and tracked so so not only can they do as little or as much at each sitting but parents or teachers can also see how they coping with the subject. Funland provides an engaging, simple and friendly learning environment, including a child friendly UI and is easy to pick-up and play.

Easter Bunnies Typing


Typing game with Easter theme! Learn to type faster and enjoy cute bunnies.

Word Grid


How many words can you form with the given letters? In this game you will be given 16 letter tiles, and your task is to form words with 3 to 8 letters within the time limit.

Word Out


Can you master the wordtris by using the descending letters to form meaningful words?

Simple Sentences


This is an interesting elementary school educational game. Kids learn not only "correct sentence formation" but also "correct pronunciation".

Sight Words


This word memory game is designed to learn dolch word list. Kids have to match dolch sight words to practice their exercise.

Space Words Defense


Show your typing skills in this challenging and fun galactic space game.

Torture the Teacher


Try your hardest to make the teacher resign by frustrating them so much with your poor spelling skills! You will have the opportunity to make three teachers resign! Be careful though, it gets harder as you move from classroom to classroom as the teachers in later rounds have incredible patience!

Book of the Week: June 17-23, 2012

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger.
“Wild nights are my glory,” the unearthly stranger told them. “I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I’ll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
A tesseract (in case the reader doesn’t know) is a wrinkle in time. To tell more would rob the reader of the enjoyment of Miss L’Engle’s unusual book. A Wrinkle in Time, winner of the Newbery Medal in 1963, is the story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O’Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg’s father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
A Wrinkle in Time is the winner of the 1963 Newbery Medal.

Book of the Week: June 10-16, 2012

 Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein

If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, A wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, A magic bean buyer . . .

Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist.

Shel Silverstein’s masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.