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Fun early learning activities for use with Clicker 5

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The Suitcase Series for Clicker 5 is a collection of nearly two hundred finished activities or gridsets developed by Learning Magic, Inc. in technical collaboration with Fio Quinn who was also the primary author of The Suitcase Series for IntelliTools Classroom Suite which was released last year.

The CD’s activities or “gridsets” are organised into a number of different academic areas.

• Language Arts – 37 different activities or gridsets, including alphabet activities, find the initial letter, match syllables, unscramble letters, find the missing letter, write a postcard, word search, crossword puzzles, matching word or sentence to picture, sound the same but is spelled different
• Science – Fifteen different study units or gridsets each with many activities related to the subjects, including matching mother and baby animals, product from different animals, sorting animals, animal games; learning about birds, geese, sheep, cows, pigs, and chickens; learning about plants and flowers; life cycles
• Early Learning – Eight different study units or gridsets. Activities include colours, patterns, cause-and-effect, target practice, spatial concepts, sorting, matching, sequencing, time and clocks, visual perception, calendar
• Social Studies – Eight different study units or gridsets. Activities include Learning about ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome; Christopher Columbus, states and capitals, “My State”
• Maths – 11 different study units or gridsets. Activities include shapes, numbers, counting, basic operations, fractions, shopping and money, illustrated problems, coordinates, writing about maths
• Games – Play puzzles, Sudoku, Battleship, Connector Four, Tic Tac Toe, explore animal, transportation
• Music and Sounds – Explore music and sounds in different activities
• Communication Boards – three Communication Boards of different complexities to communicate with pictures or words

The outer or external folders are populated with a number of subfolders which in turn contain a wide variety of activities or gridsets (i.e. the Maths folder’s contents are shown below).

And then each subfolder contains a wide variety of activities or gridsets in a variety of engaging formats, such as Numbers, etc.

Activity Examples

• In the activity Learning About Ancient Egypt, students not only read about life in Ancient Egypt in a variety of different areas, (i.e. fashion, food, citizens and slaves, homes, religion) but they also have the opportunity to write in hieroglyphics, complete different exercises or puzzles as well as write about their new found knowledge using Clicker Writer.
• When the student clicks on the read the book, they are presented with two levels to choose from. Level 1 is more concise and easier to read. Level 2 is more complex and has more complicated vocabulary.
• After reading about Grecian fashion, one of the activities within this study unit asks children to first dress a Grecian Soldier by selecting different items from a pop-up menu.
• In a secondary follow-on activity students are then asked to label different clothing items as a part of the Grecian study unit.

These are just a few examples of how the activities/gridsets in the Social Studies area are organised and how the content may be presented.

See more screenshots about topics and activities.

Additional Australian Grids for The Suitcase Series for Clicker 5

• Complete the Australian Map
• Go Shopping
• Learning About Money
• Money Practice
• Sorting Money and Objects
• Sums of Money

Beyond these academic areas in this brief overview, there are a wide variety of activities and formats for children to use in their learning endeavours. Please note that the Suitcase Series for Clicker 5 is also inclusive of folders that include instructional Games, Sounds and Music activities and a folder with three Communication Boards of different complexities to communicate with pictures or words.

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