Bring Up Two Sons

Starfall.com

The Starfall learn-to-read website is offered free as a public service. We also provide writing journals and books at a very low cost that can be used with the website or separately. Teachers around the country are using Starfall materials as an inexpensive way to make the classroom more fun and to inspire a love of reading and writing.

Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall.com is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade. Starfall is perfect for Home Schooling.

The website has four basic levels for children of different age to learn reading and have fun.

1. Introduction to Letter Sounds
   
2. Early Beginning Reader
   
3. Intermediate Beginning Reader
   
4. Early Beginning Reader to Advanced

It also provides printed materials for parents and educators and links to many other useful stuff. Highly recommended!

I drop by a website called FunBrain.com and find the following three flash games. I will play them with my sons in spare time.

Germ Zapper . Germs are hiding in a classroom, and it’s your job to find them!

Supermarket Toss. A child wants to buy the new Sara Lee soft and smooth bread at the grocery store. The problem is that his mother is shopping in another aisle. It’s your job to help the child.

Box Top Match. The object of this game is to match pairs of cards until all of the cards are gone.

BBC Computer Tutor is a highly interactive and user friendly flash application that teachs how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer. I will introduce it to my sons. By the way, it is a good chance for my sons to listen English too.

Computer Tutor is a resource for people who don’t know how to use a keyboard, mouse or computer screen.

If you’re a friend, family member or tutor helping someone learn, all you need to do is choose your connection speed and start the resource. That’s it!

Computer Tutor presenter Amani is then on hand to take computer novices from start to finish step-by-step.

Update: My older son (now four year old) took around two hours to go through this tutorial.