GCompris is indeed a wonderful educational software for kindergarten students. I tried out many of the activities and truly, they impressed me a lot from the point of view of an kindergarten student. I even played these games with the nursery students in my neighborhood ;). There are many varieties of activities, ranging from scientific to artistic skill building.Following are some activities I tried and enjoyed the most.
1.Make the ball go to Tux- this is fun activity in which children have to pass the ball to Tux, an animated character by using simple commands given by keyboard.
2.Click and Draw- children have to click on the highlighted points step-by-step and discover the figure when they have completed joining the points. This activity teaches them to draw different objects.
3.Magicians Hat- It is one of the best educational activities in GCompris. Students can practice addition and subtraction through this game very well.There are a number of stars beneath the hat, on clicking the hat the stars are assembled in a row of blocks that is beneath another row of blocks from which the number of these stars are to be subtracted or added
4.Point the Relatives- this activity help kids to correctly name blood relations.Name of the relations are provided to children and they have to match the faces of the correct pair whose relationship is rightly described by the given word.
5.Water Cycle- it is scientific game which makes students understand the water cycle through visuals. Students have to click on the elements coming up next water cycle in their sequence and hence help water reach at Tux's home so that he could take a shower.
6.Mixing colors- students are given a target color which they have to form by mixing different colors in the right proportion. Students thus learn to form different colors from the available range colors.
7.Intro to Gravity- it is also one of the most educating games of GCompris. Kids have to prevent the spaceship in which the Tux is seated from crashing into the planets. They have to adjust the size of the planets as per the situations thrown.Obstacles such as asteroids keep coming on the way, children have to prevent Tux's spaceship from being hit by them.They have to do so by adjusting the size of the planet so as to increase their gravitational pull.
8.Find Details - in this game paintings by famous artists are displayed to the children. Parts of the painting are hung on the left hand side of the screen, kids have to drag them to the place where they are actually located in the picture. This activity increases their concentration power and they come to know about celebrated artists.
9.Matching Items- in this activity kids have to match objects hung on the left hand side of the screen to similar objects provided.
10.Land Safe- it is a very interesting game in which kids have to navigate the rocket to the landing spot through simple keyboard commands.
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