Children Image

In response to a request from St Mark's United Methodist Church for 12 computers to use in their Project Transformation Summer Camp. The program is run by college interns who are interested in exploring ministry. St Mark's United Methodist Church serves as the ministry site and several Tulsa area methodist churches will be providing helpers and people for the kids to read to for 30 minutes a day. They will be serving meals through the TPS Summer Feeding Program. The kids will have reading, craft, computer, music & Bible components every day, 4 days per week, for 7 weeks. We built a special Children Image to be used in the program, with the following educational programs. We are looking for Early Childhood Education Teachers to help us identify Public Domain or Shareware programs for preschool and Kindergarten children, and we are looking for Middle School / High School Teachers to help us identify Domain or Shareware programs for grades 7-12, so that we can extend the current Child 1-6 image to cover all children. If you know Teachers who would be willing to help, have the email don@helpingtulsa.org.

LANGUAGE
- Letter Sounds (lsnd.exe) Grades 1-2
  3 levels; drag and drop the picture onto the correct beginning letter
- Flash Cards (flashcard.exe) Grades 1-4
  Dolch sight word lists; select a grade level and words come up for kids to read; can adjust the speed and the color of the "cards"
- Hangman (gohangman.exe) Grades 4-6
  Select from several categories; click on letters at the bottom; plays just like hangman.
- My ABCD (MyABCD.exe) Grades 1-2
  Match objects to beginning letter; variety of other simple games and puzzles
- Sentence Builder (sbuilder.exe) Grades 2-6
  Arrange jumbled words to make sentences.
MATH
- Loose Change (lchangeusd.exe) Grades 2-6
  Several levels; match coins to correct amount; pick coins that total a given amount; make change, etc.
- Math Quiz v2.01 (mq.exe) Grades 1-6
  Addition, subtraction, multiplication, & division; memory game Multiple choice problems; click on the correct answer; rewarded with a memory game
- 2+2 (2+2_2.1a_eng_setup.exe) Grades 1-6
  Variety of games using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
- Clock Face (clockface.exe) Grades 1-2
  Click cards with times on them; drag them to the correct place on the clock
- Tell the Time (gotelltime.exe) Grades 1-3
  Manipulate hands of a clock to set correct time; 3 skill levels
GEOGRAPHY/SCIENCE
- U.S. Features Map Puzzle (mpufinst.exe) Grades 4-6
  Drag and drop geographical features into the correct area on a U.S. map
- U.S. Map Puzzle (mpusinst.exe) Grades 4-6
  Drag and drop states into the correct place on a U.S. map; drag and drop state capitals to correct states. Also has a timer feature
- Our Solar System (solarsys.exe) Grades 4-6
  Click on a planet name; it floats onto the screen and facts come up; click "more" and additional facts come up to read.
- Funny Bones 2.12 (funnybones2.zip) Grades 1-6
  Fun skeleton puzzles and tutorials; colorful bones and funny sounds. Play and learn with human, fish, bird, reptile, horse, cat bones.
- Dinosaur Hunt (dinohunt.exe) Grades 3-6
  Click and read facts about a variety of dinosaurs; play a dinosaur hunt game-click on the world map, see real photos containing fossils, then try to identify the fossils.
ART/ MISCELLANEOUS
- Doodle Pad (doodle2.exe) Grades 2-6
  Draw and paint with different colors; pictures to select and color
- Clever Island (cleverisland.exe) Grades 1-2
  CAN ONLY USE IF WE HAVE SOUND!
- Robbie to the Rescue (gorobbie.exe) Grades 1-6
  Nintendo-type game
- Tidy Up (gotidy.exe) Grades 1-3
  Click on items to put them away in various rooms in the house.
THINKING GAMES
- Beetle Run (beetle21.zip) Grades 3-6
  You have to clear the way for your beetle by turning game board pieces around. Keep your beetle running as long as you can. Ages 6 and up.
- Flaps Game (flaps12.zip) Grades 3-6
  A very addictive marble game. You have to rearrange the flaps to allow the marbles to fall into their slots. Ages 5 and up.

The programs came from:

We are anticipating that the teachers who selected these programs may come up with additional programs during the summer, but the initial CHILDREN.GHO Ghost Image is 581,82,405 bytes long.

Here is what the desktop looks like:

If one clicks on a particular grade, they will see these programs (click any photo to enlarge.

Click any photo to enlarge

The current Children image takes about 860 mb, but by deleting the installation files, once the programs were installed, I was able to get the image to install onto an 800 meg hard drive, with about 150mb of free space, so if necessary we can use 800 meg drives. However since we are looking for educators who can help us select programs for grades 7 through 12, we usually use 2gig to 4gig drives for the Children image, so that those machines will be able to be upgraded to the full Children image once it becomes available.