Poisson Rouge (Red Fish Soup)
I am using this web site to get my kindergarten classes accustomed to using the mouse this week. Poisson Rouge (or Red Fish Soup) is a site designed with free games and activities that are both stimulating and educational.
Manipulation requires moving the mouse and clicking, and sometimes dragging objects. Various activities on the site include:
- Toybox: involves matching and other activities
- Art Gallery: painting in styles of famous artists
- Dot-to-Dot: connecting stars (like constellations) to make animals and familiar objects
- Piano: playing one octave of keys with the notes displayed in treble clef with playback
- Aquarium: Simple games with aquatic animals
- 123: Click on number blocks to open activities which teach counting
- Alphabet: activities that teach the alphabet in French, English, and Spanish
- Vocabulary: Clickable scenes from rooms, to transportation and animals, where the names of all objects are spoken aloud along with a printed spelling of the word. The scenes are identical in English and French.
There are several more activity areas that I have not mentioned. This is from the User Guide:
When small children pick up objects, they invent new ways of holding and using them. Thus there is no right or wrong way of using anything on this site. It’s up to the children to find what they want and to grow their naturally exploring mind. We found that what they don’t discover straight away, they’ll find later, what they don’t know how to do at first, they’ll learn when they are ready and, as many of you know and/or have found out, that is extremely powerful and confidence building.
