Our Proposal on the Final Assignment

We plan to create an learning object for promoting kindergarten children’s language skills in their literacy lesson. In a kindergarten class, the teacher uses nursery rhymes to motivate the children to learn vocabulary and sentence pattern. Nursery rhymes are characterized with repetitive words and sentence pattern. Computer-based learning objects are reusable and support children’s learning need in repeated practice. The selected nursery rhyme is as the following:
The wind told the grasses,
And the grasses told the trees.
The trees told the bushes,
And the bushes told the bees.
The bees told the birds,
And the birds sang out clear:
“Wake up! Wake up! Spring is here!”

The children learn the rhyme in the class. To consolidate their understanding and to help them memorize the names of those objects such as wind, grasses, trees, bushes, bees and birds, the teacher creates the learning object to encourage the children to learn these words. Besides learning the saying of the names, the children are learning the written names also. For some more able children, the learning object supports their learning in memorizing both the saying and the writing of the whole nursery rhyme.

The children are expected to enjoy playing and interacting with the learning object. The objects are presented like humans, having human characters, human voices and movement. Words would pop up, voice would say out and movement would go when the user clicks on the diagram of each objects.

There are three parts of work in the production of the learning object including the creative presentation, the graphic work and the computer design.

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