Robotics and Programming

Flobot is a virtual robot with fun and learning built in! Poor Flobot is lost and all alone in the rainforest and only our COMPUTERTOTS can help! Students will practice programming the robot to follow commands entered by students, navigate through mazes and around obstacles, dance, avoid hazards, and complete a variety of tasks. They will be captivated by the rich adventure settings as they solve problems, make logical decisions, and use simple, individual commands and more complex, sequential commands to teach the lovable robot how to react and what to do.

COMPUTERTOTS will develop an understanding of the principles of basic programming while inputting a sequence of commands to cause the Pro-Bot to move forward and backward and to turn left and right. They will be introduced to and experiment with simple programming concepts using the Probotix software and practice programming the virtual (on-computer) robot. The concrete (on the floor) Pro-Bot will be used to make the connection between the virtual programming steps on the computer to the concrete steps with a real robot.

Digital/Graphic Arts

COMPUTERTOTS will use ItzaZoo, a unique drawing-recognition software program to visit the zoo. We will build problem-solving skills and practice reading readiness skills while creating magical animal artwork!

Animals teach kids to read in "ItzaZoo"

Story Writing

Students will build language arts and reading readiness skills when creating a story.  They will use artistic creativity when using graphic art tools to illustrate a story, and they will create a book telling about themselves and their friends.

Math

In one program, the friendly dinosaurs will help us make comparisons and encourage us to think, evaluate, estimate and make decisions. Students will use keyboard keys to answer math questions. They will count and compare numbers and number sets. Finding activities within activities will be fun using a drop-down menu on a special toolbar. We will use their hatching eggs to practice counting in sequence and finding missing numbers.

In another program your COMPUTERTOT will explore shapes, shapes and more shapes. Whether differentiating between shapes or sorting for them into different groups, your child will find a world of shapes in objects all around.