Poised with a finger above my Amazon shopping basket - can anyone recommend any PC software to help my Year 3 dd with times tables and spelling?

[TheHonEnid]

She likes playing on the PC and has really enjoyed the Dorling Kindersley Year 3 Cluefinders game but we would love something more specific to help her with times tables and spelling. I seem to remember someone talking about something where you could type in the week's spelling list...

We do do them 'the old-fashioned way' as well but sometimes a little electronic help would be very welcome...!

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I recommend the Jolly Phonics DVD -and there's a CD of games due out sometime soon.
My grandson, aged 3, adores watching the DVD and I suspect (hope!) that there's lots of subliminal learning going on

www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/ Several 'phoneme' games to download here, including 'Sound Buttons': select the vowel phoneme pattern then select other phonemes to create a word. Finally press the sound buttons to listen and blend.

www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/index.htm Interactive, phonics software for KS1/2 -free, online demo versions

A friend who's a KS1 teacher uses Learning Ladder CD roms and recommends them. They're by Dorling Kindersley I believe and come in all different stages.

i can't check here but on the pc at home i have bookmarked one site that was recommended on mn for times tables and i can remember the thread with the spelling list-it was a school in the lake district
hth x

Sorry maverick and maggiew thats Year three - aged 8 - not 3 years old

chatee if you could post the link here later that would be useful thanks.

have you got that primary school with the excellent web resources bookmarked Enid?

can find it for you if you want

BBC has good stuff

Ambleside Primary

are there any good games on the CBBC Bitesize KS2 site?

dd1 plays for ages on the KS1

For tables I would recommend this one.

I have to say that whilst the site has been popular, the sure fire way that has worked for ds1 is to use flash cards. Can't remember where I bought them but probably Amazon.

Lidl's flashcards! They only do 2,3,4,5,10 but they are in the form of a hunt, you do one get the answer, turn over next question -and if you get them all right a tick on the last one. We have cracked x3 in 2 evenings use of this! (I will make the other tables once we need them).

Pokes theMMJ to read the thread - that's year 3 not 3 years old.

Although I have to admit that I have a 3 yr old and only clicked on the thread to see whether it's normal for 3 yr olds to be learning times tables.

www.teachit.co.uk for free English resources

thanks for these links

Brightminds also do a couple spelling cd games that I'm considering for ds2 - because althought he ambleside school one is great I have to enter the spelling each time he does it.

The maths training for the nintendo ds may also help with tables I think - have just got it and hope I can encourage my boys to memorise their tables better.

I agree that Learning Ladder are rather good

have you tried educationcity.com? you have to subscribe but some education authorities get it free and you can use their school password from home. great for maths and spellings and my dd loves it..

The Timez Attack free trial is quite good.
www.bigbrainz.com/index.php