- “Which Fish?” (PEEP game)
- click
- color
- fish
- next
- which
MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Language Development/Receptive Language: Attends to language during conversations, songs, stories, or other learning experiences.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 2: Participate actively in discussions, listen to the ideas of others, and ask and answer relevant questions.
Mathematics/Patterns and Relations 9: Recognize, describe, reproduce, extend, create, and compare repeating patterns of concrete materials.
“Which Fish?” (PEEP game)
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Skill Focus: Active Viewing and Listening, Math (Patterns), Vocabulary
Invite children to play the PEEP and the Big Wide World interactive game “Which Fish?” Have them look at the pattern formed by the line of fish. Say the colors aloud to stress the pattern, for example, red, blue, red, blue, etc. Point to the fish at the end of the line (on the right) and then to the three fish choices given. Say, Which fish should come next in the pattern? Guide children to understand they are to click on their choice and it will appear in the line. If they are correct, Quack will respond and a new set of fish will appear.
The game is self-leveling. If players finish a round without error, they move on to a more difficult level. If they do make an error, they remain at the same difficulty level for the next round. In this way, the game keeps children in their own comfort zone, giving them more challenging levels only when they’re ready.
Adaptation: Younger children may benefit by playing with one-on-one supervision until they become thoroughly familiar with the routine. Then let them play on their own.
