Smudge - Colour, Shape and Space

SMUDGE - COLOUR, SHAPE AND SPACE will introduce and develop children’s awareness of shape and space - an important first step in mathematics. As with all of Smudge’s programs this package is friendly to use with bright, colourful screens for working in the classroom or at home.

COLOUR SHAPE AND SPACE contains four activities to suit a range of ages (4 - 9 years) and abilities whilst giving it strong re-playable appeal. Children will want to discuss their achievements using everyday language describing properties and position of shapes while working with Smudge. This will lead to the use of mathematical names to describe geometric features.

SMUDGE’S PAINTBOX is an easy to use paint program which gives children the opportunity to create their own maserpieces. There are options for paint colours and a selection of shapes to enlarge, reduce, move around and to shade in.

In KNOW AND PLACE children help Smudge to complete the picture by selecting ‘missing’ shapes and placing them onto gaps on the picture. Size, colour and position will all be part of the decision making to complete this activity.

With SMUDGE’S SORTER, Smudge needs some help in the shape warehouse to sort shapes - squares, circles, rectangles and triangles (pentagons and hexagons at a higher level) - by colour, shape, colour and shape, or by the number of sides and corners.

DIRECTING SMUDGE will help childen with directional and spatial awareness. Children need to guide Smudge around a grid to her kennel. There are two options: to move Smudge by pressing arrow keys or clicking the mouse on adjacent squares; or by setting up a route, which Smudge can then follow. To make the activity harder, trees can be placed onto the grid.

The “Smudge Marks” reporting system within the program will allow assessment of each child’s progress.

Individual activities from Smudge - Colour, Shape and Space are available in the web browser range.

AGES: 4-9 Years

Available for:
Windows 98, NT, 2000, XP and Vista on CD-ROM