Room 108   
http:// www.netrover.com/~kingskid/108.html

Room 108 is a website from primary teacher John Rickey with the Trillium Lakelands Board of Education in Ontario, Canada.  It is a primary learning site that makes learning fun through educational games. There are animated picture books, games, Spelling, Math, Music and Art activities on this site.

The stories section contains unique and complete interactive picture books.  Student interest is maintained using animated pictures, changing background music and sound effects. Students can sometimes click buttons to hear sounds that relate to the story. Most stories finish with a self marking comprehension test, that scores the student on errors.  There are also interactive jigsaw and  crossword puzzles and  colouring activities based on the stories.

Enter the music section and music automatically comes on when entering a song page. Animations reflect the words of the song. Teachers can get the music for some songs which will have the guitar, lyrics and piano scored.  Students can compose or change music and have it played back.

Anyone playing the flute or piano will love this section-music is displayed on the screen and you can print out a copy of the music and play along.  Visitors that don’t own an instrument can have their computer keyboard turn into a drum set or an organ so they can play along with music also. There are almost 200 different compositions in different styles of music in the  Jukebox section.

The Minute Math in the Math activities allows the teacher or student to customize a group of questions. This activity then marks the student’s work.

Room 108 is a fun place to learn for all elementary students. Keep posted to this site for exciting upcoming additions and activities.

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