WHO wouldn’t know the chubby yellow cat who loves to eat lasagne and is full of attitude? Well, you guessed it right, we are talking about Garfield.
But here Professor Garfield is a charmer who will draw your attention to this colourful, well-designed website with lots of learning activities and games.
The home page is where Prof Garfield stands, with four chemical flasks labelled as ‘Create’, ‘Explore’, ‘Read’ and ‘Play’, all filled with learning activities. For instance, in ‘Create’, you can go through ‘Comic lab’ to create comics, watch videos about how to draw cartoons, art-bot, music-bot, etc; in ‘Explore’ you can play math games, visit the ‘Learning lab’, ‘Prof’, ‘Explore science’, go through ‘Knowledge box’ and much more. In ‘Read’ you can read books, stories, phonics, etc., and finally in ‘Play’, as the word suggests, you play loads of interesting games.
What I liked the most was a PDF called ‘Humour 101’ which shows kids how to use adjectives and colourful language to punch up their comics and ‘Word Wrestling’ in ‘Read’. Here kids can drag and drop comic strip panels into the correct order and then answer questions about what’s going on; they can learn about sequence and practice reading comprehension. The list goes on and on.
Professor Garfield site is fun-filled with reading strategies for the emergent reader, phonemic awareness games, a multi-player trivia game covering science, literature, history, creative writing programme with video lessons and instruction on art skills. There is far too much on this site to fully describe it here, so be sure to check out the website and enjoy learning new things with Prof Garfield!
http://www.professorgarfield.org/
