Activities/IKnowMyABCs

About I Know My ABCs

I Know My ABCs is an activity for introducing the Spanish alphabet. It displays letters and images and associated sound files, such as 'A as in ave'. There are four modes:

click on the letter to hear its name
click on the picture to hear the name of the first letter in the word represented by the picture
hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding letter
hear a letter name, then click on the corresponding picture

Where to get I Know My ABCs

TheI Know My ABCs activity is available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: I Know My ABCs

The source code is available on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.

Using I Know My ABCs

letter game
picture game

Toolbars

Activity toolbar: change the activity name; add notes to the Sugar Journal
Letter mode: listen to letter names
Picture mode: listen to letter names associated with pictures
Find the letter 1: hear a letter spoken and then find it
Find the letter 2: hear a word spoken and then find the first letter
Stop button: exit the activity

Learning with I Know My ABCs

While far from contructionist, this activity does provide a mechanism for learning the alphabet.

Modifying I Know My ABCs

As of Version 1, only a Spanish version is included. In order to add other languages, we need:

audio recordings of the letter names
audio recordings of the picture names
perhaps additional pictures, in order ensure there is a picture for each letter of the alphabet

There is a language-specific database file maintained in ./lessons/??/alphabet.csv where ?? is the 2-digit language code. The format of the CSV file is:

letter	word	color (#RRGGBB)	image file	sound file (image)	sound file (letter)
R	(r)atón	#F08020	raton.png	raton.ogg	r.ogg

Where to report problems

You are welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/IKnowMyABCs page.

Credits

I Know My ABCs was written and is maintained by User:Walter. He was inspired in part by the work of Maria Perez, Fundación Zamora Terán