Over the Galaxy

Learning to count and practicing math vocabulary can be fun for young students with Over the Galaxy. Mastering the basics of counting is essential for every math student. With this counting game children work on counting concepts from preschool through first grade as well as practicing number matching and speed counting. All the teacher or therapist has to do is choose the number(s) to be recognized in the lesson. The student playing the game will appear on the imaginary surface of a planet as an avatar. His or her mission is to count the objects that various spaceships carry, choosing only the ones that match the specified number.

In addition to counting, Over the Galaxy helps students improve their vocabulary skills. Building vocabulary is an essential part of learning language and Over the Galaxy makes it fun. With this game, the teacher or therapist provides a letter, and the students are asked to identify which objects on screen begin with that letter. The teacher can challenge this activity by asking students to choose only words that belong to a common theme and start with the same letter.

Over the Galaxy also offers some objects to stimulate discussions about emotional intelligence. It is an engaging way to further the conversation with children about their feelings. The teacher can enhance the learning experience by asking students to recognize and choose the images that express specific emotions. The teacher or therapist can make Over the Galaxy even more fun by activating power ups when students answer multiple questions correctly. The game can be customized by adding a time limit, or by adjusting the rate at which objects appear on screen, thus allowing teachers to influence the student’s pace of thinking. Finally, as with all the Kinems games, the teacher has access to detailed reports on the student’s performance throughout the game.

Ready to be teleported to a new galaxy for your mission to collect all the correct objects?

Supported goals in

Subitizing-Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10

With prompting and support, students will engage in a picture walk to make connections between self, illustrations, and the story.

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

Identify real-life connections between words and their use (e.g., note places at school that are colorful).

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0 – 5 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Know number names and the count sequence. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

Rote count up to 10

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

Read and write numerals from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0–20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Subitizing-Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10

With prompting and support, students will engage in a picture walk to make connections between self, illustrations, and the story.

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0 – 5 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Know number names and the count sequence. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

Count to 100 by ones and by tens.

When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

With prompting and support, students will engage in a picture walk to make connections between self, illustrations, and the story.

Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.

Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0 – 5 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.

Subitizing-Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10

Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

Know number names and recognize patterns in the counting sequence by: 1. Counting to 100 by ones. 2. Counting to 100 by tens.